In the light of a recent retraction of allegations made by IDF that a certain Turkish group with the initials IHH was terrorist and even an Al Qaeda group, which would mean sworn allegiance to Bin Laden, we have to wonder if the IDF or elements within it were trying to convert the humanitarian convoy into a terrorist plot. What is important about this retraction is that IDF is admitting it was mistaken and probably deliberately mistaken. Or is the IDF just admitting they are engaging in psychological warfare by lying and creating false attacks and false plots against Israel. We need to know who made these allegations and why.
Perhaps the IDF and Israeli cabinet are in a time warp. Maybe they thought that the unsubstantiated accusations of the Freedom Flotilla being a terrorist flotilla would be believed throughout the world. Certainly this and similar closed minded,
propagandistic ideas are embraced by most Americans. Our media and our politicians remain more Zionist than many Israelis. So we get the spin, the Israeli propaganda and only Helen Thomas has the guts to even ask obvious questions about the relationship between Israel and the United States.
Who is sitting on whose lap would be the first question I would ask. Does Israel have a hundred Senators and 435 Representatives? Is Israel a proliferator of nuclear weapons? Why is it important that Iran follow the US interpretation of WMD treaties but Israel is not required to account for anything in its nuclear arsenal of hundreds of weapons.
Yet the story is probably much more interesting and nefarious. Were the You Tube videos calling for the killing of Jews that came out simultaneously with the Israeli attack generated by Islamists or the IDF, or some other Israeli entity, that is what I am wondering. With so many Jews and even Israeli officials on the Freedom Flotilla the idea of anyone wanting to kill "all the Jews" is obviously a crude and by now ridiculous assertion.
Of course IDF may or may not have a good command structure. Religous zealots in the IDF may have executed their agenda. Israel is a framented society which need a new basis for unity other than taking the last ten percent of Palestinian land. Maybe Israel can earn the halo that so many mistakenly thought it wore by making peace and ending the war on the Palestinians.
~ As an aside I was surprised to learn from a PBS program by Rick Steve about visiting the world that when the Iranians get stuck in traffic they say, "Death to traffic!" and if it rains they might say "Death to rain!" So the "Death to Israel" slogan we hear so much about may be more correctly translated, "Damn Israel".
One message is murderous and the other is a mere curse. Yet we have been programmed for decades to believe the mistranslation and its implications. This is ignorant of us and I curse those who take advantage of our ignorance instead of provided real facts. That doesn't mean I want to kill them. We should be pissed off at injustice and the oppression of the Palestinians is unjust from any liberation framework.
It is right to rebel against reactionaries!
Break the Siege of Gaza!
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