Greta Thunberg, in a video posted on social media, said she and other members of the Freedom flotilla en-route to Gaza have been kidnapped by Israeli forces. This comes after the Daily Mail reported that several Israeli vessels surrounded the ship Madleen, prompting the crew to raise an alarm.

Thunberg shared a pre-recorded video appealing for international help. “My name is Greta Thunberg, and I am from Sweden,” she said in the clip. “If you see this video, we are being intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel. I urge all my friends, family and comrades to put pressure on the Swedish government to release me and the others as soon as possible.”

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[–] 193 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Isn't boarding and taking over a ship in international waters piracy?

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  • [–] 105 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    For private citizens yes.

    If a nations official forces do it. It is an act of war.

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  • [–] 60 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Curious to see how the EU and other European countries will respond. One of the people on board is a EU PM.

    Besides Greta the boat had people from many other European countries such as France, Spain, Germany and the Netherlands. There are also a Turk and a Brazilian on board.

    I really hope the people on board are safe. They don't deserve this.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago

    They will respond politically. And that is all.

    The history means every nation in Europe is split to hell on this subject. So what ever action any specific gov takes. Will be the end of that gov. So no gov will have the courage to challenge with anything but diplomacy.

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    [–] 162 points 1 year ago (57 children)

    Why is everyone so hands off and permissive with Israel? Like they can do nothing wrong when they go out of their way to do wrong things?

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  • [–] [S] 78 points 1 year ago* (15 children)

    Israel has a huge lobby in most Western countries. And Epstein material on their politicians.

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  • [–] 76 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    For Germany: Israel is an indulgence for the Holocaust.

    For the USA: Israel is an unsinkable aircraft carrier in a largely hostile region that is protected by international law.

    For the rest of Western Europe: They are vassals of the US, so naturally they don’t want to piss of their daddy.

    For everyone else: they don’t want to provoke the US either.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    it should be fairly obvious to everyone by now. Israel is an extension of the US, their unsinkable aircraft carrier in the middle east, or as Biden put it "if israel didn't exists, we would have to invent it to protect our interests in the region."

    also it's fairly obvious that the "rules based order" is nothing more than a "might makes right order" enforced by the US.

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    [–] 147 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    All they had to do was wait until the boat entered Israeli waters to do it legally. Why do it in international waters? Israelis seem to want to break laws just for the sake of showing they dont consider any laws to matter. In some ways they are worse than nazis. They are like perpetually angry butthurt toddlers with weapons.

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  • [–] 71 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    They want to make a point that they don't care about international law

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  • [–] 123 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    "The tiny amount of aid that was on the yacht and not consumed by the 'celebrities' will be transferred to Gaza through real humanitarian channels," the ministry added.

    They will toss the aid to the wood chipper and laugh about it, won't they...

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Nah, they will give it to their ISIS aligned collaborators and then shoot anyone/bomb anyone else who goes near it.

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    [–] 106 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Thiago Ávila, a Brazilian activist, was also in that boat and was kidnapped by the Israeli state. That's a crime against humanity.

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    [–] 88 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I don't think kidnapped should be in " ", it's an entirely literal act of piracy and terrorism

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    [–] 48 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    Of course idf kidnaps a kid

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    [–] 33 points 1 year ago*

    #BringThemHome

    Good thing Sweden isn't Israel or else they'd have bombed their hospitals already.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Israel has decided to grab the attention of some of the people who weren't already outraged. It's a bold more. I hope it works out the way I think it will.

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