Helden oder Regelbrecher? Koreaner sind uneinig über die Rückkehr der Gaza-Flottillenaktivisten in ihre Heimat

For me personally, they followed through what their faith told them, and it was not some fanatic faith of many religious people, but a sympathy towards humankind. So yeah, i find very noble what they have done.

When rules are preventing you from doing heroic act, you ain’t going to be a hero if you’re afraid of breaking the rules.

They are heroes and they had a noble cause. I wouldn’t call them selfish, they genuinely wanted to help the suffering people in the Gaza Strip.
But the passport law is there to protect the people. No law is safe from abuse, as I see, but I can’t call this case an abuse of the law, either. They were indeed beaten by the Israelis, and while diplomacy worked out, even after that Israel refuses to acknowledge that their abductions of these activists were unjust.
So it’s open for discussion. But at the very least, if anyone’s a true seeker of justice, it would be these two brave souls who went all the way there to help out those they never even met. Ideally our own government should be doing something for the Gazans, but alas.

Noble people, but powerless.

It is noble to try to stop wars.

It is STUPID to deny Hamas is/was incredibly popular with Palestinians.

For instance:

The Palestinian people elected Hamas into power:

“*The Islamic group Hamas has won a huge majority in parliamentary elections with Palestinian voters.”*

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2006/1/26/hamas-wins-huge-majority

“*Hamas celebrates election victory.*”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/jan/26/israel1

Then, for the last 20 years tens of thousands of Palestinians celebrated Hamas:

For your own eyes: https://youtu.be/65IvMfMA_UY?si=VqawH2IlRswoxHVy

“*Tens of thousands of Palestinians, including hundreds of gunmen and children waving mock weapons, rallied in Gaza celebrating the 29th anniversary of the founding of the Islamic group Hamas.*”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/12/14/thousands-rally-in-gaza-for-hamas-anniversary

“*Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza mark Hamas’s 30th anniversary.*”

https://english.palinfo.com/o_post/Hundreds-of-thousands-mark-Hamas-s-30th-anniversary/

“*Tens of thousands of Palestinians participated in a rally in Gaza to mark the 31st anniversary of Hamas’ founding on Sunday.*”

https://english.palinfo.com/video_articles/Thousands-rally-in-Gaza-to-celebrate-the-founding-of-Hamas/

“*Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets on Friday in the north of the Gaza Strip, to celebrate the 32nd anniversary of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas.*”

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20191214-hamas-celebrates-its-32nd-anniversary-in-gaza/

This went on year after year after year.

So sure. Definitely try to end all wars. That’s a noble cause.

But don’t believe for 1 second that this is a simple black and white issue. Nobody should be electing, and then celebrating, actual TERRORIST GROUPS.

That should be a red flag. Or it used to be a red flag.