Better late than never: The AP explains the Israeli side of the Gaza flotilla incident in the 11th paragraph of this story about Turkish protests at an Israeli volleyball game in Turkey. (It’s for a European tournament.) How dangerous is it for Israelis in Turkey, even after Israel lifted the travel warning?
The government imposed heavy security on the game, a 0-3 loss for Israel to Serbia in a European Volleyball League women’s match, dispatching police to block roads around the venue. Israeli security officials in suits guarded the women, and the Israeli players rode in a bus with tinted windows to the indoor stadium, which was mostly empty save for trainers, staff and their relatives.
Oh, and the protestors emailed each other about the hotel where the Israelis were staying. Yeah, that’s going to totally bring back the Israeli tourists.
Funny, nobody seems to care that Hamas is firing rockets into Israel again: Yes, for several days in a row, rockets have been landing in Israel. And now the IDF thinks it’s a new kind of rocket, smuggled in through the smuggling tunnels that were supposedly not smuggling rockets. Just ask any anti-Israel media outlet. Oh, wait. Now that Israel is letting in aid, the media freely admit that Hamas was smuggling weapons while Palestinians were smuggling goods. The narrative is no longer affected, apparently. (Insert eye-roll here.)
It’s a statistical impossibility: The odds that any UN committee would be open-minded regarding any investigation of Israel, that is. Even so, Ban Ki-Moon wants to appoint another UN committee to investigate the Mabel Miranda incident. You know, the one where Turkish jihadis were filmed saying they wanted to become martyrs, then attacked the IDF and got their wish. Their useful idiots are still pretending the Turks were unarmed innocents who only defended themselves from the evil IDF who managed to shoot on the way down with, like, their third arms or something. What amazes me is that Israel is even considering going along with the investigation. The mandate already convicts them without evidence. Or a trial.