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Pro-Israel Figures Threaten to Kill Greta Thunberg Over Gaza Aid Mission - Quds News Network (2025-06-02)

https://qudsnen.co/pro-israel-figures-threaten-to-kill-greta-thunberg-over-gaza-aid-mission/
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>> ... Greta Thunberg is facing a wave of violent threats by pro-genocide individuals after joining a Gaza-bound aid flotilla. Pro-Israel figures have called for her death or harm as she sails to challenge Israel’s siege on the devastated territory.

>> Republican Senator Lindsey Graham posted on X: “Hope Greta and her friends can swim!”...

#StopIsrael #StopGenocide #FreedomFlotilla
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[–] [email protected] 128 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

I don't think it's most people. Opinions outside of Israel have largely shifted against it even in the US. Politicians often misrepresent their constituents on this one. At least that's what it looks like in some polls I've seen.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They're attempting to astroturf a Holocaust. People aren't on board but the rich goombas are.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Emphasis on "rich" here. History has shown that genocide is always followed by claiming and then divvying up the resources once held by the displaced/dead. That's always a rich-man's game.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

A line from Rage Against the Machine's "Darkness"

They say they'll kill them off, take their land and go there for vacation

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

genocide is always followed by claiming and then divvying up the resources once held by the displaced/dead.

Like this

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

So you're saying the favor should be returned- reciprocated, even.

I like that idea.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Good thing Luigi's mansion is common man's game.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Opinions outside of Israel have largely shifted against it even in the US.

Not in Congress. Not on Wall Street. No where the power congeals. We're hitting the end-stage of the War on Terror. Western states are not going to be happy until the entire Muslim world is cowed or exterminated.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Of course, but the disconnect growing on this coincides with the disconnect on other important issues and things are eventually coming to a head.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

People who vote for nazis/murderers are complicit. Politicians are elected, so the “constituents” do not get to wash the blood from their hands. They are just as guilty.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yeah, the debates seems to be mostly people questioning if it is war crimes or genocide, different experts and different organizations have different conclusions, although it seems more conclusions are shifting towards genocide.