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While I wouldn't wish this on anyone, it's amazing how self-destructive this is. Greta is an internationally famous activist. Flagrantly violating and abusing a person with world renown - along with dozens of other activists - is a radically stupid way to hasten international isolation.
It is well known by most in Israel that the country simply cannot function in isolation. It will lead to collapse. In this, they are giving the flotilla far more power to eventually overthrow the ruling regime.
They just assume Uncle Sam will bail them out, no matter what. They are not wrong, much to the frustration of a large portion of the US population.
There's no assumption: it's a known fact.
The Americans are not the reliable partner they used to be.
Reliable enough, unfortunately.
Thats on borrowed time. Money to isreal is one of the only issues left and right agree with. Someone is going to take advantage of that eventually and isrela is gonna get disconnected from the US teet
The ~~left~~ Democrats and the right.
Politics are left, right, and whatever the fuck Democrats are doing.
Uncle Sam has Congestive Heart Failure. Their position is tenuous to be generous.
They have done worse to other protestors and faced zero accountability:
They've deliberately attacked the American Navy before and nothing came of it.
While I wouldn’t wish this on anyone, it’s amazing how self-destructive this is. Greta is an internationally famous activist. Flagrantly violating and abusing a person with world renown - along with dozens of other activists - is a radically stupid way to hasten international isolation.
You'd be correct most of the time, but this is Israel we are talking about. They know there won't be any consequences because claiming they did something wrong must mean you're a nazi, and even if you get over that, daddy USA is there to protect them anyway.
Israel could livestream a soldier killing Greta and they would face no consequences whatsoever.
They've gone so far over every red line that it literally doesn't matter anymore at this point. They're literally destroying an entire population - genocide - in full view of the world. What is some maltreatment of an activist in the face of all that? If indiscriminately bombing preschools and blowing up children with drones doesn't manage to do it, what will?
Remember when Elon Musk did a nazi salute on the world stage for all to see? Remember how we were trying to rationalize what the hell he was thinking? The simplest answer is that nazis at some point just can't help themselves and they end up saluting because the love doing it, they just need to show people who they are.
Same logic I think applies here. Yes it is self-defeating, yes, it is stupid, and yes, it is gratuitous and dangerous. But these people working Ben Gvir's prisons? This is who they are. It's horrifically simple. The people working the Israeli system are low level functionaries of apartheid. These are not people who think in terms of strategy etc. If had the capacity to think like that they wouldn't be there. It's as simple as that.
With some of the politicians in power these days, it will be pushed as finally putting an end to her climate lies or some other bullshit culture war topic.
I don't think any law or any order is actually a thing anymore.
If trying to exterminate a whole population did not do anything, I doubt abusing Thunberg will change things
There are reports from American doctors who worked in Gaza of Palestinian babies being regularly shot in the head.
That was reported during the Biden administration.
Israel is murdering babies, and it hasn't affected their support. Why would this matter?
Palestinian babies
Plenty of people in The West^R^ don't consider them worthy of empathy, but a white woman of small stature who first became famous as a child might be a different story. We need a mass worldwide cultural shift to identifying all humans as part of the in group or we aren't going to make it through this century.
It is intentional. They want to flaunt their power. Look at what we can do and nobody will stop us.
It's not. Nothing will change, the west will keep supporting israel while pretending not to
Supremacists gonna supremacist.
She’s still a little kid. They made her suffer.
I think that's needlessly infantilizing her. She's 22. She's not a "little kid". I think she's old enough for her opinions to carry weight, so how is she a "little kid"?
The youth should have their opinions respected too.
I'm not going to take political opinions from a 3 year old, which is about what I'm thinking when someone says "little kid". Teenagers, like she was when she got famous, can have enough context about the world that their opinions, particularly about things like sustainability, equality, etc, are valid.
Depends on how old the person saying that. I'm only in my late 30's and anyone in their early 20's does feel like a kid. Yes, 22 is an adult, but you've barely just scratched the surface of life experiences.
Throw another war crime on the fire...
Can we just jump to tribunals yet?
If true, fuck Israel.
If not, then still fuck Israël.
I think there were already plenty of reasons before that, so the condition is unnecessary here.
edit: maybe you really meant if(true) so it's fine.
Congratulations Israel, I permahate you now
don't kill the messenger, i am pretty upset by this. :(
No no no, not you! Very sorry ! I hate Israel.
Israel is a fucking terrorist country. IDF is a new SS. They are new Nazi.
Terrorism
May anyone who supports Israel burn in hell for all eternity.
Yep, I called that they would torture her, though that was 4 months back on a previous flotilla.
People downvoted that, with no explanation.
There have been a lot of libs coming over to lemmy ever since the crackdowns on reddit. Among... Others
Swedish gov should cut all ties for this terrorist state torturing their citizens.
israel has reached terminal rogue state status: they don’t give a fuck what their image is, they know they’ve got the backing of the imperial core no matter what, so they don’t even bother with excuses anymore
death to israel and to all of those who support its genocide
If this is true this is some crazy shit. She just wanted to feed hungry people and fight for climate change. And they do all this shit to her?
What the fuck is wrong with human beings this past decade?
I'm going to wait for a source I've heard of on that one.