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Originally Posted by Keeping It Simple

Yes, but wouldn't those people be alive if they didn't react the way they did, adding unnecessary suspicion in a tense moment? And how do we know it's not a Hamas trick to further fuel anti-Israeli propaganda and condemnation from other countries?

well if that's the case the trick worked.

netanyahu was going to meet obama to patch shit up over expanded settlements (which were announced while joe biden was visiting to discuss iran! huge blunder!). he had to cancel & head back home from canada.

the un security council has been working on sanctions against nuke-seeking iran-- and guess who is a rotating member in the security council right now? turkey. how do you think that's going to proceed now?

turkey by the way has a seriously big & potent army in the region-- they are an occupying power as well (in northern cyprus) and had a cozy relationship with israel until recently, doing joint military exercises--that longstanding cooperation was cancelled as a result of the gaza invasion of 2008-9, and now israel goes and kills a bunch of turks? great...!

on top of that, abbas was having "indirect talks" with israel-- continuing with that will now make him look stupid, which props up hamas.

israel is digging itself into a diplomatic shithole like it has never been into before. this isn't the yom kippur war. a humanitarian flotilla is not a horde of syrian tanks and egyptians with soviet SAM batteries and grenade launchers. killing turkish citizens in the middle of the mediterranean was a fucking stupid move, no ifs ands or buts.

i've deleted the ad-hominems this originally contained with the hope that some of this will seep into your brain and you'll understand that the world is a very complicated place and it's not always possible to keep it simple(ton). eh, i couldn't resist one last potshot...