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Environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg has told Swedish officials she is being subjected to harsh treatment in Israeli custody after her detention and removal from a flotilla carrying aid to Gaza, according to correspondence seen by the Guardian.

According to the correspondence, Israeli forces are also reported by another detainee to have taken photographs where Thunberg was allegedly forced to hold flags. The identity of the flags are unknown.

In an email sent by the Swedish foreign ministry to people close to Thunberg, and seen by the Guardian, an official who has visited the activist in prison said she claimed she was detained in a cell infested with bedbugs, with too little food and water.

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[–] krimson@lemmy.world 120 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Fuck the terrorist state of Israel.

[–] nfreak@lemmy.ml 67 points 1 week ago (3 children)

There's no "two state solution" to this shit. The entire country needs to be abolished and the land given back to Palestine.

[–] whereyaaat@lemmings.world 5 points 6 days ago

I've been saying this for years.

The proper solution to Israel is to relocate the occupiers to the US, since both countries are pretty much the same, have the same interests, and even engage in the same acts of war.

The problem with this is that Zionists, who are religious nationalists, feel that they are entitled to their "promised land."

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Best solution was proposed by Sheldon Cooper, moving Israel to the US

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 0 points 6 days ago

Also, but the US are currently more usefull, in Germany it will affect too much nearby countries which have nothing to do with it, also the territory is too small.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago

Bing bong theorum

[–] krimson@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Unfortunately I think it will be the other way around. The "Riviera" thing is going to happen. Israel will be in charge, together with the US.

There will never be peace though.

[–] Jaximus@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

Even more likely: they displace or kill the entire population and the land and city is left empty for the next century. My case point is northern Cyprus although the scale and brutality of what we are currently witnessing is not comparable.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] primrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexus 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They make me wish there was such a thing as hell

[–] antifa_ceo@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

We can make on hell on earth happen for them with enough support. Inshallah.

[–] Samsuma@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago

🤲

🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻

But it won't be properly hell without zios there.

[–] MrSulu@lemmy.ml 111 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Greta has been the one to face all sorts of public backlash and moronic criticism for how she looks. I hope that history remembers her work and commitment to saving human life, for the sake of saving human life.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 76 points 1 week ago

History will remember her for being based as hell. Going this hard on Gaza really legitimizes her climate activism as caring about human life. And taking huge personal risks which are not just blocking a highway.

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 20 points 1 week ago

She has never once limited her commitment to human life - let her be remembered for her dedication to saving life.

[–] zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

the problem is that she is a white, blonde girl with a cool active (I mean lively) personality, it should have nothing to do with looks.

[–] Gonzako@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'll be honest. She wasn't that when she started. She was just a kid that became an activist and basically sacrificed her childhood to become the new face of activism

[–] zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

hmm, honestly I'm not aware of her beginning, but I assume people were overlooking the "kid" part when judging her ?

[–] Gonzako@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

She's a 22 year old right now. She was doing speeches back from as early as 2018. That put her in front of the stand as young as 15 yo. You saw her speaking and you saw child.

[–] sarcasticsunrise@lemmy.world 65 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Where's that one dipshit from a couple days ago saying everything Greta was doing was just PR performative bullshit? Yeah, this looks like a brilliant clout scheme she's concocting here, dumbass

[–] Jaximus@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Probably a bot, the Internet is infested at this point. Head over to reddit and half the comments sound the same...

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

There's certainly a new wave of pro-israeli comments I'm seeing lately.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Can hope it's a bot but so many true believers popping up or have just been around.

Especially when anything is critical of the west or dems

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They're upscaling the hasbara or whatever they call it now

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

True but were some here even before that. Especially got a few news mods on lw. Never worked out if that one is a true believer though or not

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 5 days ago

I know, I've been watching. Not like a hawk but enough to keep my reality and expectations in check. I hope.

somewhere on my blocklist that's where

Greta has a backbone of pure steel.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 56 points 1 week ago

Israel is lashing out emotionally now that they've lost public support. Pathetic, may the entity crumble to dust and Palestine be free.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 week ago

Death to the zionist entity and the states who support it.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago

And then one hears that anti semitism is on the rise like never before and one wonders why that is...

[–] zululove@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe they will delete her and we have another martyr. That’s all we need to really push them out our lands tbr.

[–] whereyaaat@lemmings.world 7 points 6 days ago

Won't happen. If they killed her, they'd get away with it.

Israel is immune to accountability.