Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: blog di Yoav, soldato israeliano

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Monday, May 31, 2010
Bad day on the waters
Idiots. We are just idiots. I just heard about the incident on the “Mavi 
Marmara” ship, and I am outraged. I hope you’ll forgive me for not 
putting too much thought into carefully planning this post, but I just 
want to share with you what’s driving me crazy about the whole thing 
(even in this list form):
1.       “Tzadik Ve-Ra Lo” - This saying comes from the Gemara and it 
translates to something like “Righteous and suffers” meaning someone who 
is good but gets treated badly in return. This is exactly what we are 
seeing here: Everyone in the navy worked so hard to ensure that no 
protester will get hurt, that they didn’t even think what will happen if 
those so called “peace activists” will turn  out to be terrorists. Those 
soldiers were sent down on that ship with paintball guns! They were only 
allowed to open fire when one of the soldiers was thrown 30 feet down, 
and suffered serious injury to the head. We did everything in our power 
to ensure that no one got hurt - and what do we get? A lynch! Closely 
followed by the international press and media lynch. The ships that 
weren't violent didn’t suffer a single casualty. The media seems to 
forget that. The media seems to purposely hide the footage of the 
soldiers giving medial treatment to the violent hoodlums that have 
attacked them just minutes earlier.
2.       Hubris - As a commander I am embarrassed to see what the SEALs 
did. It’s just plain stupid. So the intelligence told you there won’t be 
heavy resistance. So what? Since when is the intelligence right? When a 
commander decides to send his soldiers one by one into a mob, there is 
something seriously wrong with his judgment. You must always think of 
the worst possible scenario. The SEAL’s commanders certainly didn’t do 
so, and by that they violated their most fundamental obligation to their 
soldiers: to do the very best to get them safely home. There is only one 
thing to cause such thing - Hubris. There are so many non-lethal 
solutions to this situation (flasbangs, tear gas etc), and no one 
thought to use them?
I have a close friend serving in the SEALs (whom we call “Shin 13”), and 
I got to talk with him on the last few days. The thing that troubled him 
most was the possibility that someone innocent might get hurt. He didn’t 
know there would be no innocent people on the deck of “Mavi Marmara”. I 
still haven’t heard from him. I pray that he'll return back home safe 
and sound. I would appreciate it if you do the same.
Yoav B.
p.s.
A good quality and close-up video showing that every bit of information 
released so far by the IDF on the flotilla incident is accurate - It is 
easily visible that the guns held by the soldiers are paint guns (if you 
ever saw one, you will recognize the big tank containing the paint 
balls), that no shots were fired either before or well into the boarding 
of the vessel, that the soldiers lives were clearly in danger and that a 
soldier was pushed from the top deck to the one below.

 balls), that no shots were fired
essù ditelo, che sti fottuti terroristi si sono suicidati per dare la
colpa ai perfidi giudei.