{"id":7378,"date":"2010-07-10T02:50:05","date_gmt":"2010-07-10T10:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=7378"},"modified":"2010-07-10T02:50:05","modified_gmt":"2010-07-10T10:50:05","slug":"somali-pirate-wannabes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/10\/somali-pirate-wannabes\/","title":{"rendered":"Somali pirate wannabes?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this week Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu once again claimed that when they attacked the Mavi Marmara peace convoy on May 31 in international waters<\/a>, the high-seas Israeli pirates — euphemistically called "commandos<\/i>" — were acting in self-defense. The Israeli Pirates murdered at least 19<\/a>, wounded dozens more<\/a>, and "arrested<\/i>" (kidnapped) many others. <\/p>\n

By Mr. Netanyahu’s interesting logic, when a tanker crew resists Somali pirates, the pirates would claim they were justified in murdering, wounding, and\/or kidnapping the tanker crew because the pirates<\/b> — not the crew — were acting in self-defense. <\/p>\n

Similarly, when a homeowner resists home invaders, the invaders were justified in killing, wounding, and\/or kidnapping the homeowner and his family and guests because the home invaders<\/b> — not the homeowner — were acting in self-defense. <\/p>\n

This flawed and self-serving reversal of logic is called "blaming the victim<\/i><\/a>" and seems to be a favorite — if disgusting — ploy regularly invoked by Israeli Government spokes-people. <\/p>\n

The REAL<\/i> question is: <\/p>\n

"Why do representatives of the Israeli Government regularly get away with such obviously flawed and self-serving arguments, unchallenged, in front of God, U.S. Main Stream Media, and the whole world<\/i>?" <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And, yes, of course the Israelis have the right to defend themselves – – – when they don’t use piracy, home invasion, etc. But so do the Palestinians. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earlier this week Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu once again claimed that when they attacked the Mavi Marmara peace convoy on May 31 in international waters, the high-seas Israeli pirates — euphemistically called "commandos" — were acting in self-defense. The Israeli Pirates murdered at least 19, wounded dozens more, and "arrested" (kidnapped) many others. By […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7378"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7390,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7378\/revisions\/7390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7378"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}