Israeli Attack Kills 10 Aboard Aid Ships Bound for Gaza

To glers:

If the Jews deserve a homeland then so do the Palestinians. Why do you think this trouble exists in the first place? Check out the history before pointing the finger. They are the ones who were cheated out of their land.

Where is the little known fact that the blockade has been going on for 3 years and is a joint effort between Israel and Egypt.

Muslims blow up Markets daily, throw acid on school kids, behead journalists etc etc , and there is no outcry, How come no one cares that N Korea blows up a S Korea ship, where were the protests??? only when Israel defends herself from thugs and terrorists is there a peep from the Muslim world, Palestinians deserve no sympathy or homeland

Seems to me that the Israeli government is turning exactly into what their people hated during WWII. They are now attacking ships in international waters and also causing killings, hardship, and suffering in their geographic region based on self interest and self justification. Sounds familiar? They may as well replace the Star of David with the Swastika on their national flag, seeing their emerging defiant behaviour and attitudes toward global opinions and practices. They ask for global support and finacial aid yet continue to ignore the United Nations in the same manner as other criminal countries, so how are they any different or better?

Heaven forbid that we should look at any past facts..After experiencing daily rocket attacks from the so-called impoverished gaza strip..And after searching two vesseles and finding numerous rockets and small arms catchs..isreal has had it..There very exsistance demands they stop these so-called HUMANITARIAN SHIPS..and yes even the use of violence to protect there own lives if nessasary....Lets face facts... what possible reason can these extreme far left activist have other than violence on there adgenda..But hey they also know they must appear to be the victims not the aggressors. And that wonderful u.n... How about that little scandel involving food for oil..

Mr. Sessions’s story is a little better then most of the American media is spewing out. Having control of the ships and people, Israel is making a major PR effort to keep the American people in line--they don’t really have to worry about the government. When Israeli military forces encountered the ships they were outside of Israeli territorial waters. They were in fact in international waters. The self-declared blockade of Gaza was being challenged--that was the reason for attacking the ships. The images of men and women in orange life jackets must have been a terrifying sight to Israel’s finest. The pro-Israeli media are referring to this as a “raid”--but it does not come across as another Entebbe. Anyone wielding a stick against Israeli commandos with Israeli gunboats flanking them and helicopter gunships overhead should be given credit for incredible bravery. This “intense” battle will surely receive some sort of plaque or medal in the annals of Israeli military victories.

I do take issue to Mr. Session in his description of Greta Berlin as “pro-Palestinian.” Although pro-Israeli seems to be a tag our politicians fall over themselves to be labelled, I am curious in what universe did “pro-Palestinian” become a pejorative? The 600 people aboard the flotilla have as many divergent views about the Israeli-Palestinian issue as do others. Their effort was not to settle any questions about lands or refugees or Jerusalem, but to call attention to the horrendous human conditions of a million plus people. They want to see an end to the suffering of the people of Gaza--and if they happen to be Palestinians, so what?

Israel and its underwriter the US created this human horror story in Gaza. When elections put into authority Hamas and not Fatah, Bush 2 lost it. His world view couldn’t and wouldn’t accept it, and the US and Israel have done all they could to destroy Hamas. If there really was a God, the US and Israel would receive a severe retribution for the suffering they made.

It boggles the mind. An israeli force armed with sophisticated American funded weapons making a show of force against a bunch of activists with sling shots? You Jews can sell this bull to somebody else. It is hypocritical to live off the fat of land that was wrested from the original owners "American Indians" while you commit genocide against people who occupy lands that you claim is yours promised by God. If this theory holds weight, then this country should be returned to the Indians and the Mexicans, Australia to the Aborigines, etc., etc. Nobody is where they historically should be. The super powers in the late 1940s planted a bunch of Jews smack dab in country occupied by Arabs. Stop trying to eliminate the people you met there and share the land with them. Your argument does not hold merit. Remember the Holocaust and do unto others.

This is nothing but high seas piracy by the racist state of Israel. The Ashkenazis/Zionists learned the worst from their prior oppressors and treat the Palestinians the way the Nazis had treated them. They even treat the true Jews, the Sephardim, as second class citizens. The creation of Israel should aptly be called Truman's folly as sticking a bunch of Aryans in Semitic lands was a prescription to disaster. Course, it is aslo fact Zionists aided the Nazis. The Warburgs aided Hitler's rise even to the point of getting the ADL to silence Nazi criticism here and the Hungarian Zionists colluded with the Nazis working for an orderly and thus more thorough transport to Auschwitz, etc. in echange for the lives of ~1500 Zionist leaders.

It's high time the US stops aiding and abetting Israeli genocide. The US Navy should be sent in to break the blockade. Remember the USS Liberty.

Nick,, the article says Israel has been preventing food shipments to Gaza.

Just think, all they wanted to do was to help feed some hungry people. What a crime.