Yes it was a PR stunt to highlight the iniquity of the Gaza blockade.
Israels position is indefensible with regard to Gaza and there was no way to prevent the delivery of humanitarian aid to the camp without highlighting what is going on there. Allow it in and the world see what you are doing, stop it and you look like monsters either way. If you do not wish to look like monsters then do not blockade Gaza, there are limits to what you can spin as acceptable. While Israel may have some success at home, and in the US, I do not think there is another country in the world who's people are buying it anymore. While sorry for the families of those murdered I hope it will have some effect on US public opinion so the US government stop protecting Israel when it does go on one of its killing sprees. Stop the military aid, stop the security council sanctions, transfer the sanctions package against Iran to Israel and then restart the ME peace talks.
One state solution: secular, democratic with protections for the minority religious groupings like Jews and Christians.
Welcome to the new world order.
PS Rex - nice post at FP on the tunnels. For those of you that missed it
http://mideast.foreignpolicy.com/pos...culiar_economy
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