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| IHH plans Super Flotilla for May | |
| 2010-12-28 | |
| "We will organize another trip to Gaza on May 31, the same date the raid happened this year, with a larger crew to draw interest to the embargo one more time," Ãœmit Sönmez, the production branch coordinator of the Humanitarian Relief Foundation, or İHH, which organized the flotilla, told the Hürriyet Daily News & Economic Review. This is to include the Mavi Marmara and the IHH hopes to have 50 other ships to accompany it (although this is not real likely as the cost would be very significant and it is likely that this time Israel will disable the ships rather than trying to board them).
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| Posted by:Lord Garth |
| #6 "So more FTFY, Percy. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-12-28 18:43 |
| #5 So more stale medicine and worthless construction material is on the way. |
| Posted by: Percy Fluting5550 2010-12-28 17:34 |
| #4 Based on personal experience, it is no fun to be at sea with no power or way to move. Especially if the weather is at all bad. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2010-12-28 17:25 |
| #3 Personally, I'm in favor of stopping a ship by tangling its propeller with fishing net, then have some daring divers cause a slow, but non-repairable leak. The idea is to force them to abandon ship--not to be picked up by an Israeli ship, but by one of their peers, as the first ship sinks. Then as the second ship is picking them up, rig it to slowly sink as well. In short order, their remaining ships would be "BH to PH" full of stinking troublemakers. Then you disable those and leave the area, so they get to stew in their own juices, without stabilizers, for a day or so before they are rescued. Ideally, rescued by some 4th world country ship, that would take them to their nasty home port. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-12-28 17:08 |
| #2 Disabling is like wounding members of an invading force rather than killing them. The troops get demoralized, are burdened with treating them, or if the wounded are left behind, either able-bodied personnel (usually medical)or the lightly wounded are also left to take care of the more seriously wounded, or the invading troops take a further morale hit knowing they've abandoned their own. Disable the ships. Force the organizers to expend treasure and effort to tow or repair the vessels. It's possible that a few might sink through incompetence in damage control, or deliberate effort on the part of the flotilla. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2010-12-28 16:38 |
| #1 Israel should just sink the ships and be done with it. Treat 'em like pirates and hang the survivors. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2010-12-28 15:14 |