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I don't get the criticism. They either get the food through or the press following her is going to film the Israeli navy blocking the food from entering the shore.
There has never been any hope that they'd get the food through. This is all about showing people that Israel are willing to arrest and deport them.
My main critisism is that it isn't going to change anything because:
- No country is going to allow people who aren't refugees to illegally enter their territory like this. Israel arresting these people and deporting them isn't new. So Israel doing something every other country would do is a non-story.
- This isn't going to convince anyone who has agreed with Israel's action up to this point because, they already tried it before, and denying aid to palestinians is not their worst crime. Anyone who could be swayed by this action, was swayed more than a year ago, when it was crystal clear Israel was purposely murdering civillians.
So to me, this comes off as an attempt to get media attention, with a happening that does nothing to help the people they really want to help, changing no ones mind, and all without actually being anything but a slight inconvenience to Israel, making their coastguards take a slight detour to arrest a few people.
Sure, it's more than I've done, and more than I care to do, and I'm sure a lot of people are going to be very angry, because I don't think this will matter in the slightest. I'm sympathetic to their course, but this just reeks too much of a bunch of privilaged kids, wanting to make a name for themselves, so they load a boat up with food, alcohol and weed, have a bunch of fun on the way, get sent home when they reach their destination, and hope they get to talk to the media.
The flotilla is not sailing to Israeli territory. They are sailing to Gaza, which is under an illegal military occupation.
Not even the Israeli government claims Gaza as Israeli territory (yet). The government is trying to ethnically cleanse the Gaza strip so they can flood it with settlements, establishing facts on the ground for an eventual annexation.
That’s why the flotilla is trying to bring food and medical aid to Gaza.
Sure, they don't see it as their territory, they see it as their soon-to-be territory.
As someone living in Gaza, seeing this support from around the world truly gives us hope. Thank you
Sending well wishes and hoping you are safe.
I would depart Barcelona too.
People say it's a publicity stunt. Well so what. Greta knows if she goes, cameras and reporters will follow. It's the same thing Lady Diana did when traveling to 3rd world nations....she knew that she alone wouldn't make a difference, but the cameras and reporters that follow her would.
Greta is doing what most of us only discuss....helping. and if she helps by keeping Isreal's hypocrisy in the news, then she wins.
People say it’s a publicity stunt.
Shortly before the IDF bombs another Reuters photojournalist team, sure.
and if she helps by keeping Isreal’s hypocrisy in the news, then she wins.
If she really wanted to help, she'd be campaigning for Kamala Harris for President.
That's what I'm told Palestinians actually want.
Is this a shitpost? She’s not even from the USA why would she be involved with campaigning for the democrats and either way if you think a democrat president would stop helping Israel then you must have missed all the previous presidents who supported Iseral.
palestine can free themselves by making peace with israel
Hard to say its a publicity stunt when it isn't the first time she's doing it.
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Ah shit here we go again. What's ironic is that the Zionazis could get an easy PR win by letting them in to distribute aid but that would interfere with their long term extermination goals.
Zionazis could get an easy PR win
In liberal corners of the United States and Europe, maybe. But in Israel this would be viewed as a humiliation and a defeat.
it would also interfere with their immediate goal of openly being cartoonishly evil.
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Oh boy! I'm prepared before reading the comments this time around!
They are right about the haircut though.
That being said, genocide through purposeful mass starvation is quite possibly the most heinous crime that exists. God bless anyone does anything at all to fight against it
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free Palestine from the river to the sea ♥️🖤💚🤍
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