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I agree with your overall sentiment, I just do not think putting more people - civilian mariners especially - at risk is going to solve the problem or push the conversation forward.
Did you hear about Greta Thunberg being on a boat and being illegally kidnapped from international waters by the Israeli navy?
Did you hear about the next boat that went, where an American labor activist, Christian Smalls was on board, he was also illegally kidnapped by the Israeli navy and beaten while under arrest.
They are willing to put themselves at risk in order to try and get aid in for starving people. There is a solution that guarantees they will get food and aid, it will not happen without pressure from all of us and it involves occupying the occupiers.
So get off of Lemmy and get on a boat, dude, and stop telling others what they should do without doing it first yourself.
Unless this is Greta'a lemmy account...?
A lot of people always talk about what's easy to do, from the comfort of their couches on their iPhones.
But if I get off Lemmy then someone else with ideas on stopping a genocide would have to be poo pooed by you.
If I waste your time maybe someone with a better idea might be seen by others and not caught up by conversations with genocide supporters.
I'm all for ideas to stop the genocide and I am 100% against what is happening to the Palestinian people there.
What I am against is sitting comfortably at home and asking someone else to go risk their lives to help, or hearing someone else suggest the same.
Well instead of photo ops of dropping inconsequential amounts of aid from planes we should find a better way that might help rather than look like it is helping. If boats
A plane carries a few thousand kg of air droppable food, a truck can carry 20-30 thousand lbs without worry of dropping it on people.
Canada isn't at war with Egypt, maybe it is time to roll up to the Egypt/Gaza border with aid trucks and Canadian peacekeepers and roll through. Israeli and Egyptian troops may think twice about shooting Canadians.