Israel 'Arrests' Aid Workers, US Media Calls it 'Conflict'
The 'last flotilla boat sails on' after Israel 'arrests' 450 activists attempting to deliver aid to Gaza, according to France 24. This isn't a new script; the 2010 Mavi Marmara flotilla saw Israeli commandos kill ten unarmed aid workers in international waters. Yet, mainstream outlets like France 24 continue to sanitize these confrontations, framing humanitarian efforts for a besieged population
as 'activism' met with 'arrests,' rather than military-enforced blockade against international law. One might wonder when bringing medical supplies and food becomes an act worthy of military interception and detention. The media's consistent portrayal of these events as mere 'incidents' avoids the glaring fact: this is a blockade, enforced with US-supplied weaponry. How many humanitarian convoys
must be violently suppressed before the 'international community' acknowledges the actual violence is in preventing aid, not delivering it?