This much is clear: This weeks flotilla was a fabulous fizzle.
Which, from the Israeli perspective, is a very good thing.
This much is also clear: Israel and its supporters owe Greece a significant thank-you. The Greeks blocked most of the boats that were expected to head for Gaza late last week in what international activists hoped would be another chance to batter Israels blockade of Gaza with a propaganda spectacle.
Whether due to the warming ties between Israel and Greece, or to Greek concerns that activists might be hurt or killed in confrontations once they got to Gaza, or to simple common sense, the Greeks made a wise and responsible choice.
In addition, some of the ships docked in Greece that had hoped to join the flotilla were found with engine or propeller damage the product, flotilla activists insisted, of Israeli sabotage.
The flotilla activists must feel they are in a James Bond film, a spokesman for Israels Foreign Ministry said in response to those charges.
Leaving aside for the moment the fact that Israeli espionage operations often do resemble James Bond films, our response to sabotage charges is: Nice work, Israel (if, in fact, Israel did it).
Much better, we say, to have a few damaged engines or propellers than a bunch of dead activists and yet another propaganda coup for the truth-twisters and Newspeakers of the flotilla crowd.
Next, we are told, the same nannies of the flotilla spectacles hope to embarrass Israel via a fly-in, in which activists plan to cause huge delays at Ben Gurion Airport by declaring Palestine as their destination upon landing.
May these airborne truth-distorters be met with the same calm wisdom that denied their maritime brethren a victory this week.
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