O that’s what they want to do kill all Jews, so helping the people of Gaza is what just cover?
You really want to believe that tape hey Ben,why will that somehow make it less of a crime what the IDF did.
For god sake man they killed 9 unarmed people.
And for what the crime of bringing a few tons of much needed aid.
That’s it in a nut shell,they did not deserve to die.
Maybe its time to pull back to the 67 borders and let Palestinians be, surely 50 years of misery is enough.
In fact please explain to me why Israel will not accept the 67 borders, why Israel continues to build settlements on occupied lands ? That’s all I ask just answer those two questions.

It’s strange - you are defending people who want to kill you. I’m stumped on that one.

It’s hard to know if he means the pro Israel people or the anti-Israel people. However since he linked to a post on Max Blumenthal website in which Max says that the Israeli video is a fake I suppose that Matt is talking about the pro Israel side.

Now, Max Blumenthal offers no evidence that the tape was doctored he mere says that it “obviously was” as if what is obvious to Max were evidential.

Then Max Blumenthal posted above saying:

“As much as some people want to see the flotilla incident in the context of the Holocaust, it’s becoming painfully clear this audio was doctored”

Again he offered to evidence that it is “painfully clear this audio was doctored.”

What Max Blumenthal and people like him who support the Hamas regime in Gaza in the name of Human rights can’t explain is why supposed liberals would support the Fascist regime of Hamas which is pledged in its founding document to kill the Jews in “Palestine” and elsewhere.

It seems that each generation wants to repeat the “heroism” of previous generations by fighting against oppression, be it the international brigade fighting in Spain, or the movement against apartheid South Africa to name a just a few such endeavors.

However, these other movements didn’t make common cause with fascists as the so called “free Gaza movement” has. (If they really wanted to free Gaza they would be fighting Hamas and not Israel.) It’s as if the republican army had thrown in with Franco rather than with the government during the Spanish civil war.

Hamas is a part of the Muslim Brotherhood which has one of its goals the demonization of Jews. During the 30’s and 40’s it supported the Nazi regime and never changed its mind. They have also bequeathed this mind set all Islamicist movements from Iran to Western Europe. Read the letter that Van Gogh’s murderer a few years back affixed to the body of the murdered artists and you will get a good idea of the kind of antisemitic rants that are usual in these circles.

Hence it’s not unexpected that an pro Hamas captain of a Turkish vessel would tell a Jew “go back t Auschwitz.”

That an ignorant Max Blumenthal thinks it is tells us more about him and the people who frequent his blog (especially their ignorance about history and lack of knowledge of the Islamist movements) than it does about those who don’t automatically think that the tape was “doctored.”

Max seems to miss the point that the context of the Holocaust was provided not by Israelis or Israel’s supporters but by people whose causes he champions (I include Linda Grant’s gratuitous analogy to Exodus 47 as being on the side of the Blumenthal, even though she claims to be a more even-handed observer). What this blog has done is simply report what the “peace activists” were saying.

I find it strange that a person of such education and intelligence as Max should fail to note this very simple fact. But then as noted above he is prone to excitability which may account for the momentary lapse in proper judgment…

Anyway, since he seems so heavily invested with the flotilla’s population and their righteous aims I wish he would offer an explanation as to how was the exhortation to “Go back to Auschwitz” is an appropriate response to the Israeli navy’s request.