Free Gaza fleet: the "Mavi Marmara" (Source: Creative Commons)
A flotilla of six ships with about 700 people from 32 different countries, including such well-known public figures like the Irish Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire, the Swedish author Henning Mankell, European parliamentarians, including 3 German: the Left MPs Inge Hoger and Annette Groth and former MP Norman Paech and a Holocaust survivor ... a purely civilian business leading to further besieged and still war-torn Gaza, with its 1.5 million penned, the Israeli authorities have been notified in advance exactly on the content and composition of transport ... medical supplies, construction materials, wheelchairs, toys, etc., in the morning in international waters by 4 clock out of special forces of the Israeli army attacked from helicopters are fighters rappel, from the sea to come armed, it only exist shaky video of the disaster:
freedomflotilla (Source: Free-Gaza.com)
Result: So far, the figure is mentioned 20 dead and 50 to 80 injured. Accurate not yet known.
Attacks on convoys to Gaza had previously been given, but without any media attention, thank God, without deaths. What's different this time?
Israel is just plain crazy? True to the motto: "As allies of tyrants" or is there something else behind it?
Allow me to collect in the following arguments suggest that this incredible violation of international law, a deliberate provocation was and is to still trigger a Middle East war, when the chances for the Brazilian-Turkish nuclear agreement with Iran are increasingly viewed disappearing a few days ago, the action window so threatens to close.
The state violence against an international group of human rights activists is now the culmination of a chain of Unliebsamkeiten and increasing deterioration of relations between Israel and Turkey.
In parallel, Israel has suffered some deterioration of its relations with the United States for the first time and suddenly finds himself of his previous status as sankrosante Middle East power that stands above the international law, their seemingly perpetual special 'robbed.
"Our relationship [with Israel] will never be the same again," citing the Turkish newspaper Hüriyet a spokesman for the ruling party. (more ...)