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staged. you mean organized as an act of civil disobedience? for non-violent actions to be other than a simple massacre there has to be attention. there has to be publicity, has to be exposure. it's because of the exposure that the maladroit execise of power looses. and that is what the idf did.
i don't think anyone set out to fuck up. but they did. and there's little sense in trying to locate some absurd conspiracy behind the scenes to stand all the little soldiers back up again.
the reason they launched the raid is pretty well summed up in the article above, i think...at the level of political generalities anyway. at the level of who made what decision when and how they combined to generate debacle for israel, that's still being handed around.
but the bottom line here is the siege of gaza. if that siege were not in place, none of this would be happening. it's about defending the siege. what you are doing by attempting to concoct some absurd conspiracy to explain why the idf had to murder 10 unarmed people in international waters is to divert attention away from the problem.
the israelis have brutalized the people of gaza for 3 years.
because they did not like the way an open election turned out, they decided to collectively punish a civilian population.
that's the problem behind all this.
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