""Despite the fact international coverage of the event has become a bit more balanced, the extremist nature of the organizers of the flotilla, as well as of some of the passengers on board, remains overlooked in many circles.""

Miriam needs to take a brief reality check.

Those fanatics were so extreme in their views that they boarded the ship without effective weapons, So extreme that they took on fully armed troops with a few iron bars and galley knives, So extreme that, when they captured handguns, they did not use them, and so extreme that not one soldier was seriously injured, let alone killed, as were nine of these extremist fanatics.

I take it that Miriam believes that political opposition is a crime which should be punishable by death, unless committed by Israeli troops, in which case murder magically transmogrifies into justifiable self defence.

Shheeesh!
Don T.

PS. Nobody has yet responded to my comment that antisemitism applies to hating Arabs just as much as to hating Jews.