US Senator Lindsay Graham has just tweeted an article titled “Greta Thunberg sets sail with Gaza flotilla that aims to break Israeli naval blockade,” adding the comment, “Hope Greta and her friends can swim!”
Australian Zionist think tanker Arsen Ostrovsky somehow outdid Graham, tweeting “Oh look, the little jihadi Greta Thunberg is trying to get into Gaza, to show solidarity with Hamas. It would be so sad if something were to happen to her flotilla…”
There’s not a lot that can shock me about Israel and its supporters these days. But if you’d traveled back in time a few years ago it would be hard to explain to someone how we got to a timeline that includes Israel supporters openly advocating the assassination of Greta Thunberg.
i dont think pissrael has any qualms about killing her tbh, hopefully am wrong.
I don’t think they have any qualms, but just because the Israelis are racist Nazi genocidaires, don’t assume they are entirely irrational.
Killing Greta and everyone on that boat would be a PR disaster. Of course Israel will take a PR hit if they think it will bring them closer to their goals. But killing them doesn’t serve a purpose that simply boarding their boat and arresting them wouldn’t do (which is how I think this all ends IMO). If Greta and co. were armed I might feel differently, but stopping the boat in non-lethal ways serves the purpose and most people in the west will just shrug and say “eh, at least they didn’t kill them”.
That’s kinda the danger of all this discourse how obviously Israel will blow away that little boat. It’s setting that up as the expectation so anything less will feel like a relief.
Yeah, this is my take on it too. Killing Greta Thunberg doesn’t really do anything to advance Israel’s goals. She has no real power. She doesn’t facilitate aid deliveries nor is she really “in the way” of Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaign. I think they would certainly like to kill her out of petty spite, but I don’t think they’ll do it.
that entirely doing a lot of heavy lifting.
but yeah, you’re probably correct on how this’ll go down, the fascist freaks probably arent going to do Mavi Marmara this time.
She’s simultaneously too famous and not harmful enough for them to directly kill her with the IOF. Most likely, they’ll try to find more clandestine means, starting with siccing fascist goons on her and letting them do the dirty work. I put Hasan in the same category as well. He and she really need to think about security.
Israel still kind of cares about PR as a figleaf. They are currently using aid as a way to herd people while arming desperate Palestinians to attack other aid shipments so they have a reason to stop them.
If they acted with complete impunity they wouldn’t go through that much trouble.