South Korea Requests that Israel Quickly Releases Detained Activist
At this point Israel should just let these people stay in Gaza and see how much they enjoy Hamas’ hospitality:
Crew of “Conscience,” a Gaza-bound vessel which is part of the Global Sumud Flotilla, sit aboard the boat as they are intercepted by Israeli security forces, in this screengrab obtained from a video released, Wednesday. Reuters-Yonhap
The foreign ministry said Wednesday it has requested Israel to promptly release a ship carrying a South Korean activist that was seized by the Israeli military while approaching Gaza.
According to local civic groups and foreign news reports, the Israeli military intercepted a nine- or 11-boat flotilla in the Mediterranean Sea early Wednesday (local time) trying to break Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza and detained scores of activists aboard, and a South Korean national, named Kim Ah-hyun, was one of them.
The 145 activists, who were in good health, were being brought to shore in Israel for processing and are expected to be deported soon, they said, citing the Israeli foreign ministry.
You can read more at the link.
Catching, processing, and releasing does nothing but give the attention the Gaza Flotilla crowd seeks without any of the work required for actual aid.
This is a perverse incentive to continually grift virtue signalers out of funding to take a risk-free holliday cruise and then get attention by crying about how great intentions of providing aid to disadvantaged people ended in poor treatment.
Israel’s response needs to ensure nobody involved wants to do it twice and nobody thinking about getting involved wants to get involved.
Some ideas:
– Make it clear that anyone caught breaking the blockade will be detained until the end of hostilities. That will likely be after the genocide is complete or some time during the Second Coming.
– All involved vessles will be sunk. Or do the Jewish thing and auction them off to the highest bidder after replacing any parts of value with Chinese copies.
– Remove them from the boats and deliver them to the shores of Gaza. Let them find their own way out of the mess they never intended to really get involved in. With drones and hidden cameras, produce a reality TV show as they start succumbing to starvation, ràpe, and the gay ones getting thrown off rooftops.
But catching and releasing ensures they will keep coming back.
Bad policy.