(Algemeiner) Ed Koch - The New York Times has reported on the newest flotilla that will once again seek to breach the Israeli naval blockade of Gaza. The new effort will apparently include a boat carrying Americans, who compared themselves to the Freedom Riders who 50 years ago rode buses to the South to challenge racial segregation then maintained by Southern states. Yet I believe the situation is more analogous to World War II, where the U.S. and our allies declared and enforced a boycott against Nazi Germany. Would those same American passengers have sought to break such a boycott, saying they supported the German people, not the Nazi government, knowing the German people had voted for Hitler in a democratic election before he took office as German Chancellor in January 1933? Why aren't these same protesters leading a flotilla to Syria's shores, where the Syrian government has killed hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Syrian citizens who were non-violently protesting the despotic acts of their own government? It's possible the flotilla protesters don't go to Syria because they know the Syrian government is capable of killing them all in cold blood, while they know Israel will do everything possible to avoid bloodshed.
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