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Greta Thunberg, in a video posted on social media, said she and other members of the Freedom flotilla en-route to Gaza have been kidnapped by Israeli forces. This comes after the Daily Mail reported that several Israeli vessels surrounded the ship Madleen, prompting the crew to raise an alarm.

Thunberg shared a pre-recorded video appealing for international help. “My name is Greta Thunberg, and I am from Sweden,” she said in the clip. “If you see this video, we are being intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel. I urge all my friends, family and comrades to put pressure on the Swedish government to release me and the others as soon as possible.”

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[-] Kirp123@lemmy.world 196 points 3 weeks ago

Isn't boarding and taking over a ship in international waters piracy?

[-] wurzelgummidge@lemmy.ml 108 points 3 weeks ago

Do either Israel or it's enablers care?

[-] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 108 points 3 weeks ago

For private citizens yes.

If a nations official forces do it. It is an act of war.

[-] Kirp123@lemmy.world 61 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 29 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] rumimevlevi@lemmings.world 24 points 3 weeks ago

Empty strong condemnations

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 35 points 3 weeks ago

When Israel does it "it has a right to protect itself" from unarmed civilians bringing food.

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[-] zephorah@lemm.ee 171 points 3 weeks ago

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?

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 84 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Israel has a huge lobby in most Western countries. And Epstein material on their politicians.

[-] reaper_cushions@hexbear.net 80 points 3 weeks ago

For Germany: Israel is an indulgence for the Holocaust.

For the USA: Israel is an unsinkable aircraft carrier in a largely hostile region that is protected by international law.

For the rest of Western Europe: They are vassals of the US, so naturally they don’t want to piss of their daddy.

For everyone else: they don’t want to provoke the US either.

[-] IttihadChe@lemmy.ml 20 points 3 weeks ago

Don't forget that the rest of Europe benefits from the imperialist projection in the same ways as the US does.

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[-] flandish@lemmy.world 39 points 3 weeks ago

manufactured consent and capitalist profit. it’s a cult.

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[-] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 32 points 3 weeks ago

Western countries never face any consequences for their atrocities.

[-] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 28 points 3 weeks ago

it should be fairly obvious to everyone by now. Israel is an extension of the US, their unsinkable aircraft carrier in the middle east, or as Biden put it "if israel didn't exists, we would have to invent it to protect our interests in the region."

also it's fairly obvious that the "rules based order" is nothing more than a "might makes right order" enforced by the US.

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[-] rumimevlevi@lemmings.world 27 points 3 weeks ago

Old colonial power just became neo colonial powers.

[-] AWittyUsername@lemmy.world 26 points 3 weeks ago

Because if you criticise you're called "Anti Semitic"

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[-] eldoom@lemmy.ml 20 points 3 weeks ago

We just need to help god make the book of revelations happen so Jesus can come back!

/s

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[-] kreskin@lemmy.world 154 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 161 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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.

[-] lorty@lemmy.ml 80 points 3 weeks ago

They want to make a point that they don't care about international law

[-] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 39 points 3 weeks ago

And that they will most likely suffer no consequences from it

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[-] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 21 points 3 weeks ago

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.

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[-] shadowfax13@lemmy.ml 26 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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.

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[-] rumimevlevi@lemmings.world 22 points 3 weeks ago

They know that the whole west and arab countries will do nada

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[-] misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 131 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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...

[-] Korkki@lemmy.ml 127 points 3 weeks ago

"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...

[-] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 87 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Quite a thing to create the world's most dire need for humanitarian aid in the history of the species and then criticize any aid as tiny in comparison to the need you've manufactured

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[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 56 points 3 weeks ago

Israel has a reputation for not even following through on these basic minute propaganda gestures. Because they are comically evil.

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[-] Aedis@lemmy.world 56 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Nah they'll actually dangle the food in front of starving people to draw a crowd and then bomb them.

Fucking monsters.

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[-] IttihadChe@lemmy.ml 33 points 3 weeks ago

Nah, they will give it to their ISIS aligned collaborators and then shoot anyone/bomb anyone else who goes near it.

[-] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 24 points 3 weeks ago

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.

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[-] Kuori@hexbear.net 25 points 3 weeks ago

of course not. they'll use it to lure in more starving people to massacre

death to israel

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[-] RecipeForHate1@lemmy.ml 111 points 3 weeks ago

Thiago Ávila, a Brazilian activist, was also in that boat and was kidnapped by the Israeli state. That's a crime against humanity.

[-] shadowfax13@lemmy.ml 66 points 3 weeks ago

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 ?

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[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 89 points 3 weeks ago

I don't think kidnapped should be in " ", it's an entirely literal act of piracy and terrorism

[-] Smime@lemmy.today 27 points 3 weeks ago

An act of war

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[-] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 53 points 3 weeks ago

Of course idf kidnaps a kid

[-] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 56 points 3 weeks ago
[-] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 98 points 3 weeks ago

That explains why they didn’t just shoot on site

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[-] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 3 weeks ago

I just want to point out that Greta Thunberg is 22 years old. She's been an adult for 4 years now

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[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 34 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

#BringThemHome

Good thing Sweden isn't Israel or else they'd have bombed their hospitals already.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 3 weeks ago

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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