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Thoughts on Israel

Look I’m not going to lie, Israel’s flotilla raid didn’t work out well at all. But, that doesn’t mean it wasn’t justified.

Let us start off with some facts. The Israeli blockade of Gaza is necessary to keep Iranian fighters and weapons out of Gaza and from killing innocent civilians with missiles. We throw fits awhen Iranian weapons are used against American soldiers, but Israel can’t feel the same way? And quite frankly, J Street, if Gilad Shalit was an American soldier, you’d be throwing a fit.

There were six boats. Five filled with Europeans went peacefully to Ashdod, and other than some large knives and concrete, used to build bunkers, all there stuff was delivered to Gaza. The exception was the boat filled with Turkish “activists,” whose leader acknowledged their intent was to provoke Israel and do damage to its image. They clearly, despite YouTube’s objections to you seeing the truth, hit Israeli soldiers and forced them to draw their secondary weapons. They did not enter the boat with guns blazing, which Americans do much more often than Israelis. Does the U.S. Military call buildings that are about to be attacked to warn civilians to vacate the premises?

Get the facts straight people, Israel is America’s ally, the only real democracy in the Middle East.

June 14, 2010 at 6:30 am

--Daniel Livingston

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