It might have been kinder to just give them “Israeli pagers”
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Greta Thunberg and the members of her freedom flotilla have been blasted by Abba on repeat after radios on board the vessels were hijacked.
The Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF), which believes the incident to be the work of an Israeli attack, were subjected to hours of relentless playing of ‘Lay All Your Love On Me’ by the Swedish pop band – in a possible nod to Ms Thunberg’s nationality.
Multiple ships in the activist’s flotilla were understood to be targeted by the attack.
“They’re jamming our radio,” Yasemin Acar, a member of the GSF, claimed in a video while Abba blasted in the background.
I’m not entirely familiar with ABBA’s oeuvre, so I had to look up “Lay all your love on me” — Israel may well be guilty of a war crime in this instance.
Of course, the classic, all-time-best video about one of these so-called aid flotillas was made many years ago, in 2010. Watch: