This is not about me or the others from the flotilla. There are thousands of Palestinians, hundreds of whom are children, who are being held without trial right now, and many of them are most likely being tortured, says Greta Thunberg.
What we have been through is only a small, small part of what Palestinians have experienced. On the walls of our prison cells, we saw bullet holes with bloodstains and messages carved into the walls by Palestinian prisoners who had been there before us.
When I’m about to get off the boat, there are a bunch of police officers waiting for me. They grab me, pull me to the ground, and throw an Israeli flag over me.
Greta Thunberg describes how she is dragged to a paved area fenced in with iron fences. This is a protracted scene that lasts for over six hours, according to Greta, and is confirmed by several participants in the flotilla that Aftonbladet talks to.
It was kind of dystopian. I saw maybe 50 people sitting in a row on their knees with handcuffs and their foreheads against the ground. They dragged me to the opposite side from where the others were sitting, and I had the flag around me the whole time. They hit and kicked me.
They moved me very brutally to a corner that I was turned towards. ‘A special place for a special lady’, they said. And then they had learned ‘Lilla hora’ (Little Wh0re) and ‘Hora Greta’ (Wh0re Greta) in Swedish, which they repeated all the time.
The flag was placed so that it would touch me. When it fluttered and touched me, they shouted ‘Don’t touch the flag’ and kicked me in the side. After a while, my hands were tied with cable ties, very tightly. A bunch of guards lined up to take selfies with me while I was sitting like that.
Readind that article makes me… I don’t know. I’m not ‘mad’, I’m fucking restless. First, the torture, sure. We knew the current* Israeli government is monstrous. (*I don’t know about all the previous ones, I’m not versed in Israeli history.) But the response from the Swedish embassy?
And, after all that, what’s the response of the world? Similar to the Swedish government response as shown here. Evasive, absolutely unwilling to stand up to the monsters. Being monsters themselves by proxy.
I feel like I must act, but know not what to do. I’m restless. I feel like our world is stuck in some kind of non-Newtonian liquid made of Capital, Hunger for Power and Gutlessness. I feel like I want to round up all those monsters, ship them on an island and make sure there’s no way out - have fun amongst yourselves, monsters. I know this isn’t realist. I know not what to do. Calling my minister here in Canada doesn’t do shit - our government is as gutless as all others. Standing in the street hasn’t done much either, nor participating in event in support of Gaza and the wish to put an end to the massacre and torture of a whole people.
‘I have no mouth, and I must scream’
They’ve been like that from the start pretty much. They assasinated Folke Bernadotte 1948. Why? Because he was a skilled diplomat who made real progress in the Israel - arab conflict.
Folke Bernadotte, who helped saved thousands of jews from concentration camps.
Spreading awareness, or donating to content creators and journalists who do so is a great way to help. Politicians only respond to public opinion so public opinion must be changed first.
And know that Greta only underwent a fraction of what Palestinians do in these torture camps.
And the response from politicians is slooow a fuck. We can’t even get Kamala Harris to admit that Israel was committing genocide. And when Gavin Newsome was asked about AIPAC, he started glitching. I mention these 2 because they are prominent figures in the Democratic party.