Greta Thunberg has been released from Israeli captivity, and she talks about her capture. What’s surprising is just how childishly stupid and misogynistic the Israeli soldiers were.
Her red suitcase lies in the hall. “Whore Greta” someone has written in large black letters. Around the text: an Israeli flag and an erect penis.
The bag was confiscated by the Israeli military from the boat – and returned to her like this. She laughs.
– They’re like five-year-olds!
She was not allowed to wear her T-shirt with “Free Palestine” on it and was ordered to change, she explains. She put on an orange one with the text “Decolonize” instead.
– And then I put on my frog hat. When I’m about to get off the boat, there are a bunch of police officers waiting for me. They grab me, pull me to the ground, and throw an Israeli flag over me.
Here, everything goes “from zero to a hundred,” several witnesses describe – the violence escalates.
Greta Thunberg describes how she is dragged to a paved area fenced in with iron fences. This is a protracted scene that lasts for over six hours, according to Greta, and is confirmed by several participants in the flotilla that Aftonbladet talks to.
– It was kind of dystopian. I saw maybe 50 people sitting in a row on their knees with handcuffs and their foreheads against the ground.
Greta gets up from the sofa and lies down, showing the position on the striped living room rug.
– They dragged me to the opposite side from where the others were sitting, and I had the flag around me the whole time. They hit and kicked me.
Greta laughs.
– Then they ripped off my frog hat, threw it on the ground, stomped and kicked it, and kind of threw a tantrum.
– They moved me very brutally to a corner that I was turned towards. ‘A special place for a special lady’, they said. And then they had learned ‘Lilla hora’ (Little whore) and ‘Hora Greta’ (Whore Greta) in Swedish, which they repeated all the time.
Every time someone looked up from the ground, they were knocked back down to the ground, Greta and the other Swedes recount. In the corner where Greta was sitting, the police placed a flag.
– The flag was placed so that it would touch me. When it fluttered and touched me, they shouted ‘Don’t touch the flag’ and kicked me in the side. After a while, my hands were tied with cable ties, very tightly. A bunch of guards lined up to take selfies with me while I was sitting like that.
They’re like spoiled children. Unprofessional and eminently mockable. You might think it’s because these are young soldiers, with the mentality of a college freshman at best, but even the older, unwiser senior politicians are like that.
Suddenly, the far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir entered the area and stood in front of everyone, Greta recounts.This smug asshole
– He shouted, ’You are terrorists. You want to kill Jewish babies.’ Those who shouted back were taken aside and beaten. They were thrown to the ground and beaten. But I could only see it out of the corner of my eye, because every time I lifted my head from the ground, I was kicked by the guard standing next to me.
They were humanitarians, who wanted to deliver aid to Palestinian children.
The US has given over $20 billion in aid to Israel in the last two years. It’s past time to turn off the faucet — no more aid to these immature thugs, ever. Force them to learn how to live with their neighbors in a civilized manner.
I’m not sure “surprising” is the word I’d use to describe the soldier’s idiotic behaviour sadly.
There is a good reason for calling soldiers ‘grunts’.
Misogyny is SOP for the jack-booted thugs.
Such schwine.
Israel should be officially declared a terrorist state. Sadly, nothing likely to be done thanks to the US’s continued slavish devotion to it.
I agree about turning off the faucet. The problem is too many of our lawmakers are captured by money. So that won’t happen.
The recent peace notion will go the way of all the others. I’m glad surviving Israeli hostages were released. They should not have been taken in the first place. Hamas is shit. Oct 7th was heinous. The Israeli response was even worse.
This conflict will continue to spiral and ratchet as it has for longer than I have been alive, going back to the aliyah waves that were understandable responses to pogroms and other instances of antisemitism in Europe and Russia. Vlad Jabotinsky eventually called it for what it had become though— settler colonialism. He wasn’t one to mince words.
We are seeing the boiling frog of creeping annexation as it currently stands with eyes on the West Bank and uncertainty for Gaza. This was a sequel to Arik’s disengagement which was a mixture of motives, including what was regarded as the Palestinian demographic bomb. Also he had a corruption scandal hanging over his head, which is ironic given his Likudnik nemesis Bibi has his own corruption scandal looming over his head as he reengaged Gaza. That’s very curious, no? Hamas conveniently or coincidentally helped him with that while itself engaging in heinous actions that would bring the wrath of the post-Revisionist and settler religious Zionists down upon the heads of so many other Palestinians. How many watched from the comfort of Qatar?
Israel cheering propagandists often brag of how Israel worked the miracle of making the desert bloom unlike the virtually nonexistent Arab inhabitants (see Mark Twain in The Innocents Abroad for your demography). A land without a people for a people without a land indeed. If the various sorts of Zionists (namely Labor and Revisionist) were so self-sufficient, they should be able to now survive on their own without all the largesse flowing in from the US.
As for Greta’s journey, they fared much better perhaps than the US sailors on the USS Liberty. There’s that consolation.
So, the israelis must’ve known when they did this that we’d find out about it.
They must;ve known that -and still done it.
What then does that tell us about their attitudes and their certainty of immunity and being able to get away with stuff like this?
Also, if they know that we’ll all know – that globally people globally will know – and yet are happy to do thsi knowing that?
What will they do, what ar ethey doing and what have they already done – knowing that people probably won’t know they’ll do? (Are doing / Have done.)
The “chosen people,” indeed.
These are the people who flew sniper drones in Gaza killing women and children. The cycle of tit-for-tat will never end and all over who can pray to their imaginary sky fairy from a rock.
Specifically the IDF soldiers & the Netanyahu govt in charge of them here.
“If they do this in a green tree what will they do in a dry”
Frank Herbert quoting from memory via novel character Jesus (yeah that one) in ‘The Jesus Incident or maybe it was The Lazarus Effect SF novel?
( See : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jesus_Incident )
Oh and the whole gods dammed region stuillha sGlobal Overheating tolok forward to.. as do we all butespecially there.
Heatwave, fire, rising seas over coastal plains..
With a dash of Nuclear apocalpyse thrown into the bargain* too..
.* Bargain with whoem and for what? Cut price blood stained land and history-crushed ruin and horrorscape. Perfect place for Trump casinos and golden idols.. (Doe sthat seriously really need a sarc tag?)
@ Doc Bill : There’s no “chosen people”, there’s just people. Very human every last individual one of them with the full potential at both ends of the ethical spectrum for all that means and implies.
Clarity fix coz I cannot type for shit :
Oh and the whole gods dammed region still has Global Overheating to look forward to.. as do we all but especially there.
(Have people not modelled and looked at how that is going to affect that blasted & blasted again and again and again blasted splinter of bomb-cratered, traumatised, blood soaked Southwest Asian land?)
This is what happens when you appease Nazis. Yes I’m going there. Israel can’t live with its neighbours because it keeps murdering them to create lebensraum for yet more terrorist blow ins from the USA and Europe.
What can I say? I was once a supporter of Israel. Not rabidly so, but I had a great deal of sympathy for the Jews after the horrors they’d experienced in Europe. I also felt a surge of sympathy for them after the Oct. 7 atrocities. But that gradually faded as the Gaza death toll went up and up and up. When they wantonly, you could say gleefully, started killing babies and children by the thousands, my sympathy turned into revulsion. It was a combination of revenge killing and a cold, calculated strategy to make Gaza unlivable. It became obvious that Netanyahu’s ultimate goal is to expel the Palestinians from both Gaza and the West Bank.
Crossposted from the infinite thread:
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Israel lobby panicking?
Prof. John Mearsheimer: “Israel is in DESPERATE STRAITS”
.https://youtube.com/watch?v=La7dSCZCGmo
Shouting insults in very bad Swedish?
It may not have the impact they had intended.
I am reminded of when Pakistanis burned home-made Swedish flags, except they gor the colors “inside out’, a blue cross on a yellow field.
Katie Halper:
“Israel’s NOT Winning – Here’s What They Don’t Want You To Know”
.https://youtube.com/watch?v=IaQWfGMetWE
DRM news on youtube “No One Can Say We Didn’t Know”: Greta Thunberg, Others Speak After Israeli Detention w Greta Thunbergh speaking at the 4mins 30 secs mark approx – 15 mins total length. (Lots ofchanting toskip thro’.)
Also, Doc Bill :
Oh, it”ll end eventually. Not even the proton is forever let alone our planet let alone that particular tiny fragment of it.
Question is how will it end.
The way Nina Paley shows incontext of regional history here? 3 mins 30 secs
Or.. ? Also, Doc Bill :
Oh, it”ll end eventually. Not even the proton is forever let alone our planet let alone that particular tiny fragment of it.
Question is how will it end.
The way Nina Paley shows incontext of regional history here? 3 mins 30 secs
Or.. ?Also, Doc Bill :
Oh, it”ll end eventually. Not even the proton is forever let alone our planet let alone that particular tiny fragment of it.
Question is how will it end.
The way Nina Paley shows in context of regional history here? 3 mins 30 secs
Or.. ?
A better ending than isn’;t mass death for all?
Huh. That wasn’t supposed to be in triplicate…
Zeteo Mehdi Connects the Dots Between ICE and Gaza over 30mins long and, no, I haven’t seen / heard it all yet myself but I do trust Mehdi Hasan here.
@12. birgerjohansson : “Shouting insults in very bad Swedish? It may not have the impact they had intended.”
I don’t know what the IDF – Netanyahu govt intended to achieve by what they did here but I reckon they probly achieved the exact opposite in so many ways and on so many levels. Dunno what else they expected really.. presumably NOT it all backfiring on them and yet ..predictable.
Looks like the Israels are becoming their Nazi nemesis.