The making of 'martyrs'

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Author(s) David Warren
Source Ottawa Citizen
Date June 3, 2010
URL http://www.ottawacitizen.com/opinion/making+martyrs/3100156/story.html
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Quotes-start.png "The flotilla was stocked with the usual assemblage of the wilfully naive: a few hundred European and other "do-gooders," including even one Jewish Holocaust survivor. They were invited along as a cosmetic imperative; as "human shields." The violence was, and was intended to be, between the Islamists and the Israeli soldiers they were certain to confront. Those who physically attacked the soldiers were working from the same impulse as suicide bombers; the rest were only there to howl." Quotes-end.png


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This item argues for the position Israel was justified in its actions on the topic Gaza flotilla raid.