Hamas attacks Israel

[Ron in Regina]

Anywho, back to the symbolic boat outing:

Flotilla Tracker - Global Movement to Gaza

globalsumudflotilla.org

Aid? Or performative “symbolic” aid by a pack of entitled what-have-you’s that, without media attention, couldn’t be bothered? Which question are you asking me (?) or am I hearing your question through my own mental filter here?

They’re going! They’re doing something, again.

They’ve got a bag of flour, several cans of tuna, some Burger King coupons, adult diapers, an artificial leg (the left one), an eye patch, righteous indignation, and they will make damn sure nobody sees them throw their laptop, tablets, and cell phone’s overboard this time.




Greta Thunberg is increasingly using the medium of music - including punk, rock and garage - to help deliver her pro-Palestine messages to wider audiences. As Thunberg led a flotilla bound for Gaza on Monday, she was supported by British rap punk duo Bob Vylan.

A flotilla of boats headed for Gaza carrying 350 pro-Palestine activists - including climate change campaigner Greta Thunberg - has departed from Barcelona. That’s a lot of mouths to feed.

Around 20 vessels displaying Palestinian flags left the Spanish port at 19:00 local time on Monday, stocked with medical and food supplies.

The aim of the mission is to "break Israel's illegal siege on Gaza", the organisers said - though a previous attempt to reach Gaza by sea was intercepted by Israeli forces.

In June, a yacht carrying Thunberg and several other activists - and a symbolic amount of humanitarian aid - was intercepted by Israeli forces as it tried to reach Gaza. Israeli authorities escorted the activists to the port of Ashdod before deporting them from the country.

The Global Sumud Flotilla Mission plans to launch in two waves - the first from Barcelona and the second from Tunis on 4 September.

Activists hope the boats will converge in the Mediterranean before sailing towards Gaza, a trip that is estimated to take seven or eight days.

Gaza flotilla with Greta Thunberg on board departs Barcelona — BBC News

Around 20 boats have left the port of Barcelona with Greta Thunberg and aid supplies on board.

apple.news

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering JOO; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee.

Captain Greta Ahab

 

[Ron in Regina]

Captain Greta Ahab

Yeah, she’s got herself a navy this time. The IDF better bring a LOT of sandwiches and water bottles for their interception & deportation.

(YouTube & Greta Thunberg Deported After Aid Ship Bound for Gaza Is Intercepted by Israel)
-this is from way back in June 2025 after she ditched her electrics into the Mediterranean.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Yeah, she’s got herself a navy this time. The IDF better bring a LOT of sandwiches and water bottles this time for their interception & deportation.

Arr, matey!

 

[Ron in Regina]

Guess who she’s ‘not’ talking about?

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

PLEASE tell me they're not doing "Macho Man!"

 

[Ron in Regina]

PLEASE tell me they're not doing "Macho Man!"

Not this time, & “How Dare You” assume their gender!

(YouTube & Ode To Greta Thunberg - How Dare You)

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Not this time, & “How Dare You” assume their gender!

(YouTube & Ode To Greta Thunberg - How Dare You)

Sorry. Would "Macho Person" be better, or would that just get my ass ragged for being a speciesist?

 

[petros]

Anywho, back to the symbolic boat outing:

Flotilla Tracker - Global Movement to Gaza

globalsumudflotilla.org

They’re going! They’re doing something, again.
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They’ve got a bag of flour, several cans of tuna, some Burger King coupons, adult diapers, an artificial leg (the left one), an eye patch, righteous indignation, and they will make damn sure nobody sees them throw their laptop, tablets, and cell phone’s overboard this time.
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Greta Thunberg is increasingly using the medium of music - including punk, rock and garage - to help deliver her pro-Palestine messages to wider audiences. As Thunberg led a flotilla bound for Gaza on Monday, she was supported by British rap punk duo Bob Vylan.

A flotilla of boats headed for Gaza carrying 350 pro-Palestine activists - including climate change campaigner Greta Thunberg - has departed from Barcelona. That’s a lot of mouths to feed.

Around 20 vessels displaying Palestinian flags left the Spanish port at 19:00 local time on Monday, stocked with medical and food supplies.

The aim of the mission is to "break Israel's illegal siege on Gaza", the organisers said - though a previous attempt to reach Gaza by sea was intercepted by Israeli forces.
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In June, a yacht carrying Thunberg and several other activists - and a symbolic amount of humanitarian aid - was intercepted by Israeli forces as it tried to reach Gaza. Israeli authorities escorted the activists to the port of Ashdod before deporting them from the country.

The Global Sumud Flotilla Mission plans to launch in two waves - the first from Barcelona and the second from Tunis on 4 September.
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Activists hope the boats will converge in the Mediterranean before sailing towards Gaza, a trip that is estimated to take seven or eight days.
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Gaza flotilla with Greta Thunberg on board departs Barcelona — BBC News

Around 20 boats have left the port of Barcelona with Greta Thunberg and aid supplies on board.

apple.news

What that in calories?

 

[Ron in Regina]

What that in calories?

I’m assuming you’re asking somebody else to do your homework, to ask Google AI how many calories would 350 selfie activists on a boat outing need for approximately eight days?

I happen to have the time this morning at this point:

Then, I’m assuming, you were going to want someone else to do the same thing but extrapolating similar data for 2 million-ish people in Gaza held hostage to Hamas’s demands preventing the Hamas/Israel war from ending? Am I on or off target here?

On a slightly different tangent, how many calories will the same 350 attention whores need while in custody in Israel between being intercepted in the Mediterranean and being deported (several for the second time) from Israel?

Not enough data to preform that calculation yet…

 

[petros]

I’m assuming you’re asking somebody else to do your homework, to ask Google AI how many calories would 350 selfie activists on a boat outing need for approximately eight days?

I happen to have the time this morning at this point:
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Then, I’m assuming, you were going to want someone else to do the same thing but extrapolating similar data for 2 million-ish people in Gaza held hostage to Hamas’s demands preventing the Hamas/Israel war from ending? Am I on or off target here?

On a slightly different tangent, how many calories will the same 350 attention whores need while in custody in Israel between being intercepted in the Mediterranean and being deported (several for the second time) from Israel?
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Not enough data to preform that calculation yet…

So basically one Mediterranean yellowfin tuna and they're good to go.

Too bad Israel shoots fishermen, they could help immensely.

 

[Ron in Regina]

So basically one Mediterranean yellowfin tuna and they're good to go.

Too bad Israel shoots fishermen, they could help immensely.

Wait. What? I’ve got to make brunch pretty quick so I don’t have much time but…

I can invest about three minutes. A Mediterranean yellowfin tuna can potentially reach 400lbs, but on average most of them are 100lbs to 200lbs, & in an average 3-ounce (85g) serving of cooked Mediterranean yellowfin tuna contains approximately 110 calories.

Assuming the biggest potential size Mediterranean yellowfin tuna at 400lbs, & assuming every pound is consumed from bones to fins to arseholes and earlobes, then 400lbs is (in a 3oz serving) 2134 servings.

2134 (rounded up) x 110 calories = 234,740 calories potentially in the biggest Mediterranean yellowfin tuna at 400lbs. You see where I’m going here? Is this one of those water into wine parables? Bread into fish, or 1 fish into 64 fishes?

That monster sized Mediterranean yellowfin tuna, assuming every last ounce of that 400lb (instead of the actual average size being between 100-200lbs) is consumed, might feed Greta’s entourage for approximately one meal, maybe, and for an eight day trip if they were just eating Mediterranean yellowfin tuna, and each one of them was the absolute maximum size they could possibly be at 400 pounds, they’d need 24 of those, but more realistically with the average size at 150lbs, they would need many more than that (64-ish?).

If Hamas (& friends) hadn’t been smuggling weaponry into Gaza from the Mediterranean for the last couple decades in addition to over and under the border from Egypt, this whole mathematical exercise would probably be a non-issue.

 

[petros]

Wait. What? I’ve got to make brunch pretty quick so I don’t have much time but…

I can invest about three minutes. A Mediterranean yellowfin tuna can potentially reach 400lbs, but on average most of them are 100lbs to 200lbs, & in an average 3-ounce (85g) serving of cooked Mediterranean yellowfin tuna contains approximately 110 calories.

Assuming the biggest potential size Mediterranean yellowfin tuna at 400lbs, & assuming every pound is consumed from bones to fins to arseholes and earlobes, then 400lbs is (in a 3oz serving) 2134 servings.

2134 (rounded up) x 110 calories = 234,740 calories potentially in the biggest Mediterranean yellowfin tuna at 400lbs. You see where I’m going here? Is this one of those water into wine parables? Bread into fish, or 1 fish into 64 fishes?

That monster sized Mediterranean yellowfin tuna, assuming every last ounce of that 400lb (instead of the actual average size being between 100-200lbs) is consumed, might feed Greta’s entourage for approximately one meal, maybe, and for an eight day trip if they were just eating Mediterranean yellowfin tuna, and each one of them was the absolute maximum size they could possibly be at 400 pounds, they’d need 24 of those, but more realistically with the average size at 150lbs, they would need many more than that (64-ish?).

If Hamas (& friends) hadn’t been smuggling weaponry into Gaza from the Mediterranean for the last couple decades in addition to over and under the border from Egypt, this whole mathematical exercise would probably be a non-issue.

Living large on a floating fish market atop your mentioned rations.

Now its the Med and not Egypt?

 

[Ron in Regina]

Living large on a floating fish market atop your mentioned rations.

Not sure I understand. Are you saying that Greta and her entourage should also be eating yellowfin tuna on top of what they’re already eating, before they get intercepted?

Now its the Med and not Egypt?

Actually, I’m not sure what you’re saying here either.

 

[petros]

Israel backs off talk of annexing West Bank after UAE warning

The Emiratis, who signed a peace deal with Israel in 2020, have warned publicly and privately that annexing the Palestinian territory would cross a red line.

September 6, 2025 at 5:00 a.m. EDT

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/09/06/israel-annex-west-bank-emirates-warning/

 

[petros]

Not sure I understand. Are you saying that Greta and her entourage should also be eating yellowfin tuna on top of what they’re already eating, before they get intercepted?

Actually, I’m not sure what you’re saying here either.

I'm saying Israel closed the coast long before Oct7 unless youre claiming Israel Navy Coast Guard and Air Force are complete morons and useless.

Underwater tunnels perhaps?

The easiest way to get weapons in is through Israel from an Israeli.

 

[Ron in Regina]

I'm saying Israel closed the coast long before Oct7

If Hamas (& friends) hadn’t been smuggling weaponry into Gaza from the Mediterranean for the last couple decades in addition to over and under the border from Egypt, this whole mathematical exercise would probably be a non-issue.

Me too.

…unless youre claiming Israel Navy Coast Guard and Air Force are complete morons and useless.

Still not sure where you’re going.

Underwater tunnels perhaps?

This again? Or tunnels from Syria or Lebanon or Swift Current…

The easiest way to get weapons in is through Israel from an Israeli.

Yep. Tunnels under that border too, but I’m assuming more cooperation from the Egyptian side…but…ass/u/me. I know.

 

[Serryah]

Israel backs off talk of annexing West Bank after UAE warning

The Emiratis, who signed a peace deal with Israel in 2020, have warned publicly and privately that annexing the Palestinian territory would cross a red line.

September 6, 2025 at 5:00 a.m. EDT

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/09/06/israel-annex-west-bank-emirates-warning/

Report: UAE’s public warning against West Bank annexation caught Israel off guard

Sharp comments in interview to ToI and official statement were accompanied by back-channel warnings, until annexation was taken off agenda for Thursday cabinet meeting, WaPo reports

www.timesofisrael.com

 

[petros]

Greta cloned herself. Now there's are 4 flotilla.

Tunisia flotilla eager to join Global Sumud mission to break Gaza siege

Activists want to end Israel’s blockade of Gaza and expect to set sail on Sunday when flotilla from Spain arrives.

www.aljazeera.com

 

[Ron in Regina]

Greta cloned herself. Now there's are 4 flotilla.

Tunisia flotilla eager to join Global Sumud mission to break Gaza siege

Activists want to end Israel’s blockade of Gaza and expect to set sail on Sunday when flotilla from Spain arrives.

www.aljazeera.com

As planned, but is this flotilla is all about the optics & not the symbolic aid like last time? Are these actual vessels designed for shipping commodities like…oh, aid?

(YouTube & EDS, an HP Company 'Cat Herders')

The Global Sumud Flotilla Mission plans to launch in two waves - the first from Barcelona and the second from Tunis on 4 September.

The Spanish-origin flotilla is set to join with vessels from Tunis, Greece, and Italy, but it is unclear if they will still meet the rendezvous date of September 4 since that’s three days ago now.

Global Sumud Flotilla Tracker

FA and members of the Investigative Commons have been monitoring the status of the Global Sumud Flotilla as it embarked on a journey to deliver aid to Gaza under the ongoing genocide and total blockade.

flotilla-orpin.vercel.app

Did this flotilla source the largest ships possible, man them with skeleton crews of sailors to maximize the amount of space taken up by actual “non-symbolic” aid and told all of the activists and actors to stay home and draw attention to the show by other means? It’s clear the aid is a means to perform the stunt, rather than the centre of the “mission”…

They’ve got a bag of flour, several cans of tuna, some Burger King coupons, adult diapers, an artificial leg (the left one), an eye patch, righteous indignation, and they will make damn sure nobody sees them throw their laptop, tablets, and cell phone’s overboard this time.

They’re (the Greta boating tour of Sept 2025) trying to set up the dramatic show to have as many small boats (as opposed to cargo carriers) as possible going in every direction chaotically for optics if they can get close to the waters of of Gaza.

…unless youre claiming Israel Navy Coast Guard and Air Force are complete morons and useless.

That would be the propaganda plan, wouldn’t it?
Then have as many celebrities and activists and actors and musicians, and so on and so forth, get their sound bites in their respective airports upon landing in their home countries after being deported, etc…”I’m out of touch with world events as I haven’t had access to my cell phone for days since I threw it in the ocean yesterday, but…”…etc…it’ll be interesting to see how similar their scripts are. Most boats have a Wi-Fi connection: a lifeline for the volunteers and the mission, as opposed to cargo carrying capacity?

Map of the voyage and stops of the various convoys. A: Spanish convoy; B: Italian convoys; C: Tunisian convoy; D: Greek convoy; E: Malaysian convoy; END: destination, Israeli detention and deportation followed but scripted press releases.

Meanwhile…to offset the cost of this flotilla detention and deportation (again), perhaps all the vessels in this flotilla need to be confiscated, and auctioned off, as both a future deterrent against running against a naval blockade, as well as offsetting-costs?

The Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla on Thursday condemned Israel's national security minister's "baseless threats" to designate activists as terrorists and seize boats, saying the mission is "humanitarian, lawful, debatable, and unstoppable?”

In a statement, the flotilla reminded that they will reach the shores of Tunisia, where they will be joined by additional vessels before continuing to Gaza's shores with “symbolically” lifesaving humanitarian aid.

In response to Itamar Ben-Gvir’s plans to designate Global Sumud Flotilla activists as terrorists and seize boats, the statement said they will not be deterred by the "baseless threats of Israeli officials”…so this Sumud Flotilla isn’t gonna try to run a naval blockade into Gaza and stated that intention in advance then?

A blockading power can seek to cut off all maritime transport from and to the blockaded country, although stopping all land transport to and from an area may also be considered a blockade. Blockades restrict the trading rights of neutrals, who must submit for inspection for contraband, which the blockading power may define narrowly or broadly, sometimes including food and medicine…but even token symbolic amounts for propaganda purposes?

The blockading nation typically establishes a blockaded area of water, but any ship can be inspected as soon as it is established that it is attempting to break the blockade. This inspection can occur inside the blockaded area or in international waters, but never inside the territorial waters of a neutral nation.

A neutral ship must obey a request to stop for inspection from the blockading nation. If the situation so demands, the blockading nation can request that the ship divert to a known place or harbour for inspection. If the ship does not stop, then the ship is subject to capture. If people aboard the ship resist capture, they can be lawfully attacked.
The Israeli Navy is highlighting that it is conducting coastal defense training in conjunction with the Gaza Division’s Northern Brigade. These efforts are in advance of the potential arrival off the coast of a flotilla of activists claiming their intentions in advance to violate the naval blockade of Gaza by Israel in the Hamas/Israel war.

The protestors’ efforts, however, have been turned back twice by the Israelis, and there is no indication that they will let the larger flotilla proceed. The Israeli Navy employed peaceful tactics to apprehend the last flotilla in June, taking those on board to Ashdod before deporting them, and 700+ days since October 7th, 2023 all that mustard and mayonnaise for Greta’s entourage’s sandwiches between capture and deportation, and airfare for 350-ish ain’t cheap.

Video: Israeli Navy Conducts Coastal Exercise as New Gaza Flotilla Forms

The Israeli Navy is highlighting that it is conducting coastal defense training in conjunction with the Gaza Division’s Northern Brigade. These effor...

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