Italy said it will stop accompanying the international flotilla trying to deliver aid to Gaza, despite concerns by activists that the fleet will be attacked within the coming hours. Italy and Spain deployed navy vessels to assist the boats after they were hit by drones armed with stun grenades last week.

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    17 hours ago

    What a brave effort. How can the people be so brave while their governments are such cowards?

    This is Israel vs Palaistine locally, but rich vs poor on an even larger scale.

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      while their governments are such cowards?

      It’s worse than that; they’re fascists. It took a fucking general strike in Italy to get them to deploy the naval forces to begin with, and their Mussolini fangirl prime minister called them off again as soon as she could bullshit an excuse.

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    What of the Spanish escort? Are they leaving? Have they even reached the flotilla yet?

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    “Many would be happy to disrupt” a peace plan pushed by US President Donald Trump, Meloni said in a statement. “I fear that the flotilla’s attempt to breach the Israeli naval blockade could provide a pretext for this.”

    This is kinda fair enough - Netanyahu doesn’t want a ceasefire since he partly started this all to avoid his legal problems.

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      The notion of a “peace plan pushed by US President Donald Trump” is a farce to begin with. This is nothing but fascists colluding with fascists to piss on us and tell us it’s raining.

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        Yeah. Also, it’s a humanitarian mission. Treating it as a political move is just fucked up. These are civilians bringing food and help to civilians. This is peace. Your “peace plan” probably is based on weapon sales

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      He doesn’t want a ceasefire so there’s not gonna be a ceasefire no matter what everyone else does.