As I am reading a fresh article in the CNN website regarding an additional ship sailing to the shores of Israel in the intention to “provide Gaza with medical and humanitarian aid” I cannot help but writing a response here on my website. And why don’t I respond on CNN you ask? Simply because my words will probably be censored and most of what I want to say will not be read by anyone – I tried.

The first thing I would like to say about the story on CNN is about the first sentence: “Two days after Israel’s deadly attack….” I would write:

“Just two days after violating the Israeli territory, another ship with the intent to incite the arab world is headed towards Israel…” Thats how I, and everyone in Israel see it and thats exactly how each and everyone reading this story would feel if ships such as those stopped by the Israeli army, would violate your country’s rules and laws.

In the story, the CNN reporter makes sure to specify the ship’s cargo and of course it’s name “the rachel corrie” (for future reference when it will be stopped by the Israeli army) and specifically the fact that the ship’s cargo was checked by the Irish customs (the ship is embarking from Ireland). Now, here’s a thought you may have missed, my dear CNN reporter: Can’t that ship be loaded with weapons and ordnance at mid sea ? Do you think people or terrorists are that stupid? If you were a terrorist, would you load the weapons and missiles in Ireland or meat a Libyan, Tunisian, Algerian or any other ship in the middle of the sea and load the weapons there? The fact that the ship was inspected in Ireland is a nice thought but unfortunately for the world, terrorists are much more cleaver then you would imagine, it’s what they do – deceive public opinion.

Another thing which was written in the story is that this will probably won’t be the last ship, of course it wont,. Look at the incitement it caused? Look how much the world hates Israel now, that’s exactly the purpose of those ships, deliver weapons or create provocation, regardless, I would hate to disappoint the former US ambassador to Mauritania – Israel will respond to similar future threat such as the flotollia in the same manner it did with the flotollia, if not worse – that’s the only way to ensure Israel’s safety which is the most important thing to our leaders.

There is of course (how else?) a quote from an arab representative, Mr. Ghassan Al-Khateeb saying the peace talks are at a halt because of Israel’s violation of human rights(?!?!?), well Mr. Al-khateeb, what about those missiles which are fired daily on Israeli cities? Isn’t that a violation of human rights?….ohhh im sorry , I forgot, those are “terrorists” that are firing those missiles…

If you want peace, Mr. Al-Khateeb, cut the crap – stop those missiles and start acting like a leader, either that or resign and let your people have a real leader – one with guts.

Another phrase I would change in the article, and I quote: “The commando raid which led to the death of nine people…” I would rephrase it to: “the illegal convoy which violated Israel’s territorial waters causing the death of 9 people…”, doesn’t it strike you odd that Israel defended it’s borders and it;s now held guilty for that? I red the phrase “excessive use of force…” somewhere on the Internet in relation to current events, it made me laugh, those soldier weren’t carrying real guns, they boarded those ships with paintball guns to prevent casualties and were fired upon with live fire. Besides, what is Israel expected to do? Throw flowers at criminals? The broke the law and they were stopped, Arab countries do much more for much less…

There is a whole part about the Turkish prime minister and his anti-Israel speech to which I will not even give room in my article as I think his acts and sayings are anti-Israel, Anti-Jewish and I would advise that he would be careful at his goals. Turkey was a friend to Israel because of it’s western ideals and policy, becoming an Arab extremist doesn’t help him or his country.

One thing that really pissed me of with the CNN story is this statement: “many Israelis, whoc see themselves as between the rock and a hard place when it comes to how to approach the issues on the territory”, obviously the reporter is stating his or her opinion here, yesterday, I drove from Tel Aviv to Tiberias up north and along the road, in every intersection, there were people carrying the Israeli flags and sign that explicitly say: “well done Netanyahu…” I do not know where the CNN reporter gathered such information but it is obviously wrong and misleading as Israelis – even the most conservative ones – now realise that the territory is the new “wild west” they allow themselves to do and act as they see fit blaming “the terrorists every time Israelis get hurt. Everyone I know is now saying – NO MORE!

There is some more self righteous text about the Gaza blockade being immoral and that the people of Gaza shouldn’t suffer like that – well, nor should the Israeli suffer because the Palestinian authority cannot control terrorists within it’s borders.

To sum it all, the equation is quite simple:

NO MISSILES = NO BLOCKADE

maybe the palestinians need some more time to understand it, and maybe the world does too, us Israelis have long learned that for Arabs, our blood is lesser then water, and no one in the world, not the french, not the british, the Americans or the Turkish people will help us when we will be on the loosing side – that’s exactly why we will do everything to make sure – we always win!