They've had a lot of practice.
"The state of Israel faces an attack of international hypocrisy"
I'm not really surprised at this but I am shocked at just how quickly the world has jumped on this bloody-minded hypocritical bandwaggon!
It's very sobering.
“Another ship, the Rachel Corrie”
Must be a (from Wiki);
“A flatboat is a rectangular flat-bottomed boat with square ends used to transport freight and passengers on inland waterways. The flatboat could be any size, but essentially it is large, sturdy tub with a hull that displaces water and so floats in the water. This differentiates the flatboat from the raft, which floats on the water.
A flatboat is almost always a one-way vessel, “