Hypocrisy Spiked! again

Brendan O'Neill refuses to toe the line on the 'peace flotilla'.

Many people are understandably concerned about the siege of Gaza by Israel. But the flotilla incident this week confirms that there’s a more pressing, profound and almost completely unquestioned problem today: the intellectual, moral siege of Israel by the Respectable World. There is nothing remotely progressive, far less radical, in the transformation of Israel into the whipping boy of a motley crew of Western moral entrepreneurs, radical Islamists and momentum-seeking left-wing activists. In fact it is fuelled by a quite intense hypocrisy and political opportunism, and it is warping the political dynamic in the Middle East, making life worse for Israelis and Palestinians.

I don't go along with O'Neill's Spanish Civil War analogy and unlike him I do support Israel but such small caveats apart, he writes all I would want to write about the Gaza flotilla with its crew of the dangerous, the disingenuous and the deluded .