https://xcancel.com/freeriver2sea/status/1881080502414950616

I can't get over the idea that the detainees who didn't weather all that propaganda will come home to a bunch of raving lunatics.

  • dannoffs [he/him]
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    22 hours ago

    The bags contained “gifts and souvenirs”, including a map of the Gaza Strip, photographs of them in Hamas captivity and a “certificate”, according to The Jerusalem Post.

    Lmao they sent them with like amusement park gift shop shit

    • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      22 hours ago

      It's also funny how they frame it as 'in captivity'; they mean they took photos of them, most likely ones intended to be positive as well.

  • merthyr1831@lemmy.ml
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    19 hours ago

    The best part of it all is that these goody bags were arranged whilst hiding beside the fucking Netzarim corridor, one of the most militarised occupied zones of the strip

  • darkcalling [comrade/them, she/her]
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    22 hours ago

    Just imagining it now: "I spent over a year as a guest of Hamas and all I got was this lousy t-shirt"

    No, they're going to coach at least a few of them into making up stories about horrors and atrocities and put those obviously staged and coerced "stories" on blast in the western news media. And if they can't coach any into that they'll just make it up like theremoveds and the western media will keep repeating it and using it to bash pro-Palestinians over the head.

    On a related note. Bets on whether this ceasefire results in the ICC/ICJ washing their hands of the whole thing or the US managing to lean on South Africa enough to drop the case? Because I just can't see the west not pulling out all the stops to brush this whole thing under a rug and say it's in the past.

    • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]
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      16 hours ago

      "welcome to 6 o'clock News at 11. I'm here with one of the kidnapping victims. How was being detained?"

      "It was aight."

      "Alright? You're very brave for enduring the horror of being kidnapped."

      "Nah, it wasn't all that."

      "You don't have to put on a brave face for our sake. Tell us about it."

      "My favorite days were when Greg would make us pizza and put in Family Guy."

      "Alright. Thank you. That's enough. I'll kick it back over to you guys in the studio!"

    • kristina [she/her]
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      21 hours ago

      honestly wish i was given free room and board by a revolutionary group for 1 year and all i have to do is sit there tbh.

      though i guess israel trying to kill you wouldnt make it very fun

      • mathemachristian[he]@lemm.ee
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        20 hours ago

        also the people would be feeding you while they themselves are starving. That's the main harrowing account that's gonna come out of this I believe, how they kept their guests alive while everyone around them was sick and starving.

        • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
          hexagon
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          20 hours ago

          It's crazy but no journalist is pointing out the comparison between the well fed Israeli detainees and the starved Palestinians in Israeli prisons (of course state media gonna state media)

    • MLRL_Commie [comrade/them, he/him]
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      21 hours ago

      what was 'theremoveds'? Not some morbid curiosity, just seems like an otherwise good comment so I'm assuming this is some word I'll either learn for the first time or know not to use on Hexbear.

    • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      22 hours ago

      I genuinely hope the media talks to them first (though obviously not likely).

      As for the ICC/ICJ thing, chances are they'll just drop it sadly. I hope they don't, but I find it hard to be optimistic about it. And yes, as is typical, everyone will be expected to put this in the past.