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Gaza Terror Flotilla
Pajamas Media ^ | May 31, 2010 | Claudia Rosett
Posted on June 1, 2010 6:08:33 PM PDT by Ooh-Ah
Gaza’s Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh has got the bloody propaganda triumph he was preparing for when he told followers last week that whatever came of the Gaza “aid” flotilla, it would be a win for Hamas [1]– whether the ships reached Gaza, or ended up in a showdown with the Israelis at sea.
At least 10 people, possibly more, are reported dead, after Israeli forces boarded one of the ships, the Mavi Marmara, to stop it running the Israeli blockade on the terrorist enclave of Gaza. The “peace activists” had advertised themselves (scroll down to point 8 in their “mission” statement [2]) as adhering to “nonviolence and nonviolent resistance in word [3]and deed at all times.” This turned out to be a brazen lie. Whatever the “aid” aboard the ship, the “peace activists” were waiting with knives and metal clubs, with which they attacked the Israelis. Though some of the details are still unclear, there are also reports that they made a grab for Israeli guns, and Real Clear Politics — which has posted IDF video footage [4]– says they had firebombs ready as well. (Update: more details in IDF footage here [5]).
Out of this came the headlines the organizers of this terror tour had been looking for. All the usual folks are shocked! shocked! that a deliberate provocation, staged with all sorts of planning by the faux-peace-pals of Hamas, turned into a violent showdown. Reuters reports [6] that France is “profoundly shocked,” Europe “calls for inquiry,” and Turkey’s Iran-lovin’ Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is denouncing the Israelis for “state terrorism.” Washington “regrets loss of life” and is “examining circumstances” — though the basic circumstances here are no mystery whatsoever. They boil down to Israel being left by its craven Western allies to deal solo with the terrorism that boils out of Gaza, the support for that terrorism that flows from Syria and Iran, and the cheerleading — and apparently the helping hand — for this arrangement that emanates from the current Islamic leadership of Turkey.
The United Nations Security Council is of course being called into action. Who’s on that Council? Along with the U.S., the 15 members include China and Russia (both busy arming Iran), Brazil and Turkey (brokers of the recent joke uranium-swap deal that won’t stop the Iranian bomb), and Lebanon (home to the Iranian-fostered terrorist group Hezbollah, now rearming for its next assault on Israel). This is the crowd that has failed abysmally to contain the nuclear bomb projects of totalitarian North Korea and terror-sponsoring Iran. But in treating the self-choreographed mayhem of the Gaza flotilla as the world crisis of the hour, they have perhaps found a topic worthy of their talents.
Taking Washington at its word, that facts might actually matter, the place to start investigating is not with the beleaguered Israelis, but with the origins and funding of this self-styled “freedom flotilla” — which more aptly deserves renaming as the Gaza Terror Flotilla. It appears to have had a multitude of organizers and contributors, from a former prime minister of Malaysia, to — according to Al Jazeera — contributors in Bahrain, Kuwait, and that empire of Middle Eastern peace and stability, Yemen.
But one of the main players appears to be Turkey. It was a Turkish ship, the Mavi Marmara, which after a big sendoff from Turkey apparently took the lead in the flotilla, its passengers professing nonviolence while waiting with knives and metal cudgels to start a fight. And in Turkey, a lead player in this bloody exercise has been a Turkish foundation [7], the radical Islamist IHH, or Foundation for Human Rights, Liberties, and Humanitarian Relief. The IHH enjoys consultative status [8]with the UN as a non-governmental organization, or NGO, has an office in Gaza, and has apparently been taking part in this Gaza stunt with the blessing of Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan. Far from serving as a seal of good housekeeping for the IHH, such ties ought to call into question the judgment of both the UN and Erdogan.
For details on what led a French magistrate in the 1990s to explore IHH connections to terrorist organizations, including al-Qaeda, a piece of required reading is a working paper released in 2006 by the Danish Institute for International Studies: “The Role of Islamic Charities in International Terrorist Recruitment and Financing.” The entire report is illuminating, but for the section on the IHH, scroll to pages 10-14 [9]. When this report was written, the IHH was active in providing “charitable donations” to what were then “rebel-dominated areas of restive Sunni central Iraq.”
The real crisis here is not the fate of the Gaza Terror Flotilla per se, whose organizers have now got the headlines they wanted. The blood is on their hands. The real crisis involves the profound unwisdom of a democratic world that finds it easier to criticize and condemn Israel than to face the mortal threats proliferating in the Middle East. While the headlines, the political grandstanders, and the UN Security Council now focus on this propaganda coup prepared by supporters of Hamas, Hezbollah is rearming in Lebanon, Turkey is engaged in a dangerous shift from its old alliances with the West toward new partnerships with Syria and Iran, and Iran continues its march toward the nuclear bomb. Does anyone in the West really believe that the threat here is to Israel alone? In this latest clash over the terrorist enclave of Gaza, the real question that wants answering is why did no democratic country send its ships to Israel’s aid, to make common cause against this terror-loving flotilla? Or – with the blessings of the UN, Turkey, and armed “peace activists” — are terrorist-run enclaves such as Gaza, dedicated to the extermination of entire nation states, now to become an accepted feature of the international system?
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[1] win for Hamas : http://www.jpost.com/Home/Article.aspx?id=176812
[2] point 8 in their “mission” statement: http://www.freegaza.org/en/about-us/mission
[3] in word : http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=676&fld_id=676&doc_id=2337
[4] IDF video footage : http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/05/31/close-up_footage_of_flotilla_passengers_attacking_israeli_soldiers.html
[5] footage here: http://olehgirl.com/?p=3464
[6] Reuters reports: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE64U16N.htm
[7] Turkish foundation: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/7790919/Gaza-flotilla-the-Free-Gaza-Movement-and-the-IHH.html
[8] IHH enjoys consultative status : http://www.un.org/esa/coordination/ngo/
[9] section on the IHH, scroll to pages 10-14: http://www.diis.dk/graphics/Publications/WP2006/DIIS%20WP%202006-7.web.pdf
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Home • Briefing Room • Statements & Releases
The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release June 01, 2010
Readout of the President’s Call with Prime Minister Erdogan of Turkey
The President spoke today with Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan to express his deep condolences for the loss of life and injuries resulting from the Israeli military operation against the Turkish-flagged ship bound for Gaza. The President told Prime Minister Erdogan that the United States is working in close consultation with Israel to help achieve the release of the passengers, including those deceased and wounded, and the ships themselves. He also affirmed the United States position in support of a credible, impartial, and transparent investigation of the facts surrounding this tragedy. The President affirmed the importance of finding better ways to provide humanitarian assistance to the people of Gaza without undermining Israel’s security. He underscored the importance of a comprehensive peace agreement which establishes an independent, contiguous, and viable Palestinian state as the way to resolve the overall situation and the United States’ continuing commitment to achieving that goal by working closely with Turkey, Israel, and others with a stake in a more stable and secure Middle East.
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Israel Alone
IBD Editorials ^ | June 1, 2010 | Investors Business Daily staff
Posted on June 1, 2010 5:15:22 PM PDT by Kaslin
Conflict: Following the clash between the “peace flotilla” and Israeli forces on Sunday, two things are clear: One, Israel will defend itself, even if it has to do so alone. And two, Turkey is no longer an ally of the West.
Israel really had no choice but to respond to the clear provocation of the phony Turkish “peace flotilla” that attempted to deliver aid to the terrorist regime now in charge of Gaza. Far from being a fleet of “humanitarian” aid groups, as described in the media, the boats were filled with terrorist-linked Islamist and extreme left groups, bonded by their fanatical hatred of Israel.
And yet the U.N. Security Council predictably condemned what it called the “acts which resulted in the loss” of 10 lives. If it issued an equally harsh condemnation of North Korea’s cold-blooded and unprovoked March 26 attack on a South Korean ship, murdering 46 South Korean sailors, we didn’t hear it.
Others also condemned Israel. China, which hosted North Korean officials just days after their murderous attack on a South Korean ship, expressed fury. Even NATO vowed a probe of Israel.
But why? The ship that Israel boarded, the Mavi Marmara, was filled with Hamas supporters who were eager if not intent on picking a fight with Israeli forces over Israel’s blockade of the Gaza coast. That blockade aimed to keep arms from going to terrorists.
Hamas lobs anywhere from 6,000 to 10,000 missiles a year at Israeli civilian settlements, with nary a peep of criticism from the “world community.”
As video tapes show, Israel warned the ship not to break its blockade. It offered to let the flotilla land in the port of Ashdod and to deliver any legitimate aid to Gaza. Reasonable requests, all denied.
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Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center
May 31, 2010
“A Danish research institute exposes the links the Turkish organization IHH had with Al-Qaeda and global jihad networks 1”
SNIPPET: “1. In 2006 the Danish Institute for International Studies reported that during the 1990s the Turkish relief organization IHH had links with Al-Qaeda and global jihad networks.2 The well-documented report was prepared by Evan Kohlman,3 an American scholar specializing in Al-Qaeda. The study deals with the involvement of Islamic charitable societies in supporting terrorism. Pages 10-14 are devoted to IHH.”
Good info on Hamas thanks.
He specifies how the troops must conduct themselves during their mission and how they are not to be dragged into provocations with the passengers of the ship. He states that humanitarian aid is imported into Gaza on a daily basis.
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This load of crappyPCshitte is what destroys the morale of the troops, especially when they are then sent in with paintball guns!
You’re welcome TomasUSMC.
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The Freedom Flotilla Fraud
The Washington Times ^ | June 2, 2010 | Editorial
Posted on June 1, 2010 5:15:01 PM PDT by Abakumov
What was supposed to be a routine Israeli maritime boarding and inspection operation is turning into a propaganda victory for the Islamist terror group Hamas. The main lesson learned from the incident on the ship Mavi Marmara is: Don’t bring a paintball gun to a knife fight....
Backers of the illegal blockade-running effort portray themselves as humanitarians, but this claim is dubious. They had rejected an Israeli offer to send the supplies they were carrying to Gaza overland, joining the tons of supplies that flow to Gaza daily, but this would not have fulfilled the organizers’ goal of having a splashy, made-for-media event. So they went ahead with their voyage, fomented the incident, and international organizations, governments and the press fell for it, as expected.
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“Barak meets soldiers, praises operation against flotilla”
SNIPPET: “Defense minister visits commando base along with IDF, Navy chiefs to question soldiers who took part in Monday’s lethal raid on Gaza-bound ship. He lauds their determinations, says, ‘Israeli government thanks you’”
Roni Sofer
Published: 06.02.10, 11:30 / Israel News
SNIPPET: “Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Wednesday met with the commando unit that took part in the lethal raid on the Gaza flotilla, and thanked them in the name of the government for their work.
Nine people were killed in the raid and 41 others were wounded, including five commandos.”
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(AFP)
“Nicaragua suspends ties with Israel over aid fleet attack”
Published: 06.02.10, 07:11 / Israel News
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Terrorists at the helm
NY Post ^ | June 02, 2010 | Editorial
Posted on June 2, 2010 4:21:41 AM PDT by Scanian
Turkey’s Islamist prime minister, Tayyip Erdogan, knows better than most why Israel found it necessary to confront that phony “peace” flotilla off Gaza Monday.
Certainly he knows that the convoy was organized and manned by the Foundation for Human Rights & Humanitarian Relief — as bloody-handed a terrorist gang as exists in the Mideast.
Known by its Turkish acronym, IHH, the group has strong and enduring ties to Hamas and al Qaeda.
Indeed, the Turkish government itself raided IHH’s Istanbul office in 1997, uncovering guns, explosives, bomb-making manuals and jihadist flags — along with documents showing that its members had been dispatched to war zones like Afghanistan, Bosnia and Chechnya.
And a 2006 report by the Danish Institute for International Studies linked IHH to a foiled al Qaeda bombing plot against Los Angeles International Airport.
No surprise, then, that the one vessel whose passengers violently resisted boarding by Israeli commandos seems to have been the IHH flagship — and that most, if not all, of those who died in the ensuing struggle were IHH members.
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“Double Standards on Hamas Action Against Palestinians”
IPT News
June 2, 2010
SNIPPET: “Any doubt that this week’s “Freedom Flotilla” to Gaza was about politics – and not about providing aid to needy Palestinians in Gaza – was erased Wednesday when Hamas leaders refused to let the flotilla’s cargo in.
Among the reasons, Hamas doesn’t want to give Israel a public relations victory. Israel’s economic embargo on the Hamas government in Gaza – designed to keep weapons and materials for explosives out of the hands of terrorists who would attack it - is decried as unjust and illegal. But don’t expect global condemnation of Hamas’ decision to play politics with the material released as promised all along.”
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Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York
Security Council
6325th & 6326th Meetings (PM & Night)
SECURITY COUNCIL CONDEMNS ACTS RESULTING IN CIVILIAN DEATHS DURING ISRAELI OPERATION
AGAINST GAZA-BOUND AID CONVOY, CALLS FOR INVESTIGATION, IN PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT
Also Briefed by United Nations Political Official, Who Says Bloodshed Would
Have Been Avoided if Israel Had Lifted Unacceptable, Counterproductive Blockade
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“PM: I am proud of soldiers”
Roni Sofer
Published: 06.02.10, 21:11 / Israel News
SNIPPET: “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called a press conference at his office in Jerusalem on Wednesday to address the world’s responses to the takeover of the Gaza-bound aid ship that went awry and left nine passengers dead and many injured, including Israeli soldiers.
The incident evoked enraged responses and calls for an international inquiry. Netanyahu called such responses “a hypocritical international assault.”
Netanyahu addressed Hamas’ rearming via the smuggling tunnels and ships that have been intercepted in the past by the Israel Defense Forces. “It is our duty to prevent these weapons from entering Gaza through the air, sea and land,” he said.
“Had the maritime siege been broken, dozens, hundreds more such flotillas would have arrived. There is an Iranian port in Gaza. Such a port threatens Europe and other countries.”
According to the prime minister, “This last flotilla’s aim was to break this maritime siege. Its purpose was not to deliver goods.”
Of the violence on the ship, he said, “Our soldiers were met with a violent group – this was no Love Boat – it was a hate boat. This was not a peace flotilla, it was a hate flotilla. They attempted to lynch the IDF solders, they wanted to kill them. Are these peace seekers? They are violent.”
‘What would world have done?’
He explained that Israel had no choice but to act the way it did. “I ask myself what soldiers of other democratic countries would have done in a similar situation. They would have acted the same way at best,” he said.
“I regret the loss of life – but I am proud of the soldiers. I ask the international community, what would you have done in a similar situation? We all know the truth. Therefore, we will continue to defend our troops, we will allow them to defend themselves and defend the State of Israel.””
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June 02, 2010
“REPORT DAMAGING TO TURKISH “HUMANITARIAN” ORGANIZATION/ERDOGAN REGIME BEING SUPPRESSED?”
SNIPPET: “Signs point to yes.
0. Islamist extremists recruited by the IHH (in Turkish Insani Yardim Vakfi) masquerading as “peace activists” attacked Israeli soldiers with knives, clubs, chains, stun grenades and firearms when the soldiers boarded the IHH owned and operated vessel Mavi Marmaris as it was attempted to violate the Israeli blockade of Hamas-controlled Gaza.”
SNIPPET: “This should not be surprising given that Hamas is the Gaza branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. More interesting is the possibility that the armed “peace activists” were actually part of the Ikhwan’s Secret Apparatus, which for some time has been rumored to have been reactivated (assuming you believe it was ever disbanded in the first place).”
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Chavez: Israel is cursed terrorist murderer
Published: 06.03.10, 01:14 / Israel News
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez once again condemned Israel’s raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla. In a speech broadcast on Venezuelan television, Chavez said, “Israel is a cursed, terrorist murderer, long live the Palestinian people.”
He also criticized the American response to the raid, which he said was too soft. “The Obama administration condemns terror, as long as it is not carried out by the US or Israel,” he said. (AFP)
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Well now, since Hugo Chavez (Venezuela) is on a rant about terrorism, etc. let’s take a moment to examine this:
“Venezuela’s Chavez backing leftist guerrillas in Mexico”
By: SARA A. CARTER
National Security Correspondent
June 1, 2010
SNIPPET: “A leftist guerrilla movement responsible for many kidnappings and attacks inside Mexico is secretly receiving funding from Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, U.S. and Mexican intelligence officials told The Washington Examiner.
The group, called the Ejercito Popular Revolucionario (EPR), is “a terrorist organization bent on destabilizing Mexico. ... Splinters of the group are also adding to the problem,” said a Mexican official who requested anonymity. The group, which announced its existence in 1996, claimed responsibility for the 2007 bombings of the Mexican government’s Pemex oil pipelines, along with several other bombing attempts of a bank and Sears department stores in cities throughout Mexico.
“Chavez has been funding groups like these in Mexico and throughout Latin America,” said a U.S. official with knowledge of the group and its operations. “These groups are nothing more than terrorist organizations and members have connected to other narco-trafficking organizations in Mexico, creating a very dangerous matrix.””
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“U.N. concerned about Hamas closing down charity offices in Gaza”
By the CNN Wire Staff
June 3, 2010 5:46 a.m. EDT
SNIPPET: “(CNN) — The United Nations’ special coordinator for Middle East peace expressed his concerns Thursday over reports of Hamas breaking into charity offices in Gaza and closing them down, a statement said.”
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