9 Killed/Hundreds Kidnapped by Israeli commandos who stormed Gaza Flotilla

[ConcordeWarrior]

Traitor EU are asking for an enquiry on the death of these people.

I am really horrified by the pro-zionist EU creeps!!

[able]

"Muzzies" although innocently used in this case is still offensive to some. please keep that in mind.

[able]

And the spin is already frenzied.

Militants Aboard Flotilla Open Fire on IDF Soldiers

The IDF reports that the crew of the Gaza-bound flotilla lay in wait for the IDF to board their vessel and then attacked IDF soldiers. One crew member reportedly snatched a gun from an IDF soldier and then opened fire on the troops. One soldier was stabbed in the stomach with a sharp object. The soldier is in moderate condition and was transferred for medical treatment by helicopter to Rambam Hospital in Haifa. Doctors there determined he would require surgery. Two other soldiers were also wounded and were transferred to Tel Hashomer hospital.

rest of article
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/137780

thanks... that made me vomit.

[ConcordeWarrior]

Now the Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister is saying the humanitarian effort "wasn't humanitarian at all".

He claimed there were weapons on board the attacked ship.

He claimed that if it was indeed humanitarian they would have agreed to use the aid channels that Israel overwatches.

 

pack of lies

[cjrocks]

Israel told them whats up and they refused to cooperate they should have ported up and gone through the search but no they refused they were warned in advanced whats up it seems like the protesters were looking for some sort of conflict.

[TOTL]

EU calls for 'full inquiry' into Israeli Gaza flotilla raid
Foreign  2010-05-31 16:11

BRUSSELS, Monday 31 May 2010 (AFP) - EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton on Monday demanded Israeli authorities mount a "full inquiry" into the killing of at least 10 people in a raid on a flotilla of aid ships bound for Gaza. Ashton "extends her sympathies to the families of the dead and wounded and is demanding a full inquiry into the circumstances of how this event happened," said a spokesman. The EU's high representative also reiterated a longstanding demand for "an immediate, sustained and unconditional opening of the crossings for the flow of humanitarian aid, commercial goods and persons to and from Gaza," the spokesman underlined.

"She reiterates the European Union's position regarding Gaza -- the continued policy of closure is unacceptable and politically counterproductive." Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, who has announced three days of mourning, termed the raid "a massacre." A Turkish charity said at least 15, mostly Turkish nationals, died. The bloody ending to the high-profile mission to deliver supplies to Gaza came on the eve of a meeting in Washington between President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

"From an initial report, more than 10 passengers were killed," an Israeli army spokesman told AFP in what was the first official confirmation of deaths on board the convoy. He said live ammunition was used by both sides. According to Israel's private channel 10 television, Israeli marine commandos opened fire after being attacked with axes and knives by a number of the passengers on board the aid ships, the television said, without giving the source of its information.

Link: http://www.mysinchew.com/node/39757

[ConcordeWarrior]

Israel told them whats up and they refused to cooperate they should have ported up and gone through the search but no they refused they were warned in advanced whats up it seems like the protesters were looking for some sort of conflict.

I see that pro-zionist MSM brainwashing is really working well...   

[cjrocks]

I see that pro-zionist MSM brainwashing is really working well...   

Not really i just have been following it the last 2-3 days they were warned well in advanced and looks like they didn't listen. I see it this way if they had nothing to hide on that boat then there would have been no conflict at all. That is just my personal belief and what someone wise would think. We do not know what happened you all can just assume. We do not know who fired first.

[able]

demanded Israeli authorities mount a "full inquiry"

WTF!

they were already innocent before they murdered the aid workers and the hasbara all points to poor little Isis Ra El!

this needs international Nirenberg style investigation on the back of the goldstone report!

put Israel in the defendant chair not the bloody judges seat!

[cjrocks]

People are so quick to judge what happened here non of you are there. Who knows what was on that ship non of us do and non of us know who shot first.

[able]

Not really i just have been following it the last 2-3 days they were warned well in advanced and looks like they didn't listen. I see it this way if they had nothing to hide on that boat then there would have been no conflict at all. That is just my personal belief and what someone wise would think. We do not know what happened you all can just assume. We do not know who fired first.

yer lets just let them continue the ethnic cleansing of Palestine shall we? we don't need to intervene?

let the Palestinian holocaust run its natural course?

 

[cjrocks]

yer lets just let them continue the ethnic cleansing of Palestine shall we? we don't need to intervene?

let the Palestinian holocaust run its natural course?

 

Do you have proof there ethnically cleansing them?

[able]

Do you have proof there ethnically cleansing them?

stare into his eyes you hasbara bastard!

[able]

learn the bloody truth!

[canandy]

George Galloway speaks out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUBcoB-oy6U

“News has just broken of this barbarous act of piracy conducted by the so-called state of Israel, in which innocent humanitarian aid workers have been cold-bloodedly murdered and dozens wounded. Maybe more deaths to come in the hours that will follow.

“This crime is one of the most dastardly attacks on humanitarian aid workers in recent times, and amidst the wreckage of the Freedom Flotilla is what remains of Israel’s reputation as a member of the international community.

“Israel has grown used to killing people as an answer to their political problems, but now they have moved [on] from killing those Palestinians who have the misfortune to live under their occupation or behind the walls of their siege, and international citizens of 40 countries have come under a hail of gunfire from the so-called Israel Defence Force.

“This crime will not go unanswered. It will not go unanswered by the government of Turkey, which has invested heavily in the international diplomacy to try to come to the aid of the Palestinians under siege.

“But the international community as a whole must respond. Ambassadors should be recalled; Israeli ambassadors should be asked to leave; and a wholesale review of the international community’s relationship with this criminal, pirate state of Israel should now be launched …

“Viva Palestina Arabia was a partner in the flotilla, and we send our condolences to the families of the dead, our sympathies to the families of the wounded, our disappointment to the poor Palestinians under siege in Gaza, who will not now receive the $20m worth of charitable aid given from all over the world to try to make their lives just a little bit easier.

“This disaster cannot go unanswered. [It’s time] for the international community to stand up and be counted, and stop treating this law-breaking rogue state as if it were a respectable member of the United Nations.”

George Galloway speaking from Houston, Texas, at 5.18am (UK time).

source;http://joti2gaza.org/2010/05/31/george-galloway-speaks-out-against-israeli-piracy-and%C2%A0murder/

[citizenx]

Do you have proof there ethnically cleansing them?

JFC!

Right now the Israelis want to push the Gazans into the sea and the Palestinians on the West Bank into Jordan.

What about this project of apartheid and displacement/expulsion isn't ethnci cleansing and genocide?

The "final solution" of the Palestinian probelm is taking place right before the world's eyes.

[sharpsteve]

People are so quick to judge what happened here non of you are there. Who knows what was on that ship non of us do and non of us know who shot first.

On board Gaza's Freedom Flotilla
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6OCIRUF4Ro

[cjrocks]

http://www.revlu.com/Israel-baby.html
Yes we can link dead babies from both sides i really wouldn't call that ethnically cleansing. I would just call it 2 idiotic societies that keep committing terrorist attacks on one another.



http://www.israelnewsagency.com/roshshanaterrorism.html
i mean why do they keep doing this to each other?

This is Ethnic cleansing or genocide whatever you want to call it.


Showing dead babies does not prove mass genocide. Showing Mass Graves Shows Mass Genocide.

[TOTL]

I see that pro-zionist MSM brainwashing is really working well...   

Turkish deep state and Zionist deep state have often worked against the interests of their perspective populations. I smell a set up involving both deep states to push the warmongering agendas. But keeping on your point, if Turkey would have slaughtered 16 Israelis weilding knives in Istanbul with tanks, grenades, and assault helicopters...this would be an even bigger international incident.

Sibel Edmonds is a good source who exposes the Turkish, Israeli, Ameican, Iranian neocon and deep state connections.

[cjrocks]

JFC!

Right now the Israelis want to push the Gazans into the sea and the Palestinians on the West Bank into Jordan.

What about this project of apartheid and displacement/expulsion isn't ethnci cleansing and genocide?

The "final solution" of the Palestinian probelm is taking place right before the world's eyes.

Just like they Arabs they want to do the same to the Jews. If they are committing genocide then the world will come down on them because they cant hide it forever. Something will trigger the world to really hate Israel this might be it.

[cjrocks]

On board Gaza's Freedom Flotilla
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6OCIRUF4Ro

At 1:24 of this video are they cooking pork if they are then that's weird cause i thought Muslims don't eat pork.

Plus was that the ship the IDF boarded cause there is 6 ships and was this only 1 ship in this report?

[TOTL]

Just like they Arabs they want to do the same to the Jews. If they are committing genocide then the world will come down on them because they cant hide it forever. Something will trigger the world to really hate Israel this might be it.

If this was the only incident then you may have a point. But, the Israeli government is using apartheid tactics against the Palestinian people. And they are working with the Egyptians, Syrians, Saudi Arabians, Jordanians, US, and UK to conduct these actions just as Hitler worked with the UK, US, and dozens of other countries to do the same against the Jews in Nazi occupied areas.

The Arab people and the Jewish people have been living in relative peace for over 1,000 years before the invention of the Zionist and Wahabbi fundamentalist movements.

There are hundreds, if not thousands, of incidences of Israeli neocon aggression against a demoralized and downtrodden Palestinian people. To deny this is to deny reality. It is apartheid at best and full blown genocide at worst. There are very rational arguments for both of these. The existence of nazi tactics by the Israeli government against a people based on race, ethnicity, and religion is hardly debunkable.

[tosso]

i heard that on ship were Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mairead Corrigan and some  members of european parlament 

[able]

also claims that holocaust survivor's were on board some or one of the ships.

i think i remember this being mentioned some time ago that some were getting involved.

[citizenx]

At 1:24 of this video are they cooking pork if they are then that's weird cause i thought Muslims don't eat pork.

Plus was that the ship the IDF boarded cause there is 6 ships and was this only 1 ship in this report?

WTF!

Who said all the people on the flotilla were Muslims?  CJ, if you were a hired blogger for the Mossad you would be making all the same exact points.  Honestly.

[Dig]

Do you have proof there ethnically cleansing them?

Dude!

Go here: http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?board=370.0

wtf?

[cjrocks]

CJ, if you were a hired blogger for the Mossad.

Ha i get a kick out of these lol. Hell no i live in Oregon i smoke weed everyday and follow international wars and geopolitics i have been doing this for the last 9 years.

[cjrocks]

also claims that holocaust survivor's were on board some or one of the ships.

i think i remember this being mentioned some time ago that some were getting involved.

I heard that to anyone know who it was?

[Coincidence Theorist]

Ha i get a kick out of these lol. Hell no i live in Oregon i smoke weed everyday and follow international wars and geopolitics i have been doing this for the last 9 years.

I too highly suspect you're an Israeli insider. I mean, given your post count, how might you explain this sudden explosion in postal activity, and also, how do you explain why you clearly side with the killers on this event even though we don't yet know the facts?

I'm curious, is all.

[Dig]

WTF!

Who said all the people on the flotilla were Muslims?  CJ, if you were a hired blogger for the Mossad you would be making all the same exact points.  Honestly.

I noticed that too, although the flotilla is for the people of Gaza, the incident involved Turks. Bringing in the polarized jews v. arabs argument smells like a pigeonholing tactic. Heck, Noam Chomsky was just kicked out of israel, he could be on that convoy for all we know.

Also any of these groups (not sure how much pork they would be eating though) could be on those ships:

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...and this guy has pretty much been the arch enemy of the ADL for 20 years.


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HERO

Another virulent anti-semite


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hardcore anti-Zionist

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiO1jGw1vco

[tosso]

so confirmed ...5 european MP'S on ships 

Europe will be mad

[Dig]

Ha i get a kick out of these lol. Hell no i live in Oregon i smoke weed everyday and follow international wars and geopolitics i have been doing this for the last 9 years.

Really, could you look at the link I posted: http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?board=370.0

Git ureself edumacated!

[tosso]

two of the ships were with american flag ...so Israel attack American teritory ..this is huge

[Dig]

so confirmed ...5 european MP'S on ships 

Europe will be mad

As far as military tactics go, this is like fricking Pearl Harbor. Israel best be toning down the slaughtering of knive weilding boaters or they will be seen as the Hirohito of our time. BTW...Hirohito was a British Agent. derrrr.

[phosphene]

the last time someone tried this, a US Congresswoman got kidnapped and held prisoner for a few weeks.

Cynthia McKinney Remains Imprisoned in Israel After Gaza-Bound Boat Is Seized
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/02/cynthia-mckinney-remains-imprisoned-israel-gaza-bound-boat-seized/

[Dig]

two of the ships were with american flag ...so Israel attack American teritory ..this is huge

oh man, is Obama the new Johnson? Can't wait to hear all of the radio transmissions on this crap!

Rahm Emanuel was just in Israel!

[cjrocks]

How come the Egyptians can not give the people in Gaza aid why didn't this care package go over the Gaza/Egyptian border or has the Israelis block that all off?

[tosso]

oh man, is Obama the new Johnson? Can't wait to hear all of the radio transmissions on this crap!

Rahm Emanuel was just in Israel!

and israeli subs with nukes are in to international  waters ..i dont like this shit at all

[Dig]

Will Obama Be Blackmailed?
http://original.antiwar.com/avnery/2010/05/30/obama-blackmail/
by Uri Avnery, May 31, 2010

Rahm Emanuel is, so it seems, the American most hated by the leaders of Israel. He is considered the most dangerous opponent of the Netanyahu government in the White House. Behind closed doors, they shower him – if one is to believe the media – with anti-Semitic epithets. “Jewboy” is one of them. In Zionist usage, he is a “self-hating Jew.”

And lo and behold, here he is strolling around the Galilee in shorts. He visits the occupied Golan Heights, which foreign diplomats normally take great pains to avoid. The IDF flies him between its installations. He prays at the Western Wall. A good Jewish tourist from America.


Emanuel’s son has reached the age of bar mitzvah; where better to celebrate than the Land of Israel, where his grandfather was a member of the Irgun – an outfit that the U.S. administration would have branded a terrorist organization, like Hamas today.

In short, the self-hating Jewboy has revealed himself as a Zionist with a warm Jewish heart, an admirer of the IDF and a supporter of the annexation of the Golan Heights.

The visit was not, of course, a passing whim. It joined a long series of gestures by Barack Obama designed to win the hearts of the Jews before the upcoming congressional elections.

It seems that at some stage, months ago, Obama came to the conclusion that he had lost the first round of his contest with Binyamin Netanyahu, and that it would be better to live and fight another day.

He himself spelled it out in a conversation with Jewish leaders: at the beginning of his path in the Middle East he stepped on some land mines. He has learned his lesson.

The result was a campaign of sweet-talk and flattery:

He invited Elie Wiesel, Mr. Holocaust in person, to a private lunch at the White House. Perhaps they exchanged memories about some common experiences, like “How to accept the Nobel Peace Prize and keep a straight face.” Wiesel’s contribution to peace is one of the great mysteries of the universe. (My own opinion of Wiesel found its expression in a Hebrew word I invented especially for him: “Shoan” (something like “Holocauster.”)

After that, Obama met with several sets of “Jewish leaders” and told them about his unwavering support for the security of Israel, his admiration for Netanyahu and love for Israel in general. Never mind that just recently a major opinion poll has shown that these “leaders” represent mostly themselves – the great majority of the younger Jewish generation in the U.S. opposes the policies of the Israeli government and is becoming more and more alienated from Israel.

Sending his No. 1 confidante to Israel in the guise of an ardent Zionist and extending an invitation to Netanyahu to come and visit him in the White House are further stages in this campaign.

What is the aim? Well, that is as clear as the midday sun.

On Nov. 2, the 93rd anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, elections will be held in the U.S. All the seats in the House of Representatives and 34 in the Senate will be up for grabs.

For Obama, these elections are hugely important. In the worst case, the Democrats will lose control of one of the houses of Congress, making it impossible for Obama to get most of the laws he desires passed. The best he can realistically hope for is that the Democratic majority in both houses will be reduced, making the life of the president much more difficult.

AIPAC has already shown that it can have a big impact on election results. When the lobby decides to topple a member of Congress, that is the end of his political life. When the lobby concentrates its financial and political might on a certain spot, it is almost invincible.

Obama now needs all the support he can get in both houses. Therefore, he must neutralize the pro-Israel lobby. The expense of the bar mitzvah party of the Emanuel family was a negligible price to pay for this.

When Obama says that he stepped on a land mine, he means the mine called AIPAC.

The phenomenon itself is nothing new. It repeats itself every fours years, and sometimes every two.

Since the first day of the state of Israel, all Israeli governments have been aware that an election year in the U.S. provides them with unparalleled political opportunities.

Israel was founded in May 1948, half a year before the U.S. elections. Harry Truman was in a critical situation. Many believed that he would be roundly defeated. He was in desperate need of money. Some rich Jews dug into their pockets and saved Truman, who won by the skin of his teeth.

All of Truman’s political and military aides advised him not to support Israel’s independence. But Truman recognized the new state (de facto, at least) immediately after it was established.

From that day on, whenever the Israeli government needs U.S. support for a controversial act, it waits for an American election year. This has almost always succeeded. The exception: a week before the 1956 elections, the Ben-Gurion government (urged on by Shimon Peres) invaded Sinai in cahoots with France and the UK. The Israeli leaders believed that no American politician would dare to oppose Israel on the eve of elections.

They were wrong. President Dwight Eisenhower, a former supreme allied commander, was supremely confident of his election victory. Therefore he ignored the Jewish lobby and, together with his Soviet colleague, presented Israel with an ultimatum. That got David Ben-Gurion out of Sinai and Gaza in a jiffy.

Those who hoped that Obama would prove to be a second Eisenhower were wrong. In spite of some resounding successes, his political situation is far from impressive. The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has not improved his political health. As a realistic politician, he has decided that this is not the right time to take on the Jewish establishment.

Perhaps he remembered the sober advice of Niccolo Machiavelli: If you can’t kill the lion, don’t provoke it.

However, there is a huge land mine buried on the road to election day: the settlement freeze.

When Obama compelled Netanyahu to freeze the settlements officially in the West Bank (and unofficially in East Jerusalem, too), a 10-month period was agreed upon. This will come to an end in September.

When the time comes, Netanyahu will face immense pressures from the settlers and their allies to start building again. “What are you afraid of?” they will say. “Two months before the elections Obama will not dare to lift a finger! And,” quoting a Jewish sage, “if not now, when?”

The situation in Israel will increase the temptation. It seems that “we have never had it so good.” There are no attacks. Our economy is booming. In spite of the criticism echoing around the world, Israel’s political standing is robust. Just last week Israel was accepted as a member of the OECD, the world’s most prestigious economic club. Obama has capitulated. When the army’s Homeland Command held extensive exercises this week, the people just winked and did not bother to run to the shelters.

The temptation to renew the building in the settlements will be strong. But Netanyahu will think about the day after. And so will Obama.

And indeed, what will happen the day after the elections?

Optimists believe that on that morning, a new era will start. No further elections are planned before November 2012, when Obama’s first term expires. For an entire year, at least, he will be free to act.

That is a “window of opportunities.” A wide-open window. During this time Obama can realize his hope of bringing peace and retrieve the position of the U.S. in the Middle East. As an added bonus, he will also be able to vent his accumulated fury against Netanyahu.

According to this forecast, in this one year, from the end of 2010 to the end of 2011, the final act of the drama will be enacted. Obama will present an American peace plan, the pressure on the Israeli government will intensify, Israel will finally have to choose between peace and territories, peace will at long last be on its way.

But there is also an opposite forecast: Obama will continue to disappoint, as he has disappointed until now. He will already be thinking about the next presidential election and continue to be afraid of AIPAC.

This forecast has a lot going for it. When I was very young, my father admonished me never, but never, to yield to blackmail. He who pays a blackmailer once will continue to pay to his last day. A blackmailer never lets go of his victim.

(In the course of my life I have tried to adhere to this advice. My technique is this: when somebody tries to blackmail me, threatening to do me some harm, I imagine that he has already done so. This way, the threat loses its sting.)

AIPAC is blackmailing Obama, and until now it has been successful. It will go on doing so after November. Obama should face up to the idea and decide: no more.

Will he have the courage to do so? I don’t know. I hope.