By Phyllis Bennis, The Huffington Post, June 2, 2010
Israel has decided that it is better to be perceived as savage than as weak. In its initial attack on the boats carrying human rights activists and humanitarian aid to the besieged Gaza Strip, Israel’s commandos killed at least nine human rights activists and injured perhaps as many as eighty or more. All those aboard the ships, which were attacked and seized pirate-style in international seas far beyond the legal limits of Israel’s own territorial waters, were arrested and/or deported.
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From Istanbul: Outrage Over a Massacre on the High Seas
By Phyllis Bennis, The Huffington Post, June 2, 2010
Israel has decided that it is better to be perceived as savage than as weak. In its initial attack on the boats carrying human rights activists and humanitarian aid to the besieged Gaza Strip, Israel’s commandos killed at least nine human rights activists and injured perhaps as many as eighty or more. All those aboard the ships, which were attacked and seized pirate-style in international seas far beyond the legal limits of Israel’s own territorial waters, were arrested and/or deported.
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Tags: criminal blockade of Gaza, Flotilla Massacre, Gaza under siege, humanitarian aid, Israel and Turkey, Israeli attack, Israeli crime, Obama administration and israseli violations, Phyllis Bennis, state terrorism
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