This is what floats their boat.
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at least three more Jew-bashing martyrdom ships on the way
U.N. condemns Israeli actions, calls for release of ships
From the IDF YouTube channel, a video counter-narrative of the weekend Freedom Flotilla furor you wont see in the Israel-bashing press:
Video taken by IDF naval boat shows the passengers of the Mavi Marmara, one of the ships in the Free Gaza Flotilla, violently attacking IDF soldiers who were trying to board the ship after having sent repeated requests for the boat to change course.
Large groups of passengers surrounded soldiers and beat them with metal poles and chairs, and threw one soldier over the side of the ship. Some passengers grabbed pistols from the IDF soldiers and opened fire. As a result of the attacks, seven IDF soldiers were injured, and nine of the passengers were killed.
The Free Gaza Flotilla had publicly insisted on their non-violent intentions, however their violent attack on the IDF soldiers was clearly premeditated. They had knives, metal rods, firebombs and other items ready to use.
Many of the IDF soldiers were armed with
paintball guns.
Jonathan Schanzer reports on the terror financiers behind the peace thug flotilla:
The Turkish organizers of the Gaza Strip-bound flotilla that was boarded this morning by Israeli commandos knew well in advance that their vessels would never reach Israeli waters. Thats because the organizers belong to a nonprofit that was banned by the Israeli government in July 2008 for its ties to terrorism finance.
The Turkish IHH (Islan Haklary Ve Hurriyetleri Vakfi in Turkish) was founded in 1992, and reportedly popped up on the CIAs radar in 1996 for its radical Islamist leanings. Like many other Islamist charities, the IHH has a record of providing relief to areas where disaster has struck in the Muslim world.
However, the organization is not a force for good. The Turkish nonprofit belongs to a Saudi-based umbrella organization known to finance terrorism called the Union of Good (Ittilaf al-Kheir in Arabic). Notably, the Union is chaired by Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi, who is known best for his religious ruling that encourages suicide attacks against Israeli civilians. According to one report, Qardawi personally transferred millions of dollars to the Union in an effort to provide financial support to Hamas.
In 2008, the Israelis banned IHH, along with 35 other Islamist charities worldwide, for its ties to the Union of Good. This was a follow-on designation; Israelis first blocked the Union of Good from operating in the West Bank and Gaza in 2002.
Interestingly, the Union of Good may not only be tied to Hamas. Included in the Israeli list of 36 designees was the International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO). In 2006, both the U.S. government and the United Nations designated the IIRO branch offices in Indonesia and the Philippines for financing al Qaeda.
Melanie Phillips has more on the Islamic terror ambush and the jihadis media sympathizers:
The notion uncritically swallowed by the lazy, ignorant and bigoted BBC and other western media that the flotilla organisers are peace activists is simply ludicrous. This research by the Danish Institute for International Studies details the part played by the IHH in Islamist terror in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Chechnya. According to the French magistrate Jean-Louis Bruguiere testifying at the Seattle trial of would-be al Qaeda Millenium bomber Ahmed Ressamin, the IHH had played [a]n important role in the al Qaeda Millenium bomb plot targeting Los Angeles airport. It was also involved in weapons trafficking, and played in addition a key role in galvanizing anti-Western sentiment among Turkish Muslims in the lead-up to the 2003 war in Iraq. Peace activists these people most certainly are not.
And this flotilla was but the latest jihadi attack, deploying the Islamists signature strategy of violence and media manipulation. Here from MEMRI (via Just Journalism) is a clip showing the hysteria against Israel being whipped up on board before the ships set sail, with the chanting of intifada songs about Khaybar the iconic slaughter of Jews by Muslims in the 7th century which is used as a rallying cry to kill the Jews today and threats of martyrdom. This was not merely a propaganda stunt, but a terrorist attack.
Indeed, heres the Jew-killing warm-up chant alluding to Khaibar and the return of the army of Mohammed:
Its a chant sung by jihadists here in the U.S., too. Know your history, know your enemy:
Khaibar, Khaibar, O Jews.
The Army of Muhammad will return
Khaibar, Khaibar, O Jews.
The Army of Muhammad will return
Khaibar, Khaibar, O Jews.
The Army of Muhammad will return
Khaibar, Khaibar, O Jews.
The Army of Muhammad will return
Hey hey hey, hey hey hey.
Khaibar, Khaibar, O Jews.
The Army of Muhammad will return
Khaibar, Khaibar, O Jews.
The Army of Muhammad will return
Khaibar, Khaibar, O Jews.
The Army of Muhammad will return
Khaibar, Khaibar, O Jews.
The Army of Muhammad will return
We will crawl and fight.
With our blood, we will fight.
We will crawl and fight.
With our blood we will fight.
Ah, Ah.
You will not cross over my blood, over my blood.
You will not live in my homeland, in my homeland.
You will not cross over my blood, over my blood.
You will not live in my homeland, in my homeland.
Death to you
under the ground,
and glory to us above the ground.
Death to you under the ground,
and glory to us above the ground.
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Right on cue, here comes the U.N. Security Council to condemn Israel.
And right on cue, here come the worldwide protests, via John Hinderaker at Power Line.
Speaking of useful idiots, William Jacobson has a round-up of the left-o-spheres usual Israel-hating suspects.
Doug Ross has more on the humanitarian cover for this martyrdom operation.
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Update: Theres another jihadi ship on the way. Israel says its ready:
Israels Navy is ready to stop another aid ship headed to Gaza, a commander said on Tuesday, playing down the prospect of his men shying from confrontation after their bloody seizure of a Turkish vessel a day earlier.
Israels Army Radio reported that the MV Rachel Corrie, a converted merchant ship, would reach Gazan waters by Wednesday.
A Marine lieutenant who was not named told Army Radio that he expected an easy takeover of the ship.
Yes, its named after that Rachel Corrie.
This report says there are a total of at least three more vessels on the way.
The U.N. Security Council wants Israel to release the ships and passengers it has in custody:
The United Nations Security Council on Thursday condemned acts which resulted in the loss of civilian lives on ships carrying pro-Palestinian campaigners and aid to Gaza, and called for an impartial investigation into Israels deadly raid.
In a statement, the Security Council also called for the immediate release of 400 international activists and the six ships being held by Israel.
Netanyahu voiced regret at the deaths but vowed to maintain the three-year-old embargo to stop Iranian-backed Hamas from bringing arms to Gaza.
That pledge could soon be tested. Israels Army Radio said the aid ship MV Rachel Corrie, named after an American activist killed by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip in 2003, would approach the port of Gaza imminently. A marines commander told the station his men were ready to intercept the ship.
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And nope, as Allahpundit at Hot Air notes, no U.N. condemnation of North Korea yet.***
Charles Krauthammer on Monday nights Special Report on FNC:
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: The fundamental deception here is the use of the word humanitarian. As we saw, humanitarians dont wield iron clubs and would have killed the Israelis had the Israelis not drawn their pistols in self-defense. But theres a larger issue here. What exactly is the humanitarian crisis that the flotilla was actually addressing? There is none. Theres no one starving in Gaza. The Gazans have been supplied with food and social services, education, by the U.N., by UNRWA, for 60 years in part with American tax money. Second, when there are humanitarian needs, the Israelis allow every day food and medicine overland into Gaza.
The reason that it did not want to allow this flotilla is because, as the spokesman for the flotilla said herself, this was not about humanitarian relief, it was about breaking the blockade. And the reason the Israelis have a blockade is because they only want to allow humanitarian supplies and not weaponry. Look, the proof of that is the fact that if you look at a map of Gaza, youll see that Israelis only control three sides of this rectangle. Theres a fourth side on the Egyptian side. So it is an Egyptian-Israeli blockade. The Egyptians have the same problem with Gaza. People accuse Israelis of having a blockade because theyre racist, theyre anti-Muslim, anti-Arab. The Egyptians are Muslim and Arab, and theyve gone to war three times on behalf of the Palestinians.
So why do they have exactly the same blockade? Because Gaza is run by Hamas, a terror entity that wants to import weaponry and resume the war against Israel. The man who made the announcement that we saw earlier, explaining the commando raid, is the defense minister of Israel. Hes not right winger. Hes Ehud Barak, whos the leader of Labor, the party of Yitzhak Rabin, Golda Meir, the party of the left, the man who 10 years ago this summer offered the Palestinians a peace agreement that would provide a Palestinian state, division of Jerusalem and an end of the conflict. The Palestinians said no, and Gaza two years ago declared war on Israel. Thats why youve got a blockade, and the flotilla was not about humanitarian needs. It was about smashing the blockade.
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