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Originally Posted by calculoso
Are these the only 6 ships that have been stopped since January or is this the only ship since then which has put up a fight?
After all... the Trojan Horse was only one present... can you imagine if there were 6 of them??
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Difficult to say. This flotilla was pre-announced, heightening awareness.
The details and coverage of events in those waters have been softened in much of the US press, particularly because the blockade puts two prominent US allies in violation of Geneva Convention rules regarding collective punishment.
I read passing mention of events in French, Turkish and Israeli sources (translated by a post-doc in the lab), but they're often related to hyperbolic responses to Israeli defense exercises. I think it's pretty well recognized by the crazies on the Palestinian side that tunnels through Egypt is the effective way to bring peaceful and non-peaceful cargo into Palestine.