While most of the developed world is in an uproar about Israel’s attack on the humanitarian flotilla and all the issues that assault raises in terms of the bigger picture in the Middle East, there has been very little coverage of it at Daily Kos.
Markos, on "This Week" you stated the attack was "incompetently handled" but it left open a lot of questions, as it appeared you lean more towards condoning than condemning what happened. What are the views of you and your stellar writers on the bigger moral issues of who was right and who was wrong, not just in that specific incident but in the all the other issues in that troubled region? Were the flotilla killings justified? Is Israel’s siege of Gaza and its impact morally defensible in your view? Do you think Israel’s actions in the wars in Lebanon and Gaza were brutally one-sided or "measured and proportionate"? Are the settlements illegal? Is the occupation acceptable?
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