"We are working to ascertain the facts, and expect that the Israeli government will conduct a full and credible investigation," State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said in a statement.

WRONG.

What the U S is doing is what the U S always does -- working to prevent Israel from suffering any consequences flowing from its murderous attack on unarmed ships on the high seas. And by thus shielding Israel, the U S all but guarantees a continuation of such lawless attacks, without a doubt making certain that Israel will continue to be a racist rogue state, free to break any and every law that civilized nations adhere to.

Once again, the U S becomes an accomplice, before, during and after the fact of brutal, premeditated murder.

"We'd like to express our thanks to the United States that worked behind the scenes to water down the [statement] at the United Nations," said Mark Regev, an Israeli government spokesman. Indeed they should be thankful - the US has acted like the well-trained monkey we have become once again. But their gratitude demonstrates to much of the world how slavish we have become to Israeli interests.

This is why the rest of the world considers the US to be nothing more than lackeys for the Israeli government. We are blamed for every act committed by the Israeli government and the IDF. When we justify and defend them, we simply embolden them to commit the next act.

What is the point of sending poor old George Mitchell back to another round of fruitless talks about peace in the Middle East? I don't understand why he does not just resign - his failure to bring about any productive talks and actual results is nothing but an embarrassment. This is a huge waste of time! You want peace? Pull our diplomats out, cut off aid to Israel, and tell them they are on their own, and that we will not condone any pre-emptive action against Iran. Advise them to make nice with their neighbors if they want peace.

Israel does not want peace, except on their own terms, and they have shown a consistent disregard for world opinion about their conduct. If they bomb Iran and drag us into a war of their making in the Middle East, we will have our own gutless politicians to thank for it.

let's look at this from an unusual angle and see what we get out of it. Let's say you were a cartoonish, Ahmadinejadesque lunatic fixated on destroying Israel. How would you go about achieving your goal?

Well, priority number one would be to isolate the Israelis from their allies, so they have no diplomatic or military cover. A good start would be to take actions that infuriate military partners like the Turks by killing a load of Turkish civvies, then telling them to fuck off by pretending that the civvies you killed deserved it. You'd definitely want to sabotage relations with allies like Greece, so that they'd withdraw from joint military operations and bar your military leaders from the country.

You'd want to blacken the Israelis' image by finding as much video footage as possible of exploded children and Merkava tanks doing donuts in the rubble of civilian housing, preferably from insane, murderous, indefensible and counterproductive wars. You'd want to rile up Israel's enemies by marching the Israeli military into conflicts in Lebanon that they can't win so that they look much weaker than they are, and you'd want to destroy the reputation of Israel's special forces. At least since the raid on Entebbe, Israeli special forces have looked courageous and invincible - getting some good footage of them blowing away a load of civvies in a clusterfuck operation would be propaganda gold.

Plus, you'd want to isolate the country from the United States by blowing up a load of pointless political pissfights that gain Israel nothing and damage its supporters as badly as possible. The Israelis don't need the US to give them every item of military hardware excepting nukes and aircraft carriers, but trying to fund that stuff out of general taxation rather getting them for free would be much more difficult.

In short, you'd want to make Israel look like a paranoid, bloodthirsty and extremely belligerent nation of racist freaks, determined to murder fuck out of civilians with total impunity year-in, year-out, so that the entire planet disowns them by, for example, withdrawing their ambassadors and issuing a barrage of denuncations.

This, I contend, is the actual policy of the Israeli political class, and I'm now certain that the Israeli government is packed to the hoop with Iranian sleeper agents. Short of handing Syrian intelligence the launch codes to their nuclear arsenal, I really can't think of any way in which the Israeli political class could do their country more harm.

It's been clear for years that the Israeli right is utterly dependent on the looniest fringe of Palestinian society for their power and legitimacy, and that both sets of nutters use violence against the other as a means to cementing their rule. The basic situation over there is that both Hamas and the Israeli government are committed to policies that harm their populations but ensure their own continued rule. It's a godawful, mutual death spiral that's heading in precisely the wrong direction.

Shorter - there really is an urgent and perilous threat to Israel. It's called "the Israeli government".

US taxpayers send Israel $13.6 million each day.

what else can be expected from a bunch of spineless mercenaries who have sold their country to the highest bidders which in this case are the zionist murderers.pretty soon the main shylock,elie the weasel will be in washitton blowing his holocaust shofar into the ears of those so called "representatives" of the american people.nothing can be expected from these cowards who have turned the USA into a zionist colonized entity.

Israel has committed an act of state terrorism on innocent people in international waters, growing pressure on the fragile state of Israel has forced it to confuse the reality with ‘information over-flow’,

So Israelis have fabricated stories and made various different versions of stories about Gaza Freedom Flotilla massacre. Israel does this so simple people hear many different versions and confuse the real story with the fabricated ones,

Hence less attention is given to the actual story.

Israel is responsible for this massacre and pirate opperation on innocent people in International waters.

Israel is an irresponsible state and a terrorist state (as recognised by Turkey) and should be held fully accountable for every single death and injury in this incident and for the almost infinite number of incidents where millions of Palestinian have suffered and continue to suffer in the blood-stained hands of lunatic Israel.

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ISRAEL'S LICENCE to KILL tacitly endorsed by a government in thrall to a political lobby.

The United Nations Security Council yesterday issued a toothless statement that requests Israel to carry out an enquiry into the killing by its own troops of nine civilian passengers on a ship carrying humanitarian supplies to Gaza that was sailing in the international waters of the Mediterranean, over seventy miles from the Gaza coast.

This slap on the wrist in respect of a heinous crime that left totally innocent passengers dead, dying and injured on a Turkish vessel sailing on the high seas, confirmed that an arm-twisted United Nations has apparently now agreed to Israel being allowed to kill, at will, innocent civilians anywhere in the world.

The Israeli state has already killed, without compunction, many hundreds of unarmed civilians, including hundreds of women and children, in Lebanon and Gaza; which this year killed a man in a hotel in the United Arab Emirates and has now killed a further nine unarmed civilians on the high seas in international waters. All of these are ostensibly criminal acts, many being war crimes under the provisions of the Geneva Conventions on Human Rights.

In all cases, those responsible remain free from arrest and able to continue to kill at will, unfettered by international law, protected and funded by the emasculated government of a powerful state that is fast becoming seen as the impotent tool of a largely covert, privileged, political oligarchy that has been allowed to take democracy from the people in order to attain its own goals.
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The experiment being conducted by Israel is to prove once and for all that the Liberal notion of 'humanity' is for rubes. That the law of the strong is forever and always the only functional 'ethic' one need pay heed to in the context of the human community, specifically that Jewish people are not party to any obligations beyond those of their strict tribal boundaries...and they seem to be winning this argument.
For sure Liberalism has allowed the horrors to continue for all of these years as considerable effort is spent trying to 'understand' their difficult situation (yes, the same one they put themselves in), than is spent debating the importance of the laws and principles that are being broken and formulating a strategy to eliminate what is essentially a cancerous growth eroding the vision of an advanced world community.
The difficult hand-wringing comes in whether to call this a "Jewish" rejection of humanities highest values or whether it is just an extreme right-wing ideology held by a small subset of Jews. The Liberal is obliged to choose number two, but statistically it appears to be number one.
I'd like to see more debate about whether international law is for rubes or not. and I'd like to see Israel start paying a price for rejecting the basic agreements of humanity....BOYCOTT, DIVEST AND SANCTION ISRAEL NOW.

I am a strong supporter of Israel but even I have to say what a mess!
Israel knew the ship was in route, this was not the case that Israel was caught off guard. My question the strongest nation in the Middle East does not equip its military personnel with some type of effective less lethal equipment. I find it difficult “if I believe the Israeli account” to believe that the account of tear gas and stun grenades did not work’; especially when you consider this type of less lethal weapon has been used very effectively by SWAT, GSG9, and the British SAS. This was humanitarian mission so prepare for an effective counter to stop that mission. The ship was actually boarded in international waters why not wait till it is closer to Gaza. Lets face it this is not just an image problem for Israel but we have a real legal and political issue. What makes this whole incident worse is that it looks like the United States pushed the Security Council to change the wording to include no independent investigation, and no time limit to complete the investigation. I know how I would feel if someone killed my family memebers by a police officer and the police department was the only organization doing the investigation and there is no time limit to complete the investigation. The world is not over reacting. I am not questioning the right to seal off Gaza from the rest of the world just the method used this one time.

Israel once again investigating it's own crime...remember the refugee camps that were barred from UN, Human Rights Group, that were eventually bulldozed by IDF with rubble placed in containers and removed...JEWS more than most should have a deeper appreciation for human life...they guilt trip the world every day about the holocaust...movies, main stream media...what fucking hypocrits and our tax dollar fund them...

What the U S is doing is what the U S always does -- working to prevent Israel from suffering any consequences flowing from its murderous attack on unarmed ships on the high seas. And replica IWC by thus shielding Israel, the U S all but guarantees a continuation of such lawless attacks, without a doubt making certain that Israel will continue to be a racist rogue state, free to break any and every law that civilized nations adhere to.

When 3 israelis die: boo hoo terrorism, lets kill 1300 people. Or 1 israeli SOLDIER kidnapped boohoo, blockade 3 million. 100 little rockets fired, no one hurt, boohoo, bomb the fk out of gaza, even though the rocket team was from a fatah ally.Bet365This was humanitarian mission so prepare for an effective counter to stop that mission. The ship was actually boarded in international waters why not wait till it is closer to Gaza. Lets face it this is not just an image problem for Israel but we have a real legal and political issue. What makes this whole incident worse is that it looks like the United States pushed the Security Council to change the wording to include no independent investigation, and no time limit to complete the investigation.When israel gets attacked, it acts like a pussy and cries. when it kills lots of people, its because they are a lion.