#Flotilla2 Has No "Dignity"

It earlier seemed that one of the boats of the shrinking Flotilla had made a run for it and was on the way to Gaza to challenge Israel's blockade.

Now it appears that the Greeks have caught up with The Dignite:

A lone French yacht carrying activists hoping to run the Israeli blockade on Gaza was on Thursday blocked in Crete by the Greek coast guard when it stopped to refuel, an organiser said.

"The Dignite/Al Karama was taken to Sitia in Crete by the Greek coast guard after being stopped in a nearby port while it was refuelling," Claude Leostic told AFP by telephone from Paris. 

"The authorities are stopping the boat from setting sail for various administrative reasons," Leostic said.

The boat, which is carrying 12 pro-Palestinian activists, had sneaked out of a Greek port early on Tuesday in defiance of a ban on any ships setting sail from Greece in an attempt to run the Israeli blockade on Gaza.

All the other boats which had been expected to participate in a 10-vessel international aid flotilla to Gaza are currently being blocked from leaving ports in Greece, while an Irish boat, which organisers say was sabotaged, is undergoing repairs in Turkey.

As it is, the focus is now longer on the Flotilla, which has failed not only to live up to its hype in terms of size, but has found that all the boats have managed to do is float--attached to the dock.

Now all eyes are on the Flytilla.

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