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Greta Thunberg Ignores that She Wouldn't Be Tolerated by Hamas
(Telegraph-UK) Suzanne Moore - Greta Thunberg's seafaring jaunt to deliver aid to Gaza has been farcical. The great irony of this cute eco-warrior in shorts is that with her exposed legs, dissenting views and freedom to express them, Greta would not be tolerated by Hamas. Pretending you can sail into a war zone and "help" is a grandiose delusion. But, of course, Greta and her "aid boat" were largely a symbolic protest. What matters above all are the images of the selfie-yacht and the attention they can garner. Being boarded and detained (or, as she puts it, "kidnapped") by Israeli forces gave her exactly what she had hoped for. But unfortunately for Thunberg, the actual image of the "kidnap" is her smiling as she is being handed a pastrami sandwich by an Israeli soldier. This image will forever be compared with the horror show of the actual kidnap of hostages by Hamas. There are girls younger than Greta, with bloodied pants, their Achilles tendons cut; a mother clutching her two red-haired children whom we now know are dead; a terrified old lady being abducted. But Thunberg, like so many of her generation wrapped in their made-in-China keffiyehs, are not interested in the specifics of this conflict.