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Old 05-31-10, 03:41 AM   #11
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Default A blcokade that gets not enforced when being challenged, is no blockade.

A blockade that does not get enforced when being challenged, is no blockade (and an untlimatum that does not see the threatened consequences when reaching the end, is no ultimatum).

60+ wounded or dead, 10 Israeli so far wounded, one serious. Storming a ship on high seas is a high risk operation. I assume the commandos acted with according - and needed! - determination, beacause: as I just said, storming ships on high seas are high risk operations. Compromises you make easily result in own troops dead.

Many civilian goods get used for passive and active resistence in Gaza, their intended purpose gets "retargeted". When I first heared about that flotilla getting assembled, I immediately thought that this also was a PR stunt to bring Israel into a position where it would look bad, necessarily.

A week ago or so I wrote that all media awereness and all cameras should be withdrawn from the Israeli-Palestine area. There, almost every picture you see, is arranged. Every spontaneity is organised. Every spontanous demonstration - was announced one day earlier so that the foreign correspondents have enough time to organise their things and get there and set up their cameras. Every "random chance" event was designed for its purpose. You taking note of such things is the purpose why they are kept running on. As CCIP typed above while I was typing mine: it'S about propaganda. There are no innocent sides in this.

Regarding the activists, they asked for trouble, it seems they found it. Could happen when one is denying reality. An embargo is an embargo (even supported ans assisted by Egypt in this case), not a free trade zone.
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