Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Israel in eye of storm over deadly Gaza ship raid

Breitbart.com "Israel's allies froze military ties and summoned its ambassadors Monday over the storming of an aid flotilla bound for Gaza, as Muslim leaders slammed the deadly raid as "criminal" and "inhuman"."
Yup, Looks Like a “Peaceful” Convoy/Flotilla To Me, Too "Watch this video of how the pro-HAMAS “peace activists” beat Israeli soldiers to a pulp with iron pipes."  Debbie Schlussel
Useful Idiots at Sea  "It will be up to the U.S. and Europe whether the waters off the Gaza coast, short miles from the Suez Canal, become a source of maritime instability due to incitement by Hamas. The EU leadership, tacitly accepting the Hamas narrative cloaked in Europe’s trademark parlor activism, is behaving with a fecklessness for which it deserves strong rebuke. It is not to the advantage of any respectable nation to carry Hamas’s water."
Flotillas and the Wars of Public Opinion  "The next steps will involve calls for sanctions against Israel. The Israeli threats against Iran will be seen in a different context, and Israeli portrayal of Iran will hold less sway over the world."
'We're the only ones who believe them'  “After wandering around for 15 months, vacillating between pandering to the Israelis and trying [t]o punish them, [Obama administration] have decided they have to work out some kind of relationship with Netanyahu that allows them to do something serious,” said Aaron David Miller, a former American peace negotiator. “They need to weather this crisis with the relationship with the Israelis north of where it is now.”
Flotillas and Falsehoods  "Don’t members of the press ever resent being so used?"  Mona Charen.
 About those “peace activists"  "But despite the blockade it is important to note that Israel allows trucks with essential supplies like food and medicine to enter Gaza every day."
 Israel, the Truth and the Asymmetric Warfare Of Embedded Journalism  "What is remarkable about the footage is that the only attack it depicted was of the passengers upon the Israeli commandos, using bars and knives. The footage did not show the soldiers shooting. Yet the images were described as an Israeli attack".
Obama pals back violent Gaza flotilla  "Activists from president's circle of friends top supporters of anti-Israel protest ships." Gotta watch out for those guy in your neighborhood.
Israel Can Win Every Battle but Still Lose the War  Max Boot. " Although the Israelis were perfectly justified in trying to stop Hamas from receiving outside aid, the way they went about it resulted in a public-relations catastrophe. A friend asks me in essence, So what? Is growing international approval really a problem for Israel? I believe it is."

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