Wednesday 8th July 2009
“Combat is the best, my brother, as the famous bumper sticker reads. It’s a good thing we have Shayetet 13. Operating at the crack of dawn - or was it before nightfall? - the daring naval commandos fearlessly took control of a rusty, rickety, unarmed boat bobbing in the middle of the sea. That’s exactly why we have a naval commando force - to take control of ships offering humanitarian aid. Behold, the guardian of Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps. The military correspondents reported on the incident with an amazement that only they can muster. But even they could not provide a fig leaf for the operation: The Israel Defense Forces has once again used its power to overcome the weak; the navy has once again acted like pirates. The Arion was abducted in the framework of protecting Israel’s security for all eternity, blah, blah, blah.”
I follwed Robert Fisk’s recommendation (via errorgorilla) of Haaretz reporters Gideon Levy and Amira Hass, whose writing on the human rights abuses and war crimes of Israeli troops is indeed remarkably forthright, especially when contrasted with the likes of the BBC. And that’s just the first paragraph of Levy’s latest article.
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