ReDiscover 9/11

Dr. Alan Sabrosky
Dissident Voice
11 June 2010

In a gesture that has received more than a little attention in the Western media, Israeli officials announced with some fanfare that they were easing the embargo of goods they allow into Palestine. Israel’s supporters have been using the opportunity to declare that this demonstrates Israel is reasonable, and that US support of Israel is fully justified, even given the exceptionally tepid US response to the Israeli assault on the Gaza flotilla and America’s sustained opposition to any international efforts to hold Israel accountable for its actions.

This gesture becomes markedly less impressive once one examines the list of items once embargoed but now (at least for a while) allowed by Israel into Gaza. As a news website in India reported, “Palestinian liaison official Raed Fattouh, who coordinates the flow of goods into Gaza with Israel, said that soda, juice, jam, spices, shaving cream, potato chips, cookies and candy were now permitted.” Not much, to put it mildly, but to a suffering people in the ruins of their city, I imagine almost anything will be better than nothing. Besides, at least some of the aid supplies the Israelis have removed from the pirated Gaza flotilla vessels may end up in Gaza at some point, and that, too, will be something.

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Medialens
11 June 2010

Ultra-Orthodox Jews watch a large ship, the Navi Marmara, which was part of the Free Gaza Movement flotilla as it approaches the port of Ashdod with an Israeli navy escort on 31 May 2010.

As discussed in Part 1, media coverage of the non-violent Iranian capture of 15 British sailors (in Iranian waters) focused on the humiliating failure of the sailors to open fire in self-defence. Journalists took a very different view of the May 31 Israeli attack on the ship Mavi Marmara carrying human rights activists and supplies to the besieged population of Gaza.

In this case, the key question was not why the activists failed to open fire (they had no guns) on their approaching kidnappers, but whether they used lesser violence – hitting with sticks and poles – before the commandos opened fire killing nine people and wounding several dozen more. The first two questions of the BBC’s online Q&A focused squarely on the issue of who initiated the violence:

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Haitham Sabbah
Sabbah Report
10 June 2010

The three year old siege on the Gaza Strip and its 1.5 million inhabitants is a testament to the Israeli regime’s disregard of law, decency and morality. This siege amounts to collective punishment, an action outlawed by various conventions and humanitarian laws. This is not to mention the suffering and humanitarian crisis caused by this law. This siege has been disgracefully condoned by the “international community” and justified by the “free world” as a measure that safeguards the security of the Israeli regime.

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Deanna Spingola
Spingola
8 June 2010

By 1948, under David Ben Gurion’s direction, the Israeli government developed the Israeli Terrorist Cell, Unit 131. In the mid 1950s, the U.S. was friends with Gamal Abdel Nasser and Egypt. Ben Gurion, an avid Zionist and the Israel’s first Prime Minister, envisioned an Egyptian terrorist attack against the U.S. in order to destroy that alliance. However, that wasn’t a probability, given the relationship between the two countries. So the Israeli government developed a pattern of using young Israelis who disguised themselves as terrorists of whichever  country they were attempting to implicate. This concept would be applied during Operation Cyanide, involving the USS Liberty, in an attempt to initiate World War III.

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Alan Sabrosky
Veterans Today
3 June 2010

So the predictable dynamics are unfolding. Anywhere the US does not have a veto, Israel is being condemned for its latest atrocities and for its illegal blockade on Gaza. Israel as usual has its puppets in the US Congress and the US mainstream media coming to its defense. And Israel has rejected demands from the UN, plus all of the major powers (except, of course, the US) to lift the blockade and stand aside.

But this crisis does not seem to be going away. An awful lot of people are still mad, and more are becoming enraged as the days pass. Fraudulent videos from Israel may be treated as fact in the US media, but as far as I can tell, nowhere else. Israel still depends on the US to stop anything tangible from happening to it. The US government still depends on its weight to make that happen.

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James Fetzer, Ph.D
http://jamesfetzer.blogspot.com
1 June 2010

Shame: An Israeli student shouts during a protest against her country’s use of force in the deadly flotilla raid

The barbarous attack on a “Freedom Flotilla” by heavily-armed commandos marks a new low in the disregard of international standards of law and morality by the rogue State of Israel. Vessels flying Greek and Turkish flags were boarded in internationl waters nearly 70 miles off the coast, which qualifies as “an act of war” under international law. Apologists for Israel are making the case that the Israeli commandos were acting peaceably, but Turkish television has reported that they came aboard the ships with a list of those targeted for assassination.

The propaganda assets of Israel are making a huge effort to spin this event to blame responsibility on the artists, intellectuals, and other humanitarians who were aboard the vessles. This appears to be the latest in a long history of “false flag” attacks in which Israel commits violent acts and blames them on other parties. The flotilla was attempting to break a blockage of Gaza, where 1.5 million Palestinians are being held in hostage in what must qualify as the largest concentration camp in the world today. It can only be hoped that world-wide outrage will focus attention on the latest atrocities committed by the world’s leading terrorist state.

In his most recent article, Thierry Meyssan goes further and believes that this act is in retaliation for a new arrangement between Iran, Syria, and Turkey that threatens Israeli dominance of the Middle East. His reasoning suggests that this was a deliberate and calculated act by Israel motivated by its own selfish interests, even though it conflicts with those international standards of law and morality. It has long been my opinion that the ideal solution to “the Palestian problem” from the Israeli point of view would be to load them all aboard a ship, float it out to sea, and sink it. This conduct by Israel strongly supports such a perspective.

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