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 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.

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[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.

[pathology-doc.livejournal.com]

On the basis of "a 75mm shell across the bows to ask them to stop, fifty along the waterline to compel them"? Sounds fair, so long as everyone knows long before they start how the game is going to be played, but it's only possible for a small player like Israel when the superpower that backs you is willing to defend your harsh measures. The vibe I get from FPB is that Obama is not thus willing.

The only other option - crowding, nudging and bumping - isn't possible unless your ship is substantially bigger and faster than the one you're trying to stop. We're talking something the size of a large, modern frigate or destroyer here. Insofar as I am aware, Israel doesn't have such ships in its fleet.

(Icon not directed at you.)