Charles Levinson in the Wall Street Journal:
Some Israeli officials see a lose-lose public-relations situation. "We can't win on this one in terms of PR," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor says. "If we let them throw egg at us, we appear stupid with egg on our face. If we try to prevent them by force, we appear as brutes."..."This is nothing more than media provocation and has nothing to do with actually providing aid to residents of the Gaza Strip," said military spokeswoman Lt. Col. Avital Leibovitch. "They have everything they need."
A quote from a participant would have been nice.
Don’t forget Kershner, mouthpiece for the IDF!
There are still many alternatives:
a) Capture the offenders and detain then according to the provisions of law (‘throw all the books’ over them);
b) Inspect the goods, and give the security cleared materials to the intended Gaza Palestinians (through IDF); if they refused officially, turn these over to West Bank Palestinian Officials, if they also refused officially, give these to hungry African villages in Sudan (without respect to ethnic distinction…) These are acts of goodwill that will also turn history excitingly…
[give these to hungry African villages in Sudan (without respect to ethnic distinction…)]
Perhaps by airlift to very remote Sudanese villages…
What part of international waters don’t you understand? These people aren’t offending anything. What’s your insistence on taking aid from hungry Gazans and giving it to hungry Sudanese. Israel has no jurisdiction over Gaza and thus any attempt at influencing the direction of the aid, would be an act of piracy.
RE: “This is nothing more than media provocation…”
MY COMMENT: So much “incitement”, so little time!
P.S. Is it just me, or does Philip seem to be obssesed with flotsam and jetsam? Crying, “Flotsam and jetsam, alive, alive, oh!”
FROM WIKIPEDIA: Flotsam and jetsam
In maritime law, flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict describe specific kinds of wreck. Historically the words had specific nautical meanings, with legal consequences.
There is a technical difference between the two most commonly-known terms, Flotsam and Jetsam:
jetsam has been voluntarily cast into the sea (jettisoned) by the crew of a ship, usually in order to lighten it in an emergency;
while flotsam describes goods that are floating on the water without having been thrown in deliberately, often after a shipwreck.[citation needed]
Generally speaking, jetsam is the property of the finder, while flotsam remains the property of its original owner.[citation needed]
Ligan (or lagan), describes goods that have been marked by being tied to a buoy so that its owner can find and retrieve it later.[citation needed]…
WikiLink – link to en.wikipedia.org
It’s a disgrace how Israeli spokespeople can get away with saying ‘they have everything they need’
Who’s going to contradict them? The NYT? The WSJ?
Here is what is likely to happen.
The suck-holes who make up the press in our countries will do their best to play it down, and the suck-holes who make up our governments will pretend it never happened.
Only Turkey is likely to make a stink about it.
Remind me what the WSJ said about Saddam Hussein’s connection to al-Qaeda? Or how about their stories about Nigerian yellow cake?
Exactly.