• acargitz@lemmy.ca
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    The Swedish government, and the EU commission is not making nearly enough noise as it should here.

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      Conservative Swedish PM (Prime Pretend Minister) “Jam For Spine” Kristersson is known for both his mental laziness and fear of conflicts. He’s still remembered for fleeing a room, literally running, when confronted by a journalist about his personal shady deals.

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      it sounds like next time we see her she’ll be barely alive

      if she’s fine, well, we know that won’t be the case. and anyway inside she’s hurt. but we know that anyway. this time it will be drop dead at any time hurt

      ok

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      Israel has no way to win in this situation. Torturing her will result in media backlash. Executing her would only make a martyr, which is even worse. Somehow, Israel didn’t choose to kick her out immediately.

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          Well some of them would, because that’s how international politics works. However, a surprising number of countries have recognized Palestine, so I think the number of friends Israel has might be in a decline.

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        The worst thing Israel could have done to discredit Greta Thunberg and damage her brand would have been to give her a nice meal, a warm bed in a nice hotel, gently push her onboard the next 1st class flight back to Stockholm the next day and release a statement telling her to go play SJW somewhere else. Instead, they’re doing everything possible to confirm they’re truly bad people, like dumbasses.

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          Being plain evil without pretending otherwise has worked out just fine until now, why would they stop?

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          True.

          And I think I have an explanation for that:

          We do not often read how Israeli politicians talk, verbatim*. They got used responding only to their own media landscape, where apparently they can go much farther in their rhetoric (and subsequent actions) without repercussions. There’s also some deep-seated misogyny specifically against women of other race/religion or however they define that for themselves. Like, they’d never do that if she was a typical NY Jew, for example.

          Of course that isn’t the whole picture; we must also look at the unquestioning support they’ve been getting from most “Western” countries which no doubt contributed to them developing this sort of impunity.

          * Netanyahu often speaks English when addressing the world. It’s still bad enough, but it allows him to present a different picture to the world than to his constituency.

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            It’s kinda like all those comments on WWII that begin with “The Nazis could’ve won if only they…” and then describe a course of action that would require the Nazis to not be Nazis.

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        They realize that kicking her out just means she will be on her way back on the next boat. They are trying to intimidate her into not coming back.

        I hope the Swedish government has a harsh answer for one of their citizens getting kidnapped in International Waters.

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        Israel has no way to win in this situation.

        They could have not taken her hostage.

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        She’s probably just a useful idiot. Might be useful to interrogate her and get whoever got her to do this.

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      Am I wrong in saying they’re (seemingly) quantifiably worse than every other “terrorist” country in the region? I know plenty have human rights issues, but I can’t imagine anyone is competitive on sheer quantity of murder and atrocities!?

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        There are no others actively perpetrating genocide on the massive scale Israel is. Morally and legally that puts Israel in a class of its own.

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          They’re not even… They are murdering Palestinian Christians right alongside the Muslims.

          American Christians only care about Israel’s role in the “end times.”

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      More than a buddy… America is the reason they are capable of any of this. It’s disgusting what the failed leadership here has allowed, and Trump has opened every single floodgate in his second term, empowering them like never before.

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      they also put their dogs on drugs and then let the dogs rape prisoners and mual them to death. horrible eye-whitness accounts of these are all over youtube.

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      They will be treated kinda badly in order to encourage them to not get on the next set of boats coming down, then they will be released.

      Some will rejoin the next flotilla will which will hopefully be a hundred boats or more and maybe some of the countries will provide naval cover to stop the drones from attacking them on the seas.

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    I bet those bedbugs were vectors for some type of bioweapon so they could eliminate their greta problem. She needs to get checked out by a trusted physician asap.