Blockades are a legitimate tactic in war. Sinking blockade runners is a legitimate tactic in war. G-Thunder can't have it both ways. She can't be a peaceful activist and a blockade runner at the same time.
Who has been enforcing those concerns lately?
Of course it makes her sound awesome. Her entire shtick is sounding awesome to a certain audience. Like all those gangster rap artists with their gangster monikers. Please, by all means, normalize calling her G-Thunder unironically. I give you full permission.
I like "Greta Thunboot" (works in German, anyway).
A blockade against humanitarian aid for a civilian population that poses no threat? Well OK then, but please call it what it is - genocide. If that's legitimate then so is anything they get back on them.
How I see it, you can't have it both ways. You can't claim to be a non-threatening aid shipment and run a military blockade at the same time.
Why not?
Isn't that just war? Didn't that happen in WWI and WWII?
America once thought that attacking any ship carrying supplies and people, not military gear, was reason enough enter the war.
Running a military blockade is a warlike, threatening act.
Even when you are completely unarmed and crewed by civilian noncombatants?
You're begging the question that they're completely unarmed and crewed entirely by noncombatants. That there's no contraband or intelligence material or persons of interest aboard. The whole point of running a blockade is to avoid having to actually answer those questions. That's why it's a warlike and threatening act.
Israel feels threatened by a bunch of kids delivering food and diapers??? What a bunch of whiny pathetic snowflakes.
You're assuming that this and only this is in the flotilla. The whole point of running a military blockade is to avoid validating this assumption.
I have no problem with Israel stopping the boats checking them out but as long as there are no weapons, letting them through. There is starvation going on in Gaza and they need all the food they can get.
If the boats want to be stopped and inspected, they can dock in Israel and submit to inspection there. If they want to be sunk, they can try to run the blockade. It is not Israel's job to intercept, board, and inspect at sea a flotilla of blockade runners. Blockade runners are not entitled to that courtesy.
Israel has already said they will not allow the boats to Gaza even if they are inspected first in Israel.
Nor should they. The aid can be transshipped from the port to the Gaza checkpoints just fine.
I agree. These people don't want Israel to be in control of Gaza's borders.