With typical calm, Norman Finkelstein on Israel’s new status and how the world must now act:
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Breaking the siege is both legal and moral
Electronic Intifada writes an editorial that challenges some of the myths surrounding the Gaza incident: Early this morning under the cover of darkness Israeli soldiers stormed the lead ship of the six-vessel Freedom Flotilla aid convoy in international waters and killed and injured dozens of civilians aboard. All the ships were violently seized by Israeli…
J Street begs for more Obama intervention
I used to be agnostic towards J Street, a liberal Zionist lobby, but its Gaza flotilla statement continues its obsession (and misunderstanding) that only Washington can bring peace to the Middle East when in fact it’s primarily due to America that Israel can act as it does: J Street is deeply shocked and saddened by…
From the depths of South Africa, Israel receives a warning
This event is resonating around the world. From a country that knows a thing or two about racial oppression: Anglican Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu and a group of retired global leaders have joined international leaders in condemning the Israeli forces’ raid on a ship delivering relief supplies to Gaza. “We as elders condemn Israel utterly…
ABC asks Israel if it behaved and it says yes
How’s this for news judgment and shoddy “journalism”? Israel kills up to 20 people near Gaza and Australia’s leading evening current affairs program reports the story, then features an Israeli government spokesman, Mark Regev, for 10 minutes explaining the “official” position. Any thought given to actually speaking to somebody other than the ones who killed…
This is the story Israel wants us to believe
This is how Israel’s leading newspaper is reporting yesterday’s incident at sea. No real sourcing just allegations but certainly frames the peace protesters as terrorists and essentially deserving of being targeted: Our Navy commandoes fell right into the hands of the Gaza mission members. A few minutes before the takeover attempt aboard the Marmara got…
The Australian response
Unsurprisingly, the Greens have issued the strongest condemnation of Israel’s attack: The federal government has expressed sorrow at the deaths, and was last night trying to make contact with Australians involved in the Gaza flotilla. The Greens leader, Bob Brown, described the Israeli raid as ”shocking”. The Coalition’s foreign affairs spokeswoman, Julie Bishop, said reports…
Replace Israel with Iran and wonder what would happen
Salon’s Glenn Greenwald has a pithy Twitter comment: I wonder what people would be saying if Iran had intercepted a humanitarian ship in int’l waters and killed 15 or so civilians on board.
Another win for Hamas in Gaza but Turkey is the real key
When the smoke settles, the most likely long-term ramifications of the Israeli attack today are the moves made by Turkey. Zvi Bar’el of Haaretz outlines possible scenarios: The Turkish government’s political-security cabinet convened Monday morning to assess its options on an official Turkish response to Israel’s attack on the Gaza aid convoy, in which IDF…
Anti-Semitism around every anti-Israel comment
Israeli blogger Magnes Zionist on the tone of today’s Israeli radio after the Gaza massacre: Oy, what will the world say”¦This is really awful”¦We had every right to do it”¦The whole thing is political”¦those guys are anti-Semites”¦we did what we had do”¦oy, what will the world say”¦boy, did we screw up”¦but we had to do…