Outrage at Israeli atrocities against activists attempting to bring aid to the long-persecuted people of the Gaza strip may be all very just and righteous, but in some quarters it also reeks of hysteria and hypocrisy.

For example, Turks protesting the killing of fellow citizens aboard one of the blockade-busting vessels conveniently overlook the fact that their nation viciously victimises its own Kurdish minority and to this day denies its historic mass-murder of Armenians.