Just two days ago, this article noted irony in the fact that “a quarter of Israel’s Navy has been mobilized to ensure the aid flotilla does not get through.” In 1947, a similar group of ships bound for Israel was raided. Three were killed, many wounded. But the occupants of the ships were Holocaust survivors, their attackers, Britain’s Royal Navy. The refugees were forced back to Germany, to the great horror of the world.
Click here for a New York Times slide show of the raid on the flotilla, attacked yesterday in international waters, and subsequent protests.
Photo courtesy of Michael 1203 (Creative Commons).
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June 1, 2010 at 12:21 pm
Colleen (bcharmer)
Where are we going, and why are we in this handbasket??