Joanna
----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> To: "lbo-talk" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Tuesday, June 1, 2010 6:20:03 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: [lbo-talk] FT on massacre
[This is sophisticated bourgeois opinion, but it does suggest that there's really no global ruling class consensus in favor of Israel.]
Financial Times - May 31, 2010
Israel is lost at sea
With Monday’s brazen act of piracy, Israel dealt a blow to the legitimacy of its own struggle. The killing of activists aboard the captured ships sent Israel’s way of defending its security, which it was already imperative to return within the bounds of international law, hurtling into lawlessness.