Grifting at sea. Who floats Gaza’s boat?

Published June 5, 2025 11:40pm ET



Greta Thunberg is grifting at sea. The moonfaced Swedish malcontent and 11 other Hamas supporters left the Sicilian port of Catania on the Madleen on the morning of June 1, destination Gaza. If, that is, the Israelis let them land. Thunberg is an old salt. On May 1, technical difficulties ended the environmentalist elf’s first attempt to enter a war zone in support of Islamists on a ship chartered by and for Islamists. The technical difficulties seem to have been a drone attack, which blew open the front of the boat a few hours after it set off from Malta.

At the time of writing, the Madleen is in Greek waters. Some people say, sink the ship of fools before they get to Gaza. I say, let ‘em in. Thunberg won’t be chained up in a tunnel or tortured, starved, and beaten. Should the Madleen dock where Gaza used to have a port, Hamas will receive her with ceremony as a valued ally and useful idiot.

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