Isn't boarding and taking over a ship in international waters piracy?
For private citizens yes.
If a nations official forces do it. It is an act of war.
Curious to see how the EU and other European countries will respond. One of the people on board is a EU PM.
Besides Greta the boat had people from many other European countries such as France, Spain, Germany and the Netherlands. There are also a Turk and a Brazilian on board.
I really hope the people on board are safe. They don't deserve this.
They will respond politically. And that is all.
The history means every nation in Europe is split to hell on this subject. So what ever action any specific gov takes. Will be the end of that gov. So no gov will have the courage to challenge with anything but diplomacy.
Empty strong condemnations
When Israel does it "it has a right to protect itself" from unarmed civilians bringing food.
Do either Israel or it's enablers care?
Yep
yes, and an act of war.
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.
Old colonial power just became neo colonial powers.
Western countries never face any consequences for their atrocities.
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.
We just need to help god make the book of revelations happen so Jesus can come back!
/s
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.
They know that the whole west and arab countries will do nada
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.
Thunberg and crew are heroes in my eyes. No doubt a very extreme form of political protest, obviously they knew the outcome here. Even they couldn't predict blatant piracy. Hope she is returned safely...
"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...
Israel has a reputation for not even following through on these basic minute propaganda gestures. Because they are comically evil.
Nah they'll actually dangle the food in front of starving people to draw a crowd and then bomb them.
Fucking monsters.
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.
Or just bomb anyone that tries to touch it
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 ?
I don't think kidnapped should be in " ", it's an entirely literal act of piracy and terrorism
An act of war
Of course idf kidnaps a kid
I just want to point out that Greta Thunberg is 22 years old. She's been an adult for 4 years now
#BringThemHome
Good thing Sweden isn't Israel or else they'd have bombed their hospitals already.
Israel has decided to grab the attention of some of the people who weren't already outraged. It's a bold more. I hope it works out the way I think it will.
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