• x00z@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Israel’s military has been ordered to show Greta Thunberg footage of Hamas’s Oct 7 2023 attack on southern Israel.

    Just straight up showing a teenager extremely awful footage as a form of brainwashing and propaganda.

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    I’m not super up on the details of this situation, but they had to know this would be the outcome, right? This was just bait, to make a point?

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      3 months ago

      The aid on the ship was symbolic. This was a protest action to call attention to Israel’s continued blockade of food and other aid into Gaza.

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      Their goal was to get attention, to force the media and public to start talking about it, to force western governments to pretend to care about it, ratchet up the international pressure by another notch. They have done everything they need to be successful at that. Now that they’ve been seized, it’s our jobs to do what we can to make the rest of that happen.

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        I think they did believe that was a strong possibility. I thought her video was a dead man’s switch release that she would prevent from going out if they made it out of international waters.

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        I don’t know why. The USS Liberty incident proved that Israel does this sort of shit.

        They’re a far right government.

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      Well sure, they knew this was a likely outcome - because they know the Israel government is batshit. The purpose of the mission was aid and activism. They definitely knew that arrest was likely, but that’s not why the did it. They didn’t want to be detained. They just want to help the people of Gaza in whatever way is within their power. This is how they chose to do it.

      It may not be perfect, but it’s definitely more effort and effect than doing nothing. And the more people who get on board with some actions, the more likely they are to succeed.

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    This is an abduction, not arrest. It was in international waters. Countries need to start sanctioning israel

    • IndustryStandard@lemmy.world
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      Indeed. The only real reason for a country to detain a boat on international waters is if it is suspected of piracy or slave transport. Or if the boat is legally posing as something it is not, such faking the flag they are sailing under.

  • Moonrise2473@feddit.it
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    3 months ago

    instructed the IDF to show the passengers of the flotilla a video of the horrors of the October 7

    This doesn’t remotely justify to do 1000x the same horrors over unrelated innocent people

    • mcv@lemm.ee
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      If one atrocity justifies another, the atrocities won’t stop until everybody is dead.

  • 0x01@lemmy.ml
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    First of all, terrible. Second, that website is horrendous.

    Is it not yet time for federated news?