Gaza aid flotilla attacked, 10 killed

The best disinfectant is the light of day, eh Islandboy?

On a lighter note. Did any of you get to Club 58 at 58 Ben Yahuda Street in Tel Aviv before it closed? I think it closed some time in 2002. Oh man that place was c-r-a-z-y. We hit it up every time we went to Tel Aviv after we discovered this gem in 1998. Probably 15 times or better. Crazy house / techno in an old theater set up complete with themed parties, Dutch DJs, and ceiling mounted projection screens. Fantastic. Hands down better than the MoS in London. OK way smaller but it just rocked.

On a more serious note, I see that Israel has agreed to lift some of the blockade! In return we agree to turn a blind eye to the murder perpetrated on the flotilla. Seems that they will now allow in soft drinks, juice, canned fruit, salads, biscuits, potato chips, toilet paper, toothpaste, seedlings, school books, school uniforms, cigarettes and some reconstruction material. I guess these items magically do represent a threat to Israelâ??s security now?!

12-06-2010,01:53

Al Qassam website-Occupied Jerusalem, June 11, 2010-Isareli occupation forces in Occupied Jerusalem have killed on Friday a Palestinian driver fatally and deliberately.

This crime committed by cowardly Israeli soldiers against civilian citizen, comes after a strict measures imposed on the occupied city of Jerusalem in order to protect Tel Aviv from mass protests organized against its cruel policy .

As a failure policy, Israeli media outlets claimed that the Killed Palestinian tried to run over Israeli guard soldiers.

Sources said the victim killed in cold blood and without any committed fault.

Israel, as a bastard state, teaches its soldiers a policy of( kill first to justify after), no way, the arrogance of this bastard state pushing her to hellfire.

At the time they kill civilians on board MV Marmara aid ship, Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian civilians in cold blood as If they kill a yellow cow.

Still they believe in the myth that they are chosen!?.

International community still expressing anger against brutal crime committed by Israel at the Mediterranean, caused of death of 9 activists , wound of hundreds.

Israel imposes unjust siege since four years , preventing humanitarian supplies from entering to Gaza strip.

Israel prevents medications, medical devices, A4 papers, and construction materials from entering to Gaza Strip.

Israel kills Palestinians deliberately, justifys later - Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades

The next Freedom Flotilla will be much bigger than the first one, the head of a non-governmental organization says.

Yasser Qashlaq, the director of the Free Palestine movement, said on Thursday that up to 50 ships could join the Freedom Flotilla II, the International Middle East Media Center reported.

The Free Palestine movement, in cooperation with Reporters Without Borders, is organizing the new mission to send educational supplies to the children of the besieged Palestinian territory.

Qashlaq said the first ship would depart from Lebanon within a week.

The Israeli military attacked the Freedom Flotilla in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea on May 31, killing nine Turkish citizens on board the M.V. Mavi Marmara and injuring about 50 other people who were part of the team on the six-ship convoy.

Israel also arrested and later released nearly 700 activists from 42 countries who were on board the ships of the Freedom Flotilla, which was attempting to break the siege of Gaza in order to deliver 10,000 tons of humanitarian assistance to the long-suffering people of the territory.

The Gazans have endured almost three years of an all-out siege, which has deprived them of food, fuel, and other necessities.

50 ships may join Freedom Flotilla II

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Originally Posted by WIlDuce1883

12-06-2010,01:53

Al Qassam website-Occupied Jerusalem, June 11, 2010-Isareli occupation forces in Occupied Jerusalem have killed on Friday a Palestinian driver fatally and deliberately.

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Duce, seriously, you need to parse these stories. I'm not invalidating your work because you post a lot of very relevant stuff. Unfortunately, the Qassam Brigades need some editing help; they should not rely so heavily on on Google Translate. I appreciate your posts as they are hard hitting.

These kinds of executions are routine. I saw it on a weekly and often daily basis. Of course these guys tried to run over the guards - right. It's an old story, tried and true, and they get away with it.

I guess Islandboy et al got tired of having their @sses handed to them? Just to wrap up, let's take stock of where we are and who benefits:

In a bid to maintain the illegal collective punishment of 2 million people in Gaza, Israel attacks an aid convoy murdering 9 people (including 5 shot in the back of the head and back - what a moral army eh?) and injuring dozens. What is the outcome? Israel is forced to lift the blockade of Gaza and introduce international monitors on the boarders handing a significant political and moral victory to Hamas. Well done boys. Of course, it is also a victory for the rule of law and the people of Gaza but that is a separate issue to this discussion.

It kind of reminds me of the botched Israeli assassination attempt of Khaled Meshal carried out in Jordan when Israel sent another bush league assassination team into Jordan to Murder a Hamas leader (now the top leader of Hamas). Two of the murders were caught by Jordanian security. As a result, Israel was forced to turn over the antidote needed to save Khaled's life. They were also forced to free the imprisoned spiritual leader of Hamas, Shiek Ahmad Yassin, a blind, quadriplegic (some threat eh?). Again, advantage Hamas.

Of course Israel later murdered Yassin with a US made hellfire missile that killed 2 others and injured 12.

I should also have added advantage Turkey. See this article in Ha'aretz describing the pending arrangements being made to lift the illegal blockade.

And for anyone who still wants to argue that blockade was not intended to harm the population of Gaza (collective punishment - a war crime), let's recall what the spokesman for the Israeli Prime Minister (Ehud Olmert 3+ years ago) Dov Weisglass had to say about the blockage when it was first imposed:

"The idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger."

A recent Israeli attack on a convoy of ships in the Mediterranean Sea is another indication that Israel kills Americans with a sense of immunity from prosecution.

Furkan Dogan, a US citizen who lived in Turkey, was killed on May 31 during an Israeli attack on the Freedom Flotilla that carried humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.

The attack on the six-ship convoy killed at least 20 peace activists, including nine Turkish citizens on board the M.V. Mavi Marmara, and injured over 40 others.

Ray McGovern, a former analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), in an interview with Press TV, reviewed some other incidents in which Israel "deliberately" had killed Americans without being held accountable by Washington afterwards.

"There was no investigation of what happened exactly 43 years ago on June 8, 1967 when the Israeli Air Force and Navy attacked and tried very much to sink the USS Liberty in the international waters," McGovern said.

"Thirty-four US sailors where killed and over 170 others were badly wounded in the attack," he added.

The USS Liberty incident was an attack on a United States Navy technical research ship, USS Liberty, by Israeli fighters and motor torpedo boats, on June 8, 1967, during the Six-Day Arab-Israeli war. The combined air and sea attack killed 34 crew members, wounded 170, and severely damaged the ship. At the time, the ship was in international waters north of the Sinai Peninsula, northwest from the Egyptian city of Arish.

Both Israel and the US government conducted inquiries and issued reports that concluded the attack was a mistake due to Israeli confusion about the identity of the USS Liberty.

Survivors, in addition to some US diplomats and intelligence officials involved in the incident continue to dispute these official findings, saying the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty was not a mistake, and it remains the only major maritime incident in US history not to be investigated by the US Congress.

"And the same thing happened in March 2003, three days before the attack on Iraq by US and British forces. That was no coincidence when an Israeli bulldozer built in Illinois deliberately ran over Rachel Corrie and then backed over her to make sure that her back was broken," the former US senator stated.

Corrie, 23, a student from Washington State was part of an international solidarity coalition in Gaza when she was run over trying to block the American-made bulldozer from destroying a Palestinian home.

McGovern said that the US activist was killed just before the US invasion of Iraq because Israelis knew that the newspaper headlines would be dominated by the attack on Iraq.

"All we need to do is to look back at 1967, when the president of the US said in his many words 'I don't care how many US seamen are killed, I don't care if the ship goes down. I don't want to embarrass my Israeli ally'," he said.

US emboldens Israel to kill Americans

14/06/2010 In a television interview Sunday, Ahmadinejad pointed that the UN Charter and the responsibilities of the Security Council should care for all of the countries of the world, however, he expressed deep regret that this international body was not acting accordingly today, signaling the international communityâ??s handling of the Israeli attack on the Freedom flotilla May 31 on the one hand and issuing more sanctions on the people of Iran. â??The UNSC was formed to settle disputes in the world, however, it has been working opposite to that, and the most prominent example to this is the situation in Palestine and Iraq...How can America invade Iraq and then gain UNSC support after the invasion?â?�



Ahmadinejad stressed the practices of the UNSC are the coup de grace of this council that has lost credibility amongst the peoples of the world.

Also on Sunday Ahmadinejad said Israel and the United States are trying to sabotage relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia, a day after Riyadh denied a report in the Times claiming it had agreed to allow Israel to use its airspace to attack Iran.
"Undoubtedly, the U.S. and the Zionist regime are the enemies of Iran and Saudi Arabia, so they are trying to create a gap between Tehran and Riyadh," Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said during a meeting with Saudi Arabia's new ambassador to Tehran.
"If Iran and Saudi Arabia stand together, our enemies won't dare continue with their aggressive behavior, with occupation and pressure on the Muslim world," the Iranian president declared during his speech.

On Saturday, Saudi Arabia's ambassador to Britain, Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf, denied that his country had practiced standing down its anti-aircraft systems to allow Israeli warplanes passage on their way to attack Iran's nuclear installations, the London-based Arabic language paper Alsharq al Awsat reported.

The Times had reported that the Saudis have allocated a narrow corridor of airspace in the north of the country that would cut flying time from Israel to Iran.

"The Saudis have given their permission for the Israelis to pass over and they will look the other way," the Times quoted an unnamed U.S. defense source in the area as saying. "They have already done tests to make sure their own jets aren't scrambled and no one gets shot down. This has all been done with the agreement of the [U.S.] State Department."

Once the Israelis had passed, the kingdom's air defenses would return to full alert, the Times said. "We all know this. We will let them [the Israelis] through and see nothing," the Times allegedly quoted a Saudi government source as saying.

According to the report, the four main targets for an Israeli raid on Iran would be uranium-enrichment facilities at Natanz and Qom, a gas-storage development at Isfahan and a heavy-water reactor at Arak. Secondary targets may include Bushehr reactor.

Al-ManarTV:: Ahmadinejad: UNSC Becomes Tool In Hands of Tyrannical Forces 14/06/2010

Yea...got tired. Thats the ticket. Im sorry, you can post as many atrocities as ya want....the blockade will remain, US will back it, and the UN is helpless to do a damn thing. Cause its all LEGAL under international law....or vague...under international law. So Israel WILL take advantagde of that like any other nation would. Any boat from ANY nation will be boarded and searched. Anyone onboard those boats who CHOOSES to fight will be shot with real bullets....not paintballs this time.

Freedom Flotillas........what a funny joke. Boats of useful idiots is more appropriate.

Heres Hamas shooting rockets from a school during a 4 hour humanitarian cease fire
YouTube - Hamas Rockets During Cease-Fire and From Schoolyard 8 Jan. 09

and here is where Hamas stores its weapons....inside the local Mosque.

Hamas Uses Mosques to Store Weapons

I go on vacation to the river and up sprouts all kinds of new islamofascist sympathizers and outright bigots.........nice. I love you people.:D