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David Grossman
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Los Angeles Times
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June 2, 2010
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http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-grossman-israel-20100602,0,3173471.story
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"With a combination of excessive military force and a fatal failure to anticipate the intensity of the reaction of those aboard the ship, it killed and wounded civilians, and did so — as if it were a band of pirates — outside Israel's territorial waters. Clearly, this assessment does not imply agreement with the motives — overt or hidden, and often malicious — of some participants in the Gaza flotilla. Not all are peace-loving humanitarians, and the declarations of some of them regarding the destruction of the state of Israel are criminal. But these facts are simply not relevant at the moment; such opinions, so far as we know, do not deserve the death penalty."
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This item argues against the position Israel was justified in its actions on the topic Gaza flotilla raid.
