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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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

heres what a joke I think the flotilla idiots are

here I present the Flotilla Choir singing " We Con the World"
Dailymotion - Flotilla Choir presents: We Con the World (enough is enough) - une vid�©o Vie pratique

Iran's Red Crescent says two shipments of relief goods and relief workers will be sent to the besieged Gaza Strip by the end of the week.

"These relief goods include food, medication and medical equipments. The ships will be sent to Gaza by the end of this week," said Red Crescent Director for International Affairs Abdul Rauf Adibzadeh, quoted by IRNA on Sunday.

He added that the Red Crescent has called for Iranian volunteers to act as relief workers and accompany the vessels.

"Volunteers who want to go to Gaza and help the people of the occupied Palestine can register through the Red Crescent website," he said.

The Red Crescent society is also preparing another Gaza-bound ship with medical equipment and operating rooms for the impoverished people of the strip.

Israeli forces attacked the international aid convoy Freedom Flotilla on May 31. The convoy was trying to break the three-year blockade imposed on Gaza by the Tel Aviv regime and deliver basic necessities to Palestinians living in the coastal enclave.

Iran to send aid ships to Gaza

It is funny you mention Hamas IB because we do not see a huge list of Mossad martyrs killed by Hamas ...

Martyrs - Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades

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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

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Bigot - that's a big word for you Islandboy, who taught you that one?

I see you are the same old racist despite your visit up river.

a bigot.....interesting......maybe Im a Palestinan Jew married to a mexican here in South Texas my friend.

thats cause the real world doesnt care about the Al Aqsa or Hamas child molesters who must use retarded children and poor desperate people to blow themselves up for some crack dream of promised virgins. A job the leaders of Hamas and Al Aqsa are to chickenshit to do themselves. Cause they are cowards who belong on the bottom of shoes.

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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.

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Really because the UN, the Security Council have said at various times that it is both illegal and that it should be lifted. Today, Monday, the International Committee of the Red Cross said that blockade of the Gaza Strip violates the Geneva Conventions and called for its lifting.

So because you (and Israel) say its legal then it must be, eh? Keep on backing your pariah state. They are heading down the road of apartheid. I want no part of that for the US.

Oh and you never answered my question - can you separate Israel and US interests? If so please give us an example. If not, I question your loyalty to the US.

Sure.....the current administrations policy in the mid-east is one of overt appeacement and groveling and covert islamofascist killing. Israel overtly says they are at war with islamic religous nuts, and OVERTLY kills islamic fundamentalists.

Thats for starters......oh please, oh please can I stay in America now? Is my loyalty good enough for you? Im loyal CAPITALIST and believe in A TINY federal govt with even smaller taxes.:pimp:

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No. Sorry. Get out.

I question your loyalty anyway. Funny how they want people (Palestinians - I know you don't consider them people) in Israel to take "loyalty oaths." Seems we could make good use of that here too.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran will send a convoy of humanitarian aids to the besieged Palestinians in the Gaza Strip next week.

Iran's Red Crescent Society plans to send a ship carrying Iran's aids to the Gaza Strip, spokesman of the ship said on Tuesday, adding that the convoy is scheduled to leave the country's southern port city of Bandar Abbas next week.

"The Iranian Red Crescent Society's aid ship, dubbed as 'Gaza Children Ship' and carrying 1,100 tons of medicine and foodstuff, will leave the port of Bandar Abbas and the pier of Bahonar next week," Abdulrauf Adibzadeh said.

"Five RC personnel and five reporters will also leave for Gaza on the ship," the spokesman stated, adding that Iran will officially issue the names and photos of the crews and passengers.

In addition to 50 tons of medications, the ship will carry basic commodities and supplies needed by the besieged people, including blankets, cooking oil, canned food, detergents, flour, soap, sugar, water, children clothes, toys and balloons.

Adibzadeh further said that the ship will have a 14-day voyage and all the necessity permissions have already been Okayed.

He noted that the cargo will respect all the international laws and regulations and will have no military support.

Iran's move will come nearly a month after the Israeli forces raided an international convoy of aids which was bound for Gaza in international waters and killed several human rights activists. The six-ship flotilla attempted to breach Israel's three-year-old blockade of Gaza which has claimed thousands of lives in the Palestinian enclave thus far.

Fars News Agency :: Iran to Send Aid Cargo to Gaza Next Week

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No. Sorry. Get out.

I question your loyalty anyway. Funny how they want people (Palestinians - I know you don't consider them people) in Israel to take "loyalty oaths." Seems we could make good use of that here too.

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Best part of this is that you dont even live in the states and you wanna see my AMERICAN birth cerificate. Now thats rich. That or ya just put that flag up there to appear European. Either way its cute. Maybe I should put the English flag on my profile cause my granny was a war-bride from Chelsea?

Of course Palestinans are people, stop attempting to put words in peoples mouths that never were said. Not once. Nice try Newbie. The last refuge of a dying argument is calls of racism.:pimp:

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Best part of this is that you dont even live in the states and you wanna see my AMERICAN birth cerificate. Now thats rich. That or ya just put that flag up there to appear European. Either way its cute. Maybe I should put the English flag on my profile cause my granny was a war-bride from Chelsea?

Of course Palestinans are people, stop attempting to put words in peoples mouths that never were said. Not once. Nice try Newbie. The last refuge of a dying argument is calls of racism.:pimp:

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The flag has to do with where I was born and the fact that I live in a state that is not friendly to growers. Why advertise illegal activities. Nothing brings heat like flaunting the laws (and threatening national leaders). I already worry about IP logging on this site.

I didn't put words in your mouth. I made a statement about your beliefs. You probably can't understand the difference. You keep making that statement about "the last refuge of a dying argument is calls of racism" which in some cases may be well be true. However, in this case you trot out that well worn phrase in an attempt to deflect your own xenophobia. Stop making racist comments about "Islamofacists, jihadis," etc. in reference to whole populations and I'll stop pointing out your racist tendencies.

As a Lebanese aid convoy is preparing to set sail for the Gaza Strip, Beirut says Tel Aviv would be held accountable for any attack against the vessel.

In a letter to the United Nations on Tuesday, Lebanon's Foreign Ministry said "Israel will be held fully responsible for any attack on Lebanon," AFP reported.

Lebanon "cannot prohibit a ship from leaving its ports if its cargo, passengers and destination all comply with Lebanese law."

The letter came after the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations sent a letter to the UN, threatening that it would use "all necessary means" to stop the Gaza-bound aid convoy.

Earlier on Monday, Lebanese authorities granted permission for one of the two ships, the Julia, to sail to Cyprus and then to Gaza. With Lebanon and Israel technically still at war, the ship cannot directly sail for the Gaza Strip.

The aid mission comes as Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak warned earlier that Lebanon would be responsible for any confrontation with vessels sailing to Gaza from its shores.

The ships, which have been organized by the Free Palestine Movement, would be carrying humanitarian supplies for the besieged people of Gaza.

The pro-Palestinian campaigners planned the mission after Israeli commandos stormed the Gaza Freedom Flotilla aid convoy on May 31, killing at least several civilian activists and injuring dozens of others in international waters.

Beirut warns Israel against ship attack

TEHRAN -- Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting department in Hamedan city will be making an animation on the Israeli attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla.

The 25-minute animation is on the recent attack by the Israeli navy and air force on the Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla in international waters, killing 19 international activists and wounding dozens of others.

â??With the aid of animation, we can convey cultural, economic, social and political information to the audience,â?� the head of IRIB office in Hamedan Hojjatolislam Hossein Taqipur mentioned in a conference on Monday.

The animation tells the story of Zionist crimes in easily understandable language to introduce children to the calamities inflicted upon the people of Gaza, he added.

tehran times : IRIB to make animation on Israeli attack on Gaza Freedom Flotilla

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if that would have happened there would be no more germany.....

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i seriously doubt that..nice try though

23/06/2010 The Swedish Dock Workers Union on Wednesday launched a week-long blockade of cargo to and from the Zionist entity to protest the Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla last month, a union representative told AFP.

The blockade, which also applies to Israeli ships, was launched "because of the assault on the Ship to Gaza (flotilla), that we supported before they took off ... and the blockade of the Gaza strip, which affects the civilian population," union spokesman Rolf Axelsson said.

The dock workers' protest was to take place in all unionized Swedish ports, and ends at midnight (2200 GMT) on June 29.

Union chairman Bjoern A. Borg added the union called for an international investigation into the May 31 raid that killed nine pro-Palestinian activists.

He told AFP the dock workers believed Israel's easing of its Gaza blockade, announced on Sunday, was insufficient.

Eleven Swedes, including crime writer Henning Mankell, took part in the flotilla and were briefly taken into Israeli custody.

Al-ManarTV:: Swedish Dockers Block Israeli Cargo in Gaza Protest 23/06/2010

Zippity-do-dah......Im sure it crippled Israel. Funny......MoveOn and SEIU Obama dog & ponies tried to do the same thing in Cali last week and got the wrong ship blocking a Chinese ship instead. They claimed victory and went home.

Jihadi is short for jihadist.....racist?.....sorry.....dont see it. I suggest ya get over it. But hey, in YOUR words Im prolly just a ZIONIST? who hates brown people lmao.

Sooooooooooooooooooooooo, you weren't even born stateside and question others citizenship of America? Funny, Funny, Funny, stuff. Perhaps you should attempt to immigrate to Iran? Be closer to other jihadis and closer to attacks on Israel since clearly you think Israel is the great Satan? Go for it dude!! You could be the modern day William Wallace of Islamofascists!!

Your all alone on here standing up for Islamic kooks and nutjobs who oppress their peoples and use retarded, DRUGGED , children to kill civilians. Have fun defending that losing position......your ideology got its ass whopped all over the world 60 years ago and it will again.

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Your all alone on here standing up for Islamic kooks and nutjobs who oppress their peoples and use retarded, DRUGGED , children to kill civilians. Have fun defending that losing position......your ideology got its ass whopped all over the world 60 years ago and it will again.

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Israel is the aggressor here ...

23/06/2010 Current Israeli preparations ahead of the arrival of the Lebanese and Iranian provocation flotillas are reminiscent of war preparations.


The Israeli occupation army and political rank are engaged in the drawing of lessons from the previous Navy raid. Still, the commissions of inquiry appointed by the Israeli army chief of staff and the prime minister have yet to complete their reports and the state comptroller has yet to even commence his investigation.

Behind this surge of activity, is the prime minister and ministers' understanding that they were overly complacent during preparations for the previous Turkish flotilla. This led to impairments in the government's decision-making process.

In order to prevent similar mistakes, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been frequently convening the Security Cabinet, consulting his colleagues and reaching decisions pertaining to various aspects of treatment of the next flotillas, over the last few weeks. The Security Cabinet is the body appointed by the government to handle security issues on its behalf. The forum of seven top ministers, which has no legal standing, in comparison, is rarely convened by Netanyahu.

The National Security Council appears to be more involved this time around in preparing materials regarding the next convoys for the political rank. In addition, the governmental PR outline has stepped in and is issuing materials meant to support Israeli hasbara in relation to methods employed by the State to stop future aid flotillas.

The Israeli army is currently focusing on two main aspects. One, is correcting serious impairments which were found in intelligence collection and evaluation prior to the previous raid. The army is examining ways to increase cooperation and coordination between various Israeli army intelligence bodies.

The other aspect is improving the Israeli army's abilities to enforce the siege using non-violent methods.

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak is also drawing personal lessons. He convened a number of evaluation meetings prior to his trip to the United States last week and presented their conclusions to the Security Cabinet. Israeli Industry, Trade and Labor Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, who is replacing Barak during his absence, also convened status evaluation meetings in order to monitor the next flotillas and preparations to stop them.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry and Minister Avigdor Lieberman are also far more involved this time around in political and diplomatic efforts to prevent the Lebanese sail. Previously, such efforts were conducted almost exclusively by Barak.

Some elements in the defense system and governmental rank claim that the intensity of preparations is exaggerated and more driven by the attempt of the parties involved to fend off future pubic criticism and less by the will to improve the decision-making process.

Al-ManarTV:: Israel Preparing for Flotillas Like on Eve of War 23/06/2010

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Sooooooooooooooooooooooo, you weren't even born stateside and question others citizenship of America? Funny, Funny, Funny, stuff.

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D'OH! You figured it out! Yes brainiac, I was naturalized at age 1. We moved here because the USG wanted my dad's skill sets. I served my country in the Middle East and I am a proud American. I made my way here like every other non-native American. It is the American way. You remember "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses" and all that?

As usually, you get the facts wrong. I didn't question your citizenship, I questioned your loyalty. There is a difference. The bit about seeing your birth certificate was a backhanded joke in reference to the birthers (you've made these references in the past). But point taken, you have a difficult time distinguishing fact, fiction, and reality. I'll try to keep it even more simple for you moving forward.

Again, I'm hoping you will explain to us why you cut and pasted my comments together from different threads which resulted in the distortion of my views. Any time Islandboy. Any time.

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23/06/2010 Current Israeli preparations ahead of the arrival of the Lebanese and Iranian provocation flotillas are reminiscent of war preparations.


The Israeli occupation army and political rank are engaged in the drawing of lessons from the previous Navy raid. Still, the commissions of inquiry appointed by the Israeli army chief of staff and the prime minister have yet to complete their reports and the state comptroller has yet to even commence his investigation.

Behind this surge of activity, is the prime minister and ministers' understanding that they were overly complacent during preparations for the previous Turkish flotilla. This led to impairments in the government's decision-making process.

In order to prevent similar mistakes, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been frequently convening the Security Cabinet, consulting his colleagues and reaching decisions pertaining to various aspects of treatment of the next flotillas, over the last few weeks. The Security Cabinet is the body appointed by the government to handle security issues on its behalf. The forum of seven top ministers, which has no legal standing, in comparison, is rarely convened by Netanyahu.

The National Security Council appears to be more involved this time around in preparing materials regarding the next convoys for the political rank. In addition, the governmental PR outline has stepped in and is issuing materials meant to support Israeli hasbara in relation to methods employed by the State to stop future aid flotillas.

The Israeli army is currently focusing on two main aspects. One, is correcting serious impairments which were found in intelligence collection and evaluation prior to the previous raid. The army is examining ways to increase cooperation and coordination between various Israeli army intelligence bodies.

The other aspect is improving the Israeli army's abilities to enforce the siege using non-violent methods.

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak is also drawing personal lessons. He convened a number of evaluation meetings prior to his trip to the United States last week and presented their conclusions to the Security Cabinet. Israeli Industry, Trade and Labor Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, who is replacing Barak during his absence, also convened status evaluation meetings in order to monitor the next flotillas and preparations to stop them.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry and Minister Avigdor Lieberman are also far more involved this time around in political and diplomatic efforts to prevent the Lebanese sail. Previously, such efforts were conducted almost exclusively by Barak.

Some elements in the defense system and governmental rank claim that the intensity of preparations is exaggerated and more driven by the attempt of the parties involved to fend off future pubic criticism and less by the will to improve the decision-making process.

Al-ManarTV:: Israel Preparing for Flotillas Like on Eve of War 23/06/2010

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Whatever helps ya sleep at night. Irans current regime is doomed in the long run, their nations major population is under 25, their far right conservative ,islamofascist Govt cant supress them forever, its only a matter of time. The Persians are way to proud a peoples to be chumped by some midget and a dude in a head dress preaching 18th century social standards and encouraging followers to kill themselves for God so they can have virgins.....

If posting graphic, un-named, photos helps you garner sympathy, by all means. I watch worse every night playing Calll of Duty Online.

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Call of Duty - there's a real shocker. I trust that you are preparing to enlist so that you can participate in the coming war? You really need to see it in person. The effect lasts far far longer.