\nThe Israeli military broadcast its plan for violence, inciting the Israeli public and the soldiers of Unit 13 with fevered visions of a kill-or-be-killed encounter with a group of Arab \u201cterrorists.\u201d The stated conditions for using live fire were arbitrary and poorly defined, giving the commandos little direction and lots of leeway to kill \u2014 at the very least the plan demanded force in some form….<\/p>\n
Were they that stupid, or just crazy? From the details of the plan it appears that Netanyahu and his cohorts had envisioned Entebbe Part Deux, a daring anti-terror raid that would lift the sinking morale of the Israeli public while intimidating Iran and the Arab world. Though Israel may be more isolated than ever as a result of the massacre, the Netanyahu administration is reaping considerable political benefits at home.<\/p>\n
The day after the massacre, spontaneous celebrations broke out in Ashdod, Tel Aviv, and throughout the country, bringing together right-wing elements with everyday Israelis. Over a thousand Israelis gathered tonight outside the Turkish embassy in Tel Aviv to rally against the Turkish government and express their support for the raid. Multiple demonstrators including one man who has lived in Israel for 60 years told me, \u201cWhat Turkey [the sponsor of the Mavi Marmara boat] has done is great. I have never seen this country more united in my entire life. We are all standing together now.\u201d (Video coming soon).<\/p>\n
Israeli newscasters are routinely using the term \u201cmechabel,\u201d or terrorist, to refer to the flotilla activists, while the violence that broke out on the deck of the Mavi Marmara is called \u201cthe lynch.\u201d (Nevermind that zero commandos were hung and nine activists were killed, including an American citizen who was shot in the head four times.) No evidence is required to support claims in the Israeli media. The public desperately wants to believe that its government is right, so much so that Israel\u2019s media is not even making a token effort to challenge the increasingly hysterical press releases disseminated by the IDF press office every few hours.<\/p>\n
Hanin Zoabi, a Palestinian-Israeli member of the Knesset who was on the Mavi Marmara, was physically accosted in the Knesset by fellow legislators for attempting to relate her experience aboard the flotilla. MK Miri Regev of Likud called her a \u201ctraitor,\u201d while Yoel Hasson of Kadima, a supposedly centrist party, denounced Zoabi as a \u201cterrorist.\u201d An Israeli Facebook group devoted to inciting Zoabi\u2019s assassination has gathered 600 members in just a day and a half. In the meantime, Israel\u2019s Interior Minster Eli Yishai is \u201clooking into\u201d means of stripping Zoabi of her citizenship.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Gee, I can’t understand why the Washington Post missed all the key details that Max Blumenthal rounded up from Israeli published sources (in Hebrew and English). The Flotilla Raid Was Not \u201cBungled.\u201d The IDF Detailed Its Violent Strategy In Advance. The Israeli military broadcast its plan for violence, inciting the Israeli public and the soldiers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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