Robert Fisk : The Truth Behind The Israeli Propaganda

I have, of course, been outraged at armed men boarding ships in international waters,

killing passengers on board who attempt to resist and then forcing their ship to the hijackers’ home port.

I am, of course, talking about the Somali pirates who are preying on Western ships in the Indian Ocean.

How dare those terrorists dare to touch our unarmed vessels on the high seas?

And how right we are to have our warships there to prevent such terrorist acts.

But whoops! At least the Israelis have not demanded ransom.

They just want to get journalists to win the propaganda war for them.

Scarcely had the week begun when Israel’s warrior “commandos” stormed a Turkish boat bringing aid to Gaza and shot nine of the passengers dead.

Turkish medics carry a wounded activist released after Israeli soldiers stormed an aid convoy on its way to Gaza

Yet by week’s end, the protesters had become “armed peace activists”,

vicious anti-Semites “professing pacifism,

seething with hate,

pounding away at another human being with a metal pole”.

I liked the last bit.

The fact that the person being beaten was apparently shooting another human being with a rifle didn’t quite get into this weird version of reality.

Read the rest here

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