Gaza aid flotilla: Israel intercepts vessels but one ship reported to have got through blockade – as it happened | Middle East and north Africa | The Guardian
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One boat, the Mikeno, reported to have escaped the maritime blockade and to have stopped inside Palestinian territorial waters

Israeli foreign ministry posts video of Thunberg’s arrest; vessels carrying about 500 activists intercepted about 75 miles off coast of war-torn territory

  • markko@lemmy.worldEnglish
    151·
    2 days ago

    It’s still important to not conflate the two.

    While most legal systems are far from ideal, a lot of people appreciate having some semblance of law and order.

    An arrest is made when someone is believed to have committed a crime. A kidnapping is the unlawful capturing of an individual.

    Enforcers of the legal system (police, ICE, and other 3 letter agencies) carry out both legal arrests and unlawful kidnappings, the latter of which is what’s being discussed here.

    The fact that “the world will pretend otherwise” is exactly why it is so important to emphasise the difference between the 2 words.

    • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.netEnglish
      15·
      2 days ago

      Nah it’s why we need to challenge this idea that violence done by the state is automatically legitimate. Such as by critiquing the words we’ve created to separate things that clearly aren’t very different in reality.

      • markko@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        we need to challenge this idea that violence done by the state is automatically legitimate

        That is exactly what the top-level comment was doing.