Now that a good month has passed since the battle of the Mavi Marmara turned so much world opinion against them, how do Israelis feel they are faring in the court of public opinion?
Do they still feel like the world's hatred of them is multiplying?
"Israel's deteriorating international status has reached critical proportions," reads a recent editorial at JerusalemPost.com. It notes longshoremen in both Stockholm, Sweden, and Oakland, CA, recently refused to load or unload Israeli ships. And, it says people in Greece are suing over the Mavi Marmara incident, and, in Belgium, indictments are being brought against two Israeli government officials for alleged war crimes in a separate and less-recent Israeli engagement in Gaza (that affair known as Operation Cast Lead).
And, today, at Haaretz.com, we read a light-hearted editorial titled "Please, hate us!" saying, "What would Israel do without a sense of siege or the feeling that the entire world is closing in on it and without the certainty that no matter what it does anti-Semitism will continue to flourish?"
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