When truth turns into lie

A short study in the dramaturgy of the bloggosphere. After my two articles concerning the Ships to Gaza, I suddenly received a lot of strange comments about paintball-guns. After a day or so, I realized that the Swedish left-wing blog Alliansfrittsverige.nu had put me as one of four examples of "The tasteless reactions on the massacre by the right". They think it astonishing that I on my 'patriarchal blog' mean that the "israli soldiers came in peace with paint-ball-guns."

I can understand that someone not knowing the facts sees it as a natural contradiction that there has been a "massacre" using paintball-guns. And therefore these people automatically conludes that what I am writing is wrong and an example of "The tasteless reactions on the massacre by the right". My 'obvious lie' was spread as such on the internet (ex. Sundin & Homopoliticus), but why has noone tried to find out the facts?

I got the information last monday from my good friend Stefan Olsson, who is right now on the West Bank as an ecumenical accompanier (EAPPI). It was an article named "A brutal ambush at sea" which well describes what happened. That it was paint-ball-guns that where used has been confirmed from many others, including Swedish MP Mehmet Kaplan who where on one of the ships (SvD ). And also Ulf Carmesund.

The bloggosphere is a nice democratic project in some ways, at the same time there are a lot of strange things which are advocated and spread without any critical check-up or reflection. There are definately a need for a better ethical standard in the Internet. That truth turns inte lie is of course a general problem in our community, yes it is almost as if people tend to want to be fooled.

It is good that a number of facts lately has made known what kind of organisation IHH is (DN), who has initiated the trip, and more as a propaganda show than for humanitarian reasons. It is even more so tragic that the Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt participates in this game and let Swedish extremists on the left set the standard for the Swedish foreign policy.

SvD 1,2,3,4 DN 1,2 Dagen 1,2 VG 1,2 Världen idag 1,2,3