Israel at it again

[Gandalf]

Wow, it makes you wonder what trick they are going to pull next. In this case you have ships with aid which are in international waters being jumped on by the Israeli military. Now the Israeli military is saying that these people opened fire first, but this isn't clear. And even if they had opened fire with their small arms, the Israeli's must have already boarded the ships first. Either way it doesn't get around the fact the Israeli's have been torturing the Palestinians in Gaza for a long time now and it has only got worse with the blockades. Why should these ships have needed to go to an Israeli port? The Israeli's can't even be trusted to allow fresh water to get through.

Time and time again we are seeing Israel act with complete immunity from serious criticism from the international community. They keep on building illegal settlements, they deny human rights at an ethnic level within their own borders, they even have the Gazan's trapped inside and unable to recieve aid freely, they even forge international passports and carry out international espionage. We see North Korea being sanctioned after shooting down a battleship, we see Iran continually being built up as the bad guy in the middle east and yet Israel continues to violate international laws and act with impunity.

When will something be done? This latest carry on doesn't surprise me in the least, but it does anger me immensely. I'm sure we will see a few negative words about the Israeli actions and then it will all be forgotten again until the next time....and the next time...and the next time....and the next time.

Israel attacks Gaza flotilla - live coverage | World news | guardian.co.uk

[Gandalf]

Oh, and let's not forget that thread that Jaz started last week showing that the Israeli's will even stoop as low as to trade nuclear weapons with rogue states.

[Howlin Mad Missy]

Chronic malnutrition in Gaza blamed on Israel - Middle East, World - The Independent

gone on for years

[Nameless]

I've read the exact same thing 30 minutes ago and I was wildly shocked. The fact that there are some european politicians on the boat might spark out a bit more anger from the European countries and I really hope that it will help to change something a bit.

[Master]

No real excuse for this.

[Kev]

I saw this on the bbc website so thought I'd log on here to see Miles' thread, knowing it would be up already.

Sure enough

[Oggie]

Don't know exactly what happened in the events leading up to the incident, but they shouldn't have boarded the boat in international waters (unless of course the were being fired at by the flotilla.)

Regardless, you can already see the damaging effect it is having on Israel's international relations, could be a big backlash against them now.

[Gandalf]

I saw this on the bbc website so thought I'd log on here to see Miles' thread, knowing it would be up already.

Sure enough

Yes, it's one of my pet topics.

If they would stop being such lunatics I wouldn't have to keep starting threads on them. I only didn't start the last one because Jaz beat me to it.

I cannot believe they actually boarded the ship and started shooting. A minimum of 19 dead and 30 plus injured? This is beyond outrageous. I hope there is a huge response internationally and that people take to the streets everywhere. The suffocation of the Gazan people needs to end, just maybe this will wake everyone up. I see there have been huge protests in Turkey.

I just saw on the news William Hague apparently saying something along the lines of "we think the loss of life is terrible but there was always risk in approaching Gaza in such a way". Why should there be any risk? Palestine should be a free country. The waters were international waters. Aid should be allowed into Palestine at any time. Unbelievable attitudes. Israel should NOT be getting away with this shit! The ships were nowhere near the shore anyway.