Of particular note was the journalist talking about how the palestinian members of the flotilla were treated in comparison to the westerners. In a word, poorly
they do not seperate politics and personal feelings from doing their duty, whatever it may be over there
also just fyi here are some of my thuoghts on the wider implications of this Iwrote for a different forum:
I saw a good discussion on MSNBC with former CIA guy Bob Baer and another guy. two good points made
1. alot of peole did not realize there was a blockade of gaza at all. now they are aware of it
2. as usual Iran is benefiting from this. Turkey was Israels only nominal ally in the region. Obviously, killing some of their citizens is not going to make that shaky bond stronger. Turkey has been working with Iran involving Irans nuclear program and now they will likely pursue more of that sort of thing as iran has not recently murdered any turkish aid workers.
I would add these two things to what those guys said
1. Turkey is more western and secular than alot of muslm countries but some of it, especially on the political side, is superficial and meant to help Turkys prospective entry into the EU. the EU is in pretty bad shape now, there may not be anything for Turkey to join and then what incentive do they have for even pretending to be part of the democratization brigade?. oh and
4. iran sold a ton of euros and bought gold and dollars instead. central banks doing stuff like that doesn't tend to help the currency very much. quite the contrary. The EU crashing would be a great boon to Iran and they have the power with moves like that to help push it along its way.
so, alot of things not going on not in plain sight on this one.