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-- Finally, the many critics who incorrectly asserted that Israel had violated international maritime law when seeking to inspect the flotilla--it didn't--are extremely unlikely to speak out against Turkey's carrying out an air raid in a neighboring sovereign state. That, too, is an inconsistent approach that reveals that Israel's critics are concerned far more about Israel's acting to defend itself than they are about broader principles.
Wrong.
I for one am, registering my complaint right here and now about Turkey's attacks on the Kurds but I'm also not going to use Turkey's double standards to justify the wrongs done to the Gaza Flotilla.
The problem I see with this forum is that it has become too "black and white" - that if you argue the case against an IDF or an Israeli govt action / decision that you suddenly become regarded as anti-semitic or an "israel hater" (I've had the last one thrown at me) and also that if you argue the case for an IDF or an Israeli govt action / decision - that shouldn't necessarily make you an apologist.
However, it's pretty clear cut in the "reductio ad anti-semitism" tactics (I won't call them debate) that intelligent or even objective discussion of events that involve Israel is pretty difficult on DP in particular and on some other forums.
This thread did little to investigate / illuminate or develop anyone's understanding of what the background is to the horrors inflicted on the Kurds in Turkey and in Afghanistan but became a feeding frenzy early on to add justification to what Israel does in Gaza.
The old saying "two wrongs doesn't make a right" applies here in this thread. Turkey's actions and any perceived failings by the international community to condemn do not allow Israel a free pass to act against the ordinary Gazans the way it has.
Bombing Kurdish villages in Northern Iraq by one nation does not justify collective punishment of Gazans by another.