Writer Naoise Dolan Abducted in International Waters

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Writer, Naoise Dolan, has just been illegally abducted from international waters by the Israeli government. Prior to being kidnapped, she wrote about her journey for The Guardian, explaining why they will not get Israel to distribute aid on their behalf.

“Israel likes to ask why we don’t “just” let them distribute our supplies. Besides there being good reason to distrust that this would actually happen when Israel has been deliberately starving Palestinians for two years, doing so would tacitly concede that Israel has the right to control Palestinian waters.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/08/israel-seize-ship-gaza-flotilla-prison

Israel have just abducted 145 peace activists at gunpoint from international waters, in breach of international law. This follows their abduction of 500 people last week, some of which are still in captivity and those who have been released have reported brutal treatment where they were denied access to water, medical care and legal aid.

https://freedomflotilla.org/2025/10/08/iof-attacks/

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Don't worry. Just like what Israel has done is a reaction to Hamas, those who are not anti Zionists will know that they did not show any " can't act right" before the pro Palestinians did the most to censor , minimise, mock , victim blame and even censure October 7th first, worldwide and before Israel even retaliated.
Can't get much worse than being a female rape denier/ minimiser on a female centred board.
And Greta leads that specific cohort on the flotilla.
It burns me to share space with those types of women and men.
They minimise Hamas and complicit Gazans actions because something inside them clicks positively with those actions .
And they only pretend to be for Palestinians and that is why they minimise Hamas' actions and intent ....because something clicks positively in the Israeli defence and the death and destruction it has wrought.
Never in my life have I seen so many able to daily doom scrolls what is avoidable, but claim distress, disgust and despair.
A disgust, distress and despair that does not translate into begging Hamas to disarm, give back the dead and living hostages or question why Hamas and complicit Gazans planned for two years to knowingly lead tens of thousands of Gazans to death, homelessness and hunger.
So miss me with the superiority complex. The average Pro Palestinian does not even check for Palestinians. If they did, calls for Hamas accountability would have been one of the top two demands from them in this war.
Because one cannot claim that Israel is an eighty year old criminal state that needs to be a parish due to her exercising her right to defend herself against various Islamist entities over the decades , but act like they did not know that Israel would defend herself against the worst violation against Jews, and in the Jewish homeland since WW2.
Which begs the question why so called Pro Palestinians did not and do not prioritise why Hamas knowingly sent their people to hell all to get a kick out of murdering a far smaller number of people?

Is the kick out of a relatively large number of Israeli Jews being targeted and murdered for being Jewish a greater reward worth the death and destruction in Gaza so as to continue to finger point and bangle/banner wave after Israel?
Because this mass energy for Israel that even the post communism fall of the Berlin Wall did not harness with such non dynamic intensity , and seemingly unable to channel itself out of toddler like emotionalism and narcissism ....where and how was it hiding in intensity and hysteria ( I rarely use that word in my lexicon as it can often be used to other and stifle reasoning) and how was it able to?
Is social media the catalyst or the vessel?

Because there is so much going on in the world, worse than what is happening in Gaza and for far longer that this very intense energy against Israel (and much" adjacent " to her ) could have been released a long time ago, if anti war, love of peace and justice and " anti imperialism", plus a superior love of children, babies and mothers is really the motivation/ trigger for it.
But kudos to the ability to stifle all that adrenalin without using it so intensely " on behalf" of other groups and other " imperialist" endeavours against whole populations all over creation ...and all without a serious uptick in mental hospital admission or prison as suppressing intense feeling too often leads to maladaptive anti social behaviour or self harm or to those in close proximity.

I don’t expect Pro Israeli supporters to believe anyone that doesn’t agree with them

so nothing new here then

They also incapacitated 7 IDF commandos (so must have been pretty heavy resistance) by attacking them as they came aboard and armed themselves with guns they took off them.

So get this, aggressive activists who attacked soldiers with chairs, metal poles, knives, and threw one over deck to a lower level of the boat, to get hold of their guns, were just peaceful and innocent and shouldn’t expect to be at shot at if they’re trying to kill those soldiers.

According to reports I read the attack on the soldiers was planned days before they came onboard and the peaceful activists had sawn off the boat’s metal railings to use as weapons in preparation.

I see @DrPrunesqualer didn’t see fit to mention the 7 soldiers injured, 2 seriously, 1 shot, in her brief run down of the incident (although it states 10 on her attachment) which rather changes the perspective that the ‘activists’ were all peaceful and were attacked for no reason.

If that had been any other ME country’s army, I think the outcome would have been a lot worse, but of course Israel is held to a standard no other country would tolerate.

Well that works both ways.

There is a lot of distrust on this board for the evidence on the "other side" - whichever side you're on.

@JacknDiane, who was who I was responding to about Israel being a pariah State was not referring to sanctions from my reading of that post.

The world has seen what's happening and Israel will be very much a pariah state from now on. No one except their supporters will think of Israel with anything except disgust and horror.

He/she was referring to the justification of hatred of Israel, Israelis and also the Jewish diaspora by extension. Attacks on them have been justified because of the war even on here.

My point was business is business and international businesses will still deal with Israel if it benefits them.

I don’t think any country in the world, and its people, has had this level of hate Israel has had directed at it for carrying out a justified war or even an aggressive war in my lifetime.

I also don’t think Germany had this level of global hate directed it, or was viewed with such hatred for long afterwards as @JacknDiane seems to want Israel to be.

Again, trying to put words in my mouth. Its just not working @TicklishMauveSquid.

Poor Noise and the rest of the Floaters arrived a week too late.
The world is talking about the Trump Peace Plan.
Their futile gestures have already been forgotten.

Everything crossed Trumps peace plan is successful 🙏

Agree
but I disagree that the UN are biased against Israel despite the assertions of Netanyahu and what the UN critics say

Im aware of arguments for and against

Additionally, it is absolutely disgusting to say that IDF soldiers should be arrested the second they step out of Israel. These are young men and women fighting a war, putting their own lives on the line and being killed, after their country was attacked by multiple terrorists groups.

I’ve seen pictures and videos of beheaded IDF soldiers and bodies of dead soldiers being jumped on, beaten and desecrated by hordes of frenzied civilians in Gaza.

The targeting of these soldiers is led by an outfit who’s members have openly expressed support for Hamas and Hezbollah, and which was specifically set up to persecute IDF soldiers in the name of a 6 year girl, Hind Rajab, who was killed during this war allegedly by the IDF with no conclusive proof that was the case and it has been disputed.

I personally don’t think the story makes sense at all and it is another piece in the propaganda war against Israel, with this ‘Foundation’ to stalk and persecute IDF soldiers conveniently set up on the back of it.

In all likelihood planned and set up before Hamas started a war they knew they wouldn’t win militarily.

Has there been any other conflicts where soldiers have been targeted in the same way?

Genocide? The most Syrian Christian’s that were killed in a single incident was 12. The death toll for the entire year: 1,120.

You sound like my mum who advised me that if I get raped I had better make sure he beats me black and blue or no one will believe me. Got to have that physical evidence, am I right?

Palmer also said in the report that the Israeli navy should have searched the boats and if they had only humanitarian aid, they should have been let through to deliver it.

A blockade is only legal while it blocks arms and ammunition.

That is not relevant to the law.

Or campaigning to weaken the grip of Hamas, instead of having their boats paid for by them.

Ah yes those fluffy wuffy ickle terrorists. They dont have any issue with peace activists? What, apart from Vittorio Arrigioni, Vivian Silver, all those Israelis who'd been working with Gazans before 7 October?

Did you speak to Hamas and did they tell you, no, honestly, we've no issue with peace activists? Personal mistakes might have been made? And you believed them?

Must be true then 🙄.

Wow there is so much nonsense in this post. You know the six year old was on the phone to emergency services as she was being murdered by the IDF. It is all recorded and proven. Just horrible comment!

It is not an “unprecedented war” against terror as many living veterans of urban combat against terrorists can attest to. The enemy is not what is unprecedented.

What is unprecedented in my life time, is how Israel has systematically fought this war in a seemingly lawless and excessively brutal fashion.

She is back in Sweden? Deported.

Done.

Hamas didn’t pay for the flotilla. That is nonsense.

Do you have expertise or knowledge of urban warfare?

Please name a similar war then?

Military experts who have been to the area are of the view it’s an unprecedented war.

I suppose you know better than one of world’s leading experts in urban warfare which is what this war is.

https://www.meforum.org/podcasts/john-spencer-on-israels-urban-war-in-gaza-a-technical-analysis

spencerguard.substack.com/p/israel-is-not-committing-genocide

@SummerFeverVenice ’What is unprecedented in my life time, is how Israel has systematically fought this war in a seemingly lawless and excessively brutal fashion.’

Wake up. It’s a war, where taking prisoner by the islamists means at best a quick death, at worst months of torture followed by a beheading with a kitchen knife live streamed on a YouTube.

Don’t forget being found gay by Islamists results in being thrown off a tall building. Being found guilty of adultery means being held in a hole while a pickup full of rocks is off loaded onto you.

The Jews, even the ultra orthodox, don’t do shit like that.

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