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Italian dockworkers have threatened to “shut down all of Europe” and block all shipments to Israel if communication with the latest aid flotilla bound for Gaza is lost. The threat marks a significant escalation in dockworkers’ long history of industrial action in solidarity with Palestine.

Speaking at a procession in the port of Genoa – one of Italy’s two largest commercial ports – on behalf of the Unione Sindacale di Base (USB), a syndicate of various grassroots unions in Italy and thought to be the largest of its kind, the dockworker said: “If we lose contact with our boats, with our comrades – even for just 20 minutes – we will shut down all of Europe.”

“Our young women and men must come back without a scratch, and all this cargo, which belongs to the people and is going to the people, must reach its destination, down to the very last box.”

“13,000-14,000 containers leave this region every year for Israel. Not a single nail will leave anymore,” he continued.

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[-] HK65@sopuli.xyz 31 points 1 month ago

Yes, we have more warships and bigger armies than Israel by orders of magnitude.

OTOH the EU leadership is full of people who are either bought or just plain idiots.

[-] xiwi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 month ago

They aren't bought, they just like what Israel is doing and agree with the actions of israel, hence they will continue to give material and moral support.

The EU-states are fully complicit in this matter.

[-] metaStatic@kbin.earth 3 points 1 month ago

Has anyone ever attacked a nuclear power before?

That's what I thought.

[-] AvocadoSandwich@eviltoast.org 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yes actually. Ukraine bombed Moscow quite recently and I'm pretty sure Russia is considered a nuclear power.

[-] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago

Um, apparently a bunch of goat herders flew jets into buildings of a nuclear power on September 11, 2001. That's an "attack", no?

[-] regedit@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

I can't remember!

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

has anyone checked the stockpile and verified it isn't made of wood?

[-] HK65@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 month ago

Yeah, Israel has, multiple times now, we just get out of the conundrum by not acknowledging it.

[-] metaStatic@kbin.earth 4 points 1 month ago

maybe I'm not keeping up with the news but the list of nuclear states is quite small and doesn't include anyone Israel would dare fuck with even before factoring in nuclear deterrence.

[-] HK65@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 month ago

They recently attacked a British ship on international waters, and also attacked a US ship a good while ago, killing 34 people and wounding 171.

[-] Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago
[-] Don_alForno@feddit.org 9 points 1 month ago

They don't have a bomb. Even the USA and Israel don't claim that.

[-] crumbguzzler5000@feddit.org 5 points 1 month ago

Unfortunately not, Israel and the US do not want to give Iran the chance to be on equal footing. In western history persia/iran was always the "evil" one.

[-] metaStatic@kbin.earth 2 points 1 month ago

do you really think Tel Aviv would still exist?

[-] masquenox@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Unfortunately it probably would. The problem with nuclear weapons is that they stop being very useful the minute you start using them.

[-] xiwi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago

India, pakistan

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago

Saudi Arabia attacked the US in 2001, so Iraq got bombed.

[-] masquenox@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Yes... it's called 9/11. In response, the US spent 20 years and trillions of dollars to hand Afghanistan back to the Taliban.

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