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En marinofficer i Israel har protesterat mot Israels räd:
http://www.israeli-occupation.org/
Artikeln i helhet:
"First and foremost, we protest the fact that responsibility for the tragic results was immediately thrust onto the organizers of the flotilla," wrote the officers. "This demonstrates contempt for the responsibility that belongs principally to the hierarchy of commanders and those who approved the mission. This shows contempt for the values of professionalism, the purity of weapons and for human lives."
IOA Editor (UPDATED): This Israeli naval-officers letter is important. As commanding officers of attack boats, they know the laws governing behavior in international waters and realize how grave Israel's violation of these basic international laws was.
In addition to the Haaretz coverage of this story, the officers' letter states: "Based on our experience as commanders of [attack] boats and commando units... we think that it was possible to act in different ways in order to stop the ship. The approach used in the field included a high level of friction which, in our opinion, was unnecessary - and this irrespective of the nature of the resistance encountered during the raid on the ship [Mavi Marmara]. The nature of the operation [that was carried out] is contrary to other methods which were appropriate to implement, based on the understanding that the object was a civilian vessel, sailing under Turkish jurisdiction, in international waters."
And, crucially, they attribute responsibility for the attack to Israel's military elite rather than to activists. This flies in the face of all of Israel's propaganda of last week.
"Purity of Weapons" is an old, mythological Israeli term that attempts to distinguish between "just" killing (nearly always) and unjust killing (practically never) by IDF soldiers. For example, to date, no official Israeli source has termed Israel's attack on Gaza as violating this mythological standard.
http://www.israeli-occupation.org/
Artikeln i helhet:
"First and foremost, we protest the fact that responsibility for the tragic results was immediately thrust onto the organizers of the flotilla," wrote the officers. "This demonstrates contempt for the responsibility that belongs principally to the hierarchy of commanders and those who approved the mission. This shows contempt for the values of professionalism, the purity of weapons and for human lives."
IOA Editor (UPDATED): This Israeli naval-officers letter is important. As commanding officers of attack boats, they know the laws governing behavior in international waters and realize how grave Israel's violation of these basic international laws was.
In addition to the Haaretz coverage of this story, the officers' letter states: "Based on our experience as commanders of [attack] boats and commando units... we think that it was possible to act in different ways in order to stop the ship. The approach used in the field included a high level of friction which, in our opinion, was unnecessary - and this irrespective of the nature of the resistance encountered during the raid on the ship [Mavi Marmara]. The nature of the operation [that was carried out] is contrary to other methods which were appropriate to implement, based on the understanding that the object was a civilian vessel, sailing under Turkish jurisdiction, in international waters."
And, crucially, they attribute responsibility for the attack to Israel's military elite rather than to activists. This flies in the face of all of Israel's propaganda of last week.
"Purity of Weapons" is an old, mythological Israeli term that attempts to distinguish between "just" killing (nearly always) and unjust killing (practically never) by IDF soldiers. For example, to date, no official Israeli source has termed Israel's attack on Gaza as violating this mythological standard.
