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Sanctimony on the High Seas

(Telegraph-UK) Brendan O'Neill - Bored with saving the planet, Greta Thunberg, Sweden's prophetess of doom, now wants to save Gaza. She and a gaggle of self-righteous pals have set sail from Sicily, their boat a riot of keffiyehs and Palestinian flags, hoping to dock in Gaza in a week's time to "break the Israeli blockade." Of all the smug stunts of the faux-virtuous activist class, this is surely the most preposterous. What does Ms. Thunberg plan to do when she gets there? Bellow: "HOW DARE YOU" at a column of IDF soldiers? Such daft antics might work on the political elites of the West who love nothing more than being told off by eco-pompous children. But it won't wash with the army of the Jewish state that is in hot pursuit of the antisemitic terrorists that butchered more than a thousand Israelis on Oct. 7, 2023. If Gaza's two million inhabitants really are being "systematically starved" - they aren't - then how on earth will a small boat carrying little more than boxes of spare keffiyehs and smug activists help them? The most hilarious part of this watery clown show is that as these narcissists wail "Feed Gaza!," that's exactly what Israel is doing. Israel has handed out millions of meals over the past week through its Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). As they take selfies of themselves sobbing into their keffiyehs over what a uniquely barbarous nation Israel is, Israel is literally saving Palestinian lives. They do moral pantomime, for likes and clicks - Israel does actual aid, with very little thanks. All that these boat people have to offer to Gaza is cheap slogans and lame platitudes. I can't be the only person who finds it chilling that the world's only Jewish nation has become the target of rich, bored Westerners' fashionable rage.
2025-06-03 00:00:00
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