• HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works
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    26 days ago

    “Lawyers representing the volunteers were not permitted to bring their mobile phones into Ashdod port, and were prevented from speaking to all 145 people. Some of the people they did speak to reported experiencing violent assaults by Israeli soldiers during the illegal seizures of the fleet,” the Coalition said.

    Israel has completed its adoption of a victim mentality and moved well beyond the boundaries of common sense.

    It surprises me still that they seem to have forgotten what it was like to be stateless for close to 2000 years and seem hell-bent on creating that same scenario for Palestinians.

    The only thing that Netanyahu and the IDF have managed to foment is an almost universal hatred of Israel and its machinations.

  • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.ca
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    26 days ago

    The way to do that would have been to send our military to escort the humanitarian flotilla through the illegal blockade and protect our citizens delivering that aid.

    This… is just performative.