cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/64652
Italy has despatched a second warship to support the humanitarian Global Sumud Flotilla en route to deliver aid to Gaza and break Israel’s criminal starvation blockade, following continued – now nightly – Israeli attacks on the fleet of volunteer-crewed boats.
But at the same time, the Italian government has tried to pressure the flotilla to capitulate to Israeli demands to surrender its aid supplies – in this case to the local Catholic Church, which Israel will supposedly allow to distribute the aid in Gaza unmolested, despite the occupation’s diversion of aid to the criminal gangs it funds and its near-daily slaughter of desperate Palestinian aid-seekers.
Italy sending more support to the Global Sumud Flotilla – but with demands
The Global Sumud Flotilla consists of around fifty civilian vessels crewed by lawyers, politicians, medics and activists and has been repeatedly bombed by drones and buzzed by fighter aircraft, now with the added psychological warfare of drones playing loud music all night to try to deprive crews of sleep. Despite this one-sided aggression, the Israeli government is claiming that it is the unarmed humanitarian volunteers who are ‘pursuing violence’.
Italy sent a first naval ship earlier this week to ‘assist’ the flotilla after it was bombed by at least fifteen drones in international waters near Greece. Spain followed suit shortly afterward. So far, no crew member has been reported killed or seriously hurt.
Italian PM Giorgia Meloni said the government’s proposal was to hand the aid over in Cyprus to the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem for distribution in Gaza, and tried to blame the flotilla organisers for not accepting the ‘offer’.
Israel continues to maintain its vice-like grip on food and other essentials in Gaza while shooting and shelling starving aid-seekers at the ‘GHF’ so-called ‘aid’ stations it controls and funding an ISIS-linked criminal gang to steal aid and kill Palestinian refugees.
The flotilla crews have said they will continue on their mission to deliver the aid directly.
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Fascist Italy doing this for optics is still more impressive than defending China still doing jack shit and trademaxing
Shit so they're trading with the zionist entity?
oh bigtime yeah
it makes me very sad, and I wish they would stop
Ireland too, no words, what a fucking betrayal. Thanks for sharing, could we please get a source from where the screenshots are taken? I'd like to save it too.
Ireland's economy is like 1/4 depending on BIG us tech firms, they also let the us use their airports for military use AND they are currently supporting the EU chat control law. Irish people may draw on the radical anti-colonial history of their past, but modern ireland (especially its elite) have turned it into a very aesthetics, because in the end ireland is a global north country aligned with western imperialism.
If Ireland was a threat/in opposition to the empire, then Irish culture and people would not have an positive image in the west.
Mind you Irish nationalists warned that it would happen if Irish people didnt fight their own elite post-independence.
Fascist Italy is going to "escort" the flotilla to Cyprus and at this point, I won't rule out fascist Italy killing people on the flotilla alongside the IOF.
Fascist Italy helping out Israel is 'doing more for optics' huh? That's a wild take.
China lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, helping develop the third world through belt and road, and standing on the side of peace is just nothing I guess!
I'll be sure to tell Xi that the white western geopolitical communism understanders on hexbear sternly disapprove of his countries actions.
Are you saying the Palestinians aren't resisting enough? Haven't show themselves worthy of aid? Think about what you're saying, what it means.
A revolutionary state still has to have internationalist principles, and can't be afraid to be in confrontation with capitalist powers, to challenge their excesses when they are reasonably able. No one is saying they need to get bogged down in a war with the US. Just, there are degrees of action, and sometimes there's reasonable criticism to be made.
Edit: Wait. You're saying the genocide of Palestinians is an acceptable cost to "safeguard global communism". Fuck you.
I never said China had to invade Israel. The fact that you had to jump to that extreme to defend your passivity towards Genocide is rather disgusting.
Just because more places are going to see "some Palestine like times" doesn't excuse failure to act in this case.
Really gross to describe a genocide as a party imo