Blunder after blunder after blunder
Interesting little item in Sunday’s online Guardian, “Israel forced to apologise for YouTube spoof of Gaza flotilla“.
Follows on from this past week’s events wherein the IDF attacked and boarded vessels of a humanitarian aid flotilla making its way to Gaza.
Boarded in international waters no less, and proceeded to kill some of those on board.
No joking matter really. Though apparently certain elements within the Israeli government thought it was a huge joke and put out a video clip on YouTube…
set to the tune of the 1985 charity single We Are the World, features Israelis dressed as Arabs and activists, waving weapons while singing: “We con the world, we con the people. We’ll make them all believe the IDF (Israel Defence Force) is Jack the Ripper.”
Wonder if the families of those that were killed will see the funny side of it?
Well, it seems that they’ve now apologised for this. But too late. The veil’s been drawn aside and given us a glimpse of the true arrogance with which the Israelis conduct themselves. To say nothing of their utter disregard for human life… other than their own of course.
Yes. Killing’s just a huge joke to them… providing its not Israelis being killed.
That’s blunder #1 then.
Blunder #2 takes the form of an audio clip that, in the highly edited version originally released by the Israelis, casts some of those taking part in the aid mission in a less than favourable light.
Some versions later the Israelis finally confessed their shenanigans and released a more complete version of the clip that imparts a wholly different impression.
Yet one more proof (were it needed) that Israeli statements and accusations can’t be trusted, and neither can their integrity. This wasn’t simply a case of a genuine mistake, but blatant doctoring of material to deliberately create a totally wrong impression.
Blunder #3 concerns their earlier claim that some members of the aid mission were linked to Al Qaeda
The Israeli army also backed down last week from an earlier claim that soldiers were attacked by al-Qaida “mercenaries” aboard the Gaza flotilla. An article appearing on the IDF spokesperson’s website with the headline: “Attackers of the IDF soldiers found to be al-Qaida mercenaries”, was later changed to “Attackers of the IDF Soldiers found without identification papers,” with the information about al-Qaida removed from the main article. An army spokesperson told the Guardian there was no evidence proving such a link to the terror organisation.
Basically, they lied.
