All aboard the peace thug flotilla: “The army of Muhammad will return!”; Update: Israel is ready for the next jihadi ships; U.N. condemns Israel, of course
This is what floats their boat.
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Scroll down for updates…at least three more Jew-bashing martyrdom ships on the way…U.N. condemns Israeli actions, calls for release of ships…
From the IDF YouTube channel, a video counter-narrative of the weekend “Freedom Flotilla” furor you won’t see in the Israel-bashing press:
Video taken by IDF naval boat shows the passengers of the Mavi Marmara, one of the ships in the ‘Free Gaza’ Flotilla, violently attacking IDF soldiers who were trying to board the ship after having sent repeated requests for the boat to change course.
Large groups of passengers surrounded soldiers and beat them with metal poles and chairs, and threw one soldier over the side of the ship. Some passengers grabbed pistols from the IDF soldiers and opened fire. As a result of the attacks, seven IDF soldiers were injured, and nine of the passengers were killed.
The ‘Free Gaza’ Flotilla had publicly insisted on their non-violent intentions, however their violent attack on the IDF soldiers was clearly premeditated. They had knives, metal rods, firebombs and other items ready to use.
Many of the IDF soldiers were armed with…paintball guns.
Jonathan Schanzer reports on the terror financiers behind the peace thug flotilla:
The Turkish organizers of the Gaza Strip-bound flotilla that was boarded this morning by Israeli commandos knew well in advance that their vessels would never reach Israeli waters. That’s because the organizers belong to a nonprofit that was banned by the Israeli government in July 2008 for its ties to terrorism finance.
The Turkish IHH (Islan Haklary Ve Hurriyetleri Vakfi in Turkish) was founded in 1992, and reportedly popped up on the CIA’s radar in 1996 for its radical Islamist leanings. Like many other Islamist charities, the IHH has a record of providing relief to areas where disaster has struck in the Muslim world.
However, the organization is not a force for good. The Turkish nonprofit belongs to a Saudi-based umbrella organization known to finance terrorism called the Union of Good (Ittilaf al-Kheir in Arabic). Notably, the Union is chaired by Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi, who is known best for his religious ruling that encourages suicide attacks against Israeli civilians. According to one report, Qardawi personally transferred millions of dollars to the Union in an effort to provide financial support to Hamas.
In 2008, the Israelis banned IHH, along with 35 other Islamist charities worldwide, for its ties to the Union of Good. This was a follow-on designation; Israelis first blocked the Union of Good from operating in the West Bank and Gaza in 2002.
Interestingly, the Union of Good may not only be tied to Hamas. Included in the Israeli list of 36 designees was the International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO). In 2006, both the U.S. government and the United Nations designated the IIRO branch offices in Indonesia and the Philippines for financing al Qaeda.
Melanie Phillips has more on the Islamic terror ambush and the jihadis’ media sympathizers:
The notion – uncritically swallowed by the lazy, ignorant and bigoted BBC and other western media – that the flotilla organisers are ‘peace activists’ is simply ludicrous. This research by the Danish Institute for International Studies details the part played by the IHH in Islamist terror in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Chechnya. According to the French magistrate Jean-Louis Bruguiere testifying at the Seattle trial of would-be al Qaeda Millenium bomber Ahmed Ressamin, the IHH had played ‘[a]n important role’ in the al Qaeda Millenium bomb plot targeting Los Angeles airport. It was also involved in weapons trafficking, and played in addition a key role in galvanizing anti-Western sentiment among Turkish Muslims in the lead-up to the 2003 war in Iraq. ‘Peace activists’ these people most certainly are not.
And this flotilla was but the latest jihadi attack, deploying the Islamists’ signature strategy of violence and media manipulation. Here from MEMRI (via Just Journalism) is a clip showing the hysteria against Israel being whipped up on board before the ships set sail, with the chanting of intifada songs about ‘Khaybar’ – the iconic slaughter of Jews by Muslims in the 7th century which is used as a rallying cry to kill the Jews today — and threats of ‘martyrdom’. This was not merely a propaganda stunt, but a terrorist attack.
Indeed, here’s the Jew-killing warm-up chant alluding to Khaibar and the return of the “army of Mohammed:”
It’s a chant sung by jihadists here in the U.S., too. Know your history, know your enemy:
Khaibar, Khaibar, O Jews.
The Army of Muhammad will return
Khaibar, Khaibar, O Jews.
The Army of Muhammad will return
Khaibar, Khaibar, O Jews.
The Army of Muhammad will return
Khaibar, Khaibar, O Jews.
The Army of Muhammad will return
Hey hey hey, hey hey hey.
Khaibar, Khaibar, O Jews.
The Army of Muhammad will return
Khaibar, Khaibar, O Jews.
The Army of Muhammad will return
Khaibar, Khaibar, O Jews.
The Army of Muhammad will return
Khaibar, Khaibar, O Jews.
The Army of Muhammad will return
We will crawl and fight.
With our blood, we will fight.
We will crawl and fight.
With our blood we will fight.
Ah, Ah.
You will not cross over my blood, over my blood.
You will not live in my homeland, in my homeland.
You will not cross over my blood, over my blood.
You will not live in my homeland, in my homeland.
Death to you…under the ground,
and glory to us above the ground.
Death to you under the ground,
and glory to us above the ground.
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Right on cue, here comes the U.N. Security Council to condemn Israel.
And right on cue, here come the worldwide protests, via John Hinderaker at Power Line.
Speaking of useful idiots, William Jacobson has a round-up of the left-o-sphere’s usual Israel-hating suspects.
Doug Ross has more on the “humanitarian” cover for this martyrdom operation.
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Update: There’s another jihadi ship on the way. Israel says it’s ready:
Israel’s Navy is ready to stop another aid ship headed to Gaza, a commander said on Tuesday, playing down the prospect of his men shying from confrontation after their bloody seizure of a Turkish vessel a day earlier.
Israel’s Army Radio reported that the MV Rachel Corrie, a converted merchant ship, would reach Gazan waters by Wednesday.
A Marine lieutenant who was not named told Army Radio that he expected an easy takeover of the ship.
Yes, it’s named after that Rachel Corrie.
This report says there are a total of at least three more vessels on the way.
The U.N. Security Council wants Israel to release the ships and passengers it has in custody:
The United Nations Security Council on Thursday condemned acts which resulted in the loss of civilian lives on ships carrying pro-Palestinian campaigners and aid to Gaza, and called for an impartial investigation into Israel’s deadly raid.
In a statement, the Security Council also called for the immediate release of 400 international activists and the six ships being held by Israel.
…Netanyahu voiced regret at the deaths but vowed to maintain the three-year-old embargo to stop Iranian-backed Hamas from bringing arms to Gaza.
That pledge could soon be tested. Israel’s Army Radio said the aid ship MV Rachel Corrie, named after an American activist killed by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip in 2003, would approach the port of Gaza imminently. A marines commander told the station his men were “ready” to intercept the ship.
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And nope, as Allahpundit at Hot Air notes, no U.N. condemnation of North Korea yet.
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Charles Krauthammer on Monday night’s Special Report on FNC:
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: The fundamental deception here is the use of the word “humanitarian.” As we saw, humanitarians don’t wield iron clubs and would have killed the Israelis had the Israelis not drawn their pistols in self-defense. But there’s a larger issue here. What exactly is the humanitarian crisis that the flotilla was actually addressing? There is none. There’s no one starving in Gaza. The Gazans have been supplied with food and social services, education, by the U.N., by UNRWA, for 60 years in part with American tax money. Second, when there are humanitarian needs, the Israelis allow every day food and medicine overland into Gaza.
The reason that it did not want to allow this flotilla is because, as the spokesman for the flotilla said herself, this was not about humanitarian relief, it was about breaking the blockade. And the reason the Israelis have a blockade is because they only want to allow humanitarian supplies and not weaponry. Look, the proof of that is the fact that if you look at a map of Gaza, you’ll see that Israelis only control three sides of this rectangle. There’s a fourth side on the Egyptian side. So it is an Egyptian-Israeli blockade. The Egyptians have the same problem with Gaza. People accuse Israelis of having a blockade because they’re racist, they’re anti-Muslim, anti-Arab. The Egyptians are Muslim and Arab, and they’ve gone to war three times on behalf of the Palestinians.
So why do they have exactly the same blockade? Because Gaza is run by Hamas, a terror entity that wants to import weaponry and resume the war against Israel. The man who made the announcement that we saw earlier, explaining the commando raid, is the defense minister of Israel. He’s not right winger. He’s Ehud Barak, who’s the leader of Labor, the party of Yitzhak Rabin, Golda Meir, the party of the left, the man who 10 years ago this summer offered the Palestinians a peace agreement that would provide a Palestinian state, division of Jerusalem and an end of the conflict. The Palestinians said no, and Gaza two years ago declared war on Israel. That’s why you’ve got a blockade, and the flotilla was not about humanitarian needs. It was about smashing the blockade.
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And here’s laughable hypocrite country like Turkey telling the U.S. how to run its foreign policy.
And to top it off, calling the event a “massacre”. Yeah, like they’d know…they’ve been denying the Armenian Genocide in which Turks killed 1.5 million Armenians for almost a century now.
Give me a break and go back to your third world country hole.
Don’t forget that THE ONE broke a promise to say that, made during the campaign.
swede #132
EXCELLENT posting!
My husband’s using it (right now) while arguing w/ a liberal anti-Israel idiot!
Keep up the good work!
Dittos. I gave Swede props, too.
Ragspierre: Yeah, I Tweeted that on April 24, 2010. What a POS. Liar. Liar. Liar.
“For the first time in memory, the U.S. has failed to veto an anti-Israel U.N. resolution passed PRIOR to development of information on a controversial exchange with terrorists…er…peace activists.”
How, exactly, do you define “prior to development of information on a controversial exchange”?
Because there have been a crapload of unanimous UN Security Council resolutions that condemn Israel for all sorts of things in recent history, and I am curious if you independently verified that each of these only occurred after “development of information” or whether you have a source.
Still curious as to what Obama going to do. Throwing Israel under the bus and inciting violence is going to be way different than throwing AZ under the bus. Israel is not going to play nice with Obama.
How, exactly, do you define “prior to development of information on a controversial exchange”?
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I believe that defines my dating life in high school. Not sure what it has to do with the UN and Israel.
That link is pretty wild. 223 UN resolutions since this party started in 1948 attempting to get this whole mess between Israel and her neighbors straightened out. It would seem all this diplomatic Huffing/puffing hyperbole has accomplished approximately zip.
This, by the way, is why I stopped making New Years resolutions.
A good question. Does the UN have a criteria for gathering and evaluating information – and determining credibility of sources? Every issue in this part of the world is highly charged – you’d think false and manufactured evidence has to be rampant. Or could it be they decide on their resolution based on some prejudice, then grab information that fits?
“Does the UN have a criteria for gathering and evaluating information – and determining credibility of sources?”
Does the global warming mess at the UN give you any help in answering your question?
Dammit cakes. Look at yourself. He is a master manipulator. You are being turned by this spawn of McGovern, this incubus of Tokyo Rose. What are you thinking? Get a grip before it’s too late. Don’t make me report you to the Malkin. And I will if I must.
And stop drooling. At least act your age. Disgusting.
Don’t hate the playa’ RedDog. Hate the game. I can’t help it if all the ladies wanna be with me and all the homies wanna be me.
What I want to know is who is responsible for sending the IDF solders in with paint guns instead of fully loaded Uzi’s?
Rags #213
I’ll pass it on to rightwingdad!
THX!
Rags #214
(oops)
I’m okay with wanting to be me.
“What I want to know is who is responsible for sending the IDF solders in with paint guns instead of fully loaded Uzi’s?”
The world pressure on Israel.
Won’t happen again. And if Turkey sends its ships, they’ll be at the bottom of the sea.
Maybe one of the many jets Israel will send out will make a wrong turn and drop a nuke in Iran?
Uzi’s are so 1960′s. I’m thinking 6mm KAC PDWs.
Good point. I suppose it should have been a rhetorical question. Facts just seem to deeply confuse these great world leaders. Best to just keep the propaganda rolling.
What – an IRA bomb tosser can’t be a peace activist now?
Alan Combs (sp?) was on defending the “humanitarians”. That man is just sickening to watch.
Used to be a useful idiot for Hannity, now he’s just an idiot – a characature they pull out of the closet to give brain dead drivel so the Fox talking heads can sound smarter. Pathetic really.
Oh, nothing would make me happier than seeing that hypocritical, illiterate, third world country deserve what it gets. About time.
You can’t trust the Turks. Never could, never will. They are nothing but an Islamic (not secularist as they claim), racist country.
Chappy has no room for hate. He’s too full of himself.
Seriously chap, how do you end up getting lumped in with the likes of the Spacko, conservoman, kwrxxx, and zygzag?
“Pathetic really.”
For what Fox pays him I’ll do it. I’ll look pathetic so the talking heads look smart and all conservative like.
RedDog–once again I assumed that folks could read my sarcasm. Aaaanyway.
Drooling? On this forum? For shame.
I do know that if you chat up a demon, he’ll arrive.
Hey, darling…
LOL
I will say chap is somewhat charming, to an extent. But I refuse to dance with the devil – possibly exchange furtive glances – but no dancing.
The Irishman was released today. This is what he had to say:
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He has nothing to do with “Al Qaida” and “Hamas”, he was a peacekeeper.
What the Israelis should be doing is saying it was a mistake and they are sorry. They should be saying it was a MISTAKE.
I’ve been saying for years that the Israelis are getting more and more out of control and as long as the US government continues to enable them they will continue to do it with impunity.
We can fight the Jihadi terrorists without the Israelis, we don’t need them. Israel just make the Jihadi terrorists look good, help Al Qaida recruit new members etc. Israel is a big cesspool of waste, making acts of war and I for one am not afraid to call it for what it is.
Weh-heh-heellll…since none of us are afraid to ‘call it for what it is’, let me be the first to write:
Remember the ass-kicking Moshe Dayan, et al, gave the entire region in 1967.
“I for one am not afraid to call it for what it is.”
You aren’t calling anything let alone Israel what it “is”. You are expressing your very wrong and inaccurate opinion.
Glad you feel free to do so. But don’t go patting yourself on the back for expressing such a stupid view of Israel.
Still waiting, Rags…
Which is likely why no one pays attention.
There’s an old guy in ragged clothes at the train station every morning who walks around telling everybody he is a prophet sent by God. I find his case more compelling than yours.
And those “Humanitarians” on the ship tossed what appears to be a stun grenade at the Israeli soldiers as they were preparing to board the ship.
Geee…. what would people bringing humanitarian aid be doing with stun grenades?
Ans: Their purpose wasn’t humanitarian aid. They were provocateurs looking to engage the Israelis. More evidence that the Israelis were justified in their actions.
I would think that the people here of all places would take the opinion that being peaceful and being armed are not mutually exclusive.
Oh please Chap. Now you’re reaching.
You’re starting to sound like Juan Williams equivocating about the Sestak bribes.
So you think they are mutually exclusive?
And to me it looks more like a smoke grenade. Not that it matters.
Boy, talk about drinking the Terrorist Koolaid.
What a bunch of drivel.
irrelevant.
They claim to be bringing humanitarian aid. Flash-Bangs and the like are for assault purposes.
Did Mother Theresa pack an G36C? Or maybe a P90?
Were those meant for delivery or personal use? I am pretty sure we would have heard about it by now if there were cases of the things that were clearly meant for delivery to Hamas.
Would you have blamed her if she did?
More to the point. There are well known means for bringing and humanitarian supplies to Gaza. Not to mention the fact that there is no humanitarian crisis is Gaza.
If the people aboard that ship wanted to bring humanitarian supplies to Gaza, they could have used the procedures that are well known in that locale.
They’re intentions are made clear by their statements, by the path they chose, by their action during the altercation and by the weapons they brought AND USED.
They clearly intended to provoke the Israelis. That was their only purpose.
I never said it wasn’t. They believe the embargo is illegal. I don’t know all the details, but I have been told that this is at the very least, not a totally unreasonable position.
That remains to be seen. But I’d be surprised if they would invest in such cargo knowing they were going to be boarded. If they were bringing weapons, they’d likely be more covert. So I don’t expect any major caches of weapons for distribution to be found. So odds are anything they had was for “personal consumption”.
And if Mother Theresa packed heat, I’d say she lost her mind. Her missions required no weapons. Nor do any missions of peaceful supplies runs to Gaza. That is unless you plan to pick a fight.
So tell me. Do you think these people expected to be just allowed to go through a naval blockade? Or do you thing they expected some resistance?
Sometimes the fight picks you.
And I can’t believe you wouldn’t think the slums of Calcutta could possibly be dangerous.
The fight picks you? When you cross the line, you picked the fight.
And those slums being dangerous? Not to Mother Theresa.
Ahhh…but recall they hadn’t yet crossed a line.
Well, her successor at the Mission was robbed at gunpoint about 5 years ago, so I am not so sure about that.
“They believe the embargo is illegal.”
Sorry but isn’t the issue they think Israel is illegal? This has nothing to do with the specifics of an embargo.
They were mostly Turkish. Turkey and Israel are (or were) relatively close.
“They were mostly Turkish. Turkey and Israel are (or were) relatively close.”
To say that Turkey as a country used to tolerate Israel so then the Turkish folks on the ships used to tolerate Israel and so they don’t think Israel needs to go away is quite flawed.
You be missing quite a few dots there counselor.
Fair enough. Let me just say that I do not believe their argument rested on the illegitimacy of the Israeli state. But I am no expert on maritime law or naval warfare. Which is why, in case you haven’t noticed, I haven’t commented one way or the other on the ultimate issue of whether or not Israel was in its rights.
There is not legitimate humanitarian aid need. The blockade running is suspect from the get go.
In other words the “issue” is not whether the blockade is or is not legal. The blockade is irrelevant.
Its bait and switch.
Says who, exactly? Israel? You think you would want to live in Gaza?
Chapoutier, you don’t believe Israel yet your believe groups like IHH? aka terror supporters.
As for living in Gaza, it’s likely that because I am a Christian, they would kill me. Simply because I am a Christian.
However, a resident of Gaza who immigrated to my neighborhood in the US would likely prosper and be welcome. Unless of course they tried to blow stuff up here.
There are plenty of independent 3rd parties that don’t paint such a rosy picture of Gaza. Like the Red Cross, for instance.
Nonsense. More Christians (8%) live in Palestine than Muslims (.6%) do here in the US.
“Nonsense.”
Sorry chap but you have that wrong. When I did the work in Sudan many of us who were doing similar work amongst oppressed Christian populations got to know each other. As you would imagine, birds of a feather…
The oppression of Christians in places like Gaza is astounding. There are several well documented web sites that give updated information.
Christian Solidarity International, Voice of the Martyrs,
2008:
http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&nid=15653
2009
http://www.sodahead.com/fun/hamas-claims-christian-burials-in-gaza-pollute-earth/blog-214211/
Latest stats from Voice of Martyrs:
Religion: Muslim 98.7%, Christian 0.7%, Jewish 0.6%
http://www.persecution.com/public/restrictednations.aspx?clickfrom=bWFpbl9tZW51
than Muslims (.6%) do here in the US.”"
And you aren’t trying to equate a Muslim’s experience in the US with a Christian’s experience in countries that are essentially totally Muslim are you?
Just checking….
These folks focus pretty much in middle east. I worked with one of their main guys in Sudan. Although they’ve been all over the world supporting oppressed Christians.
http://www.missionintl.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1&Itemid=2
“Says who, exactly?”
Do you see any need for humanitarian aid in Gaza? Israel allows all kinds of stuff into Gaza by land. And all those folks who thought there might be more violence who headed for Egypt, any of them look like they were in need of humanitarian aid? Starving? Naked? Sick?
Oppression does not equal murder, which is what you said would likely happen.
Ooops. This I did mess up. I cited the figures for the West Bank. Your numbers are correct.
Their buildings have been blown to s***, and probably sucked even before they were blown to s***. You don’t think needing building materials can constitute humanitarian need?
Joshua: you are needed, there are some Canaanites need smiting. Turks, Europeans and Americans too should you have the time.
Joshua fit the battle of Jericho
“You don’t think needing building materials can constitute humanitarian need?”
The blockade has nothing to do with the conditions of buildings in Gaza. Building materials can be brought in through the land routes that are open.
If the buildings are crap its because the people in Gaza don’t care about it.
“Oppression does not equal murder”
No, not always. However murdering someone because they are Christians is oppression. And Christians are being killed.
“which is what you”
No, not what I said. I was simply pointing out the person who did say it was possible was not being a crazed lunatic. It is very likely that a person being openly Christian in Gaza would be killed as it is happening now.
I can’t believe that so many of you folks attempt to even reason with silliness like the idea that carrying stun grenades accords reasonably with a humanitarian mission.