Israel PANICS; Shock Shift CRUSHES Ben Gvir

He pressed record on his own evidence and pressed publish on his own travel ban. Ben-Gvir filmed the case against himself. Right, so Itamar Ben-Gvir, the Israeli national security minister, the man with the prison system and the police on his desk, decided to film the detained flotilla activists his forces had grabbed from international waters. Civilians cable-tied. Made to kneel. Taunted in front of the lens. Then he uploaded the thing. Pressed record on his own evidence and pressed publish on his own travel ban, all in one afternoon's work. And while he was busy admiring his handiwork, doing his little victory lap for the Otzma Yehudit base back home, the people kneeling in that footage were already on their way out. With names. Hospital paperwork. Sworn statements. Lawyers from more than forty countries lining up behind them. France has now banned Ben-Gvir from setting foot on French soil. Malaysia is loading up the International Court of Justice route. Mark Carney, the Canadian prime minister, has called the treatment of those detainees appalling and publicly demanded an independent investigation. And every single one of those moves traces back to one decision: Ben-Gvir held up a camera, and the camera held the receipt. The footage is from the latest interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla, a civilian convoy of aid boats sailing from Europe and North Africa towards Gaza, trying to break the Israeli blockade. Sumud is the Arabic word for steadfastness, the framing word for Palestinian resistance to dispossession since the 1960s. On the 18th of May, in international waters, Israeli naval forces boarded the boats and seized the people on them. The number Israel doesn't want anyone dwelling on is 428 civilian detainees, hauled off vessels they had every legal right to be on, dragged into Ashdod port, processed by the same prison machinery Ben-Gvir runs.