Israel's ambassador to Spain compares flotilla massacre to highway deaths. "Who cares?"

[nichomachus]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/04/israeli-ambassador-madrid-gaza-flotilla

Israel's ambassador in Madrid provoked outrage this morning by suggesting Spaniards should worry more about the number of people dying on the roads every weekend and less about the nine people killed in his country's raid on the Gaza flotilla.

"Yes, nine people have died. But 155 died in a terrorist attack in India last week. Who cares about that? Have you heard anything about it? Twenty-three Spaniards died on the roads this weekend," Raphael Schutz told El Periódico newspaper.

[ck4829]

1. He makes it sound like Israel killing people is a common occurrence

Is that what he might as well be saying?

[Catherina]

5. Yes n/t

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

2. Every year smoking kills 400,000.

So that's like 1 Holocaust/ 15 years.

[Ignis]

3. Oh, now you've done it.

[anigbrowl]

9. Seriously

You have to wonder how smart the current administration in Israel is, they seem to have no grasp of reconciliation or diplomacy. There was and editorial in the WSJ yesterday withheld headline : Israelis wonder - has the rest of the world lost its mind?

Netanyahu & co. are starting to look like they think Bush is still popular.

[Tailormyst]

4. I truly despise the government of Isreal.

I wish the people would vote these monsters right out office.
I wish our people would vote our own monsters out of office also.
Bad things are allowed to happen when good people stand by and say nothing.

[madrchsod]

8. the israeli people are safe behind their wall

as long as they feel save the world on the other side of the wall has no concern to them. maybe they will get the hint when the world starts boycotting their cultural events.

[madrchsod]

6. wow..what a despicable little thing he is

[Ikonoklast]

7. Equivocation is not an argument.

And they wonder why world opinion is turning against them.