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A view from the Left
Udi Aloni
Published: 03.06.10, 00:02
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1. cowardy liar and distorter of truth
izzy d   (06.03.10)
turns of phrases and the truth changes. what a joke. "And suppose that those civilians on board the ship, who were either determined or frightened by the mask on my face, clouded with tear gas, decided to attack me with rods and knives" WATCH THE BLOODY VIDEO!!! The commandos were attacked before they were halfway to the deck.
2. A fantastic look at how out of touch the left has fallen
Avi Zelikovitch ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (06.03.10)
Hi Udi, Is everything alright? Listen, you're going to need to do something- really more for yourself than anything else - but please, listen to what is said here, open your ears and your eyes and for the love of whatever it is you hold dear, allow these words to penetrate your battered soul..... YOU are not important. YOUR cause has been exposed as a hateful, violent cesspool intent on drowning out all who disagree and all who stand in the way. It cares nothing for Gaza, it cares nothing for the Palestinians, and it will ultimately fail in its true goal, which is the promotion of the self, and the exploitation of once pure ideals.
3. :: Finally a decent article
Matty Groves ,   Fairport   (06.03.10)
4. Oh please
Elad ,   USA   (06.03.10)
How does it look up there from your high horse?
5. Unarmed ship ? Who was beating the crap out of the seamen?
GZLives   (06.03.10)
Leftist mental disorder
6. Udi Aloni
Df2 ,   Beer Sheva, Israel   (06.03.10)
Udi Aloni does the same thing that is rife in people who want to condemn Israel for whatever Israel does. He talks about international law, but he basically has no idea what international law applies to the situation here. This is an area in a state of war - if you don't believe it, look at the Hamas Covenant, Articles 13 and 15, the rockets and mortars still being fired into Israel from Gaza. Under international law blockades in war and areas in a state of war are a legal and internationally recognized method to prevent your opponent from receiving aid. Look at the history of warfare. International law states what the rights and limitations of the combatants are and how different ships of the belligerents and neutral countries are to act when challenged. Israel followed these rules to the letter. The ship was warned that they are entering a combat zone, to turn away. The answer from the Turkish captain was 2 words: "f*** you". If Mr. Aloni wants to state that it is his OPINION that..... fine. But to claim something about international maritime law without researching the entire subject is ignorance at best and intellectual prostitution at worst.
7. Comment
Mohammad ,   Jordan   (06.03.10)
The author is not a Jew, not an Israeli, not a male, and not white. The author is a HUMAN. I would call this article "humanism 101" I take my hat off to you brother, be ready to be criticised and cursed by the fanatics, but please never stop writing.
8. "maritime terror applied by a state"
Yisraeli   (06.03.10)
You are simply a liar and just another irrelevant useful idiot.
9. Article very poorly written
dubs ,   USA   (06.03.10)
No context, no true account of what happened. Not everyone are peace-loving hippies. If only your thoughts were based in truth.
10. So right so sad
The Jew   (06.03.10)
11. What an idiot!
Dbo ,   USA   (06.03.10)
I'm blown away by the ignorance of this author. What a schmuck! You should send him on a permanent vacay to gaza. His ancestors are rolling over in their graves. A true disgrace to our people.
12. Was there justice for the people of Sderot?
TSB ,   Clifton, NJ   (06.03.10)
One question, Mr. Alon, did your friends ever protest the injustice of the civilians in Sderot being terrorized by thousands of rockets? Justice, apparently, means "Jew, take your whipping lying down." Sorry, but the Jews are not taking it anymore.
13. Oh come on.
solomon ,   Bklyn   (06.03.10)
Get real. Five (!) boat loads of people reacted rationally, knowing they would be boarded. One boat load already knew they would attack. Iron rods, knives, kill. You are blinded by your own zeal to not see what happened. But you don't want truth in the first place. Only your own blind version of it.
14. DISGUSTING and TREASONOUS
Yaron ,   USA   (06.03.10)
.....figures Matty Groves thinks this is a good article.
15. Useful Idiot
Southern Man ,   NC, USA   (06.03.10)
16. Sickening Drivel
Israelit ,   Israel   (06.03.10)
This guy is out of his mind. Israelis feeling the pain of their Palestinian brothers and sisters... I have NO Palestinian brothers and sisters. However, I have many Israeli brothers and sisters that were maimed by your Palestinian brothers and sisters. Where are the Palestinian cries for peace? Where are the Palestinian activists against their misguided leadership? Udi Aloni, you make me sick.
17. Udi Aloni is Clueless
An Arab who thinks ,   Udi is delusional   (06.03.10)
Udi Aloni is clueless -- or blind. There is no blockade -- all humanitarian aid can go to Gaza in myriad legal ways. What there is -- is inspection to prevent weapons (rockets, etc.) designed to terrorize and harm innocent civilaians like Udi Aloni and his family. This inspection is Israel's moral duty and legal right -- agreed to by the Arabs themselves at Oslo and subsequent agreements. Those soldiers did not attack -- they were in mortal danger. I look at the videos and wonder how they even survived the murderous thugs -- oh, sorry -- "peaceniks" who ambushed them. Udi -- wake up, or we Arabs will walk all over you.
18. Prisnors of war
zichron   (06.03.10)
They are not our brothers and sisters they helped the neonazis destroy us uin the shoah they are prisoners of war. THEY MUST BE TREATED ACCORDING TO THE GENEVA CONVENTION AND THE FLOTILLAS ALLOWED TO ARRIVE EVERY MONTH . nato must search the vessels first for arms.
19. Leftist illusions are a global phenomena
Matityahu ,   Slovenia   (06.03.10)
It's a modern psychosis that has affected a great deal of people in the western society, blaming themselves and others for the wrong doings of the enemies. It's the absence of reason on both sides and the inability to accept the fact that a certain part of the world accepts death over life.
20. Ah Orwell would be proud
Danny   (06.03.10)
When beating a man with bats and stabbing him becomes "non-violent resistance". Just like pelting him with stones I guess.
21. Thank you
Gazan ,   Canada   (06.03.10)
Thank you, Udi. you put tears in my eyes by the end of the article.
22. You're worse than Gideon Levy
Malone ,   Hfx   (06.03.10)
You make me sick!!!!!!
23. You should be living in Gaza....
Malone ,   Hfx   (06.03.10)
Actually,Rafah would be better...preferably close to a tunnel entrance :::(((
24. projection
David Oberlander ,   Little Rock USA   (06.03.10)
It is quite sad. I believe the writer actually believes what he is spouting. That the entire world is against you, maybe they have a point? The world is good. Man is kind, good. And for the overwhelming majority of the world castigate Israel, they must be right. It is instructive he uses the religious terms 'from the river to the sea' and inverts it's meaning. To accept the writer's conclusions/observations, you must believe the IDF doctored the video tapes... all of them. This is not to say Israel can do no wrong. But to the leftist-green alliance, Israel is never right. The sins of the world date back to the occupation starting in '67, and a return to the '67 borders will bring peace. For the writer to accept the alternative hypothesis: Jews have had about a generation's respite from anti-semitism, that much of the world hates Jews, that is doesn't really matter where your borders are, that, even if you case to exist, you will be to blame. Even when you, miracle of miracles, perform a good deed like in Port-Au-Prince, it is only because you covet your neighbors organs. For the writer to accept the truth, is too depressing... and all too real to accept.
25. Beating & Stabbing is Violent !!
Garrison Katz ,   LA - USA   (06.03.10)
Maybe since no one beat you their was no violence! If I was to be beaten like the Israeli soliders where I would have shot all the people who were involved. If a free Kurdistan boat was too arrive in Turkey and they starting beating Turkish soliders (who would probably used torpedo the ship first anyway) they would kill all on board. I am sick of the leftist anti-Israel bull, lies and anti-semitism!
26. Typical leftist liar
Gee ,   Zikron Yaakov   (06.03.10)
Tell you what Aloni go and I will spend whatever the Navy has to spend to sink your ship boat and you with it.
27. Thank you Udi Aloni
KMansfield ,   San Francisco, CA   (06.03.10)
This is a powerful writing. Is it too late for you to join the Rachel Corrie and the Challenger 2?
28. Shame
Avi Yadlin ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (06.03.10)
Shame on Turkey for allowing and encouraging the violent activists. Shame on the USA for not supporting its only ME ally in this hour of need. Shame on Udi Aloni for betraying his own country by propogating lies. Most of all, Shame on Ynet for running it....
29. Udi, you're mixing up two different elements
Robert Haymond ,   Israel/Canada   (06.03.10)
and therefore your disorganization makes it hard to pursue your logic. Let me start with the "feedom flotilla". Unlike you, I believe we are obligated to blockade Gaza but then I was on the receiving line in Ashdod when missiles and rockets were launched. Furthermore, it's plain to read in the Hamas Charter that a priority principle is the obliteration of Israel. So your softness vis a vis Gaza is really an obfuscation of the real threat of Hamas, which governs Gaza, of the first order and typical of people who currently identify with the left. Quite apart from that, it's obvious from all the videos that the Turks hijacked the peaceful element of the flotilla for their own purposes. In case you haven't seen the videos, they were awaiting our troops with masks, iron stanchions, wooden clubs, knives, slingshots with glass marbles, tasers and two guns. They were members of the IHH, a Turkish philanthropist organization also tied in with the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and al-Queda. Hardly a distinguished organization, is it, Uri? As to your second point the one you broached vis a vis our (Jewish) attitude towards Palestinians, I am afraid that there is altogether too much truth in the criticism you have levelled. They do not feel recognized much as Blacks did not feel recognized (as people) in the USA in the earlier part of the 19th century. A fictional account of this can be detailed in the novel "The Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison. This same theme is evident in the novels of many other Black American novelists as well. In addition, our pronounced attempt to settle in all parts of Shomrun and Judea makes it obvious that we Israelis do not intend to allow a fledgling Palestinian state to develop in the Westbank. In order for a state to develop in the Westbank, Palestinians require a contiguous border, not a cheesecake geopolitical half-entity. The Palestinians have a good man now to lead them, Salaam Fayyad, just as you indicate. He takes the approach of peaceful opposition. He is not dramatic nor hysterical the way most Arab spokesment comport themselves. (Besides which, I admire him at a personal level because he is a runner/jogger, a positive characteristic for many reasons.) So Uri, perhaps you could rewrite this column and rethink your perspective re the peace flotilla in light of the objective evidence you have at your disposal and, as well, lengthen your piece on our failure to acknowledge Palestinians in their need for a state of their own. And please feel free to post comments here. It is good when, on occasion, the writer himself gets further involved. I'd like to hear from you.
30. Udi openly supports violence against Israel
Mordechai   (06.03.10)
Just as Udi endorses violence against Israel I endorse violence against Udi Aloni Of course this makes me a non violent peace activist right. After all I am supporting killing a Jew and killing Jews is the definition of non violence
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