Israel sent its navy 600 nautical miles after aid boats and somehow thought that would make the starvation blockade look less guilty. Right, so Israel has just turned a Gaza aid flotilla into evidence against itself once again. Israeli forces have intercepted, boarded and seized vessels from the Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters near Greece, way out in international waters, with the organisers saying twenty-one boats were taken and seventeen managed to escape into Greek waters, while Israel’s own foreign ministry has put the number of detained activists at around one hundred and seventy-five from more than twenty boats. This was not some skirmish at the Gaza shoreline was it? Crew reports from the support ship Arctic Sunrise put the intervention forty-five nautical miles west of Kythira and six hundred nautical miles from Gaza, which  ...