Merged Israel Attacks Palestinian Aid Flotilla, According To Reports

[DC]

Fixed.

a government most people didn't vote for.

 

[bit_pattern]

The reason nobody got hurt is because the ship wasn't waiting for the IDF with clubs and knives.

no. Because the Irish government NEGOTIATED an outcome. But, hey, why would Israel ever NEGOTIATE with anyone that looked Arabic or Turkish, they're all TERRORISTS after all!

 

[quixotecoyote]

a government most people didn't vote for.

You sure that's the standard you want to use? You thought out the impacts of that?

 

[Pardalis]

no. Because the Irish government NEGOTIATED an outcome. But, hey, why would Israel ever NEGOTIATE with anyone that looked Arabic or Turkish, they're all TERRORISTS after all!

Did Turkey offer anything?

 

[quixotecoyote]

Did Turkey offer anything?

Did they need to? There were multiple ships where no one was waiting with clubs and knives. Did foreign powers negotiate in all those instances?

 

[Pardalis]

Did they need to? There were multiple ships where no one was waiting with clubs and knives. Did foreign powers negotiate in all those instances?

Maybe Turkey misunderstood their recent arms deal with Israel, and thought clubs and knives were part of it.

 

[Skeptic]

Andrew Sullivan and Glenn Greenwald sum up the American reaction to the massacre nicely:

Last 72 hours: seven ships boarded.

No injuries or deaths or violence on six of them. Injuries and deaths on one ship -- the one whose occupants attacked the boarders in a lynch mob.

That's a curious definition of "massacre" you have there.

 

[Taarkin]

i have so no clue why chocolate and dried fruits are banned.

Dov Weisglass, adviser to Olmert, said the idea behind the blockade was to "put the Palestinians on a diet"- that is, collective punishment.

 

[DC]

Turkey Promises to Send Supplies to Gaza With Naval Escort

http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy...s-to-send-supplies-to-gaza-with-naval-escort/

 

[Pardalis]

Ireland didn't need an escort.

Looks like Turkey is planning on using its Israeli-made weapons against Israel.

 

[DC]

Ireland didn't need an escort.

Looks like Turkey is planning on using its Israeli-made weapons against Israel.

i hope not, would be a unneeded escalation of the conflict.

 

[Pardalis]

i hope not, would be a unneeded escalation of the conflict.

Maybe that's what they were looking for.

 

[DC]

Maybe that's what they were looking for.

well maybe those rioting on the ship, but not the government.

 

[Safe-Keeper]

Just sayin'.

I'm always surprised when people call Israel "colonizing", or as an "empire expanding"...

A little map to give those people a little perspective:

What a huge and threatening Empire!

Got that pic in fullsize?

 

[Pardalis]

Got that pic in fullsize?

No, that's the way I found it.

 

[Mycroft]

No. I'm happy to accept Israel's story and accept that they are beyond reproach, no matter what they do! Just like you!

How interesting for you to say that in a post that has nothing to do with Israel saying anything at all.

Can you say "non sequitur"?

 

[Mycroft]

Yup. All whitey's on board. Just like how they didn't assault whitey's in the way they assaulted Arabs/Turks on the other ship. Again highlighting Israels inherent racism.

Are you claiming the captain of the Rachael Corrie is a racist who only hired white people?

Seriously, what is your evidence that only white people were aboard that ship?

 

[Mycroft]

no. Because the Irish government NEGOTIATED an outcome. But, hey, why would Israel ever NEGOTIATE with anyone that looked Arabic or Turkish, they're all TERRORISTS after all!

Israel has had very successful negotiations with Egypt, Jordan, Turkey and other Arab nations. What is your evidence that their inability to conclude negotiations with Palestinians has anything to do with them looking Arabic?

 

[Mycroft]

the IDF could solve the problem by releasing a list of banned goods, now we have to stick to things that have been stopped from entering Gaza.

i have so no clue why chocolate and dried fruits are banned. i can understand and even support a ban on rockets and missiles. and i think vinegar can be used in dual use, not sure.

Are chocolate and dried fruits consistently turned away? Or was it a one-time event? What is our evidence that it even happened at all?

 

[Skeptic]

Yup. All whitey's on board. Just like how they didn't assault whitey's in the way they assaulted Arabs/Turks on the other ship. Again highlighting Israels inherent racism.

I suppose the other six ships of the Turkish flotilla, which were boarded without a lynch mob waiting for the boarders and thus had no deaths or injuries or fights, were also manned exclusively by white people.

Gee, who knew?