Wake up and see on television the unfortunate news that Israel attacked, with heavily armed marines, a fleet of international peace activists who sought to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza.
The death toll from military action fluctuates between 10 and 20, but could rise in the coming hours as there is a news blackout by the government of Israel, and only know a confusing and dramatic footage of the facts disclosed by Turkish television.
craft called "Freedom Flotilla" sailing under the flag of Turkey (one of the three countries majority Muslim population that still maintain diplomatic relations with Israel), in international waters when they were addressed.
cable transcribe a part of international news agency, realizing the events at sea.
"The Israeli army spokeswoman, Major Avital Leibowitz's, said the crew opened fire and tried to stab and threw stones at the soldiers, but did not say how many cases or whether there were weapons on the boat."
Obvious and glaring disproportion of means is the first conclusion is obvious to any observer relatively unbiased. But, unfortunately, is no novelty when we have seen, in the street demonstrations of the intifada, soldiers responded with live fire of Palestinian children throwing stones.
I think, inevitably, in the case of Rachel Corrie, an American activist for peace whose death was burned into my memory. Corrie, 23 years old when he died, was crushed by a bulldozer of the Israeli army in Gaza, while participating in a peaceful demonstration on March 16, 2003.
Corrie's family, citing witness accounts, says the Israeli driver of the heavy machinery must necessarily move her before the blade of the bulldozer in his direction.
Lt. Col. Avital Leibowitz, the same Israeli army spokeswoman now says the Israeli action in the ocean based on alleged resistance with knives and sticks approach, told Reuters in an interview that "the unit within the bulldozer never saw or heard ", and used tear gas and stun grenades to make the protesters to stay away.
The shocking images of Rachel Corrie's death can be located easily on the Internet with the help of Google. Only I warn in advance that are not suitable for weak stomachs. The flotilla
assaulted in the early hours of Monday traveling, among others, English volunteers, a Nobel Northern Irish Peace, a famous Swedish writer Henning Mankell, "several MEPs and a Jewish activist, octogenarian survivor of Auschwitz.
The presence of this old lady is the only thing, in my opinion, helps to save you some embarrassment now the State of Israel, which began as a utopian enterprise-that of giving a home to Jews who were wandering were persecuted in many parts of the world to become a nation that often seems to weigh the consequences of their actions.
The question I ask now is what to say about Hillary Clinton, responsible for U.S. foreign policy, A few days ago who said that measures such as Brazil and Turkey, to promote a peaceful settlement of the conflict that Tehran with Washington over the nuclear issue, contributed to making the world less safe.
Do we think Mrs. Clinton that actions like these, who have already received the immediate rejection of the UN and that openly violate international law, they are in the right direction and encourage the maintenance of world peace? I do not think you get that far, because I think all that is, to Tyre and Trojans should we care about blatant arrogance and contempt for public opinion to serving the Netanyahu government.
A government that we must not forget it has nuclear weapons and not only on track to have them, as apparently would be Iran. And, on the other hand (no idle not remember), offered in the last part of their "know how" in this matter to a state such as South Africa unpresentable "apartheid," according to what is published in the international press in recent days.
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