Death of another ethnic cliche'...

[fpb]

...the clever, far-sighted Jews. The attack on the flotilla was the stupidest thing I have seen in my lifetime. THE STUPIDEST. It beats Arthur Scargill playing bull to Margaret Thatcher's matador by a mile - and I never thought I would live to see anything more stupid than that. It makes every Italian politician, inlcuding Pecoraro Scanio, seem

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[shezan]

Yours is the first comment on my flist I (unfortunately) agree with 100%. Stupid, stupid, stupid CUBED. And it's not as if the intentions of that sorry lot weren't clear from the outset.

[fpb]

No, indeed. Actually, international Jew-bashing is getting to the point where it is actually transparent and, with any decent kind of response, ought to backfire. So why on God's green Earth do the one thing, the only thing, that would play straight into the enemy's hands?

[pathology_doc]

But what could they do? Let themselves be walked over? Sometimes I think nobody is going to wake up until Holocaust MkII has happened, and then they will wring their hands for another sixty years and ask themselves how it could have happened. And the Jews in the diaspora will say "You sat here and demonised Israel over and over and over again whenever it took steps to defend itself and said nothing against the people attacking it, and now you ask yourself this?"

(Icon not directed at you, but I can't think of a better one. Regardless of who it applies to.)

[fpb]

No, that would have made no difference to the Press. The fact is that, in terms of international law - and in spite of the foul lies of the Turks - a blockade is just as legal in international waters as anywhere else. The point is that whatever happened, the international press would have taken its line from Hamas and the Turks