re: #728 Nimed

Which, of course, doesn’t stop a lot of people who should know better to keep repeating the piracy accusation:

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Yet this hasn’t stopped the following random assortment of Israel critics from continuing to use the stupid piracy charge:

The Foreign Minister of Turkey

Libya’s U.N. Ambassador

Spanish Member of the European Parliament

The Nation

Pat Buchanan

Bill Press

The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (!?!?)

I could go on, but I won’t. Aside from demonstrating the limits of this blog’s readership the flagrant stupidity of this “piracy” meme reflects a remarkable lack of seriousness among (some of) Israel’s critics about the legality of the raid and the blockade. So next time you hear the Foreign Minister of Turkey decrying Israel’s violations of international law, for instance, you can feel confident he actually cares nothing at all about international law, and is just looking for a convenient slogan to slam Israel.

The accusation of piracy is so unambiguously absurd that it’s not a stretch to assume bad faith (not just ignorance or bias) from any person or media outlet that keeps repeating it.