"As shown in footage recorded from a live video stream onboard the Mavi Marmara, during the early stages of the attack a journalist describes Israeli forces opening fire on the ship, killing at least one civilian and wounding several others, after which according to the report Israeli troops continued firing while people on the ship waved white flags. The chaotic footage shows seriously wounded civilians and numerous gunshots can be heard in the background."
The excuses of Israel in this matter are execrable and absurd. However, if Israel intended to focus attention on the moral abomination of what it is inflicting on the people in the Gaza strip, this was an excellent way to do so. Comparions are being drawn between the actions of the Freedom Flotilla and those white, middle class students who had the guts to stand up to white oppression and segregation in the Jim crow era aboard the Mississippi Freedom Summer. "The largely but not entirely unstated reasoning was that the country would continue to ignore massive violence directed towards the African-American community in Mississippi, but could and would not remain oblivious to similar violence directed towards young, white, middle-class college students from New York City and other metropolitan centers. This, indeed, proved the case.The violence directed at the Mississippi Freedom Summer shocked the conscience of the country and was among the numerous decisive moments in the civil rights movement that ultimately succeeded in dismantling the apparatus of formalized racism in the United States." Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his full backing of the raid. The other sad effect is that support of Hamas will likely be strengthened because of this stupid action by Israel. As for the status of Gaza? The only one saying everything is fine in Gaza is Israel. ALL other third party humanitarian organisations say that the situation in Gaza is horrific: "Gaza's humanitarian situation is at its worst since Israel occupied the territory in 1967, say UK-based human rights and development groups. They include Amnesty International, Save the Children, Cafod, Care International and Christian Aid.They criticise Israel's blockade on Gaza as illegal collective punishment which fails to deliver security." http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/player/nol/newsid_7280000/newsid_7280700?redirect=7280705.stm&news=1&nbwm=1&nbram=1&bbwm=1&bbram=1&asb=1 Its amazing that Israel can bomb a place to hell and back and then claim that everything is fine. Less than a year ago the reports were that Israel was bombing key infrastructure inside Gaza in response to Hamas rocket attacks. Now everything is all fine. Israel must have the most amazing engineers in the world. They totally rebuilt the infrastructure of Gaza in less than a year. And did it quietly without announcing it to the press. Sorry, but this is NOT believable. I guess ALL international AID organisations are secretly terrorist supporters, or anti-Semites. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:319770 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
