"Israel ought to be ashamed of such a hackneyed and obtuse script."

You should be ashamed of slavery, you massive conglomerate of forces beyond your control.

You should be ashamed of grativity's relative strength, concatenated conglomerate of models in M-theory.

But seriously, up to what extent is Israel's apparent lack of fear of looking like assholes a result of the Western world's historical indolence regarding matters like this? What do you guys think?

Who you callin baldy?

I'm more reminded of the gold standard in heavy-handed state media manipulation: Stalinist Russia purging fools left and right and then airbrushing them out of existing photos Ministry of Truth style.

At least the people behind this are hopefully learning that their audience is too savvy for this kind of shit nowadays.

They're turning into Nazi caricatures all right

If it makes you feel any better, it's more likely most Americans (at least the ones down here) will never even know about it than not care.

I'm going to be honest with you guys. If it wasn't for Gommorrah, I wouldn't have even known about these phony tapes.

And even when the news originally broke on the original flotilla attack, the news shows I viewed made no mention of how the footage was edited by the Israel Government. Or even followed up on it with any investigations or such.

So yeah, I agree. If more people knew, you might even see a public dressing down by Obama himself.

Hoping for the president of the United States is not only hoping for too much, but it's still hoping for something ineffective.

"due to an open channel, the specific ship or ships in the “Freedom Flotilla” responding to the Israeli Navy could not be identified. "

They presented doctored tape as evidence that the people they shot on the Mavi Marmara were extremists and terrorist supporters when they knew all along that all it could ever prove was someone with a marine VHF set within 100km of them was on their channel and said some vile racist shit.

Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filipino_Monkey

Even if the transmission came from the ships it's still no excuse to open fire.

^ This.

The fact that the tapes were a focus to begin with is ridiculous. They could have said all the anti-Semitic shit they wanted to and it would not have justified OPENING FIRE on the ships.

This is just a transparent attempt by Israel to redirect everyone's attention and trot out OMG Antisemitism again to justify brutality.

No no, we'll still need Israel so the End Times can come about.

Once we run out of oil, the end times are coming regardless of who's around to see them.

We could just revert back to our agrarian past, but consider that everyone has nukes now, and the only country to have used them is two for two on not giving a shit about how almost all of the resulting deaths were civilian.

Be proud of being a bad person. You can't change, so accept yourself. Rejoice, you have many brethren!

Wishing for nukes to be used makes you a bad person, yes.

More of a bad person than wishing for people to die, that is.

A bad person would insist that this kind of thinking makes them a good person.