Little Greta ended up being dragged around by the hair, beaten, and forced to kiss the flag of her Jewish captors.
KernowDamo: She sailed to deliver aid — and was beaten, starved, and paraded around by Israel instead. So who's mocking her now then?
Right, so this is what it’s come to: a nuclear-armed state terrified of a 22-year-old woman with a conscience. Israel, forever proclaiming itself the Middle East’s lone democracy, yet has just proven it fears common decency, humanity and empathy more than anything else.
Greta Thunberg - the activist so many pundits, so many self righteous social media commentators dismiss, mock and jeer as a pampered idealist - sailed to Gaza – for the second time risking her life - with food, medicine, and a sense of morality Israel has no concept of, and ended up dragged around by the hair, beaten, and forced to kiss the flag of her captors. The self-styled “defenders of civilisation” the “most moral army” have shown us what civilisation really means to them. The media loudmouths who mock her now deserve a well overdue wake up call; the governments that once clapped her speeches now hide behind the phrase “monitoring the situation” do as well. The story isn’t about one woman’s courage anymore – she was just one of many anyway - it’s about a world that punishes integrity because it can’t imitate it. And as much as Greta I’m sure dislikes the attention aimed at her because it detracts from the cause she is championing, I think we do need to talk about her, because those demonising and treating her with utter disdain are letting Israel and their actions off the hook in so doing, because actually she, like everyone who has taken part in the flotilla is a hero and if you have nothing but scorn for her even as she is abused after being kidnapped in international waters by the genocidal apartheid state, then you are on the side of the villains and you need to take a long hard look at yourself.
Right, so a young woman whose only weapon was moral conviction is now a recorded victim of the vile state, having committed an act of piracy to bring her into detention, that farcically claims to represent democracy.
Greta Thunberg joined the Global Sumud Flotilla – her second voyage to try and break the siege of Gaza - to deliver humanitarian aid; sacks of flour, medical kits, and water filters to those under i*legal occupation.
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