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June 3, 2010 in Nation/World
Israel denounces ship as terrorist operation
JERUSALEM – Israel on Wednesday deported hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists who had been detained after its commando attack Monday on a Gaza aid flotilla, and braced for the arrival of at least one more ship attempting to break its naval blockade of Gaza.
The MV Rachel Corrie, named for an American activist who was killed in the Gaza Strip in 2003, set off Monday from Malta toward the Gaza Strip. Carrying 15 passengers, it was expected to arrive in Israel this weekend.
Derek Graham, an activist on board, said they would attempt to break the blockade to honor the memory of the nine people killed in the previous flotilla attempt.
President Barack Obama and other world leaders urged Israel to ensure that there’s no recurrence of a commando raid like Monday’s.
However, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called criticism of Israel’s actions “an attack of international hypocrisy” and said Israel would continue to counter any attempt to breach the blockade.
“This wasn’t a love ship, it was a hate boat,” he said. “This was not a peaceful operation, it was a terrorist operation.”
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Scoutster on June 03 at 5:34 a.m.
Let’s see…if Somalis try to board a ship on the high seas we kill them. If the Israelis do it, we say “Oh, well they are fighting terrorists”.
Ten times more Palestinians have died in the last 5 years than Israelis, but they keep selling this myth that they, the Israelis, are the victims and the people of Gaza, who are some of the most desperate folks on Earth, are the bad guys. And we Americans buy it and give them a blank check.
horse_feathers on June 03 at 9:40 a.m.
We could learn a lot from Israel on how to protect our borders.
Scoutster on June 03 at 11:57 a.m.
Yes, horsefeathers…
Here are a few lessons…
1) Have someone else pay for your military
2) Don’t worry about killing anyone (except your own people)
3) Occupy the lands of the people you don’t want in and starve them
4) Conduct piracy on the high seas and flip off the UN and the rest of the world if they don’t like it.
5) Oh, yeah..have someone else pay for it (I thought I should put that one in twice).
Sounds like a great border policy all right.
mikeln on June 03 at 12:21 p.m.
No mention of what was on these ships, arms? food? medicine? I would think if arms were found they would be desplayed like trophys. If the only things on these ships were for humanitarium needs, then what happend was wrong, if these ships were full of millitary supplies, it was right to stop them. You would think intellegent humans would be able to come to a reasonable resolve to these problems in the middle east. Just add greed and religion to any mix and reason flies out the window.