Death of another ethnic cliche'...

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...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 like a positive genius by comparison. It is the abyss; if you made it up, nobody would believe you. The enemy lay a propaganda trap a child could have seen through - and the idiot Israelis fell straight into it. Anyone with half a brain would have left those seaborne morons alone. Sorry, I stand with the Jews, but a government that acts with such total folly when its very existence is at stake may well turn out to be too stupid to survive.

Comments

[mentalguy.livejournal.com]

In many respects, I'm left with the impression that Israel is basically suicidal at this point.

[shezan.livejournal.com]

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.

[sevenorora.livejournal.com]

I agree completely with you. The ship was indeed a provocation (I mean a humanitarian called the Free Gaza champagne) and they stepped with both feet in it. Very stupid indeed!

[notebuyer.livejournal.com]

Leaving the seaborne morons alone creates a gateway to the blockade. Israel remains humanitarian, and doesn't sink the ships. Perhaps it should have.

[notebuyer.livejournal.com]

A government of Israel that expected the international press to report what happened, instead of falling into the first fax from the Palestinian newsdesk, would be ignoring reality. Jenin comes to mind: if it doesn't matter what the Israelis do, given that the press will report according to their preconcieved story line, they have license to do as they will. They pick a humane response, which is costly to them, not because anyone in the press will notice it, but because it reflects their values. And get criticized for it. Check out this article.

[panobjecticon.livejournal.com]

i've not seen anything that states whether they're seizing or returning the ships or not, have you?