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This is another pivotal moment. WE can speak out and make our elected officials (wherever we are in the world) KNOW that their political careers and their parties future depends upon their actions.
You do not govern their careers. They know it and they do not care
You do not govern their careers. They know it and they do not care
Breaking: terrorists behave like terrorists
Idk why this is treated as though its so inconceivable. Greta is hated by conservatives around the world. Most countries have already condemned Israel. They only care what Trump's regime thinks. Their prisons are notorious centers of physical emotional and sexual torture. This is relatively mild treatment in comparison to many of the accounts I've read. It's still awful, but if they were going to invent a story about how vile the Israeli prison guards were, this wouldnt be noteworthy in any way. Barely even scratches the surface of the things that happen in those prisons.
Al Jazeera has a different report. They say she was dragged, not beaten.
I cannot understand the language spoken in that X video, there is no translation, and there are no free publicly available no-login X.com video translation options that I can find.
Additionally I cannot find the cnn turk video from this activist on the internet anywhere but this x link.
I would be very surprised if they actually did what this post describes because everyone would be outraged. She's a sweetheart and so many eyes are watching what they do.
because everyone would be outraged
People who heard the story and voice of Hind Rajab and weren't outraged would not be outraged by anything. They would at most do what you just did: deny the monsters who shoot kids in the head would do anything to an adult they publicly stated they will treat the way they treat Palestinians hostages.
Greta is a well known white European lady though, the impact this would have in the West is way higher. Whether this would have any radical effect on anything is still to be seen, though.
I ran the X video through a translation app using Turkish to English and got this, which doesn't really say much. Guessing the translation is terrible.
The translation I got from the video clip in the OP x post is:
"They're all politicians. They all tried to treat us like bugs, but they treat everyone like that. They tortured greta very badly in front of our eyes. Get up."
"Evet"[sic]
Guessing this^ was an error in my translation app.
"They persecuted Greta. Greta is still a little child."
"They killed them. They made them kiss the israeli flag. So they did the same thing as the nazis"
Maybe someone who speaks turkish or whatever language is being spoken can help us understand the beating claim, because so far there is no source for that.
—All of them, [including the] politicians, they attempted to treat us like insects and they treated everyone the same. They heavily tortured Greta before our very eyes.
—Really?
—Yes. They were very cruel to Greta. Greta is but a little child. They dragged her, made her kiss the Israeli flag. I mean, they did the same things the Nazis did.
I think the torture he's talking about is the dragging and forcing her to kiss the flag but the reporter also seems to think a sort of harsher torture and i think that's why he uses "being cruel" when continued.
Here's the text if anyone wants to run it through other translation software.
—Hepsi, siyasetçisi, hepsi bize böyle böcek muamelesi yapmaya kalktılar ama herkese böyle davranıyorlar. E, Greta'ya çok ağır işkence yaptılar, gözlerimizin önünde.
—Gerçekten mi?
—Evet. Greta'ya zulmettiler. Küçücük çocuk daha Greta. Onu süründürdüler, İsrail bayrağını öptürdüler. Yani Naziler ne yaptıysa aynısını yaptılar.
I'm going to wait for a source I've heard of on that one.
Given everything else Israel as done, do you honestly disbelieve it?
Absolutely
I saw that earlier and it's really shitty that they have her in a cell that is giving her rashes (probably from bedbugs) and that they're doing some stupid thing with flags. She did nothing wrong.
Still not the same magnitude of what is described in the X "quote" which has zero sources and no way to verify their translation, for me anyway.
The X quote which has zero source that lines up with it:
“They [Israelis] dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,”
The same quote is also in the guardian article.
“They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency
Much better. Shitty conditions and some kind of flag parade were definitely included. The beating bit is less clear, and a bigger claim since actually producing deliberate, visible injuries would be a dangerous move on their part.
Israel is a fucking terrorist country. IDF is a new SS. They are new Nazi.
"Never again" meant "Never again to us" for the ZioNazis.
She’s still a little kid. They made her suffer.
I think that's needlessly infantilizing her. She's 22. She's not a "little kid". I think she's old enough for her opinions to carry weight, so how is she a "little kid"?
I absolutely think of 22 as a little kid, but I was there when the last Woolly Mammoth died, so it’s somewhat relative.
Well someone who is above 40 will probably think of her as a little kid while someone who 28 for example will probably think that they are close in age. Though this doesn't matter not one deserves to be treated like this regardless of age.
Idk, to me "little kid" means "not in school yet". It's the "little" that makes the difference, compared to just calling someone a kid or kiddo.
Yep, I called that they would torture her, though that was 4 months back on a previous flotilla.
People downvoted that, with no explanation.
Are you 12?
You response to this news is to complain about having been down voted? I can't imagine why
You got three downvotes and three upvotes. It's not that big of deal.
There have been a lot of libs coming over to lemmy ever since the crackdowns on reddit. Among... Others
Once again the people who were right are mocked and the the people who were wrong just live without considering the future.
While I wouldn't wish this on anyone, it's amazing how self-destructive this is. Greta is an internationally famous activist. Flagrantly violating and abusing a person with world renown - along with dozens of other activists - is a radically stupid way to hasten international isolation.
It is well known by most in Israel that the country simply cannot function in isolation. It will lead to collapse. In this, they are giving the flotilla far more power to eventually overthrow the ruling regime.
There are reports from American doctors who worked in Gaza of Palestinian babies being regularly shot in the head.
That was reported during the Biden administration.
Israel is murdering babies, and it hasn't affected their support. Why would this matter?
I should clarify what I mean a bit.
I'm not saying that brutalizing Greta Thunberg is the straw that is going to break the camel's back. I'm saying that it's an escalation of a pattern of behavior that I think is very likely leading toward a collapse of the zionist project at some point in the next decade.
The testimony of those doctors is absolutely part of the same pattern of behavior. And while a lot of folks have looked at the continuing genocide and concluded that clearly, nothing has mattered and nothing will, I believe it has, and it will.
It's hard to describe succinctly, but Israel today is far, far, FAR weaker than Israel 5 years ago. There is an inertia that lets them feign invincibility, but the country is truly in times without precedent. The longest war since its establishment was 118 days in '82. So much of the assumptions on which Israel relies -- constant readiness, bipartisan US support, the total support of Europe, constant Jewish immigration, a strong labor force, a booming tourism industry -- is in shambles. Internal divisions are rending their society apart. Their economy, international influence, and social institutions are in crisis.
In this context, this continued loss of an ability or willingness to be discrete in their atrocities really does bolster my conviction that in the next five years the country is going to collapse.
Unlike many, I don't say this lightly or with glee. I just say it because it's what I foresee.
Swedish gov should cut all ties for this terrorist state torturing their citizens.