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chefcraig
06-01-2010, 09:52 AM
This situation is (for lack of a better description) fucking nuts. Virtually every nation on Earth has condemned Israel for it's actions, with 2 notable exceptions: Germany and The United States. Even though the Germans had 6 citizens aboard the flotilla, due to the guilt over WWII they are afraid to say anything. The U.S. predictably enough, has offered no comment. So 2 nations are hamstrung, fearful of stating the obvious even though Israel's actions have brought about worldwide scorn. I mean think about it, even FRANCE finds the situation appalling, and isn't walking on eggshells to not say so. Israel seems to believe that it's behavior should be viewed as beyond reproach, just as a spoiled child acting like a bully will never fear the scolding it so obviously deserves. Contrary to the belief of the Israeli government, disagreeing with their petulant behavior does not automatically make a nation antisemitic. It's time the United States formed a backbone and said enough is enough, that blockading Gaza and attacking humanitarian convoys is simply an unacceptable practice in today's world. If the Turks had done the same thing to Israel, you have to wonder...

Israel Holds Hundreds Seized During Raid on Flotilla

JERUSALEM — A day after Israeli commandos raided an aid flotilla seeking to breach the blockade of Gaza, Israel held more than 600 activists seized aboard the convoy on Tuesday as news reports said activists may be planning a fresh attempt to ferry supplies to the Hamas-run enclave.

As international pressure mounted for Israel to end its blockade, Egypt’s president ordered a temporary reopening of its border with Gaza to allow humanitarian and medical aid to reach the 1.5 million people there.

Hours earlier, the Israeli military said troops clashed with two militants who infiltrated from Gaza, killing them both. While such occurrences are almost routine along the volatile border between Israel and Gaza, the clash underscored the tensions seizing the region after Monday’s confrontation at sea, which strained relations between Israel and the United States just as American-sponsored proximity talks involving Palestinians and Israelis were getting under way.

There was little sign Tuesday that international criticism of Israel was easing.

In the early hours of the morning, after protracted wrangling, the United Nations Security Council condemned “acts” leading to the loss of life in Israel’s operation in international waters on Monday, which had claimed the lives of nine civilians, many of them Turks aboard a Turkish vessel. The Security Council also urged an impartial inquiry — a call echoed in a separate forum by Russia and the European Union on Tuesday at a meeting of senior officials in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don.

For its part, Turkey, once seen as Israel’s most important friend in the Muslim world, recalled its ambassador on Monday and canceled planned military exercises with Israel as the countries’ already tense relations soured even further. On Tuesday, Israel announced that four of the nine killed in the military operation were Turkish citizens, the Anatolian News Agency reported.

Turkish animosity seemed to deepen.

“This irresponsible, heedless, unlawful attitude that defies any human virtue should definitely, but definitely, be punished,” Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in his regular weekly address to his party in the capital, Ankara.

“No one should dare to challenge Turkey or test her patience for that the strength of Turkey’s animosity is as strong as the value of its friendship.”

In a speech often interrupted by loud applause, Mr. Erdogan called on Israel to end the embargo on Gaza and asked the Israeli people to rise against the violent policies of their government.

And Egypt’s official Middle East News Service said that President Hosni Mubarak was moving to temporarily reopen the Rafah border crossing — the only crossing not controlled by Israel — to “alleviate the suffering of the Palestinian people in the besieged Gaza Strip.”

Egypt has kept its border with Gaza largely sealed since Hamas seized power there in 2007.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, meanwhile, was flying home after canceling a Tuesday meeting with President Obama.

Mr. Netanyahu has defended the Israeli military’s actions, saying the commandos, enforcing what Israel says is a legal blockade, were set upon by passengers on the Turkish ship they boarded and fired only in self-defense. The military released a video of the early moments of the raid to support that claim.

Israel said the violence was instigated by pro-Palestinian activists who presented themselves as humanitarians but had come ready for a fight. Organizers of the flotilla accused the Israeli forces of opening fire as soon as they landed on the deck, and released videos to support their case. On Tuesday, activists promised more confrontation. Greta Berlin of the Free Gaza Movement, which organized the flotilla, said that another cargo boat was heading to Gaza from the coast of Italy while a second boat carrying some 35 passengers was expected to join it, The A.P. reported.

“This initiative is not going to stop,” Ms. Berlin said from the group’s base in Cyprus. “We think eventually Israel will get some kind of common sense. They’re going to have to stop the blockade of Gaza, and one of the ways to do this is for us to continue to send the boats.”

An Israeli police spokesman, Micky Rosenfeld, said 634 activists, mostly from the Turkish passenger ship, who had refused to identify themselves were being detained at a prison in southern Israel, where they were awaiting deportation procedures. Forty-five others had agreed to identify themselves and were being deported.

Immigration officials said the people to be deported included Henning Mankell, a best-selling Swedish author.

While the Israeli public seemed largely to support the navy, policy experts questioned preparations for the military operation, whether there had been an intelligence failure and whether the Israeli insistence on stopping the flotilla had been counterproductive. Some commentators were calling for the resignation of Ehud Barak, the defense minister.

“The government failed the test of results; blaming the organizers of the flotilla for causing the deaths by ignoring Israel’s orders to turn back is inadequate,” wrote Aluf Benn, a columnist for Haaretz, on the newspaper’s Web site on Monday, calling for a national committee of inquiry. “Decisions taken by the responsible authorities must be probed.”

The flotilla of six cargo ships and passenger boats was carrying 10,000 tons of aid for Gaza. But the raid and its deadly consequences have thrown Israel’s policy of blockading Gaza into the international limelight. The statement by the United Nations Security Council early on Tuesday stressed “the need for sustained and regular flow of goods and people to Gaza.”

Israel had vowed not to let the flotilla reach the shores of Gaza, held by Hamas, an organization sworn to Israel’s destruction.

Named the Freedom Flotilla, and led by the pro-Palestinian Free Gaza Movement and a Turkish organization, Insani Yardim Vakfi, the convoy had converged at sea near Cyprus and set out on the final leg of its journey on Sunday afternoon. Israel warned the vessels to abort their mission, describing it as a provocation.

The confrontation began shortly before midnight on Sunday when Israeli warships intercepted the aid flotilla, according to a person on one boat. The Israeli military warned the vessels that they were entering a hostile area and that the Gaza shore was under blockade.

The vessels refused the military’s request to dock at the Israeli port of Ashdod, north of Gaza, and continued toward their destination.

Around 4 a.m. Monday, naval commandos came aboard the Turkish ship, the Mavi Marmara, having been lowered by ropes from helicopters onto the decks.

At that point, the operation seems to have gone badly wrong.

Israeli officials say that the soldiers were dropped into an ambush and were attacked with clubs, metal rods and knives.

An Israeli official said that the navy was planning to stop five of the six vessels of the flotilla with large nets that interfere with propellers, but that the sixth was too large for that. The official said there was clearly an intelligence failure in that the commandos were expecting to face passive resistance, and not an angry, violent reaction.

The Israelis had planned to commandeer the vessels and steer them to Ashdod, where their cargo would be unloaded and, the authorities said, transferred overland to Gaza after inspection.

The military said in a statement that two activists were later found with pistols taken from Israeli commandos. It accused the activists of opening fire, “as evident by the empty pistol magazines.”

Another soldier said the orders were to neutralize the passengers, not to kill them.

But the forces “had to open fire in order to defend themselves,” the navy commander, Vice Adm. Eliezer Marom, said at a news conference in Tel Aviv, adding, “Their lives were at risk.”

At least seven soldiers were wounded, one of them seriously. The military said that some suffered gunshot wounds; at least one had been stabbed.

Einat Wilf, a Labor Party member of Parliament who sits on the influential Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, said that she had warned Mr. Barak and others well in advance that the flotilla was a public relations issue and should not be dealt with by military means.

The fatalities all occurred aboard the Mavi Marmara, a Turkish passenger vessel that was carrying about 600 activists under the auspices of Insani Yardim Vakfi, an organization also known as I.H.H. Israeli officials have characterized it as a dangerous Islamic organization with terrorist links.

Yet the organization, founded in 1992 to collect aid for the Bosnians, is now active in 120 countries and has been present at recent disaster areas like Haiti and New Orleans.

“Our volunteers were not trained military personnel,” said Yavuz Dede, deputy director of the organization. “They were civilians trying to get aid to Gaza. There were artists, intellectuals and journalists among them. Such an offensive cannot be explained by any terms.”

There were no immediate accounts available from the passengers of the Turkish ship, which arrived at the naval base in Ashdod on Monday evening, where nearly three dozen were arrested, many for not giving their names. The base was off limits to the news media and declared a closed military zone.

The Free Gaza Movement has organized several aid voyages since the summer of 2008, usually consisting of one or two vessels. The earliest ones were allowed to reach Gaza. Others have been intercepted and forced back, and one, last June, was commandeered by the Israeli Navy and towed to Ashdod. This six-boat fleet was the most ambitious attempt yet to break the blockade.

The New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/02/world/middleeast/02flotilla.html)

Nickdfresh
06-01-2010, 10:41 AM
The Israelis are acting with all the rationality of North Korea these days. Their scofflaw, arrogant behavior is getting very old these days, and so is the U.S. underwriting of much of it...

GAR
06-01-2010, 11:21 AM
Fuck the Palestinians and the "peace activists" - you'll see the video of the commandos boarding the ship with most of the people on it first, and they're ready with bats, pipe and axes.

They're lucky they only wound up with 10 dead, I would have sunk that motherfucker - attacking my unit!

They could have chosen to port the shipment and allow an Israeli inspection to make sure no contraband was onboard willingly, or unwillingly. Now they got 10 killed, hundreds going to prison, everybody's lives fucked up and alot of valuable cargo and shipping impounded.

Palestinians fuck up everything they touch, and everyone that touches them. Fukkum.

Jagermeister
06-01-2010, 11:26 AM
GAR. Do you ever get tired of people telling you to fuck off?

I thought that was a great post by the way.

GAR
06-01-2010, 11:33 AM
When I realized who started the thread, and who replied to it, no I don't care what they think and if I could Ignore User on NickDfresh I probably wouldn't have commented.. because he's always so uppity in attacking the Jews and how they're terrorists and all that when they're so fucking under the gun, every single day it's like he doesn't care to interpret the news without viewing thru shit-colored glasses.

Nickdfresh
06-01-2010, 12:08 PM
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Palestinians fuck up everything they touch, and everyone that touches them. Fukkum.

Did you touch a Palestinian boy or something?

Nickdfresh
06-01-2010, 12:10 PM
When I realized who started the thread, and who replied to it, no I don't care what they think and if I could Ignore User on NickDfresh I probably wouldn't have commented.. because he's always so uppity in attacking the Jews and how they're terrorists and all that when they're so fucking under the gun, every single day it's like he doesn't care to interpret the news without viewing thru shit-colored glasses.

You hate Jews, and lie about putting people on "ignore" all the time, you waste of skin...

Blaze
06-01-2010, 12:19 PM
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BigBadBrian
06-01-2010, 12:32 PM
This situation is (for lack of a better description) fucking nuts. Virtually every nation on Earth has condemned Israel for it's actions, with 2 notable exceptions: Germany and The United States. Even though the Germans had 6 citizens aboard the flotilla, due to the guilt over WWII they are afraid to say anything. The U.S. predictably enough, has offered no comment. So 2 nations are hamstrung, fearful of stating the obvious even though Israel's actions have brought about worldwide scorn.

Fuck what the rest of the world thinks. We should never base our foreign policy on what is popular.

Israel has the right to enforce the blockade of the Gaza strip. Boats from Iran are using this route to smuggle in arms to Hamas, such as rockets that are being fired from Gaza into Israel.

The only thing I fault Israel with is not going in with enough force. It's obvious these peace activists were spoiling for a fight and ready with clubs and knives. What kind of peace activists carry clubs and knives?

Israel should take lessons from the US Navy. The USN has been doing maritime interdiction for years, first with the embargo of Iraq during the Saddam years and now with Somali pirates. The Israelis should have boarded that terrorist cruise ship via small boat and instead used the helos to keep the deck clear, with automatic weapons if necessary. Keeping their own people safe should be Israel's priority.

These Turkish terrorists/Hamas sympathizers plan on sending in another boat soon. Let's all hope Israel responds with overwhelming force this time.

Blaze
06-01-2010, 12:32 PM
Posted By Yousef Munayyer Thursday, May 27, 2010 - 3:49 PM

Hundreds of activists are on their way to the blockaded Gaza strip via a "flotilla" of boats (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/28/world/middleeast/28mideast.html)carrying humanitarian and reconstruction supplies, which are badly lacking in the impoverished Palestinian territory.

Israel has promised to intercept the good-willed boats and arrest and deport the activists. The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs has exerted great effort in the past few days to convince onlookers to this confrontation on the high seas that the activists carrying humanitarian goods are terrorist sympathizers, and that everything is just fine and dandy in the Gaza Strip. The ministry has portrayed Israel (the country enforcing the blockade of Gaza's ports) as a benevolent victim, who despite the threat from Gaza's Hamas government is still caring for the civilian population.

There comes a point when an oppressive regime's propaganda crosses a threshold from mere lies to utter lunacy so extreme, in fact, that objective onlookers find it almost comical. This point came yesterday when the Government Press Office disseminated a link (http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5in1Yxul18eE4ioyDjeFuKJjxbdTA) to a Gaza restaurant which appears to be luxurious. So what Israel is essentially saying is: "There you have it. There is a website for a restaurant with cloth napkins in Gaza. How can there be any problems?"

The reality is, of course, that the situation in Gaza is very dire. A slew of reports from human rights organizations attest to the hardships faced by most Palestinians in Gaza. In the densely populated strip where 80 percent of the population are refugees, a similar percentage relies on international aid organizations for daily sustenance. That number was only ten percent a decade ago. That's how bad things have become. Malnutrition in children has reached ten percent and critical medicines are not available, according to the World Health Organization.

But no one is starving to death in Gaza--at least not suddenly. A tunnel industry has evolved and become the main supplier for most goods. That's all part of the plan. Israel seeks to squeeze the strip to the point of near catastrophe, bad enough to make people suffer, but just short of having to take responsibility for it. It's a form of torture kind of like water-boarding under the Bush administration: the objective is to bring the subject to the edge and break his will, but not kill him (lest they be charged with murder). But just because Gaza's civilian population has managed to keep its collective head above water doesn't mean things should be this way.

Like life in most prisons, if you "know a guy," anything is available for a price. Generators, for example, are in high demand because of the shortages of electricity. The shortages are due to the destruction of Gaza's only power plant in 2006 by Israeli jets. Since then, Israel has never permitted the full reconstruction of the power plant, forcing perpetual dependence of Gaza on Israel and Egypt, who take an eye-dropper approach to supplying Gaza with electricity. But even though generators smuggled through Gaza's tunnels provide some light, there is also a dark and often unheard downside that comes with them: explosions and fires. Several reports in the past few years of civilians being killed or maimed from overworked and exploding generators have become common. These are just some of the siege-related causalities we do not hear about.

The 10,000 tons of supplies aboard the Gaza aid ships are a drop in the bucket for what Gaza really needs. Israel's spokesmen have pointed out that they have permitted the entry of supplies in the past and argued that the aid boats are unnecessary. The reality is that aid which Israel does permit into Gaza is purchased by Palestinians, vetted and often rejected or held up for months. Israel has calculated the precise minimum necessary caloric intake for Palestinians (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8654337.stm) in Gaza, and has often rejected things like pasta, lentils and coffee. So it's easy to understand why international humanitarian organizations and the activists aboard the aid boats are not about to trust the welfare of Gaza's civilians to Israel's benevolence.

The aid boats will have a far greater impact, however, than the 10,000 tons of aid they are bringing to Gaza. The aid boats compel us to have this discussion, a discussion that Israel desperately wants to avoid at a time when its international reputation has never been lower.

Hundreds of unarmed civilians carrying humanitarian aid are approaching a blockaded piece of land where 1.5 million civilians suffer from a life of uncertainty and despair, and Israel is going to stop them. While much of the focus on the Israeli-Palestinian issue has been on the settlements, the failed peace process and the long-awaited restart of talks about talks, Gaza has been forgotten. To their credit, the few hundred non-violent activists-turned-sailors have found a way to maximize their power as individuals to force one of the world's most powerful regimes into a corner. Whether the boats make it to Gaza or not, this is a tremendous victory for civil society in international affairs.

Headlines and stories covering this confrontation at sea will shift the focus back to Gaza, even if only for a few hours. For Israel, Gaza is the tortured and famished step-child it locks in the basement when visitors arrive, and the activists on these boats seek to expose what Israel is doing in the strip: imposing a draconian siege to collectively punish civilians for political aims.

Yousef Munayyer is the Executive Director of the Jerusalem Fund and the Palestine Center

http://mideast.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/05/27/why_is_israel_afraid_of_a_few_boats

jhale667
06-01-2010, 12:39 PM
GAR. Do you ever get tired of people telling you to fuck off?


It's the ONLY attention he gets, apart from the librarian kicking him out...

Blaze
06-01-2010, 12:47 PM
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BigBadBrian
06-01-2010, 01:01 PM
Since Blaze can get away with posting these graphic pics, I guess it's now OK to post pics of aborted fetuses.

BTW, where's the pics of all the Israeli's killed by Islamofascist terrorists? I'll look those up and post those as well.

:gulp:

chefcraig
06-01-2010, 01:40 PM
Fuck what the rest of the world thinks. We should never base our foreign policy on what is popular.

That's pretty much my point: The U.S. is doing nothing. We are not basing policy on what is popular, instead we are pussyfooting around offering no comment.


Israel has the right to enforce the blockade of the Gaza strip. Boats from Iran are using this route to smuggle in arms to Hamas, such as rockets that are being fired from Gaza into Israel. The only thing I fault Israel with is not going in with enough force. It's obvious these peace activists were spoiling for a fight and ready with clubs and knives. What kind of peace activists carry clubs and knives? What does it matter if they have clubs, knives or slingshots, for that matter? They did not have guns.


Israel should take lessons from the US Navy. The USN has been doing maritime interdiction for years, first with the embargo of Iraq during the Saddam years and now with Somali pirates. The Israelis should have boarded that terrorist cruise ship via small boat and instead used the helos to keep the deck clear, with automatic weapons if necessary. Keeping their own people safe should be Israel's priority. I see, your idea is to strafe the deck with automatic weapons in case the unarmed people attempt to defend themselves against armed militiamen. Gotcha.


These Turkish terrorists/Hamas sympathizers plan on sending in another boat soon. Let's all hope Israel responds with overwhelming force this time. Right, because that will solve everything. Now there is a foreign policy that makes perfect sense: Two Wrongs Make A Right.

Jagermeister
06-01-2010, 01:46 PM
That's pretty much my point: The U.S. is doing nothing. We are not basing policy on what is popular, instead we are pussyfooting around offering no comment.

I think we are doing exactly what we should be doing.

PETE'S BROTHER
06-01-2010, 01:59 PM
What does it matter if they have clubs, knives or slingshots, for that matter? They did not have guns.

I see, your idea is to strafe the deck with automatic weapons in case the unarmed people attempt to defend themselves against armed militiamen. Gotcha.

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you would hate to be a stabbing victim. you would hate being bludgeoned. they certainly were armed and dangerous.

Jagermeister
06-01-2010, 02:07 PM
Let's face it. If the US did do anything it would amount to a "Statement from the President" severely condemning the actions in Israel.

Man that carries a ton of weight.

Jagermeister
06-01-2010, 03:58 PM
Wrong intelligence, wrong guns, wrong tactics. Israel's military acknowledged big mistakes on Tuesday during the bungled boarding of a Gaza-bound aid ship in which elite troops killed nine international activists.

Though Israelis rallied to their conscripts in the face of foreign fury, the domestic recrimination -- with "Foul-up" and "Fiasco" dominating newspaper headlines -- betrayed an erosion of confidence recalling the setbacks of the 2006 Lebanon war.

One commentator demanded that Defense Minister Ehud Barak step down. Cabinet members vowed to investigate, but their insistence that the pro-Palestinian activists had provoked the bloodshed found a ready ear among an irate Israeli public.

The secretive Flotilla 13 marine commando unit was brought out of the shadows to try to explain the operation's failings.

"We did not expect such resistance from the group's activists as we were talking about a humanitarian aid group," one unnamed naval lieutenant told Israel's Army Radio.

"The outcome was different to what we thought, but I must say that this was mainly because of the inappropriate behavior of the adversary we encountered."

Israel's police quarantine of activists from the Mavi Marmara prevented airing of dissenting testimony. The navy also jammed communications while storming the converted cruise ship.

That did not stop passengers broadcasting a globally viewed video clip that, ironically, helped Israel's case by showing a clutch of activists clubbing and stabbing two marines.

Israel released its own night-vision mission footage of a half-dozen commandos grappling with as many as 30 activists.

The images stirred undercurrents of disbelief and disgrace in Israel. Fabled for their silent exploits at sea, the fighters who rappelled onto the Mavi Marmara looked unfit for the melee -- outnumbered, almost overpowered, though far from outgunned.

Jason Alderwick, a maritime warfare expert at London's International Institute for Strategic Studies, faulted the marines for not commandeering the vessel more efficiently.

"Success begins with planning and with decent intelligence, and they have boarded such ships before," he said. "This time they didn't go in hard enough, fast enough and in sufficient numbers to establish overwhelming control."

OVER THE TOP

Some of the troops wielded paintball rifles -- non-lethal weapons designed to bruise, beat back and mark suspects for later arrest, but which apparently proved of limited use against activists who had the protection of life-jackets and gas masks.

"It's clear that the equipment for crowd-dispersal with which they were issued was insufficient," Israel's armed forces chief, Lieutenant-General Gabi Ashkenazi, told reporters.

There was little question of calling off the raid once the first Israelis were in the fight and vulnerable, though the navy said some commandos opted to escape by jumping overboard.

Israel said seven marines were injured, one after activists pitched him over a railing and two with gunshot wounds, possibly from backup pistols that were wrested away from them.

"A number of the fighters who understood the situation, the threat posed to their lives, reoriented themselves and simply worked with live (ammunition) weapons as soon as they came down," the marines lieutenant said.

Some experts questioned whether a police anti-riot unit might have tackled the resistance with less bloodshed.

But an Israeli Defense official said only marines were capable of the takeover 120 km (75 miles) in the choppy Mediterranean, timed for darkness to surprise the activists and deprive attendant journalists of spectacular pictures.

Barak's deputy, Matan Vilnai, brushed off the call in the best-selling Yedioth Ahronoth daily for the Defense minister's resignation. He hinted Israel had exhausted covert means of stalling the Mavi Marmara and five other vessels in a flotilla that sailed for Gaza in defiance of an Israeli campaign to isolate the Hamas Islamists who rule the Palestinian territory.

"Everything was considered. I don't want to elaborate beyond that, because the fact is there were not up to 10, or however many ships were (originally) planned," Vilnai told Israel Radio, alluding to rumors that some of the vessels had been sabotaged.

Alon Ben-David, Defense analyst for Israel's Channel 10 television, noted that video footage appears to show marines thwarted an attempt by activists to tie one of the rappelling ropes to the deck, a major threat to the hovering helicopter.

"The outcome could have been much worse," Ben-David said.

(Additional reporting by William Maclean in London; Editing by Paul Taylor)

Blaze
06-01-2010, 05:47 PM
Since Blaze can get away with posting these graphic pics, I guess it's now OK to post pics of aborted fetuses.

BTW, where's the pics of all the Israeli's killed by Islamofascist terrorists? I'll look those up and post those as well.

:gulp:
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06-01-2010, 05:53 PM
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FORD
06-01-2010, 06:32 PM
The unelected regime of Bennie NuttyYahoo is the most dangerous terrorist cell in the world today.

Nickdfresh
06-01-2010, 10:17 PM
I think we are doing exactly what we should be doing.

Being hypocrites that selectively support lawless actions?

Nitro Express
06-01-2010, 10:21 PM
Remember the USS Liberty. Fuck Israel!

Nitro Express
06-01-2010, 10:22 PM
I have no beef with the Jews, it's the Zionist I can't stand. Their as bad as the Islamic fundamentalists. May they kill each other and rid the earth of themselves.

Golden AWe
06-02-2010, 02:07 AM
This is getting a lot of publicity here in Scandinavia as well. The actions surrounding Israel are always getting publicity, but now there were also several swedish on that ship, like the famous writer Henning Mankell.

binnie
06-02-2010, 02:33 AM
What a sad day.

Israel is essentially a rogue state that does what it wants. The emotional baggage of the Holocaust causes the rest of the world to let it do so..........

Nitro Express
06-02-2010, 03:01 AM
What a sad day.

Israel is essentially a rogue state that does what it wants. The emotional baggage of the Holocaust causes the rest of the world to let it do so..........

You just described the problem. I spent two semesters in Israel in 1988 Better times then and what I learned from my time over there is the average Jew and average Palistinian would get along fine if the Zionists and Fundamental bastards didn't cause trouble. The Israeli government has always treated the Palistinians like shit and there is all this non-sense over rebuilding a temple on a particular site. All that ancient nonsense. Actually religious wars have nothing to do with religion. That's just filler and something to rally people around. What the leaders really want is power and another damn religion is in the way.

You could kill every Muslim and trust me, the greedy, corrupt bastards who run Israel would not be satisfied. Why the Chirstian community supports them is beyond me. They are just getting exciting over more signs of the times so to speak.

Blaze
06-02-2010, 03:39 AM
Was there ever a place that based life on racial purity that turned out well?

GAR
06-02-2010, 03:51 AM
Did you touch a Palestinian boy or something?

Honestly? Not today with either my car door, bumper going 50+plus miles per hour, or with the either end of a Bushmaster rifle sir.

I admit the dereliction of my duty, to laziness and fucking around too much on the intitsnets, same as what you're doing right now.. LOUser..

GAR
06-02-2010, 03:58 AM
.. there were also several swedish on that ship, like the famous writer Henning Mankell.

Sweden is the country most-famous thru history for half-assing anything strategic and militant - watch the Palestinians blame those two queers on the ship for fucking up the blockade-run on the Swedish.

It is a fact that every Polack joke was a Swede joke for over a century after Sweden failed their own Polish invasion! Every Hamas terrorist from now on is gonna have a motto: "No Swedes on board."

binnie
06-02-2010, 04:02 AM
History 101 with Gar.

GAR
06-02-2010, 04:07 AM
Why is Israel afraid of a few boats?



Oh I have no idea, let's ask the Hamassies who so far have sent 6500 rockets into Israel from Gaza? They might have an idea.

Blaze do you supports the Terrorists or something?

Nitro Express
06-02-2010, 04:08 AM
The Swedes come from Viking heritage. Not exactly historically half assed on things regarding militantism or strategy.

Nitro Express
06-02-2010, 04:13 AM
History 101 with Gar.

Yeah. Here's those unmilitant whimps and strategic buffoons Gar was talking about.

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GAR
06-02-2010, 04:15 AM
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Let's ask Obama what he thought of the junkyard of tons of rocket fragments before he proselytizes further this year on Israel's dilemna and who he thinks has the right to screen shit coming into their border when we can't even screen our own borders from bullshit coming in over here.. fucking retard.

Ask the peace-loving rocket shellers who they're aiming at, and Nitro will just about tell you it's the Makhmoud Mohammed Middle School #10's from Gaza's Rocket Science Classes' atmospheric science experiments that were confiscated by those evil Jews.

Fucking Jews. Trying to defend their shit! How do you like THAT

Nickdfresh
06-02-2010, 04:24 AM
Honestly? Not today with either my car door, bumper going 50+plus miles per hour, or with the either end of a Bushmaster rifle sir.

I admit the dereliction of my duty, to laziness and fucking around too much on the intitsnets, same as what you're doing right now.. LOUser..

Trolling for boys?

Blaze
06-02-2010, 11:19 AM
Oh I have no idea, let's ask the Hamassies who so far have sent 6500 rockets into Israel from Gaza? They might have an idea.

Blaze do you supports the Terrorists or something?

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Blaze
06-02-2010, 11:22 AM
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Let's ask Obama what he thought of the junkyard of tons of rocket fragments before he proselytizes further this year on Israel's dilemna and who he thinks has the right to screen shit coming into their border when we can't even screen our own borders from bullshit coming in over here.. fucking retard.

Ask the peace-loving rocket shellers who they're aiming at, and Nitro will just about tell you it's the Makhmoud Mohammed Middle School #10's from Gaza's Rocket Science Classes' atmospheric science experiments that were confiscated by those evil Jews.

Fucking Jews. Trying to defend their shit! How do you like THAT

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Blaze
06-02-2010, 11:30 AM
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Blaze
06-02-2010, 11:32 AM
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PETE'S BROTHER
06-02-2010, 11:40 AM
Was there ever a place that based life on racial purity that turned out well?

eden.....nope. nazi germany.....nope. boca raton, florida?........probably not. state of arizona?......we'll see.:tongue0011::biggrin:

WACF
06-02-2010, 11:58 AM
I won't excuse Israel but I will add Hamas is not better if not worse.

Blaze
06-02-2010, 12:04 PM
boca raton, florida?........probably not. .:tongue0011::biggrin:
:biggrin: :baaa:

Nitro Express
06-02-2010, 04:21 PM
Was there ever a place that based life on racial purity that turned out well?

It's like saying,we destroyed the world in order to save it.

Nitro Express
06-02-2010, 04:24 PM
I won't excuse Israel but I will add Hamas is not better if not worse.

Hammas doesn't have 200 nukes and a military world superpower backing them. I would say Israel is the more dangerous out of the two. They both are certifiably crazy but Israel has a bigger can whoop ass.

Nitro Express
06-02-2010, 08:22 PM
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Let's ask Obama what he thought of the junkyard of tons of rocket fragments before he proselytizes further this year on Israel's dilemna and who he thinks has the right to screen shit coming into their border when we can't even screen our own borders from bullshit coming in over here.. fucking retard.

Ask the peace-loving rocket shellers who they're aiming at, and Nitro will just about tell you it's the Makhmoud Mohammed Middle School #10's from Gaza's Rocket Science Classes' atmospheric science experiments that were confiscated by those evil Jews.

Fucking Jews. Trying to defend their shit! How do you like THAT

You mean some sling shots, knives, and smoke bombs. Shit Gar. I had worse stuff than that in my room when I was a kid.

Nitro Express
06-02-2010, 08:25 PM
Oh my god. Where's the RGP's and heavy machine guns? Rocks, slingshots, and fireworks vs. a nuclear armed nation. Good thing they napped the shipment.

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Nitro Express
06-02-2010, 08:27 PM
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WACF
06-03-2010, 01:22 PM
Hammas doesn't have 200 nukes and a military world superpower backing them. I would say Israel is the more dangerous out of the two. They both are certifiably crazy but Israel has a bigger can whoop ass.

Certainly more capable of bringing down some serious hurt...but Hamas would sacrifice it's own to look like a big victim in a blink of an eye.

I would not doubt Israel got played in this whole scenerio.


If the aid would of been ispected as per Israel's demands this would not have happened...they said no so Israel figured there had to be weapons on board...so did what is expected.

No weapons and a big black eye for Israel.

If weapons had been found like Israel expected then they could have justified it.

I think it was well played against Israel.

Blaze
06-03-2010, 01:49 PM
Gaza flotilla activist, Haneen Zuabi, faces death threats

Haneen Zuabi, a member of the Israeli Knesset, has been sworn at by parliamentary colleagues and received death threats since disembarking on Monday

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While other activists from the Gaza aid flotilla have returned home, one is left facing death threats and abuse in Israel. Haneen Zuabi, a Palestinian member of the Israeli Knesset who was aboard the Mavi Marmara, is now under armed protection after nearly 500 people signed up to a Facebook page calling for her execution.

During a heated parliamentary session yesterday Zuabi was sworn at and then shoved out of the chamber amid shouts of "Go to Gaza, traitor".

The 41-year-old member of the Arab nationalist party Balad has also received death threats by phone and mail. "I am not scared," she said, speaking from her home town of Nazareth in northern Israel. "This is inherent here, it is not something that started yesterday. It is just harder and harsher now."

Zuabi faces growing hostility for taking part in the Gaza aid flotilla, amid a climate of rage at what has been portrayed in Israel as a premeditated attack upon its soldiers by armed activists aboard the boats.

"Israel wanted many deaths to terrorise us and to send a message that no future aid convoys should try to break the siege of Gaza," she told journalists this week.

Zuabi said that naval boats surrounded the Mavi Marmara and fired on it before soldiers abseiled aboard from a helicopter. She went below to the ship's hold and said that, within minutes, two dead passengers were brought inside, followed by two more who had been seriously wounded.

soldiers refused her requests for medical assistance for the injured passengers, who died shortly after.

Zuabi – known in Israel as an articulate Hebrew speaker – said that soldiers specifically asked her to translatetheir instructions. At first, she refused. "I shouted back, 'Why didn't you ask for my help before you murdered these people?'"

But she realised that such assistance could prevent further violence. "My fear was that miscommunication and panic could lead to more deaths," she said. "Everyone on the boat was terrified, screaming and crying and I felt a sense of responsibility towards them."

Zuabi spent the next few hours conveying the Israeli soldiers' instructions to the passengers as they were searched, while also relaying concern over injured passengers and requests for water, medicine or to pray.

Disembarking with the others at Ashdod port on Monday, Zuabi, who has parliamentary immunity, was interrogated three times before being freed The remaining four Palestinian citizens of Israel aboard the aid boats were released from Ashkelon prison this morning, but remain under house arrest until next week. They have not been charged.

Having survived a situation in which she'd factored a "50% chance to come out alive", Zuabi said she is now facing a different threat, "of racist, illegitimate ideas that have turned violent".

Zuabi was elected last year and, as the first female Knesset member on an Arab party list, views her support for the Free Gaza campaign as part of a wider fight for democracy, race and gender equality in Israel.

She said she cannot yet allow herself to process the violent events aboard the Mavi Marmarawhat happened. "I can't forget the images of the dead, but I haven't cried for them yet. I have to stay strong in this climate of threats against me."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/03/gaza-flotilla-survivor-haneen-zuabi


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BigBadBrian
06-03-2010, 01:57 PM
I would say Israel is the more dangerous out of the two.

I wouldn't. :gulp:

Baby's On Fire
06-03-2010, 08:31 PM
I hate the fucking Isaraeili's more than I hate the fucking towel head pricks.

And that's a big hatred.

And if you disagree...or want to criticize...go right ahead...I don't give a fuck.

These fucking Jews think they can attack a ship in international waters....and then claim protection of Israel...and fuck the innocent people they killed......And then scream justification due to the holocaust.....Maybe Hitler had a fuckin' point....A forward thinker.

As much as I hate the fucking Muslim lunatics....I can see some of their point....I've said it before and I say it again.....Let all of these holier-than-thou....religious assholes...kill each other off....and let the last man standing win.....

Fuck the whole lot of em.

Unchainme
06-03-2010, 09:13 PM
I hate the fucking Isaraeili's more than I hate the fucking towel head pricks.

And that's a big hatred.

And if you disagree...or want to criticize...go right ahead...I don't give a fuck.

These fucking Jews think they can attack a ship in international waters....and then claim protection of Israel...and fuck the innocent people they killed......And then scream justification due to the holocaust.....Maybe Hitler had a fuckin' point....A forward thinker.

As much as I hate the fucking Muslim lunatics....I can see some of their point....I've said it before and I say it again.....Let all of these holier-than-thou....religious assholes...kill each other off....and let the last man standing win.....

Fuck the whole lot of em.

Racist much?

how was this evening's labatt?

Nitro Express
06-04-2010, 12:50 AM
"Israel is the armpit of the world." -Gene Simmons-

PETE'S BROTHER
06-04-2010, 12:54 AM
I hate the fucking Isaraeili's more than I hate the fucking towel head pricks.

And that's a big hatred.

.

http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0oGdCWIhghMqPwA0_FXNyoA?p=isaraeili&fr2=sb-top&fr=b1ie7&sao=1

absolutely precious

Seshmeister
06-04-2010, 05:18 AM
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LEAST IMPRESSIVE ARMS CAPTURE EVER


Meanwhile Obama gives Israel $2.7 BILLION of your money to spend on weapons.

Blaze
06-04-2010, 07:38 AM
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I know this is a serious topic, but I am surprised no one picked up on the potential for a cat fight between the two above.

Caption contest~~~
I am sooo going to kick your ass, you little brown headed bitch!
Ehh, phstt. Be gone you emotional woman!

Nickdfresh
06-04-2010, 07:56 AM
One of the people shot dead by Israeli commandos was a 19-year American citizen from Troy, NY...

Blaze
06-04-2010, 08:20 AM
Clinton identified the victim as Furkan Dorgan, 19. He was born in Troy, N.Y., while his father, Ahmet Dorgan, was pursuing an MBA at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The elder Dorgan received the degree in 1992, according to his Web site at Erciyes University in Kayseri, Turkey

Ahmet Dorgan, an accounting professor, told the state-run Anatolia news agency that he had identified his son at a morgue and that he had been shot in the forehead. But he did not express sadness. "I feel my son has been blessed with heaven," he said. "I am hoping to be a father worthy of my son."

State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said Dorgan died of "gunshot wounds," but he declined to confirm Turkish media reports that he was shot four times in the head and once in the chest at close range.


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"Our ambassador to Turkey, Ambassador Jim Jeffrey, has been in contact with the family," Clinton told reporters. "We've offered not only our heartfelt condolences but any kind of consular assistance that the family might need at this time."

She said that another U.S. citizen was injured on one of the ships and that a third -- later identified as Emily Henochowicz, 21, of Potomac -- was hurt during a subsequent protest of the incident. According to Israeli media reports, Henochowicz lost an eye after being hit by an Israeli tear-gas canister.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/03/AR2010060301931.html


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A 2008 family photograph of Furkan Dogan, a Turkish-American activist killed on Monday.

As my colleagues Sabrina Tavernise and Michael Slackman report, Turkish news agencies “identified the American as Furkan Dogan, 19, who was born in the United States before returning to Turkey with his family as a young child.” The Anatolia news agency reported that an autopsy showed that Mr. Dogan had been shot at close range, once in the chest and four times in the head.

Another American who was on one of the boats in the flotilla, Edward Peck, a retired diplomat, described his experience of the raid an interview with NPR on Wednesday after he returned home to Maryland. Mr. Peck explained told Steve Inskeep of NPR that he was not on the largest ship in the flotilla, the Mavi Marmara, where activists were shot and killed:

I was on a much smaller ship that had sailed from Athens. Four o’clock in the morning we awakened to have the commandos already on board. They’d come up very quietly on their little boats – their Zodiacs – with just enough time to get a small passive resistance effort started, try to keep them out of the wheel house and away from the engine room.

Mr. Peck, 80, also gave this account of the raid to Amy Goodman on Democracy Now this week:

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As The Lede reported earlier this week, another American, a 21-year-old student named Emily Henochowicz, was badly wounded during a protest on Monday against the commando raid on the flotilla at a West Bank check point.

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The Facebook profile image of Emily Henochowicz, who was badly wounded at a protest on Monday.

On Thursday, JTA reported:

An American Jewish art student lost an eye when she was hit by a tear gas canister fired by Israeli troops at a pro-Palestinian demonstration. Emily Henochowicz, 21, of Maryland, was hit in the eye on Monday when she joined a protest at a Jerusalem roadblock against Israel’s deadly raid on an aid flotilla headed for the Gaza Strip, which killed nine people.

Spokesmen at Jerusalem’s Hadassah hospital, where she underwent an operation, confirmed Tuesday that she lost an eye in the disturbance. The military did not comment.

Witnesses told media outlets that Palestinian boys were throwing rocks at troops but said Henochowicz was standing aside and not participating in the violence.

Graphic, raw video shot during the protest on Monday just after Ms. Henochowicz was wounded showed her being carried away for treatment by fellow activists from the International Solidarity Movement.
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http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/03/three-american-subplots-in-flotilla-drama/

Blaze
06-06-2010, 08:29 AM
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BITEYOASS
06-06-2010, 09:25 AM
We really need to spend big time on an alternative energy infrastructure in our nation's energy grid. So that way we can tell the middle east to go fuck themselves, take away their trust fund and only show up when there is some natural disaster or some shit.

GAR
06-17-2010, 06:19 AM
Since the Palestinians "desire death as much as the enemy Zionists desire life" (Hamas propoganda) I'd say they shouldn't be upset when an Israeli commando does a good job of helping them along in their quest!

I loved the captured slingshots and riverstones footage.. these people are so backward and evil, they deserve to blow themselves up! They will never go more hightech than a 3rd grade education.

I guess that's why they're called fuckin' "Philistines." All I know is I dig the cavemen commercials they do for Geico.. those pair are a couple hotheads too but at least they're not hurting nobody, and they're funny.

Seshmeister
06-17-2010, 08:48 AM
Clueless

Baby's On Fire
06-21-2010, 08:01 PM
Racist much?

how was this evening's labatt?

How is it racist? Or is it just easier for you halfwits to throw "racism" around in lieu of any argument?

The Jewish lunatics are every bit as bad or worse than the Muslim lunatics. Period.

Fuck all of them. Why not let them wipe each other out and be done with it? That's what they want...so let's let them have it.

The world would be a far better place. And throw in every religious lunatic while we're at it, and the world would be even better yet.

Supporting Israel is a big waste of time, money, resources and everything else....fuck em. So we're all responsible for the Nazi's? I'm sick and tired of their whining.

Baby's On Fire
06-21-2010, 08:04 PM
http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0oGdCWIhghMqPwA0_FXNyoA?p=isaraeili&fr2=sb-top&fr=b1ie7&sao=1

absolutely precious

Just in case the Muslim pricks usurp my quote...Fuck every Muslim too. Take your fucking Khoran and choke on the fucking thing...Or make good use of it and line your bird cage with it......Then it might have some real value.

PRICKS

BigBadBrian
06-22-2010, 05:37 AM
Just in case the Muslim pricks usurp my quote...Fuck every Muslim too. Take your fucking Khoran and choke on the fucking thing...Or make good use of it and line your bird cage with it......Then it might have some real value.

PRICKS

Tell your ole lady we all said hello....she's a champ! :doggystyle: :cowgirl: