"..the situation in Gaza "is very high on Obama's agenda. He gets passionate about it and presses his staff to do more." In Obama's speech in Cairo a year ago, he highlighted Gaza, saying, "Just as it devastates Palestinian families, the continuing humanitarian crisis in Gaza does not serve Israel's security."
In that same speech, Obama appeared to appeal to Palestinians to undertake acts of civil disobedience rather than violence, saying that it was "not violence that won full and equal rights" for African Americans but "a peaceful and determined insistence."
Whether the flotilla was one such act of civil disobedience remains up for debate. Its organizers said it was, but Israeli officials say members of the Israel Defense Forces were met with violence when they boarded the ships.? Kessler
-----------------------------------------------------------------
So the "principle" involved in this attack on an unarmed ship was what? We're bad-asses and can stop you from supplying Gaza?
Somehow this kind of cold-blooded disregard for anyone else brings the attack on USS Liberty to mind.
There will be at least one more post on this after I have a chance to check, but this gives you all a chance to comment. pl
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/31/AR2010053102500.html?sid=ST2010053101699
