Wednesday, June 02, 2010

Hyper Emergency





  • June 02, 2010 12:00AM
NOTHING more to be said. Israeli soldiers kill at least nine peace activists trying to ship aid to a starving people.
Or as the front page of The Age screamed: "Israel kills boat protesters."
End of story. There are immediate riots and protests against this appalling brutality in London, Paris, New York, Istanbul, Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra and throughout the Middle East.
The United Nations whacks Israel and calls for an emergency meeting of the Security Council. And from Moscow to Washington, Israel stands utterly friendless. Dangerously alone.
What a coup for those pledged to the destruction of that tiny Jewish country. How discredited and invitingly defenceless Israel now seems. Someone couldn't have scripted this any better.
Well, almost no better, because even the journalists most sympathetic to the activists on the six ships intercepted on Monday by Israel couldn't help but refer, albeit grudgingly, to a couple of untidy details too obvious to ignore.
ABC radio host Jon Faine, for instance, described these poor victims of Zionist aggression as "humanitarian activists with a few knives".
Er, with knives? Humanitarians?
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THIS may turn out to be a pivotal moment in the Middle East.
Not because of the loss of life, which was tragic, but alas not uncommon in the Middle East.
Not because of the public relations disaster for Israel.
The Jewish state was sucker-punched by demonstrators determined to provoke an ugly Israeli reaction and international PR disaster.
By beating Israeli sailors nearly to death as soon as they landed, the protesters made a violent reaction inevitable. You cannot attempt to kill armed soldiers without suffering casualties.
Nor is the real significance of this incident that there will be another global round of Israel-bashing. That happens all the time.
No, the real strategic significance of the violence off the northern coast of Israel lies in Turkey.
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The Flotilla Attack Was a Terrorist Operation Against Jews


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