ei: International solidarity and the Freedom Flotilla massacre
As news spread around the world, foreign governments began to react. Greece and Turkey, which had many citizens aboard the Flotilla, immediately recalled their ambassadors from Tel Aviv. Spain strongly condemned the attack. France's foreign minister Bernard Kouchner expressed "profound shock." The European Union's foreign minister Catherine Ashton called for an "enquiry."
What should be clear is this: no one can claim to be surprised by what the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights correctly termed a "hideous crime." Israel had been openly threatening a violent attack on the Flotilla for days, but complacency, complicity and inaction, specifically from Western and Arab governments once more sent the message that Israel could act with total impunity.
There is no doubt that Israel's massacre of 1,400 people, mostly civilians, in Gaza in December 2008/January 2009 was a wake up call for international civil society to begin to adopt boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel.
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June 9, 2010 10:17 pm
Looks like the story we have all been hearing in the Irish media is just plain wrong: Videos and photos from activists and their reports on Turkish and Arabic TV shows that many on Marmara had ‘cold’ weapons, sang anti Jewish songs, prayed for martyrdom, beat, stabbed, captured and took the guns off three or four Israelis (they announce this with great pride).
See this blog:
http://gazafreedomflotilla2.blogspot.com/
Lets be careful – inflamatory words can cause more young men to seek martyrdom for themselves and other civilians.