A shipload of medicine riled up the Israeli government enough. The discovery that the activists on board the Estelle included carrier pigeons, which were prepared to deliver photographic evidence of Israeli attacks on the passengers, has them downright livid.
“Everyone knows these flotillas are meant as a provocation only,” noted one Israeli military commander. When Israel attacks a ship containing medicine for the Gaza Strip, it routinely seizes all cameras and jams all communications to prevent any unapproved footage of the violence after the Mavi Marmara incident.
They can seize all the cameras, they can block all the transmissions off the ship, but can they catch all the pigeons with memory cards strapped to their legs from finding their way to the global media and delivering images?
They’ll surely try, as for the Israeli government the “information war” related to its attacks on aid ships is the centerpiece of the whole operation. It is not clear from the reports, however, whether all the pigeons were captured by the military or if some of them may have gotten away with images of taser use on board, as was hinted at by some of the activists on the ship.
What a sickening country. Would someone please bomb this terrorist entity..Now!
How does the decent Israeli live with this sense of being part of this monstrous nation? – I can only imagine that they have to keep constantly telling themselves – "It is not my fault – my country is run by all of this "settler trash" – plus the Moslems all want to kill me – plus a lot of this racism and land-theft talk is exaggerated – plus what do you expect me to do?" "I pay my taxes and I have to support what the fuehrer (oops, Prime Minister) commands me to do."
The World has heard this weak line of apology before.
One could ask the same question of any decent American. I, for one, am sick of my own country.
Sad but true.
Nothing funny about carrier pigeons: more than one counterespionage service tasks a few officers to checking on pigeon breeders.
But the IDF shooting them down with F-16s and M-16s — well that IS funny.
Send some hawks on the pigeons, that will fix it, and the activists will claim they didn't see it coming.
Isreal is like the upsidown kingdom where good is bad, up is down, black is white, aggression is self-defense, terrorists are victims and so on. George Orwell must have been thinking of Isreal when he coined the all-too famous "war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength" slogan.
Bizzaro World. Much like the US.
. . . lest be forgotten, {though most certainly long since obfusca-ca-cancelled, and buried}, orwell was quite specifically describing just who . . .
"russians" . . . ? . . . totalitarians
the kind that would alike lie palestine out-of-existense as would this righteously wipe-out all such carriers of what's antisemite among persons, places, and pigeons
how petty can they get, disgusting
these pirates have no say as to what another nation's ship carries in INTERNATIONAL WATERS! and didn't Noah have carrier pigeons on his ARK?!?!?!!? I suppose they would have tasered Noah, too- right? ED SKI