NGO's and the next war

David Rieff discusses the newfound role of NGO's as military actors as a result of what he calls Israel's 'Pyrrhic victory' over the Mavi Marmara last week. Viewed coldly, and without partisanship, the Free Gaza flotilla represents not just a significant event in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but an extraordinary victory for an idea that has been talked about ad nauseam, but actually rarely