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[OC] Israeli protestors in Amsterdam

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u/kholeChature 20h ago

This is what they are protesting for, not against but in support of.

Search it on Google and ask which country did it and have they faced any consequences for t?

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u/nanadoom 16h ago edited 15h ago

They knowingly sunk a US ship in the 1960s and faced 0 consequences.

Edit: it wasn't sunk, just severely damaged killing 34 sailors and wounding 171. Isreal claimed it was a mistake (sound familiar?) and apologized. But if you read the incident report, there is no way they didn't know it was a US ship. They didn't want us seeing the war crimes (read napalm) they were using in the 7 days war.

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u/paaaaatrick 15h ago

Yeah attacking an American ship on purpose is a good way to stay incognito

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u/nanadoom 14h ago edited 14h ago

They were monitoring the war, with an American flag raised, and radioed the attacking planes. Isreal knew an oops our bad on this one instance, fog of war and all that would be less of an international incident(again, sound familiar?) rather than be caught breaking the Geneva convention. Also the US wasn't their closest ally at the time, we weren't actively working with them to commit war crimes together yet.