Archived material Access restricted Article
Rantburg

Today's Front Page   View All of Fri 07/25/2008 View Thu 07/24/2008 View Wed 07/23/2008 View Tue 07/22/2008 View Mon 07/21/2008 View Sun 07/20/2008 View Sat 07/19/2008
1
2008-07-25 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Activists to test Gaza naval blockade
Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.
Posted by Pappy 2008-07-25 00:14|| || Front Page|| [7 views ]  Top
 File under: Hamas 

#1 Man the topedoes
Posted by DK70 the scantily clad 2008-07-25 01:37||   2008-07-25 01:37|| Front Page Top

#2 let them in Gaza and then don't let them out.
Posted by Percy Spumble4268 2008-07-25 03:12||   2008-07-25 03:12|| Front Page Top

#3 The real enemy.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-07-25 03:12||   2008-07-25 03:12|| Front Page Top

#4 Let them in. I'm sure they'll have blast. Some of them might even live long enough to beg the Israelis to let them into Israel.
Posted by phil_b 2008-07-25 04:27||   2008-07-25 04:27|| Front Page Top

#5 And in the meantime Blacks are being massacred in Sudan to the utter indiffernce of those activiists. Why is it that the only peope for whom they move a finger are those who want to exterminate Jews?

Show me a pro-Palestinian activist and they will show you a Nazi.
Posted by JFM">JFM  2008-07-25 04:45||   2008-07-25 04:45|| Front Page Top

#6 Oops. Should have read:

Show me a pro-Palestinian activist and I will show you a Nazi.
Posted by JFM">JFM  2008-07-25 04:58||   2008-07-25 04:58|| Front Page Top

#7 Time to try out another of those super duper revamped Mk.48 torpedoes (see above). They are expensive as hell but I for one am willing to take up a collection for this particular acquisition.
Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2008-07-25 05:55||   2008-07-25 05:55|| Front Page Top

#8 Swap them for Gilad Shalit.
Posted by Lumpy Cheack3231 2008-07-25 06:17||   2008-07-25 06:17|| Front Page Top

#9 And how are those clowns going to protest against Hamas missile attacks on Israeli civilians? If they are pro Hamas, then they are targets in the GWOT.
Posted by McZoid 2008-07-25 07:24||   2008-07-25 07:24|| Front Page Top

#10 I agree with Phil. The best way to let the situation pass under the radar is to let them into Gaza, then seal the port like they want. Survivor: Gaza. I love it.
Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader  2008-07-25 07:55||   2008-07-25 07:55|| Front Page Top

#11 letting their boats in without searching and removing anything of value would be foolish. Strip em, let em in, and lock em in with the Paleos. They become just another set of mouths to feed, and prolly not very fun after the first news conference is over and the attention goes away
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2008-07-25 07:59||   2008-07-25 07:59|| Front Page Top

#12 So sink them. That'll mean the blockade is working and prove their point. Everybody's happy!
Posted by tu3031 2008-07-25 08:47||   2008-07-25 08:47|| Front Page Top

#13 Surface Action!

and SS? Using steam are they?
Posted by .5MT 2008-07-25 09:46|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net]  2008-07-25 09:46|| Front Page Top

#14 Spread the rumor that 2 boats full of Zionist commandos dressed as civilians will sail unchallenged into Gaza harbor...
and let them pass.
Posted by logi_cal">logi_cal  2008-07-25 09:48||   2008-07-25 09:48|| Front Page Top

#15 Spread the rumor that 2 boats full of Zionist commandos dressed as civilians will sail unchallenged into Gaza harbor...
and let them pass.


That is sooo.... Machiavellian.

I love it!
Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader  2008-07-25 09:59||   2008-07-25 09:59|| Front Page Top

#16 I love that last one too!
Posted by liberalhawk 2008-07-25 10:05||   2008-07-25 10:05|| Front Page Top

#17 I'm hoping for a rogue wave, or a sudden squall at sea.
If not, intercept and arrest. Let the extradition process take about 6 months while they rot in a jail cell with Paleostain buggerers.
Posted by bigjm-ky 2008-07-25 11:07||   2008-07-25 11:07|| Front Page Top

#18 logi_cal,
That is an elegant, brilliant, diabolical, solution to the problem.
Posted by bigjm-ky 2008-07-25 11:12||   2008-07-25 11:12|| Front Page Top

#19 Ready the 3-inch gun! Surface action starboard!
Posted by mojo">mojo  2008-07-25 12:10||   2008-07-25 12:10|| Front Page Top

#20 Some interesting tidbits from Ma'an...

The trip organizers think one of four things will happen to the ship: it may be stopped as it crosses or approaches the barrier marking the international waters boundary, in which case the crew is prepared to stay on board for at least two weeks in protest of the illegal halt of passage. The second possibility envisioned by the organizers is that the ship will be allowed to pass into the area, and will be stopped in the territorial waters. In this eventuality the crew expects to be arrested, and the ship dragged to shore. A third possibility is that the ship will be sunk by the navy.

The final option is that the ship actually makes it through to the Gaza port near Gaza City in the north of the Strip.

According to Holocaust survivor and crew member Hedy Epstein, in the event that they can get through to Gaza they will "open the port, fish with the fishermen, help in the clinics, and work in the schools."

The ship was invited to Gaza by the Palestinian Red Crescent Society in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Medical Relief Society, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights and the Gaza Community Mental Health Program, and support for the initiative was provided in part from Carter Center in the US and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Posted by tu3031 2008-07-25 12:25||   2008-07-25 12:25|| Front Page Top

#21 I bow to logi_cal's superior suggestion
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2008-07-25 12:46||   2008-07-25 12:46|| Front Page Top

#22 put sand in their oil in the Cyprus harbor.
Done.
Adrift at sea.
Posted by 3dc 2008-07-25 12:49||   2008-07-25 12:49|| Front Page Top

#23 some metallic and kevlar strips adrift near the props will foul them. That, and some solvent in the diesel will cause the engines to burn out as well.
Posted by OldSpook 2008-07-25 12:53||   2008-07-25 12:53|| Front Page Top

#24 Ship of Fools...
Posted by Querent 2008-07-25 13:07||   2008-07-25 13:07|| Front Page Top

#25 Sunken ships make great marine habitat.
Posted by wxjames 2008-07-25 13:24||   2008-07-25 13:24|| Front Page Top

#26 Swamp the "vessels" at night with a couple of mines. Then an Israeli ELint Counter-Measures ship can "bend" their SOS signals enough to send any Paleo Helpers off chasing flying fish 150 miles away.

OH the GREAT WHITE Sharks are Hungry
For FAT FAT Paleo Snacks
OH the GREAT WHITE Sharks are Hungry
For FAT FAT Paleo Snacks

Repeat process with the Paleo Rescue "vessels".

Posted by Red Dawg">Red Dawg  2008-07-25 13:39|| Red Dawg]">[Red Dawg]  2008-07-25 13:39|| Front Page Top

#27 let them in, and as the ship gets close to shore, sink it. good chance they could survive if the Paleos assist them, but their ride home is now holding the seabed down.
Posted by USN, Ret. 2008-07-25 14:01||   2008-07-25 14:01|| Front Page Top

#28 Let them into Gaza. Just don't ever let them out again. They can get the same treatment as Kuntar got from his dad and uncles. They'll probably like it.
Posted by Jomock Platypus9662 2008-07-25 20:11||   2008-07-25 20:11|| Front Page Top

#29 SS = sailing ship.
Posted by Pappy 2008-07-25 20:53||   2008-07-25 20:53|| Front Page Top

#30  Ready the 3-inch gun! Surface action starboard!

From the viewpoint of maritime law, would the resulting 'activist' debris be considered flotsam, jetsam, or chum?
Posted by SteveS 2008-07-25 22:25||   2008-07-25 22:25|| Front Page Top

#31 as well as SS, MV = Merchant Vessel, FV = Fishing Vessel.
Posted by OldSpook 2008-07-25 22:38||   2008-07-25 22:38|| Front Page Top

23:37 JosephMendiola
23:35 JosephMendiola
23:24 Jomock Platypus9662
23:21 JosephMendiola
22:54 FOTSGreg
22:46 OldSpook
22:38 Eric Jablow
22:38 OldSpook
22:28 SteveS
22:25 SteveS
22:13 mojo
22:13 JosephMendiola
22:08 Frank G
22:03 crosspatch
22:03 JosephMendiola
21:47 djh_usmc
21:39 Jomock Platypus9662
21:36 Jomock Platypus9662
21:33 SteveS
21:29 DarhVader
21:26 Jomock Platypus9662
21:25 Nimble Spemble
21:23 Nimble Spemble
21:23 Frank G









Paypal:
Google
Search WWW Search rantburg.com