Israeli forces would be expected to do this in order to uphold the government’s blockade, and the flotilla crew would know that before going in (that’s why they had prerecorded messages ready). That doesn’t make it any less awful, but they accepted this risk.
But if this goes sour for Thunberg, it’s going to be a global shitstorm that might finally break through the Israel defenders. I hope nothing happens to the crew and they’re returned safely, and I hope this brings more publicity to what’s occurring.
My only doubt was to whether they’d shoot them down outright (in international waters btw) or arrest them.
It seems as though the rich white swede is a worthy victim, so they chose the latter. Now they have hostages for closed-door negotiations. Hooray.
Let’s see what will The World™ do. Cynical be is betting on “not much beyond stern words”.
Israeli forces would be expected to do this in order to uphold the government’s blockade, and the flotilla crew would know that before going in (that’s why they had prerecorded messages ready). That doesn’t make it any less awful, but they accepted this risk.
But if this goes sour for Thunberg, it’s going to be a global shitstorm that might finally break through the Israel defenders. I hope nothing happens to the crew and they’re returned safely, and I hope this brings more publicity to what’s occurring.
My only doubt was to whether they’d shoot them down outright (in international waters btw) or arrest them.
It seems as though the rich white swede is a worthy victim, so they chose the latter. Now they have hostages for closed-door negotiations. Hooray.
Let’s see what will The World™ do. Cynical be is betting on “not much beyond stern words”.
Remember media bubbles are different in different countries.
The nordic media are pretty intensely hostile to Israel already and have been for years.
Harming a famous swede on a clear peaceful mission would go nuclear.
I wouldn’t use “nuclear” in this context and Sweden’s been turning right as of late. We’ll see.
What do you mean by nuclear. Which actions will it do?