Secretary Clinton on Death of American on Flotilla: ‘Protecting the Welfare of American Citizens is a Fundamental Responsibility of Our Government’

Please…you don’t take care of the Americans on the Mexican/three state border..so that’s B.S.! There should never have been anyone hurt if the terrorists hadn’t used weapons to kill the Israelis. Talk about having your support backwards!!!

The fact that the U.S. is not firmly backing Israel is very very sad. Israel tries to keep weapons out of the hands of terrorists and the U.S. can’t figure out which side to stand on. Our allies or the people trying to supply terrorists? (according to the U.S. Hamas is a Terrorist Group, Hamas controls Gaza) HMMMM what when wrong. Oh yeah, November 2008.

No one can kill US citizen, even if he is Muslim, without actions from US government to try to bring the killers to justice! It is sad that some US citizens value more the relationship with Israel than the life of US citizens!
US and US citizens interests first, then Israel, Georgia, S Korea .. whoever!

I refer you to the Q’s to O’s WH. Why does it matter if he is a US citizen? US citizens are free to make decisions and to live by the consequences. If you participate in a flotilla, with the purpose of breaking a military blockade, then you choose to enter a dangerous situation and live by the consequences. The only responsiblity of the US gov’t is to help investigate the incident, impartially, and to let the chips fall after all the facts are discovered.
And IMHO, if this was a “peaceful humanitarian” flotilla with no other purpose, then I have a shiny golden unicorn that can make energy from its waste that I’d be happy to sell you.

And by no means was the ship “attacked” in military terms. The ship was boarded from above by IDF special forces. At that point, all hell broke loose. The investigation should bring forward all facts from that point.
It’s not good for the flotilla that night vision goggles and body armor were later found on board. How many “starving” Gazans would those feed?

Number of Israelis killed = 0.
Number of ‘others’ killed = 9.
Another ruthless attack on Israelis.

Israel is a war state, it has been implemented by the West in the middle of the arab world to keep this part of the world in continuous problems so that the arab countries never think about development(regardless from their huge revenues from oil) but just focus on the threats coming from their unwanted neighbor.. I’m wondering when the West will wake up and see who are the real terrorists that attack civilians that are trying to help other civilians who are under a blockade that is against all the international laws. I m wondering how would the reaction of the west be if it was the israeli civilians that were under a military attack.. we gotta be more objective

“Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on Israel to conduct a “prompt, impartial and transparent” investigation that complies with international standards and get the facts out as soon as possible”. Israel, which has routinely lied about many matters this year (assasination in Dubai, their piracy off the coast of Gaza, their nuclear weapons, etc), is certainly incapable of investigating their own murderous actions. For Clinton to make the above statement probably renders her the most incompent politician in the Western world (and mind you, I live in Arizona!). The US has enabled Israels Apartheid policies since Eisenhower left office (review history for how he handled Israel and the Middle East for a lesson in how to do things). Obama has followed George W. Bush in all foreign policy issues.

Hillary, Biden, and Obama also know that this
American citizen took four bullets at close
range to the head and one in the chest. The victims
of the massacre have stated that the Israelis began firing live ammo before they attempted to rappel down. One of the killed was shot dead spot on the top of his head – because he was red-lasered from above from the encircling Israeli helicopters. It took place in international waters indisputably.
The world will decide who to believe, the concocted stories of the Israelis, who confiscated all the passengers video and film and jammed the satellite feeds, or the lying eyes of the massacre victims. They had the audacity to fight back! Oh yes….
And American politicians will continue to disgrace and soil themselves by parroting the Israeli/AIPAC line. Everybody in the world can see this travesty now,
even our real oldest ally, the British. What an appalling end to the old Republic.

Very interesting indeed. US will let Israel investigate the murder of one of its citizens done by Israeli soldiers.
Actually this is a good idea, if allowed on all the suspects, and they do their own investigation we’d have much less convicts, and lower level of prison problems.

History, somewhat repeats itself
In Europe former Jewish partisans led by Abba Kovner began to organize escape routes taking Jews from Eastern Europe down to the Mediterranean where the Jewish Agency organized ships to illegally carry them to Palestine. British officials in the occupied German zones tried to halt Jewish immigration by refusing to recognize the Jews as a national group and demanding that they return to their places of origin.
In order to prevent Jewish illegal migrants reaching Palestine a naval blockade was established to stop boats carrying illegal migrants and there was extensive intelligence gathering and diplomatic pressure on countries through which the migrants were passing or from whose ports the ships were coming.

Now, attacking a ship in international waters, Killing the people on-board the ship, taking the people to your torture centers against their will, and stealing the cargo of the ship is called kidnapping, Murder, and piracy.
Yes, even if the criminals are from the “Chosen Race” and call themselves the “Jewish Master-race”, it is still considered: Kidnapping, Murder, and piracy.
By the way, we all know that the Israeli Jews lie as a rule. So whatever video they show is a lie and was filmed on a film-stage to be shown as the “real” video, even-though they are all Jewish actors in the film. EVERYTHING the Israelis say or show is a lie by default. And it is all paid for by the US and European tax dollars.

@Sue,
Offensive operations against a military force under the guise of of the white flag of surrender should be shown no quarter. And they were offensive, look at the videos the “peacekeepers” taped of themselves making preparations to fight. Your moral indignation is just a fig leaf for your summary condemnation of Jews and the State of Israel. You fool no one.

Does anyone remember the Cuban Missile Crisis when the US had it’s own blockade turning back ships from a NATO ally?? Even one of our own soldiers (Maj. Anderson) was shot down. No nuclear weapons had even been fired into the US (as opposed to the internationally verified thousands of rockets launched daily from Gaza at civilians in Israel). We intercepted, boarded, turned back and even fired a warning shot at ships in international waters to prevent the blockade from being broken. IN fact we were trying to help Turkey’s defense at that time. One false move could have meant worldwide nuclear war. No one disputed that nukes were being put into Cuba just like now no one disputes that rockets are being smuggled into Gaza. In fact 2 ships shown to be full of weapons have already been discovered which is why the Israelis and Egyptians have had international support (including from the US) for their blockade. Yes people were killed and that was tragic, more details need to come out but they were IGNORING a blockade and requests to be diverted from both Israel & Egypt that is an act of aggression and now another ship is headed there. This second ship is intent also on ignoring requests from Egypt and Israel. How can the US be responsible for people going out of their way to put themselves foolishly into harms way. One last note according to the red cross & red crescent their have been no halting of humanitarian needs into Gaza ie no humanitarian crisis. Those things have been regularly sent in to non HAMAS approved distribution places and guess what DISTRIBUTED.

“We have no compunction about branding North Korea a rogue state for attacking a South Korean naval vessel in international waters. But Israel’s unprovoked attack on civilian ships in international waters — well, that’s a different sort of thing.
Indeed, some of the coverage has suggested that wily peace activists lured Israeli commandos into boarding their vessels in the middle of the night just so they could attack the armed soldiers with sticks.
But my sense is that while politicians and media remain fearful of criticizing Israel the public is starting to move on.” – Toronto Star, Canada

Our “special relationship” with the fascist “democracy” of Israel is bleeding us dry… the lobbies bribe and bully us into Iraq. Now they brazenly kill an American on a charity ship!?! Time to end aide to our “ally”. I say one more incident like this and we start sending troops into Israel to take care of business. What if Iran had done this!?!

Charity ship???? LOL LOL, no really I’m sorry but LOL LOL charity ship??????

They say the US Consulate will help protect American citizens abroad, but what about the US Citizens jailed in Israel? Some are tortured, passports taken? They’ve done nothing about them.