Israeli security minister stirs diplomatic outrage with flotilla activist abuse video (www.theguardian.com)
from Cybersec@piefed.social to world@lemmy.world on 20 May 20:21
https://piefed.social/c/world/p/2077668/israeli-security-minister-stirs-diplomatic-outrage-with-flotilla-activist-abuse-video

Israel’s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has sparked a diplomatic crisis by publishing footage of Israeli security forces abusing international activists who were detained as they tried to sail to Gaza with aid.

There was a rapid and furious response from countries whose citizens were onboard the boats, including the UK, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and Ireland, in many cases delivered in person from the top of government.

The US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, one of the country’s staunchest allies, described Ben-Gvir’s behaviour as “despicable” and said the minister had “betrayed the dignity of his nation”.

The video includes images of dozens of men and women kneeling in rows, with their foreheads to the ground and their hands zip-tied behind their back. Ben-Gvir appears waving an Israeli flag, mocking and taunting the detainees, including shouting: “The people of Israel live” in the face of one bound man.

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gedaliyah@lemmy.world on 20 May 20:32 next collapse

Israelis need to make a coalition to remove this monster and the entire Netanyahu circus of horrors

ShotDonkey@lemmy.world on 20 May 21:21 next collapse

Not gonna happen. A comfortable majority is supporting these racist pieces of shit. Haaretz is mostly read by people outside of what some call Israel, don’t fall for the “it’s a liberal society in it’s core” propaganda. Never was.

mrdown@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 20 May 21:23 next collapse

Majority of israelis bsck up colonization

LostWon@lemmy.ca on 20 May 21:37 collapse

I believe there already is a coalition of people in favour of human rights and hopefully they can make a difference somehow, but the problem is that the country has gone so fascist that the majority of people are in favour of this kind of content and rhetoric. It’s not just bad apple soldiers and prison guards.

There have been many interviews, polls, and other public cultural instances to document that most of the public is largely in favour of ethnic cleansing, prisoner abuse, and even more war. There need to be arrests of war criminals, but also some kind of psychological intervention to get the ones who weren’t actively involved to realize how much of their humanity they’ve been discarding. De-Kahanification, I guess you could call it.

Zaktor@sopuli.xyz on 20 May 20:47 next collapse

I’m pretty sure I just read an article recently about how Israel wanted its troops to stop posting incriminating videos.

jontree255@lemmy.world on 20 May 21:05 next collapse

This guy is a massive piece of shit

mrdown@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 20 May 21:24 next collapse

Kidnapped not detained

ShotDonkey@lemmy.world on 20 May 21:25 collapse

They do get him mad though.