Climate change no longer being an issue, apparently, Greta Thunberg and friends have spent the past month headed for a visit to the noble Gazans via diesel-powered flotilla (“Global Sumud Flotilla”). It’s a strange situation because the flotilla participants seem to have no respect for Palestinian religious and cultural norms, e.g., they permit females to roam the decks of their yachts without wearing hijab. The photo below could perhaps be a prostitute with two clients by Gazan standards:
Israel has established a blockade against its military enemy in Gaza and, therefore, under international law can repel (or sink, if necessary?) any ship that crosses the dashed red line below.
But Israel gets a lot of bad press when it uses standard military procedures. What about robot tugboats that could intercept the selfie yachts and push them out of blockade area? That would deny Greta Thunberg and other diesel-powered climate activists the photo opportunities that they seek. The flotilla folks claim that to be unarmed so they don’t have any means of destroying robot tugs. Robot tugs could be built in different sizes to match up to the different size yachts in the flotilla. They’re intercepting uncooperative vessels so should have a higher top speed than conventional tugboats. The Israelis could start with simple skiffs equipped with modern outboard engines. Since the skiff doesn’t have to hold any cargo or humans it could hold a tremendous amount of fuel for endurance. Surround the skiff with used car tires so as to get some extra points for recycling.
For maximum reliability with minimum fuel consumption and pollution, the Israelis could use Honda’s only V8 engine (350 hp; Mercury makes one with 600 hp if necessary):
Loosely related, Israel has invited the hostile vessels “to dock at the Ashkelon Marina and unload the aid there”, which would certainly be anticlimactic compared to a climate activists-v-robot interaction!
As of September 24, 2025, the yachts had survived 14 attacks by warships and warplanes, without sustaining any damage, and were using their inoperative radios to report a “communications jam” that has rendered their radios inoperative:
See also “Posing with Hamas chief, activist who’s joined Greta on Gaza ‘freedom flotilla'” (Daily Mail):
Grinning as he gives a Churchillian ‘victory’ sign, the spokesman for Greta Thunberg’s Gaza ‘freedom flotilla’ poses with a Hamas chief weeks before setting sail.
Wael Nawar was draped in a scarf emblazoned with the terror group’s emblem as he stood with other pro-Palestinian activists beside Youssef Hamdan, who runs Hamas’s North African operation, during a meeting at its Algerian headquarters in June.
Mr Nawar is listed alongside Swedish campaigner Ms Thunberg as part of the 13-strong ‘steering committee’ orchestrating the Global Sumud Flotilla, which left Spain last week to deliver food and medical aid to Gaza.
Another committee member, political activist Marouan Ben Guettaia, was also a guest of Hamdan a few days after and later posted a picture of the pair sitting in front of a Hamas flag.
A third committee member, Brazilian Thiago Avila, attended Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s funeral in Beirut in February and praised him as an ‘inspiration’.
Sorry for the repost — i got confused over crypto-queer palestine in massachusetts and viking armadas to the holy land facing air drone attacks.
https://www.israelhayom.com/2025/09/21/greta-thunberg-removed-from-gaza-flotilla-leadership-amid-infighting/
>major drama unfolded among flotilla members themselves – climate activist Greta Thunberg was removed from the executive committee and forced to switch ships, while the media advisor left the flotilla entirely
>The problems began, as recalled already in Port Sidi Bou Said, where on September 9 and 10, flotilla members claimed two ships were attacked by drones with incendiary bombs, causing fires on deck, and also distributed documentation of the incident.
They need the SR-20 air force. Be sure to repack the parachute.
You’re freaking-out at standard political theater designed to force the stronger force to use its strength, no worse or better than any other political theater. Death by a thousand soundbites. Watching the replay, it looked like about 2/3 of the UN delegates walked out, an exceedingly bad sign. Things are not moving in the right direction. Political theater is a symptom, not a cause and the videos of robot boats playing the part of the Chinese coast guard will not help.
But your map does raise an interesting question. If territorial waters extend out 12 miles, how did we end up with a blockade that seems to extend-out about 20 miles? And the blockade does seem to suggest some sort of a war situation. What do the actual “no airplanes, no ships” orders read like?
Dave, you noted that 2/3 of UN delegates walked out when Bibi Hitler spoke and that this was “exceedingly bad.” I have some good news to report to you via my Brothers in Islam: the delegates departed because they are headed to Gaza to help kill the marauding Jews! Allahu Akbar and Death to America!
A little more then one third of all UN member countries’ delegates were not present, including from many but not all muslim countries, die-hard Latin Amercan communists, few Europeans. I would say most unexpected walkout was Kenyans, with whom Israel shares strong diplomatic and economic ties. Maybe they id not like Ethiopia – Israel re-rapprochement. Not all of them walked out, some were not attending morning session altogether https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hjclt2r3eg
These are the 77 countries that did not attend the speech or walked out at its start:
Suriname
Tuvalu
Turkmenistan
Yemen
Egypt
Panama
Senegal
Palestine
Sudan
Tunisia
Turkey
Venezuela
Antigua and Barbuda
Belize
Congo
Oman
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Tonga
Uzbekistan
Angola
Barbados
Colombia
Comoros
Dominica
Djibouti
North Macedonia
San Marino
South Africa
Somalia
Algeria
Bangladesh
Brunei Darussalam
Brazil
Chile
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
Lebanon
Liberia
Eritrea
Chad
Central African Republic
Libya
Mauritania
Jordan
Nicaragua
Madagascar
Niger
Peru
Saint Lucia
Slovenia
Afghanistan
Bahamas
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
North Korea
Eswatini
Syria
Uganda
Pakistan
Lesotho
Bolivia
Spain
Cuba
Equatorial Guinea
Iran
Kyrgyzstan
Iraq
Mozambique
Myanmar
Ireland
Maldives
Indonesia
Kuwait
Namibia
Malaysia
Guyana
Kenya
What stronger force? Spanish frigate? Only to involve NATO if it interferes militarily and is quickly sunk. NATO is busy with Russia, and there is nil chance of any NATO action against Israel under Trump administration. Also, do not think that it is pat of NATO compact to assist member states in starting wars. At least NATO has not been assisting Turkey to attack Syria.