http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3896515,00.html
“Gaza flotilla ships transported to Ashdod”
SNIPPET: “IDF spokesperson says fighters who raided vessels headed to Gaza ‘attacked with clubs, long knives.’ Army reports more than 10 passengers killed in operation. Dozens injured, including four soldiers”
Ynet reporters
Published: 05.31.10, 10:01 / Israel News
SNIPPET: “Navy fighters on Monday morning took over vessels which tried to sail into the Gaza Strip and began transporting them to the Ashdod Port, accompanied by Naval Commando forces.
“This was not a humanitarian sail, but a violent provocation directed against us,” said Israel Defense Forces Spokesperson Avi Benayahu. “We were attacked with clubs and long knives.””
SNIPPET: “Benyahu confirmed that the activists snatched one of the fighters’ weapons. “He was attacked by the crowd and they opened fire. During the incident, our fighters were in real danger, both from the clubs and from the weapons. They used crowd dispersal means, and when there was no choice – live ammunition. We don’t know if there were any other weapons on the ship, because the entire picture is unclear. We did not encounter peace activists on this boat.””
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3896587,00.html
“IDF Manpower Directorate discusses where to transfer activists’ bodies”
Published: 05.31.10, 11:20 / Israel News
SNIPPET: “Major General Avi Zamir, head of the Israel Defense Forces’ Manpower Directorate, held a meeting on where to transfer the bodies of the foreign activists killed in the takeover of the Gaza aid ships.”
I fully support Israel in this, and our present boy-President needs to chose his words carefully. Israel is under the gun 24/7/365, and it’s time we acknowledged that as a nation.
Over the last decade or two, we have acted as enablers of the Palestinian terrorists more often than not. And this even after our president said no terrorist on earth would be safe from our campaign against them after 09/11.
It’s time to put some teeth in that, and demand our allies do likewise.