• zifnab25 [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    How is the DPRK smuggling this shit in? What is that supply line even supposed to look like?

    Back in 2010, a bunch of Turkish activists tried to send a flotilla to Gaza. They were intercepted and attacked by Israeli forces. That was before the renewed Israeli conflict with Lebanon and the US bombing of Syria, and when the southern border with Egypt wasn’t sealed shut. You can’t just move in and out of Gaza unmolested. No more than you could take a sailboat to Cuba.

    How the fuck is the DPRK getting hundreds of rounds of munitions into a country that struggles to keep itself fed? This seems like a huge stretch to simply take at face value.

    • zed_proclaimer [he/him]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      19
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      DPRK: We are materially supporting Palestinian resistance

      Hamas: We receive material support from DPRK

      Palestinian Protesters: Holding up signs of KJU and Putin

      Western Media: North Korea is arming Hamas

      You: But HOW COULD IT BE??!

        • RyanGosling [none/use name]@hexbear.net
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          1 year ago

          North Korean ships to Russia

          Russia ships to domestic and regional arms dealers

          Arms dealers smuggle their weapons into Palestine

          Turkey, Syria, and Egypt are all next to Israel. There are people there who have sympathies with Palestine but not Russia/NK, or with both Palestine and Russia/NK, or with none of them and want a paycheck. The underworld is full of strange bedfellows. The CIA and MI5/6 were once filled with communists.

          There are also reports that some IDF units have been smuggling weapons to Hamas as well. If you’re lucky to turn a border guard or someone else critical to the supply chain, you can pass through undetected.