The world media continues to spout nonsense condemning Israel for the Gaza flotilla raid. Now, the Huffington Post is publicizing a so-called report claiming that Israeli soldiers fired the first shots when boarding the lead Gaza-bound ship. The “reporter” quotes a British activist on one of the other boats as the main source for the information. Hardly non-biased.
What the “reporter” completely dismisses common sense and video footage of the raid. The “reporter” acknowledges that video footage shows that the ship’s passengers attacked the Israeli soldiers first. However, the “reporter” claims that prior to the footage, the soldiers likely fired at the passengers which led them to act in self-defense. This hypothesis ignores the fact that soldiers descended with paint guns into a hostile crowd, an act that would surely lack common sense. And, the “article” fails to mention the accompanying audio of soldiers informing their commanders that ship passengers were attacking with real weapons.
It has been over a week since the flotilla incident, and the world media continues to spout fiction and bias.