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On CNN earlier this week, American Edward Peck, an activist who sailed with the Free Gaza Movement flotilla, asserted, "The purpose of the movement was humanitarian."
Sorry, but the video of so-called peace activists clubbing Israeli soldiers and tossing one onto a lower deck didn't exactly exude the Kumbaya spirit to me.
While Peck argued that the flotilla was not "hostile," its goal was provocative -- to break Israel's military embargo against Hamas. Activists knew they were taunting a standing army.
They also knew they couldn't lose. Israel already delivers food and other relief to the Gaza Strip. As for the...
Flotilla's Goal Was Not Humanitarian
Israel could kick down the doors of most of the people here on this "conservative" web site, urinate all over their families and everything that they own, shoot their children, and yet these people would still ramble on about what a great ally Israel is, and how God wants him to keep sending them money and weapons.
I get called a "leftist" when I'm not one, but if uncritical support of anything and everything that Israel does is what it takes to get my membership card then I sure as heck don't want to be "right".