Ain't Got No Responsibility |
A world without consequences is all around us.
Israel stopped ships from another “flotilla” that attempted to make its way to Gaza. When commandos from Israel’s Shayetet 13 boarded the vessels, they found no humanitarian aid. When the first group tried this stunt a while ago, they at least had the courtesy of pretending to bring flour and the like to the not-so-starving Gazans. Their aid was taken to the main Israeli port at Ashdod and then transferred by truck to the Palestinian enclave. Why would this round of Ship of Fools make the trip from Turkey when they know that they would be stopped? Because they understood that there are zero consequences for their actions.
Let’s imagine that someone is willing to pay you $100,000 a month to simply stand outside some small business with a sign that says that the owner of said venture is a jerk. The police claim that you are not in violation of any laws, and where you stand prevents the owner from stopping your actions. You thus get rich while knowing that the owner, the police, and anyone else, for that matter, can do nothing. In the world of Jew-hating, there is always money. Whether it be the self-hating Jew George Soros or the Jew-hating Muslim Recep Erdogan, there is always somebody willing to put cash on the barrel head for an anti-Israel program. So let’s imagine ourselves amongst the latest group of pro-Palestinian losers. We set sail with plenty of provisions for ourselves. We talk about how the Israelis would board and beat us. We would fantasize about how we would fight back and maybe take out a couple of Jews. But we know, just as the whole world knows, that the Israelis would do nothing to us. Whether it be out of proper military morality/discipline or fear of another file at the Hague, Israel’s military just does its job and........