Unreported in the American news, the Turkish ship attacked in international waters is, by law, sovereign soil of a NATO signatory state. An attack on such a target is an act of war on NATO itself as outlined in the treaty ratified by the United States Senate.
With one American citizen executed and several kidnapped, some tortured, American sovereignty has, itself, been challenged. After the attack on the USS Liberty in 1967, then Undersecretary of State, George Ball said:
"The ultimate lesson of the Liberty attack had far more effect on policy in Israel than America. Israel's leaders concluded that nothing they might do would offend the Americans to the point of reprisal. If America's leaders did not have the courage to punish Israel for the blatant murder of American citizens it seemed clear that their American friends would let them get away with almost anything."
With the keystone of the "Bush Doctrine" the mutual aid provisions of the NATO agreement and America's increased vigilance, even to the point of pugnacity, defending citizens from the actions of rogue nations or terrorist groups anywhere in the world, our "blind eye" to Israeli transgressions, be they murder on the high seas, assassination in Dubai, spying in the Pentagon or "bankster" fraud, has dug a "credibility hole" that America may never be able to crawl out of.
THE DIVERGENT MEDIA, THE MORAL AND THE MORASS
With news outlets around the world, some even in Israel, condemning not only the brutality of the attack but the criminal and nakedly blatant attempt to "spin" the aftermath, destroying press "assets" en masse in the process, the corruption of the mainstream media has now been put on display.
Typically, a major blunder by a news organization, even those such as Fox that are continually caught in open fabrication of stories, is lost in the events of the next day or next week. The slow unfolding of the Freedom Flotilla story seems to have fostered a renewal of real investigative journalism, an art thought dead in today's fast moving world.
Millions around the world, tens of millions of Americans have a clear memory of the carefully scripted narrations to the Israeli videos, now known to be, not only edited for context but also suspected of being "reinacted," read "fabricated."
With the mainstream media tied to the scripted limits set by the corporate masters, the real story, the scandal, the sex and violence, was left to the internet news outlets, now grown powerful and some too independent, a threat to the Orwellian model.
When balancing between "professional liars" and "conspiracy theorists," it seems like this has been a big win for conspiracy. Where this will lead, many so very deserving need to fear.
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