Mourning, Not Politicizing, Gaza Flotilla’s Dead and Wounded

The news reports are coming in fast and furious. The alerts from various advocacy organizations on both sides of the Middle East conflict flood my In Box even faster. And what they all mainly share is spin over substance, and politics over mourning.

YouTube is already getting crowded with competing videos, which capture different moments during this morning’s boarding of the six-ship flotilla that attempted to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza. Some of them show passengers being assaulted by naval commandos and others show people who call themselves peace activists stabbing those commandos.

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