Netanyahu's 'Rules-Based Order': Drone Strikes on Aid Boats
A recent Middle East Eye report, citing CBS News, reveals Netanyahu allegedly ordered a drone strike on the Global Sumud Flotilla. Anonymous American intelligence officials called it a 'deliberate and unnecessary provocation'—which is a remarkably mild way to describe attacking unarmed civilians attempting to deliver aid to a besieged population. Perhaps they preferred the earlier tactic of
boarding and killing activists at sea, as happened in 2010? This isn't an isolated incident; it's a chilling echo of the Mavi Marmara raid, where Israeli commandos killed ten humanitarian activists aboard another Gaza-bound flotilla. The consistency is unsettling. When will the international community recognize that these aren’t 'mistakes' but policy, designed to enforce a blockade that US
officials themselves previously deemed 'collective punishment'? How many times does 'self-defense' get to include attacking unarmed civilians before it's called what it is?