Gaza Flotilla Sinks

Not the way I would have liked - at the end of an Israeli missile - but this works too:

The protest flotilla to the Gaza Strip seemed to come to an end on Thursday, when organizers decided to send more than half of the activists in Athens home.

The remaining activists said they would ponder their options in the face of Greece’s continued refusal to allow the ships to sail.

Huwaida Arraf, a co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement and one of the leaders of the Free Gaza Movement behind the flotilla, told The Jerusalem Post that most of the activists had been sent home to engage in education and advocacy.

A few dozen activists remained behind in Athens to continue fighting for the release of the ships – a sharp drop from the 350 who arrived there in late June.

“It does not make sense to keep people waiting as we get the boats released, and those people went home to do advocacy, which is better than waiting here,” Arraf said by phone from the Greek capital.

The US-flagged vessel The Audacity of Hope gave up waiting for Greek approval late on Wednesday night, and almost all of the 50 activists who signed up for its voyage toward Gaza returned to the US on Thursday.

Good for the Greeks. Nothing good was going to come of all this.