Greta Thunberg, in a video posted on social media, said she and other members of the Freedom flotilla en-route to Gaza have been kidnapped by Israeli forces. This comes after the Daily Mail reported that several Israeli vessels surrounded the ship Madleen, prompting the crew to raise an alarm.
Thunberg shared a pre-recorded video appealing for international help. “My name is Greta Thunberg, and I am from Sweden,” she said in the clip. “If you see this video, we are being intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel. I urge all my friends, family and comrades to put pressure on the Swedish government to release me and the others as soon as possible.”
Isn’t boarding and taking over a ship in international waters piracy?
Do either Israel or it’s enablers care?
Yep
yes, and an act of war.
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Why is everyone so hands off and permissive with Israel? Like they can do nothing wrong when they go out of their way to do wrong things?
Israel has a huge lobby in most Western countries. And Epstein material on their politicians.
And Epstein material on their politicians.
It does but the lobby wouldn’t be allowed to exist if Isntreal weren’t a useful tool for the US-aligned empire. The lobby is a how, not a why.
I don’t think Epstein dirt is that powerful. We live in a post-truth time. Powerful men have been getting away withremoved kids for a long time, see Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin for a less political example.
So why doesn’t Trump pick up the phone and tell Netanyahu to stop the genocide?
Because that’s not in the US empire’s interests
… How is this in their interest?
https://hexbear.net/comment/6223363
Isntreal is a military base masquerading as a country.
So explain why Biden and Trump don’t tell Israel to stop the genocide instead of destroying the entire ‘rules based order’.
For Germany: Israel is an indulgence for the Holocaust.
For the USA: Israel is an unsinkable aircraft carrier in a largely hostile region that is protected by international law.
For the rest of Western Europe: They are vassals of the US, so naturally they don’t want to piss of their daddy.
For everyone else: they don’t want to provoke the US either.
Don’t forget that the rest of Europe benefits from the imperialist projection in the same ways as the US does.
That should go without saying.
It should but people love giving Europe a pass whenever they can for some reason.
Literally this. This should never be left unsaid, actually it should be underscored.
This makes the most sense.
manufactured consent and capitalist profit. it’s a cult.
Western Kabuki
Western countries never face any consequences for their atrocities.
Because if you criticise you’re called “Anti Semitic”
We just need to help god make the book of revelations happen so Jesus can come back!
/s
Do you mean governments or people?
People don’t have much power here. Other than boycotts, what can people do?
For governments, Israel is fairly powerful. They have powerful lobbyists, and aren’t shy to leverage claims of antisemitism against anybody who speaks up against Israel. In many cases, there’s also the guilt over how jews were treated in WWII. This is one reason Germany is so incredibly pro-Israel. Then there’s the fact that Israel is still more-or-less a democracy, which makes it unique in the middle east. It’s the one country in the region pushing back against various Islamic fundamentalist goverments, movements and terrorist groups. Many countries don’t want to lose that “friend”.
And then there’s spyware. Most of the best spyware in the world is produced in Israel. Some cynical people would say that countries don’t want to lose access to the world’s best producer of spyware. Some even more cynical people would say that that spyware has already been used on politicians and Israel is using it for blackmail. Who knows what the right level of cynicism is.
Don’t forget that Epstein was linked to Israel Military intelligence, so there is that…
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This is a complete inversion of the relationship and a very loud antisemitic dog whistle
While their statement is a hyperbolic and reductive statement about only the other side of the symbiotic relationship, we must also not strip Israel of its agency. Also, Israel≠Jews, as much as Israel tries to convince you they are the same.
In the macro scale. Yes, Israel is propped up by the west as a powerful tool against other regional powers and the imperial system funnels funds into their upkeep.
But it’s also true that in the micro scale. Politicians are more directly and personally rewarded to keep those funds flowing (AIPAC exists regardless of tropes) and Israel uses the leverage they have as one of the more valuable strategic tools to grant them leeway others wouldn’t have.
It’s a two way street. Israel and The US/west aren’t parasites leeching off one or the other, they’re symbiotic.
Sure, there’s a two-way relationship, but the US is the global hegemon (or at least was until very recently), while Israel is a regional power. They may both influence each other, but the US has more say in the relationship.
great job hiding the “jews control everything” slander.
Replace jew/Israel with zionist if it helps you. It’s more accurate anyway.
Do you like having a job and a place to live? That’s why.
All they had to do was wait until the boat entered Israeli waters to do it legally. Why do it in international waters? Israelis seem to want to break laws just for the sake of showing they dont consider any laws to matter. In some ways they are worse than nazis. They are like perpetually angry butthurt toddlers with weapons.
At no point would the boat enter Israeli waters. Only Palestinian waters.
The illegal Israeli sea blockade is illegal for reason: it is not their water.
They want to make a point that they don’t care about international law
You may be right. The whole world is on the brink ,deciding if we will move forward as a global “rule of law” or a global “might makes right” future.
We have always lived under “might makes right”. Ask any country that has been under the boot of western imperialism.
This is just the collapse of the charade of “rule of law” as the stranglehold of the western might begins to slip.
this country is run and heavily populated with most vile criminals ever to exist
when contemplating about what they are capable of, then think of them as the most disgusting mexican drug cartel not a country of law and human decency.
that seems like an unnecessary maligning of mexican drug cartels.
there’s no “legally” what, they enter Gaza territoral waters, only gaza has authority to regulate it’s territorial waters.
Israel has no right to control Gaza’s waters.
why would they care about breaking laws at this point?
Bibi is already wanted by the ICC so why stop now?
“The tiny amount of aid that was on the yacht and not consumed by the ‘celebrities’ will be transferred to Gaza through real humanitarian channels,” the ministry added.
They will toss the aid to the wood chipper and laugh about it, won’t they…
Quite a thing to create the world’s most dire need for humanitarian aid in the history of the species and then criticize any aid as tiny in comparison to the need you’ve manufactured
Facts.
Nah they’ll actually dangle the food in front of starving people to draw a crowd and then bomb them.
Fucking monsters.
Israel has a reputation for not even following through on these basic minute propaganda gestures. Because they are comically evil.
remember that time where they piled a bunch of boxes with a printout that said medical aid, then have soldiers move them into an hospital they evacuated, showing how weightless they are. and how useful will those empty boxes will be in the hospital they vacated
Nah, they will give it to their ISIS aligned collaborators and then shoot anyone/bomb anyone else who goes near it.
They will then destroy Hamas. Once Hamas is destroyed, they will demand that the new group be destroyed before the war can end. They will then fund a third group to distribute aid.
of course not. they’ll use it to lure in more starving people to massacre
death to israel
The sheer chutzpah of “Not only are we arresting you for trying to clean up our mess, but it’s not like you brought enough mops anyway.”
tiny amount of aid
This is like someone with a micropenis criticizing the genitals of a kitten.
Thiago Ávila, a Brazilian activist, was also in that boat and was kidnapped by the Israeli state. That’s a crime against humanity.
they have been murdering activists, journalists, doctors, kids, women, pregnant women for decades. israel was founded by slaughtering entire villages and raping little girls to death.
you thinks these vicious scum care an iota about humanity ?
Also a French MEP afaik.
I don’t think kidnapped should be in " ", it’s an entirely literal act of piracy and terrorism
Imagine the news treatment if North Korea did that. Israel is what white people think NK is. Nothing they’ll ever do is too extreme for them to realize, though.
The media is complicit.
So, it’s not kidnapping?
Of course idf kidnaps a kid
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Like Israel did to Palestine in 1948?
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What’s your point? I thought we were just listing useless dates
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I thought it started on October 7.
#BringThemHome
Good thing Sweden isn’t Israel or else they’d have bombed their hospitals already.
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They abducted her in international waters. Don’t try to legitimize that. They stopped her on the basis of trafficking weapons to Hamas. Israel and Egypt acknowledge that stopping humanitarian aid in international waters is a violation of their treaty, and yet Israel did it anyways.
If you try to rationalize this type of behavior, what else do you rationalize?
You should look into the atrocities that have been committed at Israel/Us “aid” checkpoints, specifically the massacre of innocent, starving people.
Don’t engage with them. They rely on attention to spread their shitty propaganda. Downvote, block and move on.
Any opportunity to share facts is an opportunity worth taking. FACTS are irrefutable. Not gonna let the bots piss all over my playground.
Saved her life from what?
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Did Hamas rape hospital directors to death or did Israel do that.
Both did do and did boss, shitty point.
Source on Hamas doing that?
Raping? Really? It’s a war it’s literally the thing we’ve been doing since the beginning of time.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_and_gender-based_violence_in_the_October_7_attacks
Again, it’s a war we likely won’t know the full extent of anything really but to take the basic assumption that any combatant force doesn’t have rapists would be both contrary to history and basic statistics.
That was debunked over a year ago by The Intercept (among others):
- 2024-01-28: New York Times Puts “Daily” Episode on Ice Amid Internal Firestorm Over Hamas Sexual Violence Article
- 2024-02-28: “Between the Hammer and the Anvil”: The Story Behind the New York Times October 7 Exposé
- 2024-03-04: Kibbutz Be’eri Rejects Story in New York Times October 7 Exposé: “They Were Not Sexually Abused”
- 2024-04-18: New York Times Brass Moves to Staunch Leaks Over Gaza Coverage
You said did and do. Source?
Na just tired of stupid discussions on internet, you win, bye
