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Washington — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu directly approved military operations on two vessels early last month that were part of a Gaza-bound flotilla carrying aid and pro-Palestinian supporters, including Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg.

Two American intelligence officials briefed on the matter told CBS News that Israeli forces on Sept. 8 and 9 launched drones from a submarine and dropped incendiary devices onto the boats that were moored outside the Tunisian port of Sidi Bou Said, causing a fire. The officials spoke under the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly on national security matters.

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[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 42 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I don't understand what he was hoping to gain. Intercepting the flotilla without anyone getting hurt once it got close to Israel was well within Israel's naval capabilities and received relatively little news coverage because everyone knew from the start that it would happen. Playing around with drones offended the countries that the flotilla was near when it happened, got a lot of unfavorable news coverage because it is such a weird thing to do, and likely wouldn't have stopped the flotilla even if it had burned down several ships.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 35 points 1 month ago

Scaring them off from their journey. Israel are the biggest bullies and only know how to talk with terror.

[–] Carmakazi@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

Israel and its enforcers are operating in a euphoric mental state. For an abuser it's a rush to be able to abuse people openly and get away with it, rather than having to conceal and twist logic. They know that so long as they have the paid for blessing of the United States and its bloated military, nobody can realistically hold them accountable.

We have IDF soldiers openly admitting to killing unarmed civilians on social media. It's all euphoria and arrogance.

[–] Doorbook@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Adding to other comments, the entire genocide is lead by tactics to force people out. part of it, they want them to fee despair that no one is going to help them.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

If those countries was really offended they would start sanctionning israel and stop with the israel has the right to defend itself BS

[–] black_flag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 1 month ago

Don't forget that while the IDF was distracted with the flotilla, Palestinians were able to fish.

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Let's just hope someone takes netanyahu out.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

He's a monster. I don't know how he sleeps at night knowing he's responsible for the murdering of this many children. You'd have to be a complete psychopath. I wouldn't sleep at night knowing I had killed even one child. Or person for that matter.

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

If I had to guess, I would say the main difference is you (still) see non-israelis as being just as human as Israelis. Whereas Netanyahou has probably dehumanized them to be less than cockroaches in his own psyche.

Pretty easy to sleep at night if you've convinced yourself you're "cleaning up vermin" 🤮

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't know how someone managed to dehumanize humans. Especially the innocent children. It's crazy to me.

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 2 points 1 month ago

It's very crazy. Sadly this isn't the first time it's happened, and as a behavior it tends to get passed on from generation to generation.

See the Romans calling all non-romans "barbarians", the numerous falsehoods used to justify European colonization of the rest of the world and the chattel slave trade, the decade or so of virulent antisemitism that the Nazis helped build up before they ever built the first gas chamber, etc. See also Radio Genocide in Rwanda for a more recent example, or how spokespeople from the Israeli government compared Palestinians to cockroaches and other vermin in the days after the October 7 Hamas-led attacks.

Nine times out of ten, it is no accident but rather intentional propaganda. Someone (or some group) decides that they need what others have, and sets about preparing their fellow humans to be ok with taking it.

In a sense, it's precisely because it is so awful a thing that we have gotten so skilled at doing it [to each other]; if you can dehumanize someone it's a lot more feasible to take their stuff for yourself. And it can be very tempting to take the easy way out and take from others instead of figuring out how to provide for yourself.

Not to mention it is easier to write off a being's inherent wants or needs if you are convinced they are lesser than you, and in many Western societies we have an existing cultural legacy of "god gave humans the earth to inherit as their dominion" which predisposes us towards deciding for other beings what their existence should be like without ever considering that the being in question gets a say.

Sorry if this became a bit of a ramble, I've been hung up on the issue of dehumanization ever since learning about how the Nazis rose to power in grade school and realizing that nothing was being done in society around me to prevent that sort of thinking from taking hold [again].

[–] Cassanderer@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 month ago

Sociopath. Psycho too maybe. A bit of megalomania if not narcicism thrown in there on top of an arrogance born of a lifetime of impunity.

[–] zqps@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

That wouldn't even help at this point. One of the openly fascist ministers would be in power by the end of the year.

[–] apftwb@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Are you telling me it wasn't caused by someone dropping a lit cigarette near fuel?

[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

No it was a flare that they launched at there own ship because they wanted attention, the hasbara bots told me so.

[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 10 points 1 month ago

Israel and bombing civilians... name a more iconic duo...