Navy commando boards
Gaza-bound weapons ship
Posted on 06/27/2011 2:08:44 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
Prime Minister Binyamin ordered Israel's defense establishment Monday to interdict the Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla 2, Voice of Israel radio reported.
Netanahyu gave the order during a meeting of his Security Cabinet dedicated to preparations Israel was taking in advance of the new flotilla expected to set sail for Gaza this week. The Cabinet voted in favor of a Navy plan to prevent the upcoming flotilla from arriving in Gaza and granted the IDF authority to prevent the ships' arrival by any means necessary.
Navy commando boards
Gaza-bound weapons ship
Earlier Monday, Israel and Egypt agreed to the arrangement whereby ships taking part in the flotilla could opt to unload cargo at El-Arish. Ships that instead try to force their way to Gaza, however, will be boarded, searched, and have their passengers arrested.
Israel's Navy has been gearing up to stop the flotilla, which says it plans to run the blockade of the Gaza Strip.
“We expect the flotilla to set sail later in the week,” IDF sources said. “We are preparing for various scenarios, from no violence to extreme violence.”
The Navy says it plans to stop the flotilla far from Gaza, after issuing a warning that the territory is under a sea blockade. “If the ships continue sailing after being warned, then we will have the right to stop them even if they did not yet enter Gaza’s territorial waters,” a navy official explained.
The IDF released a video statement explaining its reasons for insisting all ships headed to Gaza be searched.
Predictions are that violence will be minimal after Turkey’s IHH organization – behind the infamous Mavi Marmara last year – withdrew from the initiative, but a Jordanian vessel carrying members of assorted Islamist groups has opted to stand in as
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Just use submarines and torpedoes.
I’d trust an Israeli navy commando to do the right thing before the average American SWAT team.
It’s very unlikely war materiel would be on these particular boats (they are intended to elicit a hostile response from Israel whereupon the ships’ home countries will wail loudly that the boats had nothing untoward aboard). But while there’s the slightest question, Israel is going to err on the safe side.
Its too bad there isn’t a counter protest boat to go after the Flotilla and leave the Israeli military out of it. I know the left wing media will go after Israel for trying to stop those idiots.
If Rosie O’Donnel was on the flotilla they could call this Whale Wars and show it on the Discovery Channel.
“We expect the flotilla to set sail later in the week,” IDF sources said. “We are preparing for various scenarios, from no violence to extreme violence.”
kind of chilling.
About 6 months ago a guy that lived in my small community shot himself (most think his widow did it) But the local sheriff came here with three mobile command centers, an armoured personnel carrier and 50 “SWAT” goobers.
They stood around for 3.5 hours then sent in a robot with a camera to find his brains splattered on a garage wall.
Wouldn’t want to go and capture crooks now would we with this incident that 2 good cops could have handled.
I think CIWS pumps out a couple of million bucks worth of ammo every minute. Depleted uranium, as I recall.
Of course, it wouldn’t take anywhere near a minute...
Classic “line in the sand” Hope members of the MSM will be there to see it. :-)
Classic “line in the sand” Hope members of the MSM will be there to see it. :-)
Sorry for dbl post but wanted to make sure MSM gets the message.
Sink the first couple of ships, the rest will turn around.
The Israeli navy should disable the ship’s propellers.....then they would have a “Floating Floatilla” that was all dressed up and with no place to go......except where the Israeli Navy would like to tow them.
The Flotilla would look like a bunch of smacked asses, and probably would not try pulling that propaganda stunt again. That should take the wind out of their sails.
Mmmm. Discarding sabot tungsten round. Mmmmm.
But, as we know, this isn't about 'aid' it's about setting precedent and international anti-Israel attention. Given the results of the last attempt, I would guess that Israel is ready.
But the attempts to provoke a military grade violent incident will be interesting to watch.
Liberals and Arabs are cowards. It is time to call their bluff.
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