The Israelis have managed to get the entire region in the middle East up in arms by totally mishandling a situation that has clearly gone out of control. Ships containing humanitarian aid were attacked by Israeli troops in the middle of international waters. If this had been done by another nation the act would have been seen as piracy?
There is no doubt at all in my mind that the so called blockade of the Gaza strip is totally wrong. People there are forced to live below the poverty line and are more or less treated as prisoners. The Israeli government claims that this is the only way to control missile attacks on its territory but they fail to see that what they are doing is creating another generation of Palestinians who will grow up hating them even more. The entire situation is ridiculous and of course the international community needs to do more to force Israel to come to its senses.
I am also amazed that Israeli strategists could not see that making an enemy of Turkey, a military super power in the region, is not very clever at all. Turkey has the second largest standing army after the USA within NATO which makes me think that someone in Israel in command of this disgraceful operation should not be given control of actions that can lead to policy disasters. This is a major PR blunder by the Israelis who have now created more enemies as if they needed more?
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