Israelis Celebrate Massacre of Aid Ship

If this video of Israelis demonstrating in front of the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv is what it looks like, then it is truly sickening. Celebrating the violence and horror of the night before is just madness. Sparta-like madness. All the car horns, hand clapping, and songs of joy are just so insensitive. Normally I don’t see those types of images at a protest, but at a sporting event. Israel is a war-mad nation.

It reminds me of the crowds in Europe in the summer of 1914, when large masses of people were cheering in the streets upon the announcement that war was declared. In 2010, all but a couple of nations have moved on to celebrating greater events than war, like the World Cup, the Olympic games, and other international competitions.




Philip Weiss About The Video:
"Something else about this demo that scares me. I think you have a complete political spectrum in Israel/Palestine, but only half the spectrum is empowered. So the liberal left wing begins inside Israeli society, marginally, and then is represented broadly inside Palestinian society (though yes they have their madmen). But the Palestinians have so few rights. The sane are not allowed to mingle. So there's no complete discourse, and you get this kind of madness, which is really about Jewish supremacy."

Winnipeg Free Press: Activists on Gaza aid flotilla talk of beatings, stun guns during raid by Israeli forces

"Matthias Jochheim, a German doctor on board the Marmara, said he saw four dead activists who had been killed by gunshots.

"There were at least another 50 injured and an Egyptian doctor told me that he saw a fifth dead activist," said Jochheim, who helped attend to the wounded.

Turkey said four Turkish citizens were confirmed dead and another five dead were also believed to be Turks, although Israeli authorities were still trying to confirm their nationalities.

Jochheim said most victims, including the injured, seemed to be Turkish activists who had hired the Marmara and were on deck when Israeli soldiers boarded.

German Left Party lawmaker Inge Hoeger, who was also on the Marmara, condemned the raid as a "war crime."

"We felt like we were in the middle of a war, like we'd been kidnapped," said Hoeger. "What the Israelis did is a violation of international law."

Turkish activist Nilufer Cetin told reporters in Istanbul that she and her baby son were hiding in her cabin's bathroom on the Marmara when Israeli soldiers rappelled onto the ship.

"There was a massacre on board," Cetin said. "The ship turned into a lake of blood."