“No, this was all pre-planned.”
Quite true. An interesting analysis is here:
http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20100531_flotillas_and_wars_public_opinion
Flotillas and the Wars of Public Opinion
May 31, 2010 | 1828 GMT
Excerpt:
“Israel is now in uncharted waters. It does not know how to respond. It is not clear that the Palestinians know how to take full advantage of the situation, either. But even so, this places the battle on a new field, far more fluid and uncontrollable than what went before. The next steps will involve calls for sanctions against Israel. The Israeli threats against Iran will be seen in a different context, and Israeli portrayal of Iran will hold less sway over the world.”
“And this will cause a political crisis in Israel. If this government survives, then Israel is locked into a course that gives it freedom of action but international isolation. If the government falls, then Israel enters a period of domestic uncertainty. In either case, the flotilla achieved its strategic mission. It got Israel to take violent action against it. In doing so, Israel ran into its own fist.”
Obama has been trying to collapse the Israeli government ever since he realized that Bibi’s got a set. This is going to backfire on Obama badly - watch and see. He has overreached and is so close to tumbling over that a stiff wind is all it will take.