cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/46671737

Apr 30, 2026

Palestine defenders on Thursday condemned Israeli forces’ raidb of the latest Global Sumud Flotilla—which was sailing off the Greek coast while attempting to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza—and the arrest of more than 200 of its participants, with some prominent critics calling the seizure an act of piracy.

Greenpeace International—whose MY Arctic Sunrise is the flotilla’s most prominent ship—said that the maritime convoy’s 58 vessels were “boarded and harassed by Israeli forces in international waters 45 nautical miles west of the Greek island Kythira and 600 nautical miles from Gaza.”

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    Despite the US government guilt-tripping me in the early 00s about downloading a car, they clearly would download 58 fucking vessels.

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      Their citizens deserve better.

      What their government is doing has wide public support among the citizens of the settler colony.

      • 95% of Israelis supported the Israeli forces’ level of use of firepower in Gaza; 58% said they are using too little firepower (Tel Aviv University’s Peace Index, November 2023)
      • 64% of Israelis believe there are ‘no innocents’ in Gaza (Hebrew University aChord Center, June 2025)
      • 82% support the full ethnic cleansing expulsion of Gaza (Geocartography Knowledge Group, May 2025)
      • 56% support expelling Palestinians within Israel itself (Geocartography Knowledge Group, May 2025)
      • 47% want to kill every man, woman, child (Geocartography Knowledge Group, May 2025)
      • 65% oppose the criminal prosecution for soldiers who were caught on video gangremoved Palestinian detainees.

      Sources linked in this article.

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        I knew most of these statistics but it’s still insane to me that there can be people this monstrous, Israel can’t collapse fast enough

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        I’ve said this before. As Norman Finkelstein has said, Israel is a lost society. They support government actions in Gaza to the tune of 70/80%. The whole country needs to be torn apart and given back to the Arab population that lived there. Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Arabs who are indigenous need to have sovereignty of their land. European Jews like myself are a cancerous influence on the Middle East and serve no purpose other than to cause trouble.

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            No. For a long time he would say that a one state solution isn’t possible. That’s different from whether he wants one. I don’t know where he stands these days but his diagnosis of Israeli society, his assessment of the government, and advocacy for Palestinians against a terrorist government is spot on.

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              On bad faith podcast. He said that he reject a one state because it is not based on international law

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          Since when East jerusalem and west bank is Israel? People in Israel can all vote and they are voting for pro colonization candidates. Aparteith is not defined by unability to vote but by the intent to dominate, systematic oppression and inhumne acts

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        Curious. Are they as divided as we are in the West on domestic and international issues?

        I know of a certain man with a funny mustache from Deutschland who would get a hearty chuckle out of this genocidal business, given who is committing it.