ASSAULT AGAINST THE FREE GAZA is truly amazing that Israel has been able to create a blackout in the last 12 hours, in the same way it did with its attack on Gaza 18 months ago, in which our mainstream media have willingly allowed the Israeli spokespersons involved unchallenged.
How many civilians died in the attack on Israel this morning on the flotilla aid into Gaza? Still do not know. How many wounded? Your guess is as good as mine. Do the activists were carrying aid armed with firearms? Yes, says Israel. Were they in cahoots with al-Qaeda and Hamas? Certainly, says Israel. "The soldiers acted in a reasonable manner? Of course, faced a lynching, says Israel.
If we needed any proof of the extent to which Western television journalists are just stenographers of power, the BBC, CNN and others are demonstrating in spades. Mark Regev, Israel's propaganda chief, has the airwaves largely to himself.
Meanwhile, passenger ships have been hijacked by Israel and prevents them from offering an alternative version of events. We can surmise that remain in enforced silence until you are sure that Israel built its array of news.
So before you get inundated with "explanations" (hasbara) Israelis are going to reiterate some simple facts:
* Israeli troops boarded these ships in international waters in violation of international law, and to kill civilians, committed a war crime. The replica of the Israeli commanders saying their troops responded to an impending "lynching" by civilians should be dismissed with the contempt it deserves strong.
* The Israeli government adopted the approach of these vessels help by elite commando unit, who were armed with automatic weapons to subdue civilians on board, but not with equipment to disperse crowds in case of resistance. Whatever the circumstances of the conflict, Israel is responsible for sending troops to assault and recklessly endangering the lives of all civilians on board, including a baby and a Holocaust survivor.
* Israel has no right to control the sea of \u200b\u200bGaza as if they were their own territorial waters and prevent thereby arriving aid convoys. In doing so, demonstrates still maintaining a belligerent occupation of the enclave and its 1.5 million inhabitants. And if the occupying power in Gaza, then under international law, Israel is responsible for the welfare of the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip. Given that the blockade has subjected the Palestinians living there to a starvation diet for the past four years, Israel has long had to be prosecuted for crimes against humanity. Today
Israel chose to direct its deadly assault against not only Palestinians under occupation, but against the international community.
Will this make our leaders finally act?
Source: Raid on the Gaza Flotilla. Israel's attack on us all
Original article published on May 31, 2010
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