Amuse-gueules: Gaza flotilla

Here is a collection of some of the more interesting posts I’ve seen about Israel’s attack on the Gaza aid flotilla, which resulted in somewhere between 10 and 19 deaths. Before listing some of the interesting things I’ve read in the last day and half, I’ve also been reading, despite my hypertension, some of the pro-Israel lines, which range from this in Ha’aretz to people like Michael Totten, who in typical American Zionist fashion is evidently interested in showing the world how to be more Catholic than the pope. In both cases, there’s an in media res slant (but without the flashback) that totally disregards the initial forced boarding of the Turkish ship in international waters. Totten, for his part, tells us, that it’s just like being pulled over by a police officer. Apparently the long-arm of Israel now has universal jurisdiction. In any case, here are some non-idiotic pieces:

• MERIP’s report on the flotilla assault
• Stratfor’s analysis of the flotilla narrative war
• Qifa Nabki on the flotilla strategy
• Magnus Zionist on the flotilla
• The UN flotilla statement
• Walt on Israeli stupidity
• Marc Lynch on the flotilla attack and the US response
• Glenn Greenwald‘s take on the attack and the Gaza blockade
• Andrew Exum on information operations
• Guardian editorial
• Beinart on the blockade
• A time when the US took a very different view of blockades
• Once upon a time, pro-Israel conservatives felt differently about resistance on the sea

If you come across any other good articles, feel free to post them in the comments.

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