The Washington Post issued an editorial that’s vehemently against Turkey’s behavior regarding the terrorists hiding among the Free Gaza flotilla fools. But they published it on Saturday, the least-read day of the week.
WESTERN GOVERNMENTS have been right to be concerned about Israel’s poor judgment and botched execution in the raid against the Free Gaza flotilla. But they ought to be at least as worried about the Turkish government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, which since Monday has shown a sympathy toward Islamic militants and a penchant for grotesque demagoguery toward Israel that ought to be unacceptable for a member of NATO.
The Associated Press published a remarkably balanced wrap-up of exactly what went down during the battle on the Mavi Marmara. But there are only 166 media outlets that carried it, compared with the 10,000-plus that carried the earlier stories that played up the bloodshed and down the terror ties.
Israel’s decision to stop the protest boats by sending troops to commandeer them seems to have been based on the assumption – based on past experience and the activists’ own statements – that none of the passengers would fight.
The soldiers practiced several scenarios, but none involved serious resistance, Israeli defense officials said.
The situation spiraled out of control when dozens of activists converged on the top deck and attacked the soldiers, clubbing them down as the troops rappelled from a helicopter onto the ship one by one.
The narrative is still on the “free Gaza” meme. The fact that there was no resistance, and subsequently no bloodshed, on the Rachel Corrie vessel run by the actual Free Gaza people instead of the terror-tied IHH “charity” group, is downplayed in favor of the “Israel must end the blockade of Gaza” meme.
And I guarantee you that this story will not get wide play in the world media:
The Turkish activists who attacked Israel Defense Force soldiers aboard the Mavi Marmara last week boarded the ship separately, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday at the beginning of a cabinet meeting.
“They organized and equipped themselves separately [from other peace activists aboard the flotilla] and boarded the ship in a way that allowed them to avoid a security check,” Netanyahu said.
Yeah, those “peace activists” went to Gaza for humanitarian reasons. Sure. Pull the other leg, Erdogan.