Arab shopkeepers in Jerusalem’s Old City are beginning to close down in observance of a commercial strike in the Israeli Arab sector, which is set for tomorrow, Tuesday, June 1st.
**Violent protest reported in Haifa University. One police officer was injured, struck in his head with a rock. Violence reported between Jewish and Arab students on campus.
**Belgium has summoned the Israeli ambassador, seeking an explanation for the Gaza flotilla operation.
**French President Nicolas Sarkozy condemns Israel’s “disproportionate use of power”.
**Opposition leader MK Tzipi Livni speaking to the foreign press to assist in the PR effort surrounding the Gaza flotilla effort.
**The UN Security Council is set to meet on Monday to discuss the Gaza flotilla operation.
**Turkey announces it is canceling its participation in the Yad Vashem international convention set for mid-June.
**22 wounded remain admitted in hospitals in Israel.
**Leftists protest against IDF flotilla operation in Tel Aviv University.
**Turkey’s Consul General in Israel visited wounded in Rambam Medical Center.
**Germany critical of Israel’s reaction, calling the commando mission a disproportionate use of power.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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All this cry of “disproportionate use of power” reminds me of an incident from my children when a little boy in the bungalow colony came crying to his mother, “Just because I kicked him, he didn’t have to punch me in the face.”
Too bad. If you make a provocative move and come armed to lynch Israeli soldiers, don’t come crying to Mama a.k.a. International Public Opion about your punches being disproportionate. The problem is that Mama/IPO is just waiting to defend poor little Pali against his wicked aggressors.
Ein lanu al mi lehisha’ein ala al avinu shebashamayim.