According to current predictions, many hundreds of air travelers are due to descend on Ben-Gurion Airport for a spate of provocative headline-grabbing.

Their “air flotilla” ostensibly comes in lieu of the essentially just-foiled maritime flotilla.

Yet the stage-managed production obviously has more to do with a propaganda ploy than with breaking the anyway fictional siege on Gaza.

Gaza’s border with Egypt is open, and via Israel Gaza gets a wide range of provisions, to say nothing of water and electricity. But Gaza is the mere pretext. The underlying motive is to tarnish Israel’s image even further and paint its police as violent thugs who arbitrarily assault passengers.

Moreover, in today’s media reality of the instant catchphrase and the five-second news flash, this can go over big.

Israel’s enemies have never been loath to hook-up with the forces of any ideology which appears to serve their purposes. At some phases of the conflict, they were Nazism’s avid torch-bearers and collaborators.

In a diametrical shift a few years later, they became international communism’s protégés.

The latest antics indicate a bizarre assortment of allies who can be described as a loose aggregate of anarchists under the guise of human-rights activism (Arab/Muslim abuses of human rights notwithstanding).”

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