this is a war of cultures and israel is at the tip of this conflict. given the opportunity, god forbid, islam would rule the wrold and our western culture simply will disappear. the"" gaza blockade" is an excuse to wage this war.... just like the""palestinian"thing is an excuse to maintain and prolong this conflict.... to all the bleeding hearts i say-- where werethe""palestinians" before 1967? there was no intifada against jordan or egypt, was there? hypocracy and ignorance are not treateable condition...

Madam, if you wanted to appear to have the intellectual high ground, you would have refrained from using a laughable term like "anti-colonial" to refer to this situation. Next you're going to call us Islamophobes! (which I might add, is another meaningless psuedo-word)

Talker #8 has it right. Peace will come when there is not only a nuclear-free Middle East but a Zionist-Israel-free Middle East. The Jews lost their title to the land as a result of the Roman Conquest, which was a direct manifestation of the Divine Will for the rejection of the Savior.

A fight for the face of this world? With this team in charge of our Govt?.Not a chance. incompetence, wobbly decisions, self interest, no team work, no self assurance, personality discord,worst of all, whining and constantly apologizing. This is what I see. Unfortunately, I am not the only one.

great mind, great articles, great interviews. You should be in our government! Pls go around the world and explain our situation. I think that you are the right person for the hasbara no one can be better than you ! Please GO !!!

May I recommend that you listen to a jewish Radio Host here in the US Michael Savage. While he does not come right out and say that the problems of jews area not created by anti-semites but by jews themselves...just about every problem he sites can be traced to jewish intellectualism and activism. Look its no secret to say that jews have high proportions in the media and banking and government and technology...but jewish activism is also very secular, very agnostic/atheistic, anti-christian and supports unions, socialism, communism, individualism, feminism, open borders, immigration, multi-culturalism, diversity, affirmative action quotas, victimization activism of approved classes of minorities, etc. Well you get the list... SO ON ONE HAND JEWISH ACTIVISM IS STRIPPING AWAY ALL THE CULTURAL ADHESIVES OF THEIR ALLIES (BECAUSE THOSE POLICIES ARE GOOD FOR JEWS IN THOSE COUNTRIES) THAT COULD POSSIBLY EXPLAIN ISRAEL'S POLICIES. BUT THOSE JEWISH INTELLECTUAL ACTIVISM IS ALSO PATENTLY IN OPPOSITION TO ISRAELS POLICIES. AND YOU WONDER WHY THE WORLD HATES ISRAEL IS IS BEGGING FOR A REASON TO TURN THEIR BACK. LOOK IN THE MIRROR. ITS NOT NEW THOUGH. JESUS SPOKE OF THE PHILISTINES, THE ZEALOTS, THE SAN HEDRIN, THE MONEY CHANGERS...THE INTELLECTUALS AND ELITES OF HIS DAY AND SAID NO STONE SHALL REMAIN STANDING. WELL WE SAW WHERE JEWISH INTELLECTUAL ACTIVISM TOOK JUDEA UNDER THE ROMANS, THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION AND THE SOVIET UNION, WE SAW WHERE JEWISH INTELLECTUAL ACTIVISM TOOK PRE-NAZI GERMANY...AND WE ARE SEEING WHERE ITS TAKING ISRAEL. THERE IS NO ANTI-SEMETISM THAT DOES NOT ORIGINATE FROM WITHIN THE JEWISH COMMUNITY AND DRAG THE NON-JEWISH COMMUNITY IN OPPOSITION. IF YOU WANT SUPPORT FOR ISRAELI POLICIES THEN PERHAPS YOU SHOULD LOOK AT THE JEWISH INTELLECTUALISM PREACHED IN THE WESTERN NATIONS YOU CALL FRIENDS.

Thanks Mordechai Kedar for putting such a succinct, strategic and well thought out article. The world needs to hear more from people like you. Here's an article that goes into additional detail on the groups behind the Flotilla's ties to radical Islam with a commitment to the destruction of Israel, posted on NYT http://nyti.ms/blhjPr

ambassador for Jewish-Polish relations failure. If you want to use that argument ...a biblical one...it still can't stand against the Jews legal claim to Palestine which included the whole of today's Jordan..we've made enough concessions already. The British were mandated by the League of Nations to create a home for the Jewish people....and reneged. I fear that no amount of logic will displace you from your Ordure.

For the Kurdish Nation. When are the humanitarians going to attack Turkish soldiers who are killing and oppressing the Kurds? Or march for the Ahmadis in Pakistan? Remember them? 100 murdered by the majority Sunnis. Silence from the "humanitarians" The blatent hypocracy is stunning.

Israel was simply following protocol; the ship refused inspection. (Even a merchant ship must agree to inspection...let alone one carrying knife-wielding protesters who support Hamas - an illegal terrorist group!) This event will surely remind any terrorists who try to provoke Israel - "Just don't as you will lose!" Perhaps this message will finally SINK in, which leads me to my final thought on the matter: Any other government would have simply SUNK THE BOAT after offering repeated warnings. Israel on the other hand showed incredible restraint before finally putting down the terrorists.

for agrression, violation of International Laws, occupaisration and other crimes, then israel's pirates are true "westerns", no doubts.