Israel demanded answers from Madrid over the treatment of the activists, days after Spain summoned Israel’s representative over Ben-Gvir’s controversial video taunting detained flotilla members.
They were blocking a gate, disrupting other travelers while repeatedly ignoring police orders to move. They staged a scene at an airport, in a country still healing from the scars of ETA terrorism. Who thinks that’s a smart move? What’s the point?
If you ask me, their best-case scenario was probably to provoke a police response, let the images of the confrontation go viral, and grab some attention. Well, the police delivered exactly what they seemed to want.
If you ask me, their best-case scenario was probably to provoke a police response
The flotilla main goal is to bring humanitarian aid to gaza, they are provoking israel by doing it and they are aware of it. This doesn’t sound bad to me because they are bringing attention to israel goverment being an authoritarian regime who torture activists and prisoners.
If a small provocation such as peacefully blocking a gate while protesting a genocide trigger the police to beat up people and arrest them, it sounds a good provocation to me because it get to remember people the reality of the world we live in and what happen the moment you refuse to obey the government.
You’re right. But they also gave Israel the perfect opportunity to make the Spanish government look bad, one of the few countries openly opposing Israel and the U.S. for their illegal wars.
The Spanish National police are police, and are the arm of the states monopoly on violence concept. They have been gradually becoming a highly professional and civilized police force, since the days of the dictatorship 50 yrs ago. There are of course many power thirsty assholes that get in, but on the whole they are fairly correct and professional, to the point that when a thing like this happens, it makes international news. Critical thinking , people.
They were blocking a gate, disrupting other travelers while repeatedly ignoring police orders to move. They staged a scene at an airport, in a country still healing from the scars of ETA terrorism. Who thinks that’s a smart move? What’s the point?
If you ask me, their best-case scenario was probably to provoke a police response, let the images of the confrontation go viral, and grab some attention. Well, the police delivered exactly what they seemed to want.
The flotilla main goal is to bring humanitarian aid to gaza, they are provoking israel by doing it and they are aware of it. This doesn’t sound bad to me because they are bringing attention to israel goverment being an authoritarian regime who torture activists and prisoners.
If a small provocation such as peacefully blocking a gate while protesting a genocide trigger the police to beat up people and arrest them, it sounds a good provocation to me because it get to remember people the reality of the world we live in and what happen the moment you refuse to obey the government.
You’re right. But they also gave Israel the perfect opportunity to make the Spanish government look bad, one of the few countries openly opposing Israel and the U.S. for their illegal wars.
The Spanish National police are police, and are the arm of the states monopoly on violence concept. They have been gradually becoming a highly professional and civilized police force, since the days of the dictatorship 50 yrs ago. There are of course many power thirsty assholes that get in, but on the whole they are fairly correct and professional, to the point that when a thing like this happens, it makes international news. Critical thinking , people.