BREAKING: Ethan Bronner of NY Times confirms Israel started hostilities on flotilla!

[Whaler]

http://www.hybridstates.com/2010/06/bre ... -flotilla/

The NY Times Jerusalem Bureau Chief, whose objectivity was cast into doubt because his son actively serves in the IDF, has just published a detailed article on the flotilla massacre.

The second paragraph jumps off the page:

    The crack of an Israeli sound grenade and a hail of rubber bullets from above were supposed to disperse activists, but instead set them into motion. And when three Israeli commandos slid down ropes out of helicopters to take over the ship, a crowd set upon them.

The "newspaper of record" (of all places!) finally cuts through all hasbara coming out of the IDF Press Office and Israeli Foreign Ministry.

The activists did NOT attack first (something that anyone listening to any eyewitnesses other than the IDF already knew). The commandos shot stun grenades and rubber bullets from above. Only THEN did the activists attack them after they descended.

Israel's entire claim to "self-defense", as preposterous as it ever was, is now sunk at sea.

Let the war crimes investigation and prosecution begin. Israel MUST be held accountable. Our collective humanity depends critically upon it.