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Beastly Boy

(12,636 posts)
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 10:37 PM Yesterday

Greta Thunberg, Gaza flotilla activists refuse to watch Oct. 7 footage after ship siezed

Israeli authorities screened footage of Hamas's October 7 atrocities to Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and other pro-Palestinian flotilla participants upon their arrival in Ashdod on Monday, shortly after the IDF intercepted their ship, the Madleen, in international waters.

According to Defense Minister Israel Katz, the activists refused to continue watching the film after seeing the brutality of the attacks. "These antisemitic flotilla activists closed their eyes to the truth and once again proved they prefer the murderers over the victims,” Katz said. “They continue to ignore the atrocities committed by Hamas against Jewish and Israeli women, the elderly, and children.”

The Madleen, carrying 12 pro-Palestinian activists and large amounts of humanitarian aid, was stopped early Monday morning by the Israeli Navy and brought to the port of Ashdod. Shortly before the activists’ deportation, Israel’s Foreign Ministry published a photo of Thunberg with an Israeli flag in the background.

Participants aboard the vessel included European Parliament member Rima Hassan, who previously justified the October 7 massacre; German activist Yasmin Achar; Irish actor Liam Cunningham (Game of Thrones); and Thunberg.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-857132

Fucking cowards.
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Greta Thunberg, Gaza flotilla activists refuse to watch Oct. 7 footage after ship siezed (Original Post) Beastly Boy Yesterday OP
well the hijacking and kidnapping of women is the problem here nt msongs Yesterday #1
oh please... you forgot piracy and slave trade Beastly Boy Yesterday #4
The boat was for the slave trade? With all due respect, I do not follow what do you mean? Doodley 23 hrs ago #8
It's sarcasm. Beastly Boy 22 hrs ago #10
They had a ready made piece of propaganda to make them watch ? underpants Yesterday #2
Is this the newspeak du jour for documented rapes, mutilations and hostage taking these days? Beastly Boy 23 hrs ago #5
Who are the cowards in that scenario? FirstLight Yesterday #3
Let me make it clearer. Beastly Boy 23 hrs ago #7
Agreed. Innocent people en-mass are being slaughtered, maimed, starved and displaced. No Jew should support it. Doodley 23 hrs ago #9
The victim is required to only respond with "equal" payback? marybourg 21 hrs ago #11
Cowards. Richard D 23 hrs ago #6

Beastly Boy

(12,636 posts)
4. oh please... you forgot piracy and slave trade
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 11:30 PM
Yesterday

Sorry, I just can't muster a serious response to this nonsense.

Doodley

(11,033 posts)
8. The boat was for the slave trade? With all due respect, I do not follow what do you mean?
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 12:03 AM
23 hrs ago

Beastly Boy

(12,636 posts)
5. Is this the newspeak du jour for documented rapes, mutilations and hostage taking these days?
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 11:36 PM
23 hrs ago

When did it start trending on pro-Hamas troll farms?

FirstLight

(15,196 posts)
3. Who are the cowards in that scenario?
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 11:09 PM
Yesterday

Because your comment really is not clear.

I understand that what happened October 7th was horrific, but I don't believe that what's currently happening in Gaza to the civilians is an equal payback.

Many Jews oppose Israel's actions 😔

Beastly Boy

(12,636 posts)
7. Let me make it clearer.
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 11:45 PM
23 hrs ago

The cowards are the hypocrites who would go to any length to deny the the atrocities they pretend to care about. To the point that they physically turn away from seeing them first hand.

Doodley

(11,033 posts)
9. Agreed. Innocent people en-mass are being slaughtered, maimed, starved and displaced. No Jew should support it.
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 12:05 AM
23 hrs ago

marybourg

(13,455 posts)
11. The victim is required to only respond with "equal" payback?
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 01:59 AM
21 hrs ago

I am in my 9th decade of life and have been an avid reader all my life, but I have never heard of that rule. Is that the rule that the U.S. followed against Germany in WWII? Or WWI for that matter. Or the North against the South in the Civil War? Of course not. A war could never be decisively won under such a rule. It would just be a series of skirmishes under such a rule. But actually that’s a rule that only Israel is asked to follow, isn’t it.

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