'Hope Greta and her friends can swim!': Lindsey Graham vows to obliterate Greta Thunberg ship bringing aid to Gaza

Most individuals might need a “huh” second while you notice you’re cackling over the thought of destroying a ship carrying aid to ravenous individuals. However, proving that there’s nothing too repellent and supervillainous for Republican politicians, Senator Lindsey Graham is praying for the obliteration of the Freedom Flotilla ship Madleen, which is at the moment making an attempt to break Israel’s aid blockade of Gaza.

Hope Greta and her friends can swim!https://t.co/Noab4QyJtV

— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) June 1, 2025

On board are local weather activist Greta Thunberg, Sport of Thrones star Liam Cunningham, and European Parliament member Rima Hassan, with the plan being that having high-profile individuals on board will create publicity and maybe make the IDF assume twice earlier than they assault.

Make no mistake, that is precise no kidding braveness. Simply final month, the Conscience, one other Freedom Flotilla ship carrying aid, was attacked and severely damaged by Israeli drones while sailing through international waters off the coast of Malta. Earlier than the launch, Thunberg underlined why she’s putting her life on the line:

“We’re doing this as a result of, it doesn’t matter what odds we’re towards, we’ve got to preserve making an attempt. As a result of the second we cease making an attempt is after we lose our humanity. And irrespective of how harmful this mission is, it’s not even practically as harmful because the silence of your entire world within the face of the live-streamed genocide.”

Davos Seaworth actor Liam Cunningham shared similar sentiments, saying:

“I’ve to give you the option to have a look at my grandkids after they after they hit their teenagers and say to me, ‘What did you do throughout this?’ I don’t want to be a kind of folks that stated, ‘I didn’t do something’. In World Conflict Two, there was an excuse that you just didn’t know what was occurring with the Holocaust – an obscene occasion that was occurring – there was an excuse to say, ‘I didn’t know’. Your solely reply [for not acting now] to your grandkids, or your children, after they develop up is, ‘I didn’t care’. The world can’t stand by and permit this to proceed.”

True bravery

Sacrifice, bravery, and moral dedication like this are a international language to males like Lindsey Graham, who’re content material to fatten themselves in corporate-backed do-nothing Washington jobs whereas actively making the planet a worse place to stay on.

In what could also be a turning of the tide, the response to Graham’s publish is widespread disgust: “What a cowardly and despicable creature you might be”, “a despicable human being”: “You’re a deranged psychopath who needs to be frog-marched to a jail cell at The Hague for the remainder of your stinking putrid life”, and dubbing him “a cheerleader for mass homicide”.

Make no mistake, the Madleen will inevitably meet an aggressive response from Israel. Earlier makes an attempt to carry aid to Gaza have seen aid workers killed, multiple people seriously injured by shrapnel, and boats destroyed in open water. We can solely hope that the celebrities on board imply Israel holds again this time for worry of horrible publicity. However, at this level, what’s a pair extra our bodies for them?