The United Nations is telling Israel that the fault for the attack on their commando force from the Turkish ship during the Free Gaza flotilla wouldn’t have happened had there been no seige of Gaza. In other words, if Israel hadn’t been wearing such a short skirt, she wouldn’t have been raped.
Assistant Secretary-General Oscar Fernandez-Taranco said in his briefing to the UN’s most powerful body that Monday’s bloodshed would have been avoided if repeated calls on Israel to end the “counterproductive and unacceptable” blockade of Gaza had been heeded.
I’m going to guess that none of these European muckety-mucks watched any of the IDF videos of the “peaceful” ah, “civilians” brutally attacking the IDF. (The video link at “peaceful” is the one where they use the Islamist chant about killing Jews.)
“Every German government supports unconditionally Israel’s right to self defense,” said Wilhelm. But he added that Israeli actions should to correspond to what he described as the “basic principle” of proportionality.
“A first look does not speak in favor of this basic principle being adhered to,” he said. Berlin would await further details before judging the incident, he added.
I would love to hear every single anti-Israel statement met with a reporter asking “Did you see the videos?” But of course, we won’t see that. We won’t hear Ban Ki-Moon expressing his shock at the actions of the “passengers” on the Turkish ship attacking IDF soldiers as they landed on the deck.
No, it’s Israel’s fault. If only she hadn’t blockaded Gaza, then there would have been no flotilla, and her soldiers wouldn’t have been attacked.
She asked for it.
Please correct me if I am wrong, but does not Egypt also maintain a blockade against Gaza? Where is the outrage directed against Egypt? If all of the opprobrium is directed only against Israel, then it is clear that the motivation of this protest is anti-Israeli, not pro-Palestinian. The operation was designed to produce exactly the outcome which it has produced.
I also invite critics of the Israeli response to this operation to seriously consider the fate of any Israeli military personnel who fell into the hands of the pro-Hamas crowd on the Marmara. Once committed to boarding the ship, would you have abjured the use of deadly force to avoid falling into the hands of that crowd? The fate of Israeli soldiers captured by Hamas has historically been horrible, rapid, and definitive.