Israel Acts With Impunity, Europe Does Nothing
If a designated enemy country attacked shipping just outside the coastal waters of a European Union member state, Western leaders would be outraged. When Israel did it off Malta this month, they said nothing.
The aftermath of the damaged civilian ship Conscience, carrying humanitarian aid for Gaza, which was targeted in a drone attack near the island of Malta on May 2, 2025. (Freedom Flotilla Coalition / Handout / Anadolu via Getty Images)
On the afternoon of May 1, according to open-source aircraft tracking, a C-130 Hercules heavy military transport took off from an airbase in Israel.
The Hercules flew more than 1,200 miles west into the central Mediterranean, over Malta, and apparently did not land before returning home many hours later.
Below, the passenger vessel Conscience was carrying food and medicine for Gaza. It was making this mission some twenty months and at least fifty thousand deaths into what numerous international agencies now term a genocide.
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