Palestinian jihad propaganda -- as we have come to expect from AP. Nothing here, of course, about how jihad flotilla participants were celebrating a massacre of Jews by Islam's prophet Muhammad. "Israeli commandos storm aid flotilla; 9 killed," by Amy Teibel and Tia Goldenberg for AP, May 31:
JERUSALEM -- Israeli naval commandos stormed a flotilla of ships carrying aid and hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists to the blockaded Gaza Strip on Monday, killing nine passengers in a botched raid that provoked international outrage and a diplomatic crisis.Dozens of activists and six Israeli soldiers were wounded in the bloody predawn confrontation in international waters. The violent takeover dealt yet another blow to Israel's international image, already tarnished by war crimes accusations in Gaza and its 3-year-old blockade of the impoverished Palestinian territory.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanhayu canceled a much-anticipated meeting with President Barack Obama in Washington on Tuesday in a sign of just how gravely Israel viewed the international uproar. In Canada, Netanyahu announced he was rushing home.
Israel said it opened fire after its commandos were attacked by knives, clubs and live fire from two pistols wrested from soldiers after they rappelled from a helicopter to board one of the vessels. Late Monday, it released a grainy black-and-white video that it said supported its version of events.
Reaction was swift and harsh, with a massive protest in Turkey, Israel's longtime Muslim ally, which unofficially supported the mission. Ankara announced it would recall its ambassador and call off military exercises with the Jewish state.
The U.N. Security Council scheduled an emergency meeting later Monday to hear a briefing on the incident, said Lebanon's Deputy Ambassador Caroline Ziade, whose country holds the council presidency. The Arab League called for a meeting to discuss the issue Tuesday in Cairo....
Once again, Muslims, the ever-faithful adherents of Islam the religious cult of provocation, makes aggressive provocations upon others who would simply prefer to leave matters well enough alone. Then those provocateurs claim victim status when others, recognizing their murderous intentions, protect themselves.
What happened to this flotilla was so predictable. Wasn`t this relief aid organized by the Muslim Brotherhood? Regardless of whether or not there were weapons on board, they wanted a bloodbath as a set-up to get the international community up in arms against Israel. People are so naive they just might fall for it.
Did the UN Security Council have an 'emergency debate' on the murder of over 80 'heretics' and 'apostates' by Sunni Muslims in Pakistan last week? No!
Why does the Security Council feel the need to debate Israel's actions at least once before each breakfast? Has it got anything to do with the 150 and more Islamic and Muslim states in the UN and the Islamic organisations which are part of the UN? Has it got anything to do with 1,500 years of Western anti-Semitism and its new incarnation - anti-Zionism?
We can guarantee that this will be a major news item today and even over the next week. The Western media usually chronicles every broken finger and upset stomach which the Israelis cause the long-suffering and deeply pacifist Palestinians. Every inch of the situation well be cried over by naive left-liberals and utilised by far leftists in their obsessive anti-Israel campaign.
So as soon as the media hungrily get hold of a single Muslim on the ship being lightly spanked by an Israeli soldier, many will instantly conclude that this is yet another Evil Zionist mission to exterminate every Muslim on the planet. I bet leftists are going crazy with their FaceBooks at this very moment. Bless them.
It is almost as if the Turki Foundation wanted this to happen so they could milk it dry in the Western media and elsewhere. Indeed this ‘Israeli crime’ was probably forecasted weeks ago. So it is no surprise that many Muslims have already showed their predictable anger and starting demonstrating. In fact, they started to do so about five minutes after the event occurred. It was almost as if they already knew what was going to happen. Um.
And surprise, surprise! The Turkish government called for an emergency meeting at least two minutes after the Israelis boarded the ships. The increasingly Islamist Government is slowly falling in the Muslim line of compulsory anti-Zionism. Chomsky will have finished his book about this ‘outrage’ and ‘gross act of pure evil’ by Friday. Symposiums in American universities will begin early next week.
Who was behind the reprimanded flotilla? Some nice Muslims? Our very own George ‘look no panties’ Galloway and his Viva Palestina? No. It was the Turki Foundation (IHH). Want to know something about it? (The BBC won’t tell you.) It is a radical Islamic organisation which is a major component in Hamas’s worldwide funding machine. And like all other radical Islamic organisations, it hates infidels and sometimes even hates the wrong kind of fellow Muslim. More precisely, it likes those who kill Jews (Hamas, Hezbollah, etc.) and it also likes to spread the anti-Semitic psychosis around the Muslim and leftist world.
Of course the shipment was only full of flower petals, Superman magazines and white doves. Oh yes. It was also highly likely to have contained explosives, Kal Iranian-made, long-rage Fajr-5 missiles. But only to be used self-defensively by destroying Israeli kindergartens and pizza houses. How do we know this? Because a hell of a lot of similar shipments have contained weapons and explosives heading for Hamas and other nice and peaceful Islamist groups.
It’s certain that the Turki Foundation, and the other Islamists aboard, were planning on violence. Indeed they wanted violence. They had already said that they ‘fully intend to go to Gaza regardless of any intimidation of threats of violence against us’. They are only doing their Islamic duty against the Jews! Also, the Israelis, when aboard, were immediately attacked with knives, daggers and cudgels. Instead of killing the Islamists outright, the Israelis chose to use tear gas against the enemy. Al Jazeera also reported that gun shots were heard on the boats.
We can be deeply cynical, but nevertheless accurate, and say that these ‘aid convoys’, whether run by Islamist militants like the Turki Foundation or, well, by IslamoTrot militants like Viva Palestina, are not really about supplying the death camps of starving Palestinians with food and other much-needed supplies (such as long-range rockets which can go deep into Israel). They are primarily, or even exclusively, about propaganda and publicity. And my God! How they are successful at this!
The reason for my Zionist cynicism and evil is this. It is possible that the Gaza Strip is not actually suffering a real ‘humanitarian crisis’ at all since the Palestinians are already being supplied by the Evil Zionist Empire that is Israel. Indeed any journalists who care to see will realise that hundreds of Israeli trucks daily supply the Gazans with food and other needies - but not, sadly, offensive weapons. That’s where the Turki Foundation may well come in.
I don’t suppose it matters to leftists and anti-Zionists that international law allows states like Israel to ask suspicious boats to identify themselves. They are only interested in the times when Israel supposedly goes against international law, which seems to be every day, according to these Israel Watchers.
Alinsky Playbook international version. It has all become as ritualistic and stylized as Kabuki theater. What is sickening is the role of the MSM.
veteranoutrage
Of course the ISLAMIC controlled UN
gangs up on Israel..
Its the only thing the muslim COWARDS know how to do..
Is kill civilians, girls, women and children..
The muslims wont dare meet us on the field of battle
because each time they do they end up defeated..
The taliban and muslims are like the school bully
pusing around and ganging up on the smaller and defenseless..
And when the weak then start to FIGHT BACK
then the muslims go crying off to their mommy the UN..
All you muslims listen well..
Even if you succeed in killing america
you will never suceed in the defeat of the Jews..
For God himself watches over Israel.
And you cannot defeat God..
You better repent of your evil plans otherwise God will defent Israel himself..
veteranoutrage
- "botched raid" It seems successful to me.
- "...yet another blow to Israel's international image, already tarnished by war crimes accusations in Gaza..." Which are proved over and over to be unfounded.
"What is sickening is the role of the MSM" Yep.
UPDATE: President Obama (America's first Muslim-born president, with deep sympathies for the world of Islam) spoke by phone with Prime Minister Netanyahu this morning. (He) expressed the importance of learning all the facts and circumstances around this morning's tragic events as soon as possible.”
White House 'Working to Understand' Israeli Attack
May 31, 2010 10:40 AM
Hmm? The AP, one of the largest (if not largest?), news wire services in the WORLD thinks that Israels' image is tarnished by alleged "human rights violations" in Gaza. All I can say is thank God for the internet or THIS is what we would be depending on for news. You know.....self-aggrandizing liberal ideologues who believe everything the Israel/American hating UN tells them to!!!
It's clear from some of cell phone videos(via FoxNews) the Turks on that one ship were waiting to either kill them or put them in the ER. The video shows the Turks just wiping the floor with the commandos who had no viable defense against them - no riot guns,tear gas sprayers, billy clubs until they pulled out their service pistols.
And since the Turks being Muslim they knew that if the Israelis killed they'd go to the celestial whorehouse so it is win-win for them.
Israel has been, is, and always will be in a state of war with "its Arab neighbors." That state of war is a result not of anything Israel does, but because Israel, an infidel nation-state, merely is. It does not matter that the Arabs everywhere deny to non-Muslims and to non-Arab Muslims even equality before the law, much less autonomy, and of course independence -- for Kurds, Berbers, black Africans in the Sudan -- is out of the question, no matter what promises about what referendums may be made.
Since that state of war exists -- that Jihad against Israel exists, as the best-publicized, and for a while seemingly the only Jihad going -- Israel has to do what it can to survive. When those who are the vicious collaborators of the Fast Jihadists of Hamas proceed with their propagandistic stunt, the Israelis are under no obligation to let them proceed, and after giving them endless warnings, were perfectly justified in their behavior. One hopes that whatever protests come from the civilized non-Muslim countries are not meant, but merely pro forma, not only because Israel is justified but because if Muslims obtain further successes in their propaganda war against Israel, this will whet, not sate, their appetites in other Jihads, against other Infidel targets, elsewhere.
Tout se tient. Everything connects, when it comes to the local Jihads whose sum is the world-wide Jihad. The Israelis themselves have so far, and stupidly, refused to call the war against them a Jihad, and they have so far, stupidly, refused to explain to other countries that that that war has no "solution" save that of deterrence, and they have so far, stupidly, allowed the Arabs to redefine the conflict - that absurd "Palestinian people," that loaded BBC-and-Guardian rhetoric about "occupied" territories that were part of Mandatory Palestine, that is part of the territory assigned to the future Jewish National Home, and intended for no other purpose.
The dogs bark, the caravan moves on. But the caravan's leaders need to speak up just a little louder, and a little more intelligently, and forcefully.
The media is once again using language to fuzzy the lens of truth. This is not political correctness. This is a media conspiracy to distort the TRUTH. Someone needs to call them on this. They are behaving in an a manner that is not worthy of being reporters. This media is bought and paid for by the same people who have bought and paid the white house with. The globalists who choose to frame reality to what THEY want. Those are the “framers” of what they would like to create as a new WORLD DOMINION. The UN will soon be the only GOVERNMENT that all countries look for even the smallest of internal quips.
This media is complicit. These Flotilla’s and other “aid” packages have been used to deliver weapons caches and support structures to the Palestinian terrorists for decades now. Also, if they only have food and supplies, then why did they have weapons?
The flotilla story is not the only cover up.
The POLISH PRESIDENT was killed because he didn’t want to have the POLISH currency tied to the EU. The reason that he didn’t want it was because Poland is a net positive economy. Europe is flailing. He was killed so that Poland could be “annexed” and stripped of wealth. A shake down. Russia is really good at these types of NULLIFICATIONS. Putin is ex KGB. He’s very familiar —
Polish plane crash – carrying 96 government officials – Investigators believe that it was an ASSASSINATION
---http://txlady706.wordpress.com/2010/05/30/polish-plane-crash-carrying-96-government-officials-investigators-believe-that-it-was-an-assassination/
Online sites reporting this are aflame with comments. Most of them are anti-Israeli. Posters here could help counter this spin by adding their voices of support to Israel on one of these sites. I have been active on Huffington Post all day, where so far there are something like 10,000 comments to this story. If you don't have an account over there, set one up.
I fear that Israel is outflanked: marked as weak if they fail to respond to threat, condemned as aggressive and brutal if they do. I fear for Israel's survival. The American people will not turn away from Israel but our present government might. Watch and pray this does not happen.
Besides chipping in our two cents at various forums, we can also write intelligent letters to our own governments, letting them know that we simply don't buy the Arab Muslim Big Lies about Israel and that we expect them (our elected reps) not to buy those lies, either.
By noon tomorrow, all western governments - and India - ought to have their in-trays brimming full of short, sharp, intelligent letters from Jihadwatchers.
And we can write sensible, friendly letters to the Israeli Ambassadors in our various countries, to let them know that we understand Israel's predicament, and are most impressed that the number of fatalities and injuries was, in fact, so low, given that a bunch of young soldiers with minimal weaponry had to subdue a howling lynch-mob.
Before we write those letters, we would be well advised to read, and re-read, Mr Fitzgerald's posting, above.
It may also be time - for those of us who dwell in cities that contain Israeli embassies or consulates - to consider whether it may be necessary to come out on the streets and visibly and publicly assert support for Israel's right to defend herself against Jihad.
If 'Gaza Convoy Rage' erupts in a big way - which it may not, who knows - then it may be time to make like the Gharqad Tree.
Something by Mr Fitzgerald, on the subject of Israel, and the jihad against Israel, that is as true today as it was when it was first written.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2008/11/fitzgerald-21-reasons-why-barack-obama-is-wrong-about-israel-and-the-saudi-peace-plan.html
Fitzgerald: 21 reasons why Barack Obama is wrong about Israel and the Saudi peace plan
In my own files, I have called it simply "If...".
And as for the non-Muslim Useful Idiots aboard that flotilla, some of them self-hating Jews, and many of them distinctly worrisome personages, here is something that probably sums up the animus of many of them:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=3CEC078B-97FB-40F6-9617-8447061C0998
'We Are Not Anti-Semites'
By Steven Plaut
FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, December 11, 2008
I proffer it here because it might come in handy at a rally or two, somewhere, someday, if read aloud, with suitable theatrical touches.