Procrustes Stretched
"intuition and imagination and intelligence"
“We’re helping Arabs going against the U.S., don’t forget 9/11, guys.”
“We’re helping Arabs going against the U.S., don’t forget 9/11, guys.”
---
Photographs of Battered Israeli Commandos Show New Side of Raid - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
Sweet. Some humanitarian aide workers better figure out who their friends are before they go lecturing the rest of us on how nice the Palestinians and their friends are.
---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockade
[youtube]pxY7Q7CvQPQ[/youtube]
“We’re helping Arabs going against the U.S., don’t forget 9/11, guys.”
---
Mr. Sheizaf also noted that another Israeli journalist, Alon Ben David, who is a military correspondent for Israel’s Channel 10, reported over the weekend that sources in the I.D.F. had sketched out a timeline of the raid for him. According to Mr. Ben David’s report:
The attack on the ship started at 4:30 a.m. with 15 commandos rappelling down ropes to the ship’s upper deck. The first three commandos were captured and taken to the lower deck. After one minute, the commandos opened fire and took control of the upper deck.
At 4:35 a.m. another team arrived by helicopter. At 4:50 a.m. the commandos started taking over the ship. At 5:00 a.m the military announced it had control of the ship’s bridge.
The three commandos then either escaped or were freed by their colleagues.
According to Mr. Sheizaf, the capture of the three commandos may have been what triggered the use of deadly force against the ship’s passengers. In his post on the photographs, he wrote:
Since the Gilad Shalit kidnapping, there is a standing order in Israel not to let any IDF soldier to be captured alive, even if it means risking his own life — let alone the life of the people around him.
Photographs of Battered Israeli Commandos Show New Side of Raid - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
Sweet. Some humanitarian aide workers better figure out who their friends are before they go lecturing the rest of us on how nice the Palestinians and their friends are.
[youtube]9dE2StbDL_Q[/youtube]
---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockade
Last edited: