Everybody has heard about last week's events, that is, one of its various versions. Obviously, seen from Israel, the situation is a totally different one than seen from the outside, even though it is quite obvious even from inside Israel that there are very different and diverging points of view.
The most striking thing, at first, was the astounding discrepancy between what so many people here knew right away - because so many people here in the country have a relative or an acquaintance who knows someone who is a friend of one of the soldiers or of someone well informed: young Israeli soldiers who had been instructed to gently, but forcefully stop western leftist activists on their route to Gaza, after numerous warnings, had been brutally and viciously attacked and lynched by professional Muslim mercenaries, while the whole world seemed to go crazy while adamantly accusing Israel of having massacred peaceful activists...
