Contentions/Commentary
30 September '10
It’s way past time for mainstream news outlets to stop referring to the “flotillas” mounted against Israel’s blockade of Gaza as “aid ships.” They are nothing of the sort, a truth amply demonstrated with the latest attempt by a Jewish group to run the blockade with a catamaran. The catamaran Irene has a length of 33 feet, which makes it smaller than the famous 42-foot Boghammar speedboat used by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. With crew and passengers totaling nine people, this little catamaran can’t possibly have carried much cargo. In photos of its encounter with the Israeli navy (see it here flanked by Israeli inflatable patrol boats), it looks absurdly small. In fact, it looks downright silly — a perfect emblem of the irresponsible ineffectiveness of this type of parlor-activism.
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