[News] Activists cause their own deaths by attacking nonconfrontational Israeli commandos
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Belén Fernández International activists cause
their own deaths by attacking nonconfrontational Israeli commandos
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Post May 31st, 2010 at 12:49
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At a press briefing this morning following the
<http://pulsemedia.org/2010/05/31/israel-attacks-freedom-flotilla/>massacre
by Israel Defense Forces (IDF) commandos of
passengers on board the Mavi Marmara, one of the
boats pertaining to the Freedom Flotilla
attempting to break the siege of Gaza, IDF
spokeswoman Avital Liebovitch claimed that the
passengers had engaged in severe violence against our soldiers.
According to Liebovitch, the violence was
premeditated and was administered via live fire,
sharp items such as knives, and weapons grabbed
from the IDF commandos. While underscoring
Israels unique ability to portray its armed
forces as victims, the analysis failed to provide
a compelling reason for whyif the alleged attack
using grabbed weapons was indeed premeditatedthe
IDF did not throw a wrench in the works by simply
refraining from raiding the ship.
Apparently not satisfied with sporadic violations
of logic, Liebovitch reiterated that the IDF had
not desired a confrontation with the activists
but that the justness of the confrontation which
she herself admitted occurred not in Israeli
territoryhad since been proven given the
passengers alleged reaction. The Israeli
tendency to award retroactive justification to
its actions was also evident during the 2008-2009
attack on Gaza, which Israel advertised as a
defensive war against Palestinian rockets by
severing the portion of the cause-and-effect
timeline that involved
<http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11217.shtml>deliberate
Israeli violations of the ceasefire agreement
with Hamas. The inversion of aggressor and victim
did not of course prevent Gazan civilians from
perishing in this particular confrontation at a
rate of approximately 400:1 vis-à-vis their Israeli counterparts.
As for the inversion of aggressor and victim
aboard the Mavi Marmara, a
<http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Government/Communiques/2010/Israel_Navy_warns_flotilla_31-May-2010.htm>communiqué
on the website of the Israeli Foreign Ministry
this morning confirmed that pre-planned
life-threatening and violent activity against
the IDF commandos could have been averted had the
humanitarian vessels heeded the invitation of the
Israeli Navy to dock at Ashdod, where they would
be able to unload their aid material which would
then be transferred over land [to Gaza] after
undergoing security inspections. Such charitable
offers regarding the fate of 10,000 tons of
international aid have yet to be reconciled with
the continuing Israel denial that there is a
humanitarian crisis in Gaza, or with the fact
that pencils and laundry detergent have not in
recent Gazan history been eligible for overland
transfer. The naval invitation to Ashdod has
meanwhile been called into question by
Liebovitchs declaration this morning that the
purpose of the confrontation on the Mavi Marmara
was simply to prevent the passengers entrance to Israel.
Other finishing touches to Liebovitchs
post-massacre performance include her
announcement that it was fortunate that the
commandos participating in the raid had those
guns to defend themselves during the attack,
despite her earlier claim that said weaponry had
been a critical feature of the premeditated
violence. We can only assume that the same sort
of fortune is awaiting the IDF in the event that
it is forced into another confrontation with
Gazan civilians, whose fabricated humanitarian
crisis is of course the root cause of the plot by
international activists to attack Israeli soldiers.
also here: wp-content/uploads/2010/05/liebovitz-thumb.jpg
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