Israel Set Up Once Again...

William Jacobson at Legal Insurrection has a wonderful take on the "useful idiots" and their enablers in the media who are automatically condemning Israel for intercepting those Turkish ships bound for the Gaza Strip.

Make no mistake -- this was NOT a "humanitarian mission."  It was a PR stunt; a "set-up," if you will, by the Islamists now in control in Turkey.  Why does our left-wing media buy into the continual anti-Israel bias?  (my emphasis added) --

The left-wing blogosphere is full of useful idiots, who pretend that the flotilla which just was stopped by Israel was a humanitarian mission.

The flotilla was organized by the Islamist government in Turkey to aid Hamas with the goal of opening up shipping channels for Turkey's new friend, Iran, to ship more and better weapons as it is doing to Hezbollah in Lebanon. Iran is busy turning Lebanon and Syria into one large missile launching pad against Israel, and a southern base in Gaza will complete the encirclement of Israel for the coming crisis over Iran's nuclear program.

The Europeans on the ships were cover, and the placement of an 18-month old child on these ships was the utmost cynical use of a human shield.

If getting humanitarian supplies to Gaza really was the goal, this flotilla was not necessary. The supplies would have been off-loaded in Eqypt or Israel and then shipped in by land after being checked for hidden weapons.

Read the entire piece here.

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