• acargitz@lemmy.ca
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    5 days ago

    The US attacks a Venezuelan boat in international waters, Israel attacks a Portuguese boat in Tunisian waters.

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      Read about Operation Wooden Leg. They bombed tunisia in 85 with 15 fighter jets. 68 has died

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    This is terrorism, terrorism perpetrated by the same authorities that use everything as a leverage to counter terrorism. Our governments are rigged to the core and evil, it’s about time people comes to term with it.

  • itisileclerk@lemmy.world
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    Israel is a misserable terrorist country, US is misserable terrorist harboring country. What a time to be alive.

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    Not justifying this in any way. This is an atrocious act. But talking about this topic… I don’t know what to think.

    If you actually want to reach Gaza, you don’t set sail from Spain, because it is going to take forever to get there.

    Also, I’ve seen videos of them partying on their boats. That just looks weird, I don’t know. Not saying that they have to be sad and crying the whole journey, but partying feels wrong.

    Opinions?

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      The partying? That’s just humans united by a common (and good) cause, bonding and letting off some steam before they go into a perilous situation.

      It’s harder to hide the sinking of a boat than it is to hide arresting people.
      And activists have more boats than trucks, due to protests against drilling, fishing, wars. And I guess there are protections in international waters that don’t exist when travelling through different sovereign nations.

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      Spain to Gaza is less than a week.

      I think they’re “partying” because Israel has machine gunned civilians in boats carrying aid. Israel considers it “self defense” to kill these people. They shot up a boat and killed 10 innocents and when the world got mad… they sent Turkey $20 million to fuck off.

      It’s an efficiency equation for Israel. The tiniest thing can tip the scales and then you’re dead because it was a better play for Israel compared to letting these Freedom Flotillas intrude on their plans. You gotta party before some bomb with a cringey name like “David’s Scrote” turns you into spaghetti.