Kerry Compares Boston And Mavi Marmara Victims (Turkish activists killed by the IDF)

[Purveyor]

US Secretary of State John Kerry compared the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing to the nine Turkish activists killed by the IDF as they tried to break Gaza’s naval blockade, at a press conference in Istanbul on Sunday.

“I know it’s an emotional issue with some people,” Kerry said of the Mavi Marmara deaths. “I particularly say to the families of people who were lost in the incident: We understand these tragedies completely and we sympathize with them.”

He then added, “And nobody – I mean, I have just been through the week of Boston and I have deep feelings for what happens when you have violence and something happens and you lose people that are near and dear to you. It affects a community, it affects a country,” Kerry said. “We’re very sensitive to that.”

Senior Israeli leaders, including Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, Energy and Water Minister Silvan Shalom, Economy and Trade Minister Naftali Bennett, and Deputy Foreign Minister Ze’ev Elkin all made a point of not responding to Kerry’s comparison on Monday.

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http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/Kerry-compares-Boston-and-Mavi-Marmara-victims-310710

[oberliner]

1. What a weird 4th paragraph

Listing people who did not respond to the comment?

[holdencaufield]

3. We have yet to hear from ...

... the surviving members of "The Beatles", the original Broadway cast of "Wicked", or pretty much anyone from China.

Have I missed anyone?

[Jefferson23]

2. This is a more measured response? lol

“It is never helpful when a moral equivalency is made confusing terrorists with their victims,” Danon said.

“As our American friends were made all too aware once again last week, the only way to deal with the evils of terrorism it to wage an unrelenting war against its perpetrators wherever they may be.”

[Scootaloo]

4. Everything Israel does is "measured," you see. No matter what!

[bemildred]

5. I'm beginning to think torturing language should be a crime.

There are levels upon levels of disingenuous meaning and contradiction of meaning in all this, and yet it is all empty babble too. Essentially an argument about nomenclature, whom is to be labelled as what, which roles one is to be assigned in the news story script.

[oberliner]

6. Your subject line is not the headline of this article

"Turkish activists killed by the IDF" was your own interpretation - and a very interesting choice of words at that.