Look what Israel didn't do wrong

John Podhoretz
New York Post
03 June '10

No matter whom you ask right now, it seems Israel did wrong.

Ask someone unfavorably disposed toward Israel, and you'll hear that Israel did wrong because its assassins opened fire without provocation on a humanitarian flotilla intended to relieve the suffering people of Gaza.

Ask a friend of Israel, and you'll hear that Israel did wrong because it sent its commandos in the dark into a hostile crowd that did them harm and provoked them into a violent response.

Ask someone who opposes Israel's efforts to contain the terrorist group Hamas within the borders and shoreline of Gaza, and you'll hear Israel did wrong by instituting a naval blockade of Gaza in the first place.

Ask someone who seeks the active destruction of Hamas, and you'll hear that Israel did wrong because the blockade is an ineffectual half-measure in any case, so why suffer the slings and arrows of an international crisis because of it?

Ask someone who thinks conflicts between the Palestinians and the Israelis are a never-ending spiral of violence, and you'll hear Israel did wrong because the violence its commandoes found it necessary to visit upon those on the ship will only beget more violence.

Ask someone who thinks the Palestinians and their rejectionist insistence on Israel's destruction are the causes of violence, and you'll hear that Israel did wrong because it should have taken the ships out through some means of military stealth before they even set sail from Cyprus.

Ask someone who believes what he is told by media largely hostile to Israel, and you'll hear that Israel did wrong because Israel always does wrong.

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