Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Lazarou" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Lazarou</span></a></span> Either way that whole <em>"<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FreedomFlotillia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreedomFlotillia</span></a>"</em> shitshow is just absurd.</p><p>TLDR: Someone decided to do <em>"<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SomeRandomShit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SomeRandomShit</span></a>!"</em> and I <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/rant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rant</span></a> about that:</p> <ul><li><p>None of these attempts ever succeeded for very obvious reasons.</p></li><li><p>The amount of aid they had was negligible.</p></li><li><p>None of them thought beyond entering the restricted waters.</p></li><li><p>If they wanted to just get arrested for trespassing a military area, the could've just flown to Israel and trespassed on any army or navy installation. Would've gotten them the same effect for much cheaper.</p></li><li><p>If they wanted to launch aid, they could've just mortar'd it across the border from Egypt: Would've more likely gotten something over there rather than none.</p></li></ul> <p>I don't deny the situation in <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> - far from it, but if anyone things they can just sail in there and not expect to get boarded, then they are criminally stupid.</p><ul><li>That's even less likely to succeed than trying to free GITMO inmates, cuz there is at least a right-of-passage waterway going through Guantanamo Bay...</li></ul> <p>They would've succeeded with a <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Narcosub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Narcosub</span></a>, but that would've failed the <em>"<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/optics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>optics</span></a>"</em> and those are <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z36OznHFIt4&t=198" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><em>"Doing some Random Shit to pretend being noble!"</em></a></p><ul><li>Seriously, this is as stupid as paintballing cop cars and then complaining why one gets arrested.</li></ul> <p>Doesn't mean I think the sea blockade is absurd and inhumane, but given the fact <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Hamas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hamas</span></a> rules Gaza like a <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NarcoState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NarcoState</span></a> and literally ripped apart plastic drinking water pipes just to build rockets, it's obvious they are crafty.</p><ul><li>Most people, even in <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a>, are aware that <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Netanyahu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Netanyahu</span></a> let <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/O7" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>O7</span></a> happen to break the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/IDF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IDF</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Reservists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Reservists</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Strike</span></a> against him. Neither <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Mossad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mossad</span></a> nor <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ShinBet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ShinBet</span></a> are that incompetent to not notice the amount of planning and logistics it took. But then again there's a very few links one needs to go from the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/murderer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>murderer</span></a> of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Rabin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rabin</span></a> to the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Kahanist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kahanist</span></a> faction that prop-up Netanyahu's coalition.</li></ul><p>Obviously there's no incentive nor penalty existing to force a peaceful ending. And <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Hamas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hamas</span></a> are obviously making good profit rentseeking the population. That's why the leadership is propably chilling in a heated wirlpool in an air-conditioned apartment in Doha. The only reason those are breathing is because Netanyahu wants and needs them as <em>"<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ControlledOpposition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ControlledOpposition</span></a>"</em>... </p><ul><li>We all know Hamas et. al. don't give a shit about the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Palestinians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestinians</span></a> or <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a>: <em>They are <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SuicideCult" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SuicideCult</span></a></em> after all!</li></ul> <p>At least AFAICT this time the <em>"FreedomFlotilla"</em> aka. <em>one dingy boat [ <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Madleen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Madleen</span></a> ] with some weirdos on board</em> had the wisdom to obey the orders when it was obvious <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_Navy" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">the</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ISC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ISC</span></a> was about to board them to put on life jackets and sit on deck with their hands up. </p><ul><li>A previous <em>"flotilla"</em> from <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Turkey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Turkey</span></a> resulted in at least one dead cuz someone had the stupid idea to resist and faced some marine in full tactical drip that pulled the trigger.</li></ul>