Aral Balkan
Spain: We’re outraged that Israeli barbarians are brutalising our peace activists… we’re perfectly capable barbarians who can brutalise them ourselves (we were trained by them, after all).
Any word from friend of Palestine, Pedro Sanchez on this? Are all these officers being fired as we speak?
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#spain #GazaFlotilla #GazaFlotillaActivists #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism
Aral Balkan
@joxe Well that explains a thing or two. Does Pedro have any levers he can pull or is he helpless?
Joxe Rojas 🥐
@aral actually, direct command over Ertzaintza, the Basque Autonomic Police that raided the Flotilla members rests on PNV, the 'Basque Nationalist Party', not Pedro Sanchez PSOE. (Although PSOE is also part of the cureent Basque Government).
Dabid ⁂
@aral that police force is a regional force in the Basque Country and falls under the jurisdiction of the Basque Government.
The person directly responsible, the Minister for Security, Bingen Zupiria, has said that the officers failed to handle the situation properly, but he justifies this by claiming that they were provoked.
As if the whole world hadn’t seen the video in which the police, without saying a word, start beating the activists and their families.
Disisdeguey🍉🔻PalestineAction🇵🇸
@Oyu_Fka @aral Don't be so shocked. That's the Bask country, governed by the right-ghouls. This is pretty normal behaviour by #erzaintza police.
Trained by #IsraelTerroristState
By the way, spanish PM didn't say a word yet.
We have a said in Spain when you get deceived by *Pedro Sanchez's party, "you have BEEN PSOED"
*Spain keeps trading weapons with Israel.
Oyu F'ka
@aral Glad to find someone else is aware and publicising this shocking behaviour - any one needing more details, I've pinned two separate videos at the top of my profile of this shocking behaviour.
The fact it's Spain is the most shocking to me.
Aral Balkan
@teclista @laguiri @joxe They were literally trained in Israel.
Marta
@laguiri @aral @joxe There were lots of people at the airport, confusion and some shoving. Police tend to attack protesters whenever things get a little tense, for no reasonable reason, everywhere. It's just police behaviour as usual, I wouldn't extract conclusions on the government(s) behind (of course they're accountable, I mean I wouldn't assume this attack is part of any political plan or strategy).
La Guiri
@aral The central government (PSOE, Sánchez) as a rule can't/won't interfere in anything on which the regions have that particular power. This reaches you because it's an international question, but this dynamic in which a regional government makes a big mistake, or negligence, or cruelty, and then public opinion blames the national government? That's the news. Every day.
(i'm not a Sanchez supperter, in general, he just gets blamed for things that it is not in his power to control or punish)
Dabid ⁂
@teclista for example, you can find some information here:
https://rebelion.org/la-relacion-entre-el-gobierno-vasco-e-israel-40-anos-de-entendimiento/
https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1VMsUbZ1E_cen-ybPt8rfyQwV_1WbGLCSm7EGHDsEE-0/mobilebasic
And I think there's a book by Egin with the subject, but I'm not 100% sure.
Marta
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