• FarceOfWill
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    10 months ago

    The action of attacking random ships in international waters?

    This is piracy, and it puts huge numbers of civilian lives at direct risk and increases the chance someone else will also do it in future.

    The entire international community has a duty to stop this by almost any means.

    Their reasons for attacking civilian shipping in international waters could not be less important to the situation.

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      The action of blocking humanitarian aid to millions of starving civilians in Gaza

      The action of blocking medicine to hospitals in Gaza which means that little girls are having their legs sawed off without anesthetics for amputation.

      The action of those little Palestinian girls having their heads shot off by an israeli tank while lying in the hospital after having their legs amputated

      Those do not “put huge numbers of civilian lives at direct risk”?

      But the Houthis making it so that undetectable chess-tournament cheating equipment from Alibaba arrives a month later is what actually crosses the line of “putting civilians at risk”.

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      10 months ago

      A blockade without willingness to fire (even on civilian vessels) is toothless and therefore ineffective. I’m not sure if I’d call what they’re doing a blockade tho, and their justifications linking attacked ships to Israel are… strenuous at times

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        10 months ago

        It’s not a blockade as they’re no where near Israel. They don’t have the ability to enforce a blockade of Israel, just to attack random ships

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          This is false. The first ship they hijacked was claimed to not be israeli related but turned out to be owned by israeli businessman Rami Ungar

          The second ship with bio gas supposedly only went to Italy, but later came out that after the stop in Italy it had a transport to israel planned.

          I’m not going to to claim that every single ship was israeli. I have not looked into other vessel attacks since then. But at least the first big two that reached to news were in fact directly linked to israel despite initial claims that they weren’t.

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              Actually came across it, here’s the supposed real reason:

              Ambrey assessed that the vessel was mistakenly targeted based on outdated publicly available information linking the vessel to the United Kingdom.

              “This appeared to be five months old but was still listed as UK-affiliated on a public maritime database,” the report said.

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              10 months ago

              Maybe they’re not only supporting Palestinians against israeli oppression but also the Ukranians against Russian Oppression. The unbeatable moral highground.

              In all seriousness, no idea. If I were to guess they have a green list and someone forgot to put them on. See my newer comment

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                10 months ago

                If its indistinguishable from random attacks to the victims and anyone else at sea the (internationally coordinated) response should be one appropriate to random attacks on sea vessels

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                  10 months ago

                  Right after the international response appropriate to israel committing genocide of course. That obviously has far more priority for us western nations that care so much about human rights.