That’s why very few people are able to do what she’s doing, and why she’s extremely brave to leverage that: she announced that’s her ship, where she is and why she is there. Killing Greta would be the kind of media storm that Israel would not want to deal with, especially given their strategy of pretending criticism of peaceful beautiful Israel = being an antisemitic ass. Hard to keep this false dichotomy if you kill a generational icon.
Killing Greta would be the kind of media storm that Israel would not want to deal with
Israel shot the ship last time they tried to go across… I don’t think they care.
I don’t understand why people would think, “they surely won’t kill me, it would be too immoral!” while protesting a literal genocide.
In March 16, 2003, Rachel Corrie, an American nonviolence activist, placed herself in the path of a Caterpillar D9R armored bulldozer in Rafah, in an attempt to impede house demolitions, and was run over by the bulldozer and murdered. I strongly discourage you from finding it, but there is video of her death. They definitely saw her, surely heard her screaming, and they did not hesitate… On March 16, every year since including this year, Israeli soldiers (and others) eat waffles in celebration of killing her.
Imagine trying to bring a humanitarian aid vessel to one of the Jewish ghettos in Nazi germany pre-wwii… Do you think the Nazis would be afraid of “the kind of media storm” they’d get? Or would they just kill them and continue the genocide?
I wouldn’t say it’s pointless, or that it’s not brave… but it’s naive to think that a genocidal regime, who is very public about their genocide, will suddenly have a crisis of conscience because they don’t want to kill white people.
also, for the record, she did not attempt to do this before. She acted like she was going to attempt to, but then didn’t get on the boat. I don’t think she should get on it, either… that’s not her skillset and the only point of her being on it is, “oh but they wouldn’t dare to kill greta!”… and they surely would kill her, and not apologize, and probably celebrate her death.
Israel is a heartless genocidal monster of a nation. It doesn’t give two shits for any “generational icon” and the US has already voiced support for drowning her. This is the worst timeline and icons don’t matter to power.
She is insanely clever, courageous, and selfless playing chicken with the state of Israel like this. She knows that either she succeeds in delivering aid to Palestine, or her death sparks a backlash that could be the tipping point for the rest of the world to get off their ass and do something.
Israel has violated a ceasefire at least 3 times. They Blockes off AId, killed Journalist, even kidnapped one and returned it without Organs. But you think a human rights activist that most right wingers consider a Terrorist will somehow make headlines?
The problem reaches far beyond the far right. All the “center” or “progressive” political powers in the west are complicit to various degrees. From the German Greens to the US Democrats, enabling genocide is the political reality of people who otherwise claim to be for human rights, sustainability and other progressive causes. Now so far the genocide was mostly against brown people, so these kind of self perceived progressives were able to delude themselves as their unacknowledged racism guided them. Now if “one of them” is murdered. A white Swedish young women, who their sons and daughters see as a role model, who the “liberal” press used to praise… It will force the realization upon them, that they too are targeted in this genocide and the genocide will not stop at brown people.
That’s why very few people are able to do what she’s doing, and why she’s extremely brave to leverage that: she announced that’s her ship, where she is and why she is there. Killing Greta would be the kind of media storm that Israel would not want to deal with, especially given their strategy of pretending criticism of peaceful beautiful Israel = being an antisemitic ass. Hard to keep this false dichotomy if you kill a generational icon.
Israel shot the ship last time they tried to go across… I don’t think they care.
I don’t understand why people would think, “they surely won’t kill me, it would be too immoral!” while protesting a literal genocide.
In March 16, 2003, Rachel Corrie, an American nonviolence activist, placed herself in the path of a Caterpillar D9R armored bulldozer in Rafah, in an attempt to impede house demolitions, and was run over by the bulldozer and murdered. I strongly discourage you from finding it, but there is video of her death. They definitely saw her, surely heard her screaming, and they did not hesitate… On March 16, every year since including this year, Israeli soldiers (and others) eat waffles in celebration of killing her.
Imagine trying to bring a humanitarian aid vessel to one of the Jewish ghettos in Nazi germany pre-wwii… Do you think the Nazis would be afraid of “the kind of media storm” they’d get? Or would they just kill them and continue the genocide?
I wouldn’t say it’s pointless, or that it’s not brave… but it’s naive to think that a genocidal regime, who is very public about their genocide, will suddenly have a crisis of conscience because they don’t want to kill white people.
also, for the record, she did not attempt to do this before. She acted like she was going to attempt to, but then didn’t get on the boat. I don’t think she should get on it, either… that’s not her skillset and the only point of her being on it is, “oh but they wouldn’t dare to kill greta!”… and they surely would kill her, and not apologize, and probably celebrate her death.
Israel is a heartless genocidal monster of a nation. It doesn’t give two shits for any “generational icon” and the US has already voiced support for drowning her. This is the worst timeline and icons don’t matter to power.
It’s not about what Israel cares about. She’s an EU citizen of high repute and good money. Someone’s gonna care if she dies to Israeli weaponry
Here’s hoping Israel doesn’t murder her and here’s hoping there are actual consequences if they do.
“Hamas did it.”
“Oh, very well then”
There’s an entire world out there beyond Israel and the US.
And as I said, hope they do something about it
She is insanely clever, courageous, and selfless playing chicken with the state of Israel like this. She knows that either she succeeds in delivering aid to Palestine, or her death sparks a backlash that could be the tipping point for the rest of the world to get off their ass and do something.
You sure live in a beautiful dream world
Israel has violated a ceasefire at least 3 times. They Blockes off AId, killed Journalist, even kidnapped one and returned it without Organs. But you think a human rights activist that most right wingers consider a Terrorist will somehow make headlines?
The problem reaches far beyond the far right. All the “center” or “progressive” political powers in the west are complicit to various degrees. From the German Greens to the US Democrats, enabling genocide is the political reality of people who otherwise claim to be for human rights, sustainability and other progressive causes. Now so far the genocide was mostly against brown people, so these kind of self perceived progressives were able to delude themselves as their unacknowledged racism guided them. Now if “one of them” is murdered. A white Swedish young women, who their sons and daughters see as a role model, who the “liberal” press used to praise… It will force the realization upon them, that they too are targeted in this genocide and the genocide will not stop at brown people.
They’d blame it on Hamas
I don’t think it’ll work now. If Piers Morgan has flipped it means that the mainstream people are anti Zionists now.
Yeah there’s a part of me that really didn’t want him to do that because now I have to like something about that prat
Some. But there’s still a long ways to go, sadly.