Jihad flotilla outrage: 5,000 anti-Israel protesters in Istanbul decry Israel's self-defense

The following comment was pulled from the Huffington Post story about the flotilla incident. I recognize the name Cynthia McKinney, arguably one of the most Leftist democratic (ex)Congressperson in our history. Anyone recognize any of the others?

From the comment:

I repeat my concern and request information for US citizens unaccounted for:

Hedy Epstein, 85 year old Holocaust survivor
David Schermerhorn, US commercial filmmaker
Cynthia McKinney, former US congresswoman and Green Party VP candidate
Adam Shapiro, documentary filmmaker
Katherine Elliott Sheez, registered nurse and aid worker
Gene St Onge, civil and structural engineer
Janet Kobren, retired teacher
Paul Larudee, piano tuner
Joe Meadors, President of USS Liberty Veterans Association and former US Navy Signalman
Greta Berlin, teacher

More: The number of comments on this story at HuffPo now stands at 6,355. The names listed in my comments above are of U.S. citizens, so we are likely to start seeing interviews from some of them shortly, McKinney in particular. (But she is so loony that this should prove good entertainment.)

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.

FRom the article - "Scenes of anger and protest have also been seen in Ankara in front of the residence of the Israeli ambassador to Turkey, Gaby Levi, where also this morning hundreds of people carrying Turkish and Palestinian flags shouted or prayed under the vigilant eyes of the police protecting the building".

Note 'shouted **or prayed**' (my emphasis - dda).

I wonder what prayers were said, exactly? Extempore prayers? Or were they reciting some of the 'cursing prayers' from the Quran?

Now, compare this useful snippet about the Istanbul riots and protests, courtesy of AP of all people, as retailed by 'Headlines' at the Jerusalem Post, May 31.

http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=176965

'Protesters try to storm Israeli consulate in Istanbul
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
05/31/2010 08:43

'ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish police blocked dozens of stone-throwing protesters who tried to storm the Israeli Consulate in Istanbul over reports of an Israeli attack on at least one of the “Free Gaza” ships in international waters on Monday, news channels reported.

'Protesters later staged a more peaceful demonstration outside the consulate, holding up Palestinian flags and listening to readings from the Koran. ' END.

Got that, everyone? In Istanbul the Muslim crowds were **listening to readings from the Koran**.

I wonder which verses, exactly, were being chanted?