The government is beating its chest over the upcoming flotilla interception, promising to handle it differently than it handled the Mavi Marmara. To that end, the army invested significant resources, woefully needed in other areas, in developing the interception techniques.
Which reminds us of an old story. After numerous discoveries in the first half of the twentieth century, physics became immensely popular, with unrealistic numbers of candidates applying to universities. Einstein then jokingly suggested that every hundredth applicant be shot in order to ensure that only the most determined of them applied. And that is exactly the prescription for human-rights activists. If a Russian-made torpedo missile launched from an unknown direction were to drown a boat or a two once in a while, we could be sure of diminished efforts to launch subsequent flotillas.
