what a shameful statement coming from someone who is supposed to advocate freedom and human rights in the world. This is what I call double standards!

The US government is proving to be anti-human rights in so many ways. Shame on this and the last administration.

The freedom flotilla, full of civilians, seems to be one of the best ways to advertise the plight of Palestinians - in a peaceful and civilized manner. That the US and Israel distort that into something else is a symptom of how desperately off track we've gone. This is a constant case of blaming the victims; it is a long-standing and successful oppression of meaningful dissent.

Best of luck with your work on this issue. I look forward to the day when it is ok to tell the truth, ugly or scary as that is. For it is that day that we can all begin to heal - to move beyond violence and oppression, on all sides. This will not be easy. To have been denied agency, as a people, for so long, is unfathomable. My heart goes out to those in Gaza, and most especially , to those who maintain honor and work toward peaceful change in the midst of this insanity.

provocatively Israel is just so much an attack dog for US interests in the whole region, the unsinkable battleship for imperialist interests there, which is why Hillary-Billary Clinton defends Israel in any of its horrible Nazi-like crimes.
Bob Avakian put it provocatively when he said,
"After the Holocaust, the worst thing that has happened to Jewish people is the state of Israel". (see REVCOM.US for discussion of this quote).
Think about the truth in that statement!
Many many people in the world have been imbued with anti-Semitism, and here Israel under the rubric of "The Chosen People" is behaving viciously in the world, and doing to the Palestinian people precisely what the Nazi Regime did with Jewish and other people during its reign during the period of World War II !
Anti-Semitism is thereby reinforced, and yet the problem in the world is not Israel, per se, nor Jewish people.
The problem in the world is an archaic, all-played-out social system that is in its final, moribund, rotting stage, that is in the transition to an entirely new and a million times better for the people of the world, and for the earth and all its species, social stage, namely SOCIALISM, the transition to classless COMMUNISM.
We have as our goal the abolition of all class distinctions, the abolition of all the production relations on which those class distinctions rest and the abolition of all the social relations that correspond to the evermore socialized production relations. We aim for the revolutionizing of all ideas, worldwide.
One example. Think of John Lennon's IMAGINE "... no religion too".
I recommend the wealth of information on Israel, really scientific assessments of Israel's role in the world at REVCOM.US.

Yes, I was appalled to hear that Hilary Clinton once again proves herself to be on the side of oppression. Not a word about the illegality and brutality of Israel's siege of Gaza; but much to say about the limitations she would place on US citizens' rights to free expression. No doubt the FBI has been infiltrating the flotilla group's meetings and reading their emails (and going through their rubbish bins).

Let them name each and every US citizen, promise to charge them and make sure that each of them will have a public trial at which they can illuminate the darkness of US ignorance and tell the world what Israel has been doing. If the USA has a functioning legal system the charges will be seen as vexatious, the defendants will go free and Israel will be more delegitimised than it has ever been before, along with Hilary Clinton, Barack Obama and the whole US administration.

I am a french canadian and i am proud of the courageous unarmed people who will soon face the israelis thugs murderers.
This is quite an achievement, a very brave thing to do, bravo and good luck.
And for Clinton, well, we all new she was a thug, an hypocrit, a liar as well as her husband for a long long time. Down with Clinton and please, wake-up americans, it's never too late.

i was reading the israeli media in ynet thr is a topic (Sulfur to be used against IDF) whats that mean ??the are preparing the puplic oponion for the crime .in usual israel make the crima and then they start seeking reasons but in ths case they prepare the reason befor the crime so lets pray for thr safety alah with them all

Another thing to remember:

The flotilla participants sent a letter to Obama and house members to declare their peaceful purposes.

Exposure of the u.s. government's 'Israel First' policy is increasing.

The Zionists of Israel and their neocon supporters just don’t get it. They think that the ‘Freedom Flotilla’ is only about bringing humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. They seem to be oblivious to the fact that it’s called the ‘Freedom Flotilla’ for a reason.

Neocon pundit Alana Goodman writing in Commentary, says that, because the Gaza Strip now has a lot of stuff coming and going, especially since Egypt opened up the border between the Sinai and the Gaza, that the flotilla to Gaza “is completely unnecessary”.

On 10 May 2011 the Israeli ambassador to the European Union, Ran Curiel, told a news conference in Strasbourg that the flotilla is a “clear political provocation” adding that “there's no need for a flotilla to aid Gaza. You can pass whatever you want to Gaza through normal channels.” The glaringly obvious is missed entirely by the ambassador; if whatever the Gazans want can pass through normal channels then why the naval blockade?

What both the neocons and the Israelis fail to see is the desire for the Palestinians to be free of being dictated to by the Israelis. It is up to the Palestinian people of the Gaza to decide how stuff can come and go to and from the Gaza Strip, not the Israelis or anyone else. The waters off Gaza are not Israeli waters. The Israelis have no more right to dictate who or what may come and go via Gazan ports than the Palestinians have over deciding who or what can come and go via Israeli ports.

The Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip are indeed slowly being relieved of the suffering the blockade brought to them but it is no thanks to the Israelis that that relief is happening. The tunnels have had an enormously positive effect on Gazan life despite Israel’s efforts to close them down, often killing tunnel workers in the process, and the recent opening of the Gazan-Egyptian border has helped even further but, like any other nation that has a sea as part of its border, the Gazan people demand access to it in order to fully realise their trading potential. They want the freedom to be able to use what is rightfully theirs.

The political provocation comes not from the Palestinians and their supporters; rather, it comes from the Israelis themselves together with their neocon supporters who arrogantly and immorally want to deny the Palestinians in the Gaza the right to use what is theirs. The Palestinians in the Gaza want to be the judge of whether it’s ‘completely unnecessary’ or not, not the Israelis.

And that’s what the ‘Freedom Flotilla’ is really all about. It’s about freedom.

Only America and Israel would consider the delivery of food to hungry people as a threat that required a military response. Are the Israelis and Americans worried that someone is going to throw a tomato at them? Is this why military might and murder is justified in their mind?

Israel and America have stooped so low, their lies so obvious, they risk the fury of the world. They must know this and I wonder if this is just the response they want.