The attack on the Mavi Marmara seems like a horrible error on the scale of the Kent State killings. The violence never should have happened. The Israeli government should try to recompense the families of the victims; but this may be utterly unacceptable to an effective majority of the Israeli public. What does one do when Greek tragedy is enacted before one's eyes?
On the minuscule chance that this dreadful incident was actually sought by the Netanyahu government, my emotional response is to repeat the brilliant epigraph used by Paul Bowles for one of his novels:
Banquo: it will be rain tonight
First murderer: let it come down
(stabs Banquo)
Macbeth, Act iii scene 3
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