• Babalugats@feddit.uk
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      They’re trying to imply that the flotilla activists cause trouble wherever they go and that beating them is almost unavoidable, just to get them to comply with their orders.

      There’s just a couple of differences that Israel left out.

      • The Spanish police didn’t invade international waters and kidnap the flotilla activists to beat them.
      • The flotilla activists complied with the Israel army, as soon as the army illegally invaded their ships and pointed their guns at them.
      • The Spanish police haven’t been accused of raping any of them (that I have heard).
    • 𝓜𝓲𝓪@quokk.au
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      No, they’re trying to frame Spain as hypocritical and push the narrative that it’s not only them abusing the flotilla activists which lessens the seriousness of what Israel did.

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          We dont support propaganda and whataboutism. Israeli government officials raped Europeans

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            That’s hilarious. “We don’t support propaganda and whataboutism, also check out this completely irrelevant claim about my ops” you couldn’t write it.

      • maccentric@sh.itjust.works
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        Tu quoque, literally “you, too”, is a rhetorical technique that intends to discredit the opponent’s argument by attacking the opponent’s own personal behaviour and actions as being inconsistent with their argument, so that the opponent appears hypocritical. This specious reasoning is a special type of ad hominem attack.

        From Wikipedia