Washington Gives Green Light for Attack on Unarmed Gaza Flotilla, Including Ship with 50 Americans on Board
Submitted on July 1, 2011
By Stephen Zunes - June 30, 2011
The risk of an Israeli attack on the flotilla is real. Israeli commandos illegally assaulted a similar flotilla in international waters on May 31 of last year, killing nine people on board one of the vessels, including...a 19-year old U.S. citizen. Scores of others...were brutally beaten and more than a dozen others were shot but survived their wounds...The Obama administration never filed a complaint with the Israeli government, demonstrating its willingness to allow the armed forces of U.S. allies to murder U.S. citizens on the high seas.
