cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/35588338
Italian dockworkers have threatened to “shut down all of Europe” and block all shipments to Israel if communication with the latest aid flotilla bound for Gaza is lost. The threat marks a significant escalation in dockworkers’ long history of industrial action in solidarity with Palestine.
Speaking at a procession in the port of Genoa – one of Italy’s two largest commercial ports – on behalf of the Unione Sindacale di Base (USB), a syndicate of various grassroots unions in Italy and thought to be the largest of its kind, the dockworker said: “If we lose contact with our boats, with our comrades – even for just 20 minutes – we will shut down all of Europe.”
“Our young women and men must come back without a scratch, and all this cargo, which belongs to the people and is going to the people, must reach its destination, down to the very last box.”
“13,000-14,000 containers leave this region every year for Israel. Not a single nail will leave anymore,” he continued.
Yeah, Israel has, multiple times now, we just get out of the conundrum by not acknowledging it.
maybe I’m not keeping up with the news but the list of nuclear states is quite small and doesn’t include anyone Israel would dare fuck with even before factoring in nuclear deterrence.
? Iran?
do you really think Tel Aviv would still exist?
Unfortunately it probably would. The problem with nuclear weapons is that they stop being very useful the minute you start using them.
I should fucking hope not, but the iranian government are absurdly restrained geopolitically.
Well they did go after an american carrier group that one time
They recently attacked a British ship on international waters, and also attacked a US ship a good while ago, killing 34 people and wounding 171.