# Freedom flotilla on way to Israel with medical supplies. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 20, 2010, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-flotilla-on-way-to-israel-with-medical-supplies/540111 "2010-05-20T09:23:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-flotilla-on-way-to-israel-with-medical-supplies/540111/21 "2010-05-22T07:34:45Z")
> [@Laudenum](#): > > I never thought of that - is he dead? > > Do we even know who he is? No, we don’t. I believe that the Chinese government has stated that they don’t know who he was, which probably means absolutely nothing, since they’d rather forget about the whole thing. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-flotilla-on-way-to-israel-with-medical-supplies/540111/22 "2010-05-22T16:10:40Z")
> [@Laudenum](#): > > The Irish (sorta) ship is called the ‘Rachel Corrie’ after that American girl who got run over by an Israeli bulldozer. Speaking of bulldozers, I hope the members of the “freedom flotilla” take time out to protest [the latest bulldozing of Palestinian homes](http://arabnews.com/middleeast/article54490.ece). \*RAFAH, Gaza Strip: "Hamas police wielding clubs beat and pushed residents out of dozens of homes in the southern Gaza town of Rafah on Sunday before knocking the buildings down with bulldozers, residents said. Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers said the homes were built illegally on government land. Newly homeless residents were furious over Palestinians on bulldozers razing Palestinian homes."\* ---
**Author:** ![Laudenum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Laudenum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laudenum)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-flotilla-on-way-to-israel-with-medical-supplies/540111/23 "2010-06-04T14:28:46Z")
Whoops - that didn’t turn out the way I thought it would. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-flotilla-on-way-to-israel-with-medical-supplies/540111/24 "2010-06-04T14:40:25Z")
> [@Grey](#): > > One does not simply _float_ into Mordor… Its shores are guarded by more than just orcas. ---
**Author:** ![AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-flotilla-on-way-to-israel-with-medical-supplies/540111/25 "2010-06-05T08:36:42Z")
> [@](#): > > I don’t really understand a certain activist crowd’s response to Israel. I can understand opposing their policies, but…Israel is not actually Mordor, as some of them seem to think. Can I be your new best friend? I have a friend who is FREAKING OBESSED with the human rights of Isreal. To the point where he’ll ramble on and on about teh Zionest policies. He once sent me an e-mail forward and it was SO freaking anti Semetic.:eek: Yes, Isreal’s human rights are bad…but so are many other countries. It does seem that a lot of the anti Isreal stuff out there is fueled by MAJOR anti Semitism. I mean the human rights in the Middle East aren’t that great overall. ---
**Author:** ![Laudenum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Laudenum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laudenum)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-flotilla-on-way-to-israel-with-medical-supplies/540111/26 "2010-06-05T11:21:28Z")
> [@AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet](#): > > Can I be your new best friend? I have a friend who is FREAKING OBESSED with the human rights of Isreal. To the point where he’ll ramble on and on about teh Zionest policies. He once sent me an e-mail forward and it was SO freaking anti Semetic.:eek: > **Yes, Isreal’s human rights are bad…but so are many other countries. It does seem that a lot of the anti Isreal stuff out there is fueled by MAJOR anti Semitism. I mean the human rights in the Middle East aren’t that great overall.** Or, it could be that Israel gets loads of money from the US, so the US is supporting the regime there. And that Israel purports to be more advanced and modern than the other Semetic nations. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-flotilla-on-way-to-israel-with-medical-supplies/540111/27 "2010-06-05T14:28:02Z")
> **[Hamas refuses flotilla aid delivered by Israel](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jun/03/hamas-flotilla-aid-israel)** > > Palestinian group demands release of detained activists and delivery of construction materials Looks like Hamas is refusing the aid. Not good enough. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-flotilla-on-way-to-israel-with-medical-supplies/540111/28 "2010-06-05T14:58:14Z")
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