My Newsreal co-blogger David Swindle has a rather illuminating video up today. The video aired on Hamas TV the day before the confrontation at sea, and in it, a university lecturer states that the people on board were going to use resistance against the zionists, and wanted to become martyrs.
According to Palestinian Media Watch, the man in the video is Dr. Abd Al-Fatah Shayyeq Naaman, lecturer in Shari’ah law at a university in Yemen.
So several days before the Gaza flotilla incident occured, the flotilla commander was saying that he was planning on a confrontation and that they were seeking martyrdom. It seems an easy conclusion to reach that the people aboard the flotilla knew exactly what they were doing, were counting on their boat being boarded, that they wanted to provoke the IDF soldiers into violence, and that there was nothing humanitarian about their mission at all.
Considering the multiple videos the IDF released showing how their soldiers were ambushed, you’d think this would be an open-shut case. Once you add in the apparent premeditation of violence, how could anyone continue to blame Israel for this? (That’s a rhetorical question, by the way.)
The IDF’s account of what happen continues to hold. They thought they were going to be facing peace activists bringing humanitarian aid. It couldn’t have been further from reality, and they were ambushed as soon as they set foot on board. The soldiers did everything they could to avoid using lethal force, but were given no choice.
Of course, the left will do anything they can to demonize Israel, so they will ignore and manipulate the facts of the situation. (Don’t call them anti-Semitic, though!) The fact is this: Israel’s actions were perfectly justified. The Gaza blockade was in effect, the flotilla knew this, and was intent on running the blockade after being told to turn back. IDF soldiers boarded the ship, and we all know what happened. What were they supposed to do? Let the ship run the blockade without knowing if there were weapons on board that could be smuggled to Palestinians and then used to kill innocent Israeli civilians? (And of course, several caches of weapons were found on board.) Once faced with violence on board, should they have just stood there and let themselves be slaughtered? Apparently, these are the only two options for Israelis from the left: let people smuggle whatever they want into Palestine, a country filled with backwards, bloodthirsty, homicidal maniacs intent on eradicating all Jews from the planet, or when confronted with violence, choose not to fight even in their own self-defense. (Again, don’t call them anti-Semitic though! They love Israel!) Because Israel chooses to not allow themselves to be annihilated, they are always the bad guys in the eyes of the left, no matter what. This case is just another example of that.
It won’t matter to them that the commander of the Gaza flotilla said ahead of time that he was going to use violence against the IDF. It won’t matter to them that all of the deaths on board that flotilla were in self-defense. The narrative is already set. Anything to benefit Palestine is inherently good, because Palestinians are leftist-certified victims. Anything Israel does to prevent the destruction of their country is bad. It’s despicable, and every single person out there demonizing Israel for this incident should be ashamed of themselves.
Israel did exactly the right thing in this situation. Even the UN Security Council didn’t explicitly condemn Israel, as shocking as that is. It’s a sad statement of the culture in this country when a significant number of people in the United States sympathize more with terrorist organizations like Hezbollah than they do with Israel, the only functioning democracy in the Middle East.
Cross-posted at Stop the ACLU and The Green Room.
Jim Morris says: As much as you can spin this, it doesn’t pass the smell test. Who translated was this guy’s speech? The same guys that translated the Iranian Presidents speech about the Israeli regime? n the videos transmitted from the Mavi, before it was boarded, gunshots were clearly heard. The videos of the commandos being attacked could have been taken at any point in the boarding,including after some people on deck had already been shot.
You are right about one thing-this incident is typical of Israel and your support for it typical of American jews. I think Israel is an albatross around the neck of the US and from now on, the US should sit on it’s hands in the Security Council and let the rest of the world and Israel work out their own problems. And you should be deported because you care more about Israel than you do about this country. And what’s with the tit photos? Does that make you more credible?
draco says: “in the videos transmitted from the Mavi, before it was boarded, gunshots were clearly heard.”
those were fireworks set off by passengers.
Hey there Jim! Got any good USS Liberty stories you’d care to share with us while you’re at it?
Big Boss Aug says: I’m not biting on the poli-trolling being inflicted upon this page by “Jim”, I just want to know what is so frightening or offensive about the female form to him? Mommy didn’t breast feed you past your 12th year, despite your tantrums? Be sure to hate-bomb the wife of a Marine, that’s always good for brownie points anywhere within 500 miles of Quantico or LeJeune…
Cannibal Rabbi says: “So several days before the Gaza flotilla incident occured, the flotilla commander was saying that he was planning on a confrontation and that they were seeking martyrdom. It seems an easy conclusion to reach that the people aboard the flotilla knew exactly what they were doing, were counting on their boat being boarded, that they wanted to provoke the IDF soldiers into violence, and that there was nothing humanitarian about their mission at all.”
It’s an easy conclusion to reach if you are wilfully ignorant, biased, lying to yourself and others, sayanim hasbarat, or to put it bluntly, unaware of israel’s psychopathic, criminal behaviour’s, up to and including this latest outrage.
This from C.N.N., jewish owned and controlled, so hardly the propaganda arm of Hezbollah.
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/06/01/gaza.raid.eyewitnesses/
And why would the supposedly elite i.d.f. troops fall for a ruse, revealed in detail, days earlier?
Why would they walk knowingly into the “evil” peace activist’s, dastardly scheme?
Doesn’t sound very “elite” to me!
Does it to you.
Or is it that logical contradictions are too difficult to grasp, and so are best avoided.
Tip for the future.
Look at all the evidence, then come to a conclusion.
The other way round, runs the risk of leaving you looking foolish.
Fenway.
You seem to take great delight in mocking the murdered sailors, who died by israel’s’ perfidy.
You’d better watch your mouth around real American’s.
But only if you’d like to retain your teeth.
I note that Cassie seems to be fine, with that kind of talk.
Why would that be?
Jim Morris.
You sir, are bang on the money.
You’d better watch your mouth around real American’s.
But only if you’d like to retain your teeth.
Oooh! An jew hater AND an internet tough guy! I’m impressed….such a delightful twofer.
Let’s see…..some RAF Tornadoes took out a number of American M1 Abrams in a friendly-fire incident in the 1st Gulf war, so by your logic that would mean the American tankers died at the hands of British perfidy because the Queen mum was really a drug trafficker and the GI’s knew too much or something and Buckingham Palace dispatched the RAF to silence them.
‘Real Americans’……and here I was lamenting the lack of internet tough guys questioning my patriotism and service to my country.
soxfan4life says: Yeah Cannibal Asshat, maybe Israel should just let the blockade down and the people who wish them ill can bring in all the rockets they want in and fire at will under UN cover. As for real Americans, Fenway is a 3rd ID vet so I really don’t think your threats of losing teeth bother him too much, nor does it bother this Cav trooper, before you waste your precious few braincells telling me I’m unAmerican too.
Alex says: 1. The Gaza strip is under a naval blockade, anyone trying to break this blockade is trespassing (breaking the law).
Any civilian ship hailed to stop by the coast guard, must comply :
youtube.com/watch?v=qKOmLP4yHb4
2. Any civilian ship that does not comply to the directions given by the coast guard (breaking the law) will be boarded and seized, and their crew will be arrested.
If the crew resists arrest (breaking the law), force may be applied (including deadly force) to subdue them :
youtube.com/watch?v=0LulDJh4fWI
Never was a group of people so ready to be offended, take umbrage, allow themselves to be manipulated, allow their lives to be tossed away with nary a thought, and all for the sake of advancing the religious and political agendas of people that don’t care worth a wit for them. Any fair minded person would be able to penetrate the facade of victimhood these people so covet. Instead, western media and assorted ne’er do wells buy it by the ton and think their thickness is a mark of their ability to be compassionate.
I see the sordid fans milling about still think commenting on your appearance is an effective way to advance their argument. That bikini pic gets inside their minds and just bends ’em like a pretzel. I’d be inclined to take them a little more seriously if they had the stones to hit the wish list.
Good post.
Chris M-G says: Not only that, the O administration has condemned Israel and by doing so has sided with al-Qaeda.
http://dover.idf.il/IDF/English/News/today/10/06/0201.htm
Smithwick says: I read somewhere that they found bullet proof vests, night goggles and other pseudo military items (not guns but certainly things that an army would need and have no humanitarian functions).
They call it a peace flotilla but I’m guessing they’re using “peace” in the way Orwell used it.
Cannibal Rabbi says: Fenway_Nation
“Oooh! An jew hater”
Far from it Fenway, but a jew observer, certainly.
As you should be, considering the damage they have wrought on your country. Is it fear of consequences, that detains you from recognizing this? It’s in all the papers.
Your govt and President is owned by jews, as was your last one. Why the denial? It’s right there in front of your eyes.
That sits well with you?
The mocking of the murdered sailors on the U.S.S. Liberty.
Where you taught that this was a suitable topic for giggles, by your total immersion in jew owned and controlled media?
Does it help you to “fit in”.
Sort of sad in its way.
What wont you make fun of?
Where do you draw the line?
Check this site. A lot of vets to set you right.
http://incogman.wordpress.com/
Open your eyes. Wake up!
Grow some nuts. Be a man. Think for yourself.
This mob?
soxfan4life
Alex Says:
nicholas
Chris M-G
Semi-retarded.
Don’t say you weren’t warned.
Cannibal Rabbi says: Or may’be this will wake you up to the real deal, and rudely remove your head, from your fundament!
“For extorting from me and my fellow Americans $6,000,000,000 (billion) a year for the last 4 decades, we bless thee.
For taking our most sophisticated weapons technology and stealing it for yourself without paying the American patent holders, we bless thee.
For taking that high-tech military technology and selling it to our enemies, such as the Russians and Chinese, thus further endangering us, we bless thee.
For using that weaponry in a sustained attack against a United States ship, the USS Liberty, in an attempt to sink her, thus preventing US servicemen from revealing to the rest of the world information concerning the war crimes they witnessed you commit against Egyptian soldiers in the Sinai Desert during the Six Day War, we bless thee.
For killing 34 and wounding 170 American sailors aboard the USS Liberty, we bless thee.
For bribing the United States government into covering it up, preventing any justice from being done for the benefit of the families of the lost sailors – as well as the American People, we bless thee.
For sending your agents into Egypt and blowing up American buildings for the purpose of blaming the Arabs in an event known as the Lavon Affair, we bless thee.
For sending your agents into Libya during the Reagan administration, and broadcasting radio messages in Arabic that were designed to sound like “terrorist cell planning” so that the US would initiate military strikes against Khadafi, we bless thee.
For withholding information from us concerning the planned attacks against the US Marine barracks in Lebanon, attacks you knew about through your moles in the Islamic world and about which you deliberately refused to warn us in order to further your interests against the Arabs, we bless thee.
For employing Jonathon Pollard, an American serviceman paid to spy for Israel in order to steal even more of our National Security secrets for your parasitic purposes, we bless thee.
For blackmailing President Clinton through one of your intelligence agents, Monica Lewinsky, in order to prevent a coherent peace program from being pushed forward between yourself and the Palestinian people that you have brutalized and murdered for the last 50 years, we bless thee.
For breaking every agreement you have made with your Arab neighbors, stealing their land, displacing, murdering, and treating them like the animals you see them as, we bless thee.
For using your agents within the first Bush administration to involve us in the first Gulf War, causing the deaths of American men and women, and exposing our servicemen to whatever bioweapons were/are responsible that has led to Gulf War Syndrome, we bless thee.
For your role in the September 11 attacks in this country, and for blackmailing and bribing the US government into deporting back to Israel the 100 or more intelligence agents that were arrested after the attacks, we bless thee.”
And it goes on.
http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2010/06/01/israel-we-bless-thee/
soxfan4life says: Cannibal Rabbi guess you can’t even post your own words you unoriginal POS. I guess we should be able to tell every country what to do right, or only Israel? As for being semi-retarded, I gather you are the subject matter expert on being retarded.
Cannibal Rabbi says: soxfan4life
I think you should have a say in what YOUR country does, instead of being bitch-slapped around by israel. Anyway, i was being kind. I meant fully retarded, and cite your post as my main plank, in any subsequent, evidentiary inquisition.
Listen to this guy, and grow a brain.
As to originality.
Are you familiar with the expression, ” There’s nothing new under the Sun”?
Cannibal Rabbi says: Cannibal Rabbi says: Blocking links Cassy?
Good job.
Carry on.
Yup, it looks like “Ranbutan” (a.k.a. Rambuttman) of old made it to Cassy Fiano’s site. Or maybe it’s really Justin Raimondo’s latest alias… Or, who knows, Excitable Andy Sullivan’s latest “nephew”…
Cannibal Rabbi says: Fenway.
You are the one being sodomized by your jewish masters, not me. Sounds like you’ve been conditioned to enjoy the experience.
Now sit up and beg. Good boy.
New Class Traitor.
This sad buffoon just wants to be part of something.To fit in. He’s lonely.
Hahahahaha
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