On 5/31/2010 2:46 AM, harry wrote:
Jewish pirates boarded an aid convoy in international waters, killing
sixteen people.
http://mondoweiss.net/2010/05/israel...-the-dark.html

What is your point in posting this here?

I went to your link and saw that the suspect sources (Turkish and Al-Jazeera)
are reporting Israeli violence against the flotilla. More circumspect sources
(Times) reports that the two sides are closing in on each other. If you go to
the link in your link citing the Haaretz story, Haaretz headline for that link
is saying, "Israeli commandos: Gaza flotilla crew tried to lynch us" which is
not exactly the same as "At least 10 activists killed as Israel Navy opens fire
on Gaza aid flotilla."

So, let's step back, take a deep breath, and with a little more time and a lot
more information postpone our judgments. There will always be 2 sides to every
story. Has there been 1 episode of a U.S. attack in Afghanistan when the local
population did not claim that ALL the victims were innocent civilians? Do
accidents happen in the "fog" of battle? Of course! But is it likely that the
U.S. military is careless enough to have killed hundreds and hundreds of totally
"innocent" civilians in Afghanistan and not one Taliban? Not likely!

Is it likely that in the 52+ year conflict between Israel and all its enemies in
the region one side has always been in the right and the other side always in
the wrong? Again, not likely. Most likely, both sides have done wrong at one
time or another. Of course, the "truth" in any specific case may be almost
impossible to determine.