The Freedom Flotilla bound to the Gaza Strip, and Israel's position against it, have drawn a portrait of good and evil that could not be clearer, more accurate or more complete. Nearly ten ships are carrying more than 700 peace advocates and activists, both young and old: Charity workers, about 35 Members of the European Parliament, as well as journalists, singers, writers, Jewish peace activists and a former Israeli painter. The ships are carrying food, clothes, building materials and other goods for the people of Gaza, who live in an open-air Nazi concentration camp that has been guarded by Israel for decades. Some of the most prominent intellectual leaders around the world support the Flotilla. Turkey refused Israel's request to stop the aid fleet, and Mairead Maguire, the Noble Peace Prize Laureate, wrote a letter to the people of Gaza, saluting the triumph of their determination in the face of their suffering, and declared her solidarity with the Freedom Flotilla. On the other side, the side of evil, there is the state of thieves and terrorists, the navy that blockades women and children, and Nazi-like apologists on their behalf. One or two examples are sufficient in this regard. The Israeli Dan Margalit suggested in an article published in Israel Hayom that a counter-flotilla be organized (a peace flotilla against an aggressive occupation flotilla), and said that the ships are a demonstration against Israel, aimed at putting a huge burden on the navy (the poor navy that does nothing except fishing) by showing that the situation in Gaza is intolerable (just like the apologists for Israeli crimes are intolerable). This is the goal of the flotilla, which was organized by anti-Israeli activists (without forgetting its other goal, which is shipping food and aid to a people under siege). Margalit then proposes that the citizens of Israel prepare a counter-flotilla, because the arena must not be left to the supporters of Palestinian terrorism who do not care about the Qassam rockets and Sderot, and the terrible imprisonment of Gilad Shalit. I admit that I stopped reading at this point, because I could not bear the Goebbels-like inclinations of the writer any more. His words are as despicable as the logic of the Nazis or more, and I do not rule out that he did not notice the Nazi content of his article. Sderot is home to war criminals, who stole the lands of the Palestinians, and we would have never heard about it or about any rockets and terrorism were it not for the theft of Palestine from its original people, and the ongoing murder and destruction. As for Shalit, he is only one person against ten thousand Palestinian prisoners held in the jails of the Israeli neo-Nazis. Is one captured soldier more important than ten thousand human beings, most of whom civilians? Is he a member of the Aryan race while they are Semites, which would hence make him more important? Would there have been any terrorism in response were it not for the ongoing Israeli terrorism? Are there any Nazis left in the world outside of Israel? There is a flotilla for peace, and on the other side, there is a criminal state and a fleet of ships, yachts and other vessels organized by the extremist Israeli fascist Guy Bechor (I will go back to him in another subject a few days from now). It is humanity on one side, versus crime on the other. The victims and those who defend them on one side – including Jews – and an occupation state established on the basis of biblical myths and a brutal religion that calls for genocide, on the other side. What the peace flotilla will or will not achieve is not important. Before it even set sail, it has already condemned Israel as it deserves, and put the opinion of the free world regarding the lobby and the merchants of the Holocaust in Israel on the record. I am writing on Thursday morning, and we shall learn on Friday morning the result of the faceoff between the peace flotilla and the war flotilla. The peace activists will be either forced to return to whence they came, or taken to Ashdod to be arrested and questioned. This morning, I went on to check the New York Times and the Washington Post to see their coverage of the piece of news, and I found it, in the first newspaper, to be in small print within other news from the Middle East, preceded by news on the Koreas, an Englishman accused of murder, a priest accused of molestation, and news from India, Nepal, China, Jamaica and even Zimbabwe and the Congo. Meanwhile, the news was absent altogether in the second paper, and I printed both newspapers' Middle East section on Thursday morning, so no one could deny what I write here. This is not journalism, but rather collusion with the criminals. If two major liberal newspapers are doing this, one can only imagine what the coverage in the right-wing media is like. The result is the encouragement of the ongoing occupation and settlement, or in other words, of killing more Palestinians and Israelis in the absence of peace. There are victims and there is Israel. The difference between them is the difference between light and darkness, life and death, and good and evil, knowing that any talk other than this is a myth as big as the myths of the Torah. [email protected]
