Greta Thunberg Deemed Threat, Netanyahu Still Free
When Israel intercepts boats delivering aid to Gaza, the BBC calls it 'breaching its naval blockade'. They conveniently omit that this 'blockade' is considered collective punishment and illegal under international law by numerous human rights organizations since 2007. The international community, led by states like the United States—which provides over $3 billion in military aid annually to Israel
(Congressional Research Service, 2023)—consistently permits this siege while simultaneously professing concern for humanitarian crises. One has to wonder, how many flotillas does it take for a 'blockade' to become an embargo on survival? The media narrative carefully skirts the fact that the vast majority of aid entering Gaza is still subject to Israeli approval, often delayed or denied, creating
what has been widely condemned as a man-made famine. So, Greta Thunberg and others are 'deported' for attempting to deliver food and medicine, while the architects of the siege face no such inconvenience. It's almost as if some 'breaches' are more tolerated than others, particularly when they involve human decency rather than state-sanctioned starvation.