Britain More Interested in Saving Israelis from Garden Shed Rockets than British Citizens from Israeli Pirates http://intifada-palestine.com/2010/07/britain-more-interested-in-saving-israelis-from-garden-shed-rockets-than-british-citizens-from-israeli-pirates/

'A month ago, while reports were coming in that Israeli gunboats had “intercepted” the Free Gaza flotilla 90 miles out to sea and told the humanitarian workers they would be boarded and towed to an Israeli port, I emailed Clegg: “Where is the Royal Navy when it’s needed to protect life and limb of the 30-odd British nationals?”

Ministers received advanced warning of Israel’s threats to stop the flotilla “by any means”.

What was needed was firm intervention. Just for a change the British people wanted their government to do them proud on the international stage and protect those brave souls on their peaceful mission to bring relief to Palestinians whose lives have been made a living hell by the bully-boys of the Middle East.They were, after all, only doing the right thing… doing what the West’s cowardly governments wet their pants at the very thought of doing.'