The "free Gaza" flotilla has nothing to do with human rights.
Why? The answer is so simple a 5-year-old can understand it.
- There is no problem to transfer humanitarian aid into Gaza. Hundred of trucks enter the strip daily. Last week UNRWA set up an entire summer camp facility for the children of Gaza. It was transported with the aid of Israel. The camp was then burned down by Hamas. (Hamas also burned restaurants in Gaza. Restaurants? In starving Gaza? Yes, indeed.)
- If "Human Rights" were the real agenda of the boat people they could have easily transported all the goods through the Israeli border crossings.
- If "Human Rights" were the real agenda, the leaders of the boat people would have agreed to transfer a message and a package to Gilad Shalit – An Israeli soldier who is being held illegally by Hamas without the basic human right to see a doctor or a representative of the Red Cross or a representative of his family.
- If "Human Rights" were the real agenda the boat people would have made it to Gaza already and not have waited and postponed their sailing until favorable media conditions occur.
This was no upset activists getting out of hand. They were well prepared for a conflict and came ready for a fight. Because as everyone knows, bats, clubs, iron bars are so readily at hand on passenger ships when assault troops propel down from helicopters onto the top deck.
That said the IDF did make a mistake. The underestimated the deviousness of the pro-Hamas people. I would also like to say that Israel stepped into a well laid trap which will only ratchet up the hateful sloganneering against it.
Turkey sure didn't waste any time. You'd think they were in on the trap.