Israel Matzav

'Rank hypocrisy of a scale seldom seen in modern world affairs'

I'd say that the title of this post is a fair description of the world's reaction to the flotilla follies. Don't you are agree?

When Israel boarded another ship bound for Gaza last weekend and escorted it to an Israeli port without incident, it demonstrated to me that both sides, Israel and the activists, hold blame for the aid-ship melee the week before.

But you can't tell that from the continuing accusations and debate - exposing rank hypocrisy of a scale seldom seen in modern world affairs. Consider a co-incident on May 31, the day activists assaulted Israeli troops as they boarded the Mavi Marmara, prompting the Israelis to shoot and kill nine of them.

In Lahor, Pakistan, that same day, gunmen stormed into a hospital, where they shot and killed 12 badly wounded patients lying in their beds. Those victims were survivors of murderous attacks on two mosques a few days earlier, when 93 worshipers were killed.

One hundred and five people shot and killed in a hospital and two mosques. Didn't that warrant even a nodding acknowledgment? No, Navi Pillay, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, said almost nothing about the dead Pakistanis but did manage to declaim: "I unequivocally condemn what appears to be disproportionate use of force, resulting in the killing and wounding of so many people attempting to bring much needed aid to the people of Gaza."

I guess there are no Jews in Lahor so no one is interested in people who are killed there. Not even if the victims are Muslims.

Imagine for a moment that the activists had decided to storm Egypt's gates to Gaza instead and, when Egyptian troops tried to stop the aid caravan, activists assaulted the soldiers with iron rods and knives. If the Egyptians shot and killed nine people in the ensuing melee, do you think the U.N. Security Council would be dropping everything right now to rush through a resolution condemning Egypt? Certainly not.

And it wouldn't have been nine killed either. It would have been 90 or 900.

Are there no fair-minded people in the World other than Jews, American Christian Republicans and conservative Canadians who see this?

Read it all.

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:25 AM