The hypocrisy on Israel is absolutely mind-boggling.
Here’s Vladimir Putin:
“Such actions against a civilian ship are unacceptable,” Putin said after the meeting. “These actions in international waters are especially concerning, and undoubtedly require a thorough investigation.
A few examples of Russia’s not caring about civilian casualties: Chechnya. Beslan. The Moscow Theater.
Turkey filed an official protest with Israel over an anti-Turkey protest in Tel Aviv.
Ambassador Levy was summoned to the Foreign Ministry in the Turkish capital, where he was told that the rally was “an incomprehensible and unacceptable provocation,” as the activists who died in the Israeli Navy raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla were Turkish citizens.
[…] The Turks complained that a firecracker thrown during the Tel Aviv protest had disrupted the embassy’s work. Ambassador Levy noted that three people were arrested during the rally.
That’s a provocation. This is not:
“Damn Israel! Israel is the angel of death!” chanted the crowd which overflowed the sprawling courtyard of the Fatih Mosque, waving Turkish and Palestinian flags.
The Spanish Gay Pride parade has disinvited the Israelis. Because a parade that celebrates acceptance and tolerance can’t tolerate the violence that Spain’s Muslims would likely show to any Israelis in the parade—just as they did to Israeli businessmen at a conference on Monday.
Madrid police were alerted to the scene and escorted the Israeli businessmen out of the university. The protestors threw stones, paint and other objects at the police patrol cars as they were heading out of the institution. One of the Israelis, Emefcy CEO Eytan Levy, was hit by a rock that shattered the windshield of one of the police vehicles. Levy was treated at scene but asked not to be evacuated to a hospital.
So Spain has uninvited representatives of the only country in the Middle East where homosexuality is not illegal—because their police can’t prevent thugs from attacking innocent bystanders. Way to be on message, Spain! That’s one tolerant country you have there.
And last, but not least, the Egyptian media is freaking out because an Egyptian MP who was actually on the Mavi Marmara told the truth on camera.
On Tuesday of last week, he was interviewed on the “10 at Night” program on the Egyptian channel Dream. During the interview, he said that the flotilla participants overtook three Israeli commandos and snatched their weapons from them. This admission of employing force against IDF soldiers has evoked a media storm among Egyptian columnists, who claim this was a “public relations gift to Israel.”
It gets better.
“Perhaps everyone will see the video clip of the action that was leaked to the media and includes images of an Israeli soldier jumping onto the boat and then being chased and beaten. This is precisely what Israel wants – to prove its excuses from a legal perspective.”
The column is advocating—publicly—that the MP lie about what he saw so as to get international condemnation of Israel for attacking “civilians” who didn’t fight back. Will this get any mention outside the Arab and Israeli media? Doubtful. Will it show up in the UN inquiry? Doubtful. But it’s there, documented, for all to see: They lie about Israel. Then they use these lies to condemn Israel. And the most outrageous thing of all? The MP is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. Really, you can’t make this stuff up. Nobody would believe you.
Honesty and truth count for little in a “shame culture” as analyzed by Patricia Santy and summed up in one diagram