Are you familiar with the USS Liberty? One of the crew members was threatened by an Israel pressure group to "shut up".... and they used the same threat tactics that your source, HonestReporting.com uses to silence any critics of Israel.
In 1982, after the first reunion of the USS Liberty Veterans Association, Ron Grantski returned to his Modesto home and flipped on the phone’s message recorder.
Several played, and then this one: “
You’d better stop talking about the USS Liberty and Israel,” Grantski recalls the voice saying. “
Something will happen to you.”.....
“I had intercepted a message the
Israelis were going to attack (a U.S.) base and blame it on the Arabs, or implied so,” he said. The message forwarded as top-secret to the White House. “Unbeknownst to us, it was our ship that was going to be attacked.”
Vet remembers 34 killed in USS Liberty attack of 1967 | The Modesto Bee
Like the USS Liberty...Israel is notorious for first attacks and blaming Palestinians and Arabs. When Palestinians retaliate, the Israelis make it seem like the Palestinians started it. I suspect the Palestinian boat incident is no different.