A great story. Leaders with courage!

Yes, a great story!

Unfortunately the grandfathers of the type of Turks who are now buying oil from Islamic State, while bombing Kurds, were not so kind to Jews seeking to escape on a refugee ship during World War Two.

The ship, MV Struma, had been trying to take several hundred Jewish refugees from fascist Romania https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Romania#The_Holocaust to Palestine. She had recently been re-engined with an unreliable second-hand diesel engine. Struma was only 45m long but 781 Jewish refugees were crammed into her.

Struma's diesel engine failed several times between her departure from Constanta on the Black Sea on 12 December 1941 and her arrival in Istanbul on 15 December. On 23 February 1942, with refugee passengers aboard, Turkish authorities towed Struma from Istanbul through the Bosphorus out to the coast of Sile in North Istanbul, leaving it to drift with no engine.

Within hours, in the morning of 24 February, a Soviet submarine torpedoed her, killing an estimated 781 refugees plus 10 crew, making it the Black Sea's largest exclusively civilian naval disaster of World War II. Only one person aboard, 19-year-old David Stoliar, survived (he died in 2014). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struma_disaster

Looks like Greeks were/are more humanitarian than the Turks who abandon Jews or trade with Islamic State!

Leaders with righteous courage! Where are those indomitable Leaders today?

Not those intolerant racists thumping lecterns and warning of the danger of ethnic difference; and whose knees would surely turn to jello, if faced with a similar choice or purely personal act of completely unadulterated courage?

But maybe just itching to get a power hungry warmongers finger on a button to eliminate a problem forever?

Or just buy the election that gets that done?

Today's leaders/blowhards, would surely just send others into harm's way or just roll over and beg for a tummy rub? [ Shirtfront anyone?]
Rhrosty.

Well the anti-semitic Labor Party would happily send them off and probably cover costs by charging a "departure" tax. I can Carr waving them off.