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Well, well, well. After the failed attempt by Greta Thunberg and her comrades in the Freedom Flotilla Coalition on the ship Madleen to take aid into Gaza, it transpires that the climate activist has now been put on an, uh, plane as Israel deports her to France. The eco-zealot has long been vocal about her disdain for air travel, and so her own carbon-dioxide emitting journey back to Europe in what Cockburn assumes Thunberg believes to be a frightfully polluting jet – calculated, by the Telegraph, to likely emit more than half a ton of CO2 per person – is a final twist of the knife by the Israeli government.
The eco-zealot has long been vocal about her disdain for air travel
The 22-year-old is currently traveling to Paris before she will then take further transport to Sweden. Her ejection from the Middle East comes after her and her team persistently ignored calls from Israel to abandon their mission. The activist group was then intercepted by the country and taken to the Israeli port of Ashdod, where they were instructed to watch a video of the October 7 attack by Hamas on Israel – but, according to the country’s defense minister, they refused to do so.
The legal rights group representing the activists in Israel, Adalah, confirmed that Thunberg – along with two other activists and a journalist – had agreed to be deported from the country. A spokesperson from the firm told the Daily Mail that Thunberg had claimed: “I do more outside of Israel than if I am forced to stay here for a few weeks.” And even President Donald Trump has waded into the debacle after a clip emerged on Monday morning in which Thunberg claimed she had been kidnapped by Israel. “I think Israel has enough problems without kidnapping Greta Thunberg,” Trump remarked. Ouch.
Watch the clip here:
