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Israel Cornered As Multiple Ports Join Biggest Gaza Flotilla Yet!

Israel Cornered As Multiple Ports Join Biggest Gaza Flotilla Yet!

Kernow Damo · Damien Willey

February 6, 202614m 1s

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The biggest Gaza flotilla ever assembled is preparing to sail, putting Israel’s blockade back under more pressure than ever before! Right, so Israel has already shown what it does to Gaza flotillas. Boats are seized. People are detained. Claims are made. And then nothing follows that actually settles it. Israel’s claims get debunked, the Gaza blockade remains in place however. The optics of each flotilla has nevertheless always been a nightmare for Netanyahu and co, because there is no part of it where they come out looking good and the more media attention these voyages get, the worse it is for them. Therefore in light of that, you’ll be elated to know that the largest civilian flotilla yet has now been formally announced, dates fixed, ports named, routes published. The assumption was always that interception ended the problem, but instead it hardened resolve. This time, stopping the boats doesn’t finish anything, it repeats that unresolved, ongoing mess of Israel’s own making at a bigger scale, with more people watching, more governments implicated, and fewer ways to pretend the missing evidence associated with Israeli false claims of Hamas backing doesn’t matter. Right, so Benjamin Netanyahu’s flotilla problem is back because the last time Israel stopped one, it didn’t actually finish anything. The boats were taken. People were detained. Claims were made about militant links. And then the whole thing just stopped. No prosecutions. No evidence released. No case laid out that anyone outside Israel could examine and say, alright, that explains everything. The people were sent home. The vessels stayed impounded. And the accusation was left hanging in the air, unresolved. That unfinished business is exactly why this is coming back now, because once you’ve used a claim that serious without ever backing it up, you don’t get to reuse it and expect it to land the same way again. Israel stopped the flotilla last time by saying it was dangerous. It took the boats. It detained the people. It said there were militant links. And then it never showed anything to back that up. No evidence. No charges. No case anyone else could look at.