Flotilla Assault Serves To Isolate Israel: Israel's Brutal
Nature Comprehensibly Evident
26 June 2010
By Kourosh Ziabari
Israel's brutal nature is comprehensibly evident to
everyone. The independent nations of the world in
Asia, Africa and Latin America know well that Israel's
existence is blended with inhumanity and violence.
Even the ordinary people in the Northern America and
Europe are well aware of the fact that Israel is an
insane and vicious regime; it's only their respective
governments who refuse to submit to the reality of
Israel and believe that this rogue state does not
benefit the international community in any way.
Israel's suicidal incursion into the flotilla of
humanitarian aids which was heading from Turkey to the
besieged Gaza strip once again discredited the flimsy
legitimacy of Tel Aviv. As Trudy Rubin, the pro-Israel
columnist of the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote on
Thursday, this "botched" attack neared Israel to an
irreparable loss: its diplomatic ties with Turkey.
The pro-Zionist writer, who repeatedly called Turkey's
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan an emotional man
in her article, fears that Israel's thoughtless and
hysterical treatment of the peace activists aboard the
Freedom Flotilla might lead to Tel Aviv's growing
isolation and its separation from its sole Muslim
partner in the Middle East.
Rubbin refers to her 2008 interview with Mr. Erdogan
in which the Turkish premier had angrily complained
that Israel did not allow the humanitarian aids to be
transferred to the besieged Gaza strip. She suggests
that Israel should make an official apology to Turkey
and take some tactical steps to repair its already
strained ties with the Muslim nation and make up for
the serious trouble it has been entangled in. She also
noted that Israel should temporarily allow the
humanitarian aids in the Gaza strip so as to pacify
the growing international agitation against Tel Aviv.
Despite the fact that these ephemeral solutions might
ease the tensions between the two states to some
extent, the pro-Zionist writer has neglected that
Israel is in any event moving towards losing its
feeble credibility whatsoever and this is what the Tel
Aviv leaders already know. The Israeli ambassadors
have been summoned to the foreign ministries of some
10 European countries over the past three days and
this is a remarkable change in EU's stance towards
Israel.
Should you remember the 2009 Aftonbladet - Israel
controversy which was followed by an August 17, 2009
article by the Swedish freelance photojournalist
Donald Bostr?m in which he accused the Israeli troops
of harvesting the organs of Palestinian detainees
which they kept, it were the Swedish officials,
including the Swedish Ambassador to Israel, who
implicitly apologized to Israel and strongly condemned
the article.
Now, the equations have changed dramatically and the
European countries are coming to the conclusion that
Israel did not worth their political, diplomatic and
ideological investment over the past 60 years. How can
a regime which detains, tortures, kills and massacres
as easy as apple pie be trusted as the representative
of democratic values? How can Israel, which has been
introduced as the sole democracy of the Middle East by
the Freedom House, boast of being a democratic
establishment while it violates the most essential
rights of human beings?
Paveen Yaqub, one of the peace activists who were on
board the Mavi Marmara sailboat to the Gaza strip,
revealed some details of the ways she was treated by
the Israeli troops, upon her deportation to Istanbul:
"They were kicking my legs to make me fall and mocking
me in Hebrew. They were trying to take trophy pictures
with me and they liked laughing in my face. They also
searched me but I won't go into that. They took
pleasure in humiliating us."
Henning Mankell, one of the world's best-selling
authors and dramatists whose books have sold more than
30 million copies worldwide and were translated into
40 languages was one of the renowned figures aboard
the Freedom Flotilla. After his deportation to Berlin
by the Israeli militants, he described his own account
of the disaster: "It was an act of piracy. We were
actually kidnapped. Our idea was not to make any
resistance. The soldiers were masked, they had machine
guns; there were women among them. They were very
aggressive. There were people who were on the boat who
were quite old, and a little slow. One was attacked
with a stinger weapon, and he fell down as it was
extremely painful."
Mankell said that he was taken by an Israeli soldier
to a holding center on the shore and then was told
that he entered Israel illegally and should be
deported immediately. Mankell called for the
imposition of financial sanctions on Israel to force
the Zionist regime retreat from its violence and
aggression: "I think we should use the experience of
South Africa, where we know that the sanctions had a
great impact. It took time, but they had an impact."
Anyway, Israel is already en route to growing
isolation and this is something which the Israeli
journalist, Joel Schalit has unequivocally testified
to: "Following the Israeli government's humiliation
over the Dubai passport affair earlier this year, in
which nearly twenty of its agents were found to have
used forged foreign passports to enter Dubai and kill
a Hamas operative, this was not a good sign. If
anything, the assault on the 'Freedom Flotilla' only
served to underline Israel's growing isolation."
- Kourosh Ziabari is an Iranian freelance
journalist and media correspondent. He has interviewed
political commentator and linguist Noam Chomsky,
member of New Zealand parliament Keith Locke,
Australian politician Ian Cohen, member of German
Parliament Ruprecht Polenz, former Mexican President
Vicente Fox, former U.S. National Security Council
advisor Peter D. Feaver, Nobel Prize laureate in
Physics Wolfgang Ketterle, Nobel Prize laureate in
Chemistry Kurt Wüthrich, Nobel Prize laureate in
biology Robin Warren, famous German political prisoner
Ernst Zündel, Brazilian cartoonist Carlos Latuff,
American author Stephen Kinzer, syndicated journalist
Eric Margolis, former assistant of the U.S. Department
of the Treasury Paul Craig Roberts,
American-Palestinian journalist Ramzy Baroud and the
former President of the American Motion Picture Arts
and Sciences Sid Ganis.
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