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Originally Posted by Moshe
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nice article. starts like this:
As I said the day it happened, in a fierce debate with one of Netanyahu’s ministers in Tel Aviv, I continue to find the manner in which the assault against the Mavi Marmara and its flotilla was effected off the Gaza coast “stupid”.
I'd say it was more than just stupid, it was asinine and thoughtless, Likud-style.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/spy-t...ridicules.html
some choice quotes from the link i posted:
The Israeli commando attack on a civilian flotilla was “so stupid it is stupefying,” says former Mossad agent Victor Ostrovsky.
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Responsibility for the raid, which has provoked widespread condemnation and a diplomatic uproar, should be laid at the feet of “the shoot-from-the-hip prime minister,” Ostrovsky said -- Binyamin Netanyahu, whom he blamed for two previous messy intelligence operations in Dubai and Jordan.
Flotilla 13’s typically careful planning, he speculated, was supplanted by orders from Netanyahu or his ultra-conservative foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, to “do something now.”
“Nobody can do a good job in a rush,” he said.
Stopping the flotilla in international waters was “a grave mistake,” Ostrovsky said.
“Why not wait? They knew where it was going.”
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The commandos could have easily sneaked up to the ships and boats from behind in “wet submarines” (which look like open torpedoes) and disabled their propellers, he said.
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Ostrovsky said it was also inexplicable that the commandos were sent to land on the top decks in the middle of the ships, where they were vulnerable to resistance from terrified and angry passengers and crew. A better tactic would have been to have the commandos board from the stern and bow and work inward.
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“We look like the British stopping the Exodus,” he said.
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