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    As a foreign famous activist she probably has a “good” treatment for a detainee. Imagine what the Gazan child hostages go through in Israeli prisons (spoiler: reported electrical shock torture and sexual crimes)

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      Do you have any evidence to support that or are you just using conjecture? I don’t have a dog in the fight, but you’re literally making shit up out of thin air. Given how persistent bed bugs are I would imagine they are a significant problem in any prison in the world. Keeping bed bugs out is probably like trying to keep a cold/flu/covid out of any concentrated living facility (prison, nursing home, welfare home, or homeless shelter).

      If hotels struggle to prevent bed bugs then you can be assured that prisons will too. If you’re gonna peacefully protest with the knowledge that you will be detained then you should also know that you’re gonna deal with jail/prison conditions which include bed bugs.

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        You don’t believe in privilege? Do you really think the people the news don’t name get the same treatment?

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          Can’t you see that that is a very different argument? Just because Greta has bed bugs in her cell doesn’t prove that other prisoners have worse conditions. The OP said:

          As a foreign famous activist she probably has a “good” treatment for a detainee. Imagine what the Gazan child hostages go through in Israeli prisons (spoiler: reported electrical shock torture and sexual crimes)

          So the OP has setup a binary situation where Greta is getting bed bugs while Gazan’s are getting electrical shock torture and sexual crimes. I asked if the OP has any evidence to that because they created a false equivalency. Just because one prisoner has bed bugs doesn’t mean everyone else is getting electro shocked and raped.

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            So you are asking: what are the odds of the genocidal regime known for human rights violations violating the rights of people without the protection of the public eye?

            Surely they are more comfortable than Greta. That is the logical conclusion. /s

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              No, you’re making a lot of unsubstantiated statements. Am I willing to believe that Greta is being treated differently than Gazan prisoners? Yeah, I can believe that. I could also believe that Greta is being treated similarly to how anyone without Hamas affiliations would be treated. What I don’t believe is that just because Greta has bed bugs in her cell Gazans are getting raped and electro tortured. Like I said, I don’t have a dog in the fight, but just because Greta is being treated like a prisoner doesn’t mean she’s being treated differently than other prisoners. Furthermore, having bed bugs doesn’t mean shit when bed bugs are a problem in every prison. Having bed bugs doesn’t mean other people are getting raped and electro shock tortured unless you have some evidence of that, which is the evidence I asked for.

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    At this point I have no idea if she’s ever been effective or accomplished any goal shes set out on…except make a career.l by getting in the news.

    Legit, can anyone educate me on anything she has accomplished?

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    I’ve stayed in hostels that had bedbugs. They probably should fumigate the place I guess… little bastards are hard to kill. So sad she’s not staying in the five star hotels she’s used to.

    Also… allegedly activist allegedly allegedly allegedly activist activist allegedly. Activists that participated in a propaganda mission are producing propaganda. I guess y’all need to feel outraged so you can feel something.

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      You can usually tell at a glance if an article will be critical or supportive of a certain person, based on the photo they choose to go alongside the headline.

      General rule of thumb, if you want someone to look composed, use a photo with their mouth closed. If you want them to look dumb, choose a photo with their mouth open mid-speech. It’s not a universal thing, but still images of people mid-word don’t tend to be flattering.

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      If they are pro-Greta why would they use a really good picture here? They want to show how bad her incarceration is.

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    The Swedish government, and the EU commission is not making nearly enough noise as it should here.

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      Since Greta waived her right to immediate deportation and chose to remain in detention, I’m not sure what you are expecting the Swedes to do.

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      Conservative Swedish PM (Prime Pretend Minister) “Jam For Spine” Kristersson is known for both his mental laziness and fear of conflicts. He’s still remembered for fleeing a room, literally running, when confronted by a journalist about his personal shady deals.

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      Maybe but blah blah Israel reasons we gotta torture her. Sure you understand blah blah

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      Israel has no way to win in this situation. Torturing her will result in media backlash. Executing her would only make a martyr, which is even worse. Somehow, Israel didn’t choose to kick her out immediately.

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        The worst thing Israel could have done to discredit Greta Thunberg and damage her brand would have been to give her a nice meal, a warm bed in a nice hotel, gently push her onboard the next 1st class flight back to Stockholm the next day and release a statement telling her to go play SJW somewhere else. Instead, they’re doing everything possible to confirm they’re truly bad people, like dumbasses.

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          Theyre fucking orcs. Hit that ‘translate from Hebrew’ button. Only other language you’ll see anyone say anything even close to that vile is German.

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          Being plain evil without pretending otherwise has worked out just fine until now, why would they stop?

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          True.

          And I think I have an explanation for that:

          We do not often read how Israeli politicians talk, verbatim*. They got used responding only to their own media landscape, where apparently they can go much farther in their rhetoric (and subsequent actions) without repercussions. There’s also some deep-seated misogyny specifically against women of other race/religion or however they define that for themselves. Like, they’d never do that if she was a typical NY Jew, for example.

          Of course that isn’t the whole picture; we must also look at the unquestioning support they’ve been getting from most “Western” countries which no doubt contributed to them developing this sort of impunity.

          * Netanyahu often speaks English when addressing the world. It’s still bad enough, but it allows him to present a different picture to the world than to his constituency.

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            It’s kinda like all those comments on WWII that begin with “The Nazis could’ve won if only they…” and then describe a course of action that would require the Nazis to not be Nazis.

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              Who knows.

              My guess is that eventually they’ll cross some invisible line and their former allies begin to turn against them. Where that line is can also change depending on the global political atmosphere. As long as Russia and USA interfere with the Middle East, we’re locked in a proxy war style situation with no clear way out. If Russia and USA suddenly loose interest in this eternal war zone, then Israel would need to watch out, because crossing that invisible line would have consequences, and the line would be a lot closer than ever before.

              For the time being though, I don’t think Israel needs to worry about that. They could start using Zyklon B on Palestinian children, and the world would not interfere.

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                invisible line

                No. That’s the thing; the ruling classes love what’s going on here.

                It’s not just a genocide –they’re reviving old fashioned colonial violence, plundering, subjugation. The normalizing of extermination. The normalizing of killing truth raping the corpse and solving all your problems with killing. The normalization of impunity–that someone’s allowed to get away with this

                That’s worth everything to the billionaire class. The more they horror it up; the more they love it.

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        They realize that kicking her out just means she will be on her way back on the next boat. They are trying to intimidate her into not coming back.

        I hope the Swedish government has a harsh answer for one of their citizens getting kidnapped in International Waters.

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          Well some of them would, because that’s how international politics works. However, a surprising number of countries have recognized Palestine, so I think the number of friends Israel has might be in a decline.

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        Israel has no way to win in this situation.

        They could have not taken her hostage.

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        She’s probably just a useful idiot. Might be useful to interrogate her and get whoever got her to do this.

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      it sounds like next time we see her she’ll be barely alive

      if she’s fine, well, we know that won’t be the case. and anyway inside she’s hurt. but we know that anyway. this time it will be drop dead at any time hurt

      ok

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      Am I wrong in saying they’re (seemingly) quantifiably worse than every other “terrorist” country in the region? I know plenty have human rights issues, but I can’t imagine anyone is competitive on sheer quantity of murder and atrocities!?

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        There are no others actively perpetrating genocide on the massive scale Israel is. Morally and legally that puts Israel in a class of its own.

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          They’re not even… They are murdering Palestinian Christians right alongside the Muslims.

          American Christians only care about Israel’s role in the “end times.”

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      More than a buddy… America is the reason they are capable of any of this. It’s disgusting what the failed leadership here has allowed, and Trump has opened every single floodgate in his second term, empowering them like never before.

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      They will be treated kinda badly in order to encourage them to not get on the next set of boats coming down, then they will be released.

      Some will rejoin the next flotilla will which will hopefully be a hundred boats or more and maybe some of the countries will provide naval cover to stop the drones from attacking them on the seas.