"The day the world became Gaza" by Ali Abunimah - Al Jazeera English #Flotilla

The day the world became Gaza
 
Feelings have run particularly high in Turkey, at least four of whose nationals are believed
to have been killed [AFP]
 

Since Israel's invasion and massacre of over 1,400 people in Gaza 18 months ago, dubbed Operation Cast Lead, global civil society movements have stepped up their campaigns for justice and solidarity with Palestinians.

Governments, by contrast, carried on with business as usual, maintaining a complicit silence.

Israel's lethal attack on the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza may change that, spurring governments to follow the lead of their people and take unprecedented action to check Israel's growing lawlessness.