cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/36603369
Italy is sending a ship to accompany the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla, who said its activists remain shaken but determined following an Israeli attack on Wednesday morning.
Organisers of expedition, which is attempting to carry aid to the Gaza Strip, shared footage this morning appears to show an explosion that detonated on one of the flotilla’s vessels.
Late on Tuesday activists heard explosions and saw drones that targeted some of their boats, currently situated off Greece. “Multiple drones, unidentified objects dropped, communications jammed and explosions heard from a number of boats,” the Global Sumud Flotilla said.
“I have authorised the immediate intervention of the Navy’s frigate Fasan, which was sailing north of Crete and is heading towards the area,” Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto said in a statement.
Carl Zha is that you?
By this logic Apartheid South Africa would never have been isolated and boycotted. Why bother with BDS or anything if America will just “foot the bill”? Oh yeah opposing a genocide is just “morality purity testing” right?
I don’t buy it, reeks of Liberal Zionism and convenient excuses.
Apartheid South Africa fell through the combination of the Cuban military, the ANC willing to be less radical because the Soviet Union just fell, and the weakening of British imperialism that was its principle sponsor. It didn’t fall through some well-intentioned boycott. The boycott is libs predictably overhyping non-violent forms of resistance as usual just like how they reduced Acre beating Anez to “voting works.” And another point to consider is that the imperialists see the fall of Apartheid South Africa as a mistake that can’t be repeated. Musk repeatedly hammers this point for very obvious reasons.
What worked for Apartheid South Africa will not work for the Zionist entity.
Defeatism. This is the logic of scabs who cross the lines. fascist led Italy is actually doing more than China here! Why is this acceptable? Just because you aren’t guaranteed victory isn’t any reason not to try and chip in however you can. Yeah, Palestine Action on their own isn’t gonna stop the genocide either. These are drops in a bucket. Stop being a leak.
China did more by letting those Chinese ATGMs fall into the hands of Hamas than Italy did sending a single warship to escort the flotilla. Or do they not count because Xi didn’t personally hand those ATGMs over to Sinwar and post it on Instagram?
Hamas even posted it in one of their videos. Sadly, the person who broke down how the ATGM is Chinese got suspended (and he was one of those “Dengist China is revisionist” people so there’s no bias on his part), but there’s also the Wikipedia article on the HJ-8 which gives a shoutout to Hamas for deploying the ATGM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HJ-8#Gaza_Strip
Meanwhile, why you are trying to parse their hidden power levels through reading tea leaves billions in the global south are learning that communists cannot be trusted to join in the struggle for their liberation and will make up excuses. Russia and Iran are doing more than China by orders of magnitude to oppose the imperialists and decolonize the world. The lesson being learned by the world is that the path to liberation is right-wing, theocratic and nationalist.
China is failing communism and sullying its name by participating in this genocide publicly. When communists online make up apologetics and excuses instead of demanding principles, you are reinforcing this failure in the eyes of the world.
Are you part of the “billions in the global south” or are you from the imperial core like most people on hexbear dot net pontificating on behalf of them? And no, being part of a diaspora doesn’t give you the right to speak on their behalf.
Keep coping with the Zionist excuses. Every time you make these Zionist argument you are driving people into the arms of your enemies. How hard is it to just have principles?
You know why it’s right-leaning and theocratic groups like Hamas leading the resistance? Because the leftists of the PLO failed, they sold out, they became defeatist Zionists filled with excuses and they drove everyone into the arms of groups like Hamas. Why are you justifying China repeating the same mistakes on a wider scale? China is acting more like the PA than they are anything liberatory, and they will be judged as such by history.
So I’ll take your avoidance of the question as a no then: you’re just another member of the diaspora who thinks that just because you’re not white, visited your parent’s motherland a few times, and can ask where’s the bathroom in your heritage language that you can’t speak fluently anymore, you can speak on behalf of members of the Global South. Pretty cracker behavior I gotta say.
I’ll leave you with this one single question: why has Ansarallah not once condemn China for its alleged complicity despite the fact that China gave a strongly worded speech against Ansarallah firing rockets on ships headed to Zionist ports and despite the fact that China also hosted a conference where they invited an official from the internationally recognized Yemeni government that holds no de facto power instead of inviting a member of Ansarallah? You gonna speak on their behalf too?
turning this into an identity thing isn’t going to work. You can’t deal with my arguments so you resort to name-calling