Is the Joel Greenberg who is working with the attorney Gaetz says was extorting his Dad the same one who was a Jerusalem correspondent for the Washington Post a while back ?
In its June 18, 2011, edition, the Washington Post carries a report by Jerusalem correspondent Joel Greenberg that Turkish sponsors of last year’s bloody incident have decided to pull out from another upcoming flotilla attempt to break the Gaza blockade because of what they termed technical problems on the Mavi Marmara. In fact, they bowed to pressure from the Turkish government which asked them to desist this time — what with Ankara already having its hands full with thousands of Syrian refugees seeking asylum from a brutal, bloody crackdown by the Assad regime. (”Aid flotilla flagship will not sail to Gaza” (page A7).
However, in the process of writing his piece, Greenberg turns history on its head in describing the 2010 blockade-running incident.
Here’s how he puts it: “The Mavi Marmara was the target of a deadly raid by Israeli commandos last year.”
Since this is his only reference to last year’s incident, readers with little or no memory are left with the distinct impression that it was Israeli commandos who set out to stage a “deadly raid” aboard the Mavi Marmara. By writing that Israel made the ship a “target” for its “deadly raid,” Greenberg suggests that Israel, deliberately and with an act of clear volition and intent, set out to kill passengers aboard the ship — the opposite of what actually happened.
When it came to spilling blood, it actually was a group of Turkish extremists who armed themselves with lethal weapons and brutally attacked the commandos before a single shot was fired in self-defense by the Israeli side.
———June 18, 2011
Wash. Post smears Israel, stands history on its head
By Leo Rennert, American Thinker
There is no indication nor reporting that Joel Greenburg knows much less was ‘working with the attorney who was extorting Gaetz.’ Greenburg is the former Seminole County Tax Commissioner who’s under a dozen or more federal indictments ranging from misuse of public funds to child sex trafficking.
‘Joel Greenburg’ is probably one of the more common Anglo-Jewish names around. Likely scores if not hundreds of them in the US. Nothing in his background suggests he’s ever worked as a reporter.