Israel and the war of the worlds.

So some ships bound for Gaza (supposedly carrying humanitarian aid) where stopped by the Israeli navy and bringing knifes to a gunfight 19 crew members on the Turkish ship where killed by Israeli commandos.
What the media don't report is that the Freedom Flottila manifestation could only have had one result. Regardless if they had reached Gaza or not, the only thing that could ever have come of this was an escalation of violence and more death on booth dies.

The one sided media and leftists all cry murder. Yes, technically maybe boarding a boat on international water and killing people is murder.
But that doesn't mean you can stop reporting about how despicable the people behind Freedom Flotilla are and only focus on painting Israel in a bad light.

Israel had made it's intentions clear for a very long time. The people on these ships where looking forward to martyrdom.
Sacrificing human life to make a political point is not acceptable. Nor is delivering supplies into the hand of terrorists to have them sold to the highest bidder.

Freedom Flotilla can not in any way be called a humanitarian effort. There reception in Gaza was openly being organized by the Hamas, which no doubt would have taken all the supplies and sold them to the highest bidder to finance terrorism (they have hijacked and sold aid shipments in Gaza before).
This would mean more attacks on Jews which in turn means a tougher response from Israeli military. As I said this manifestation could only bring death and misery.

What should also be noted is that Israel offered to allow them to bring in all the supplies by land thru the aid organizations currently active in Gaza, the Red Cross for instance. These organizations know what they are doing and are fairly good at getting there help out to civilians rather then letting terrorists sell there stuff. Further more that the Turkish ship had Islamic fundamentalists on it (at least I hope regular Muslims don't sing and cheer about the return of Muhammed's Army too often)


I do not condone anything a government does and that goes for Israel too. Violence and murder is the natural conclusion of the state and this conflict is no different.

But when trying to adopt a more pragmatic view it is difficult to see Israel as anything other then a product of desperation. Israel is a high priority target for Islamic fundamentalists all over the world, and Palestinians are being used as there cannon-fodder. Israel can not just up an leave and go home. The terrorism threat to Israel will not subside much if they leave the occupied territories and they would have no buffer-zone to stop attacks against Israeli civilians in.

Islamic terrorism is being empowered by the presence of the American military all over the world.
Lots of people have been thought by there governments to hate the West. But Soviets, North Koreans, the Chinese etc did not go and blow themselves up or crash planes into skyscrapers because of it. The difference is that no matter how well you control information or how much propaganda you use you can not make a lot people actually believe they are under physical attack by the West in places like North Korea. All they have ever seen of the west are rice bags that reads "A gift from the U.S.". They will not believe they are under attack without some tangible proof. As long as they don't believe they are under attack extremists can't brew hatred and a sense of desperation strong enough to make them travel across the world and strap bombs on themselves....

People don't like to be meddled with and in much of the Muslim world America has provided a great many things that can be used by extremists to brainwash the masses into a state of fanatic hate and desperation. Without this they would never be able to raise the support for terrorists organizations that they can today.

This conflict is much bigger then Israel-Palestine and can not be solved without seeing the big picture. Palestine is cannon-fodder for the Islamic community and Israel is just a product of desperation made possible by first the British then the American Empires. Nothing can be changed here. What we can do to make everyone safer is a global withdrawal of American forces and return to non-interventionist foreign policies through the west. This involves not only scrapping the American military complex but also the World bank, IMF and preferably even the United Nations.