Board of Inquiry? Well break out the violins, let's all start picking wild flowers and start singing kum-baya.

I have been unusually, and I may say uncharacteristically, quiet about Netanyahu's ill-fated, but all too obvious, decision to allow a 'board of inquiry' to investigate the flotilla thing. What got my blood pressure boiling was the fact that two of the members are foreigners. I want to say I am shocked. I want to, but I can't – it was too bloody obvious. It was also way to obvious that Netanyahu would be the one who would do this. Only a Likud government would do this. Bloody hell.



Of course, the icing on the cake was the statement made by a newscaster sometime after that ill-fated announcement was made, that this may not be enough for the 'international committee' and they (the whole bloody world) may anyway dismiss the findings of this board and still demand their own inquiry.


What was Netanyahu thinking? What do most Israelis who are bent on placating the world think? That this step is the best thing for Israel and that the whole world will love us and accept us. Well break out the violins, let's all start picking wild flowers and start singing kum-baya.


There is nothing to learn; terror activists in the guise of peace activists got on a boat. They know that if they were attacked it was good and if Jews died it was good - so it was a win-win decision for them. They were armed to the teeth and had half the whole bloody world on their side. They had 'holding rooms' ready in advance for abducted Israeli soldiers and handy-dandy cameras everywhere to record the ""terrible deeds"" (double quotes on purpose) of the Israelis.


Then they 'made off for grandmother's house (Gaza)' waiting for the Israelis to meet them in the woods (Israel's territorial waters). No good was going to come out of this. And don’t you believe it, except for the "greatest minds of our times" in the Knesset, everyone else in Israel knew this was not going to end well.


And to answer your question: "No, we are never going to learn." We send tons of aid every bloody day to Gaza. We trained their bloody police force. We give medical aid to their sick. And we do plenty of other good deeds which do not need to be mentioned.


All I would like to say is "Thank you Mr. Prime Minister", but I guess that sentence is no longer so cute.