From the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs:
In late June in Tel Aviv, senior Israeli Defense Forces officials briefed JINSA members on the security situation confronting Israel. They provided the group with the following video about the "Flotilla" incident that took place on the morning of May 31, 2010. The most disturbing part of this video comes at around the 2:32 mark when the Israeli Navy attempts to contact the ships in the flotilla by radio. It is not clear from which flotilla vessel the disturbing responses emanated. Perhaps more disturbing is the fact that that videos like this one that reveal the true nature of the flotilla incident are buried and overlooked by the media and public alike.
Indeed. But not here.
An Israeli flotilla to Turkey?
"The Flotilla Wars: one stunt begets another"
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/8981/
If there's really a "humanitarian crisis" in Gaza, how strange that all "Flotilla" activity grinded to a complete halt during the FIFA World Cup Finals in South Africa and miraculously started-up again the moment the football competition was over.
Quite obviously, media coverage for the organisers is of far more importance than any "suffering" of the population in Gaza.
One account has the terrorists trying to drag two inured Israeli soldiers down into the hold...This would suggest that the jihadi's intended to take hostages and create an even bigger incident...
http://newstime.co.nz/free-gaza-the-true-version.html
Free Gaza from Hamas!
Not Arab enough? There are no starving Muslims in Gaza,
but there are plenty in Darfur. So, where’s their ‘aid flotilla’?
off topic for Eleanor and dumbledoresarmy:
http://www.daylightatheism.org/2010/05/yes-thats-me-in-the-burqa.html
Yes, That's Me in the Burqa
by Sarah Braasch
Keep up the good fight, Sarah.
The biggest lie ever perpetrated on this gullible planet is that "all cultures are equal". Once a gullible host's brain has been infected, the first and most virulent symptom is cognitive dissonance.
"Go back to Auschwitz"? Helen Thomas's next job: spokeswoman for the Gaza flotilla movement.
More on the case for sending an Israeli/Western flotilla to Turkey:-
"Turkey: Anti-Israel protestors gather outside women's volleyball game"
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3924950,00.html
And, not widely reported:
"Turkey orders arrest of 102 over 'coup plot'"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-10745480
Islam is the only thing making the people's lives in Gaza miserable....
Perhaps concerned humanitarians should send a liberation force to the "Republic of Northern Cyprus," or a convoy to run the Turkish land blocade against Armenia.
Anyone who regards the Israeli propaganda ministry as an unbiased source of information really has a problem.LOL
"Wanna buy a bridge or a treasure map?",Israel has plenty for sale,they're guaranteed by the Israeli government.
"Islam is the only thing making the people's lives in Gaza miserable...."
Well if that isn't the understatement of the century! Too bad the liberals have an allergic reaction to the truth, especially this one.
"Islam is the only thing making the people's lives in Gaza miserable...."
I think it's more to do with blockades keeping them penned in and unable to conduct trade or travel.
Islam makes them all deserve this, so in a way it must be Islam's fault.
And since you appear to share in every respect the Ummah's view of Israel and of the Evil Joooz, you must, I assume, regard the assorted propaganda mouthpieces of the various entities that make up the Ummah, as being marvels of truthfulness, honesty and reliability?
For our non-Muslim readers, a reality check to set against the vapourings and grievance-mongering of our latest Mohammedan poster, Yusef YK:
To wit, a full description of that vast open-air prison, the Gaza Strip - **dating from 1960, when it was ruled, and occupied, and fenced in, and completely controlled by..ARAB ISLAMIC EGYPT.**
"The refugee camps [of Gaza] are much larger than those in Lebanon, small towns by Middle Eastern standards.
"They are by no means luxury establishments, but many people live in a nastier state in American and European slums {and the person writing this, Martha Gellhorn, knew exactly what she was talking about – she had visited the homes of the destitute during the Great Depression in America - dda}.
"The poor villagers of Gaza are not as well housed or cared for as the refugees.
"The Gaza Strip is not a hell hole, not a visible disaster.
"** It is worse; it is a jail--with a magical long white sand beach, and a breeze, and devoted welfare workers (UNRWA) to look after the prisoners.
"The Egyptian government is the jailer** {my emphasis - dda}.
" For reasons of its own, it [the Egyptian Government - dda] does not allow the refugees to move from this narrow strip of land.
"The refugees might not want to leave at all, or they might not want to leave for good; but anyone would become claustrophobic if penned, for thirteen years, inside 248 square kilometers. {And remember: the 'penning', for 13 years, was done *by their fellow Muslims*; and remember, too, that *today* Gaza has a border *with Egypt* as well as a border with Israel - dda}.
"A trickle of refugees, who can prove they have jobs elsewhere, are granted exit visas.
"The only official number of the departed is less than three hundred, out of 255,000 registered refugees. It seems incredible. Rumor says that more refugees do manage to go away illegally, by unknown methods.
"These locked-in people--far too many in far too little space--cannot find adequate work. Naturally, there is less chance of employment than in the other "host countries."
"Meantime, they are exposed to the full and constant blast of Egyptian propaganda. {today, of course, it is the full blast of *Hamas* propaganda - dda}.
"No wonder that Gaza was the home base of the trained paramilitary bands called commandos by the Egyptians and Palestinians, and gangsters by the Israelis--the fedayin, whose job was to cross unnoticed into Israel and commit acts of patriotic sabotage and murder. {Gee - they were doing, when ruled by Egypt, exactly as they keep on trying to do today. So whatever it is that Israel is doing, or not doing, cannot be the sole or the sufficient cause. - dda}.
"And [Egypt - dda] having been so devastatingly beaten by Israel again, in 1956, has not improved the trapped, bitter Gaza mentality; it only makes the orators more bloodthirsty."
Oh, and I'll throw in what else Gellhorn observed about Islamic Gaza, 1960: "the vainglory, the xenophobia, the anti-Semitic hatred that smear the press and pour over the air...". {All of it, of course, produced and sponsored by ...Islamic Egypt - dda}.
Looks like Hamas' hate preachers had plenty of forerunners.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1969/12/the-arabs-of-palestine/4203/
The Turkish Islamic IHH jihadis and their lowly white groupies in Europe, Canada and the US. Let us revolt against those revolting Quislings for the Islamo-Nazis among us.
Ruslan Tokhchukov, EnragedSince1999.
After the first Gaza "humanitarian" flotilla, President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela proclaimed that he would personally be aboard one of the ships trying to break the Israeli blockade.
I've also been seeing on the internet that Chavez has offered to deploy VENEZUELAN MARINES onboard any and all of the ships of the Gaza flotillas, to deter and defend against any boarding actions by IDF Navy commandos.
His offer also extended to deploying Venezuelan military forces into the border areas of Arab nations bordering Israel.
It seems like he's trying to do what Fidel Castro did back in the 1970's, when he deployed Cuban troops to fight in Angola.
As part of his alliance with Syria, Libya, Iran, Hizbollah, et al, President Chavez seems to be seeking a direct military confrontation with Israel.
With all of the various weapons that he's been buying over the last couple of years, he'd probably like to put them to use. (Military clashes with the neighboring nation of Colombia would be a good opportunity to fine tune his military forces.)