Ann Wright at Common Dreams estimates that Israelis seized $750,000 cash from members of the intercepted flotilla of last spring, none of it returned, as well as all those computers, many containing evidence of the violent character of the flotilla raid by Israeli commandos.
An Israeli newspaper has revealed that four to six computers among the hundreds that were taken from passengers on the six ships have been sold by an Israeli First Lieutenant to three junior military personnel. On August 18, a second officer was arrested in connection with the theft. An Israeli military official described the case as "embarrassing and shameful." Eitan Kabel, a member of parliament from the Labour party, told Israeli media: "This is an embarrassing, humiliating and infuriating act."
