Tuesday, June 01, 2010

Another Two Warships in Anti-Humanitarian Flotilla Make their Way to the Jewish State

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In the post-American world, a convoy of war ships trussed up as a "flotilla" is affectionately called "humanitarian aid."

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Because, Lord knows, what Gazans need is "humanitarian aid".

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Tuesday, June 01, 2010


Lots of very heavy stuff below. So enjoy this now. In a few posts you'll be glad you did.


Diana Krall
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PEACE ACTIVISTS WHO START WARS

TURKS PREPARE FOR WAR AGAINST ISRAEL

From the Last Crusade:


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"Peaceful, non-violent protester"

“ACT OF TERROR ON HIGH SEAS”

ARMAGEDDON DRAWS NIGH?

by

Paul L. Williams, Ph.D.

A statement from the Turkish government promises “unprecedented and incalculable reprisals” against Israel for the Israeli Navy’s seizure of the Marmora, a Turkish vessel, which was leading a fleet of ships through the Gaza blockade yesterday.

The statement has received the support of Hezbollah, an arm of the Iranian government, and Hamas, the Palestinian network.

Such measures will not be confined to diplomatic censure.

Reports from Ankara, the capital of Turkey, state that the government, which remains under the control of the Justice and Democratic Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma, AKP), is planning to continue pounding the Israeli blockade with more flotillas that will be escorted by Turkish warships and fighter jets.

Israel merchant vessels moored outside Ashdodport have been instructed to sail into port and take shelter in case of missile attacks from the Gaza Strip against Ashdod and Ashkelon.

In expectation of an outbreak of war, the Turkish chief of staff General Ilker Basbug has been recalled to Ankara from a visit to Egypt. Greece has since halted its joint exercise with Israel in protest against the naval action.

Israeli warplanes have headed west over the Mediterranean on Monday morning in support of the still ongoing Israeli commando operation aboard the Turkish Marmora, the scene of violent clashes between Israeli troops and the 600 “peace activists,” some of them armed.

The Turkish government, under Prime Minister Recep Erdogan, reported 15 dead aboard the vessel.
Israeli army spokesman, Colonel Avi Beneyahu, called the incident “an act of terror on the high seas.”

Far from being a humanitarian mission, according to Colonel Beneyahu, the flotilla was sponsored personally by the Turkish government to break the Israeli blockade on Gaza and permit arms supplies and terrorist to reach the Gaza Strip in an unrestricted manner.

The Israeli army spokesman said that the Turks aimed at provoking a widely publicized international incident with fatalities in order to show Israel using strong-arm tactics against unarmed peaceniks.

He further maintained that the Turkish government refused to heed warnings that the vessels would be prevented from entering Gaza Port and rejected Israeli offers to ferry their aid cargo overland to the Gaza Strip.

An estimated 19 activists were killed battling with Israeli troops, and dozens more were injured. Ten Israeli soldiers were wounded, two critically.

According to the Israelis, passengers, armed with knives and iron bars, mobbed the Israeli commandos as soon as they landed on the deck of the Marmara. One passenger allegedly snatched from a sidearm from an Israeli soldier and proceeded to fire at the commandos.

In the midst of mounting tensions, the Arab League Council has called for an emergency meeting today to demand Egypt to end its joint embargo with Israel on Gaza.

Egypt will face pressure to end its joint embargo on Gaza with Israel at the Arab League Council meeting urgently Tuesday, June 1. Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas demanded the session.

Demonstrations against Israel continue to rage in Syria, Iran, Turkey, Jordan, and Greece.

From James Lewis at PJM:

Gaza Flotilla Raid: Israel Sends a Message

In normal times it would have been better to turn away the Hamas blockade-running flotilla using tear gas, high-decibel rock music, warning shots, and public ridicule. These are not ordinary times, and I believe Prime Minister Netanyahu decided to  send a clear and unmistakable signal to Israel’s most dangerous enemies, Iran and Syria. A few days ago we heard a public leak that Israel’s three diesel submarines, armed with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles, are being stationed on permanent rotation in the Gulf, right off the coast of Iran. It was a serious check-mate move.

In the nature of the hysterically biased leftist media in Europe and America, we will not know the truth about the events that led Israeli commandos to open fire on the Gaza activists who were diverted to the port of Ashdod. Hamas apparently mixed gunmen with self-proclaimed peace activists, civilians, and babies to provoke a violent reaction. The Israelis made a deliberate decision to respond with force.

Hamas uses human shields as standard operating procedure. Israeli commandos were like armed cops with a gun-bearing bank robber: Once the enemy shoots, you take them down. Only then do you try to figure out what happened. Israel’s legal system will now try to figure out the truth. It will take months.

Question: Israel is about to take a PR drubbing in Europe and America, and certainly at the left-wing and Muslim-dominated United Nations. Israel’s cabinet knew that would happen. Why did they decide to stop the flotilla with commandos?  There are more imaginative ways to do that.

I think the decision was deliberate, and it was not aimed at the blockade-running convoy. It was a signal to Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria,  Iran, and most of all the United States — because we are in the midst of the most dangerous war confrontation in decades. This was also a signal for the Obama administration, which just stabbed Israel in the back at another UN phony “peace” conference.

Everything being done by Israel and its enemies today has a double purpose: It is what it is, and it’s also a strategic signal. This time the cabinet and PM decided to show their very sharp claws. It meant: This time we are willing to preempt you with gunfire. Take heed, because we are not interested in PR.

 


AZ Gov. Brewer suspends AZ Attorney General (D-erelict) from defending immigration law after catching him in collusion with WH


Or Obama undermines the rule of law once again to advance his radical agenda.

Click on the title to get the whole story at Weasel Zippers.

Biological Weapons? Taliban Using WMD Against US Troops?


Fve US troops serving in Afghanistan fell ill after a suspected chemical weapons attack. One soldier was very sick. They were having trouble breathing.

Here is the latest on the attack on a US base in Afghanistan:

The five soldiers are doing better. Their humvee came under mortar attack at a base in Afghanistan. At some point the men in the vehicle were exposed to something that so effected their breathing that they all had to be put on life support. The soldiers were then transported to Germany. It appears that all of the men will recover.


Previously:
Breaking: Taliban Using Chemical Weapons Against US Troops? 4-5 Troops Reportedly Fall Ill

RELIAPUNIDT RIGHT AGAIN: PREDICTED TURKISH NAVY WOULD GET INVOLVED - AND NOW THEY ARE!
NOBODY ANYWHERE IN ANY MEDIA PREDICTED IT EXCEPT FOR ME:
Holy Sweet Lord, Turkey has announced they will send another flotilla to Gaza—escorted by the Turkish Navy!

2010 May 31
by Ian Welsh

If they actually do this, it is the very definition of throwing down.

Wow.

Does Israel want a war with Turkey? They can’t win it, short of using nukes, and Turkey is a NATO member, if Israel attacks NATO ships, Turkey can invoke Article V (in fact, they can invoke it already, since the ships were attacked by a non NATO power on the high seas.) If Turkey does so, of course NATO nations will refuse, but doing so will break NATO.

This is high stakes.
HIS SOURCE:

New Delhi: Turkey has threatened Israel with unprecedented action after Israeli forces attacked an aid vessel, killing 10 peace activists headed to Gaza.

Israel said 10 people died while those on the ship said at least 15 were killed.

A shocked world has responded with outrage. Turkey recalled its ambassador to Israel and warned of unprecedented and incalculable reprisals.

Two Turkish activists were reported to be among those killed in the flotilla. Ankara warned that further supply vessels will be sent to Gaza, escorted by the Turkish Navy, a development with unpredictable consequences.

Israel has sounded an alert throughout the country fearing rocket attacks by Hezbollah in Lebanon.

The Arab League has called an urgent meeting on Tuesday to decide on a common response. Egypt is under pressure to end the blockade of Gaza while Greece has cancelled a military exercise with Israel.
I PREDICTED THIS HERE - BEFORE THE FLOTILLA LEFT TURKEY.

NO ONE ELSE DID.

REGULAR READERS KNOW I DO THIS ALL THE TIME.

READ THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS.

Syria conducted nuclear experiments: IAEA document

Breitbart:

May 31 05:45 PM

Syria has told the UN atomic watchdog about past nuclear experiments, but is still refusing to cooperate over allegations that it was building a secret nuclear reactor with North Korea's help, a new report revealed Monday.

In a restricted four-page report obtained by AFP, the International Atomic Energy Agency said that Syria "provided the Agency with information concerning previously unreported uranium conversion and irradiation activities" at a small research reactor in Damascus.

Syria insists the scale of the experiment was small, "involving tens of grammes of nuclear material" and took place in 2004.

A senior diplomat familiar with the IAEA investigation said it was too early to determine whether the experiments were purely of a small scientific nature, as Syria claimed, or part of wider, more extensive research.

At the same time, the IAEA complained that Syria had not cooperated with its investigation into allegations that Damascus had been building an undeclared reactor at a remote desert site called Dair Alzour until it was bombed by Israeli planes in September 2007.

The IAEA has been investigating the allegations since 2008 and has already said that the building bore some of the characteristics of a nuclear facility.

UN inspectors also detected "significant" traces of man-made uranium at that site, as yet unexplained by Damascus.

It has also requested access to three other locations allegedly functionally related to Dair Alzour, but so far to no avail.

"As a consequence, the Agency has not been able to make progress towards resolving the outstanding issues related to those sites," the watchdog said.

"Furthermore, with time, some of the necessary information may deteriorate or be lost entirely."

IAEA chief Yukiya Amano urged Syria "to cooperate with the Agency on these issues in a timely manner."

The report is scheduled to be discussed at a meeting of the IAEA's 35-member board of governors at a meeting next week.
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US Thinks No. 3 Al-Qaida Official Dead

keep your fingers crossed. . .

Newsmax:

Monday, 31 May 2010 11:01 PM

In what could be one of the hardest blows to al-Qaida since the U.S. campaign against the terrorist organization began, the groups No. 3, Sheikh Sa'id al-Masri, is believed to be dead, killed by a U.S. Predator drone strike, a U.S. official said Monday.

The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said word was "spreading in extremist circles" of his death in Pakistans tribal areas in the past two weeks.

Most prominent is an announcement of his death on the Internet by al-Qaidas so-called General Command, reported by the IntelCenter. Al-Masri has been reported killed before, in 2008, but this is the first time his death has been acknowledged by the militant group on the Internet.

Al-Masri, also known as Mustafa al-Yazid, was the group's prime conduit to Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, and he was key to day-to-day control, with a hand in everything from finances to operational planning, the U.S. official said.

The official says his death would be a major blow to al-Qaida, which in December "lost both its internal and external operations chiefs."

Al-Masri has been one of many targets in a U.S. Predator drone campaign aimed at militants in Pakistan since President Barack Obama took office. The Egyptian-born militant made no secret of his contempt for the United States, once calling it "the evil empire leading crusades against the Muslims."

"We have reached the point where we see no difference between the state and the American people," al-Masri told Pakistan's Geo TV in a June 2008 interview. "The United States is a non-Muslim state bent on the destruction of Muslims."

The shadowy, 55-year-old al-Masri has been involved with Islamic extremist movements for nearly 30 years since he joined radical student groups led by fellow Egyptian al-Zawahiri, now the No. 2 figure in al-Qaida after bin Laden.

In the early 1980s, al-Yazid served three years in an Egyptian prison for purported links to the group responsible for the 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. After his release, al-Masri turned up in Afghanistan, where, according to al-Qaida's propaganda wing Al-Sabah, he became a founding member of the terrorist group.

He later followed bin Laden to Sudan and back to Afghanistan, where he served as al-Qaida's chief financial officer, managing secret bank accounts in the Persian Gulf that were used to help finance the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington. After the U.S. and its allies invaded Afghanistan in 2001, al-Masri went into hiding for years. He surfaced in May 2007 during a 45-minute interview posted on the Web by Al-Sabah, in which he was introduced as the "official in charge" of the terrorist movement's operations in Afghanistan.

Some security analysts believe the choice of al-Masri as the Afghan chief may have signaled a new approach for al-Qaida in the country where it once reigned supreme.

Michael Scheuer, former head of the CIA unit that tracked bin Laden, believes bin Laden and al-Zawahiri wanted a trusted figure to handle Afghanistan "while they turn to other aspects of the jihad outside" the country.

Al-Masri had little background in leading combat operations. But terrorism experts say his advantage was that he was close to Taliban leader Mullah Omar. As a fluent Pashto speaker known for impeccable manners, al-Masri enjoyed better relations with the Afghans than many of the al-Qaida Arabs, whom the Afghans found arrogant and abrasive.

That suggested a conscious decision by al-Qaida to embed within the Taliban organization, helping the Afghan allies with expertise and training while at the same time putting an Afghan face on the war.

Al-Masri himself alluded to such an approach in an interview this year with Al-Jazeera television's Islamabad correspondent Ahmad Zaidan. Al-Masri said al-Qaida fighters were involved at every level with the Taliban.

"We participate with our brothers in the Islamic Emirate in all fields," al-Masri said. "This had a big positive effect on the (Taliban) self-esteem in Afghanistan."

A September 2007 al-Qaida video sought to promote the notion of close Taliban-al-Qaida ties at a time when the Afghan insurgents were launching their comeback six years after their ouster from power in Kabul.

The video showed al-Masri sitting with a senior Taliban commander in a field surrounded by trees as a jihad anthem played. The Taliban commander vowed to "target the infidels in Afghanistan and outside Afghanistan" and to "focus our attacks, Allah willing, on the coalition forces in Afghanistan."

There is also evidence that al-Masri has promoted ties with Islamic extremist groups in Central Asia and Pakistan, where other top al-Qaida figures are believed to be hiding.

"He definitely seems to have significant influence among the Pakistani Taliban and the Central Asian groups," terrorism expert Evan Kohlman said. "They regularly post and share his videos on the Web, just as they would with bin Laden or al-Zawahiri.."

In August 2008, Pakistani military officials claimed al-Masri had been killed in fighting in the Bajaur tribal area along the Afghan border. However, he turned up in subsequent al-Qaida videos, all of which had clearly been made after the Bajaur fighting.
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Video Posted by “Peaceful Activist” Who Brags: “We Attacked Them (Israeli Forces) as Soon as They Landed on Deck!” – Video





Peace Activist: “See how we attacked them as soon as they landed on deck!!!! Look closely, we decked one of them with a crowbar."

Al-Jazeera Report on “Freedom Flotilla” Before Its Departure: Activists on Board Chant “Oh Jews, the Army of Mohammed Will Return,” Praise Martyrdom

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Undeniable proof that will go unreported by the MSM showing the so-called “peace activists” killed were really Jew-hating, pro-terrorist, pro-Islamist extremists…
Reporter: Despite the Israeli threats and some unexpected obstacles, the arrival of the ships at the rendezvous, in preparation to set sail to Gaza, has kindled the emotions and enthusiasm of the participants.
Crowd chanting:“Khaybar, Khaybar, oh Jews, the army of Muhammad will return.”
Reporter: Through songs about the Palestinian Intifada, the participants expressed their longing to reach Gaza.
Participant 1: The brothers here are shouting and are full of enthusiasm. They are waiting to leave soon, with the ships around us in the sea. Allah willing, we will make our way to Gaza.
Participant 2: We are now waiting for one of two good things – either to achieve martyrdom, or to reach Gaza


IAEA: Iran Has Over 2 Tons of Enriched Uranium, Enough for 2 Nuclear Warheads


I could have sworn when Obama extended his ‘unclenched fist’ this problem would have gone away.

Click on the title to get the story.

Israel Feeds Palestinians - Not Arabs, Not USA, ISRAEL!
The worlds media spins Israel's enforcement of the blockade on Gaza as being a raid on a "six-boat flotilla carrying 10,000 tons of supplies for Gaza".

The truth is, Israel enforces the blockade to keep weapons out of Gaza, in hopes they can stem the tide of rocket attacks on their citizenry.

The truth is, Gaza is already supplied with all the food and aid it needs, and it is supplied by Israel.

Gaza shares a border with Egypt, but Egypt does not feed the people of Gaza.

THE TRUTH IS,

ISRAEL FEEDS THE PEOPLE OF GAZA,

NOT EGYPT,

NOT THE ARAB NATIONS IN GENERAL,

NOT THE USA,

ISRAEL!

From me, Pastorius, at Infidel Bloggers Alliance, dated January 8, 2010:


Egypt Kicks Galloway Out, Declares Him "Persona Non Grata" - Why? Because, The Egyptians Fear The Gazans Even More Than Israel Does

George Galloway, who is either Britain's biggest Dhimmi, has been banned from Egypt for life:

CAIRO – Egypt on Friday declared renegade British lawmaker George Galloway persona non grata, accusing him of incitement after his harsh criticism of Cairo over delays in an aid convoy's entry into Gaza, the foreign ministry said Friday.
"George Galloway is considered persona non grata and will not be allowed to enter into Egypt again," a Foreign Ministry statement said. The activist left Egypt Friday morning from Cairo airport.
Earlier, British press reported Galloway had been deported from Egypt. They said he was forcefully taken by police from the Rafah crossing with Gaza to Cairo airport where he was put on departing British Airways plane.
Galloway led more than 500 activists as part of an international aid convoy to Gaza. They entered late Gaza Wednesday from Egypt after a month traveling. Egypt gave them only 24 hours in the blockaded sea side strip before it said it would reclose the crossing.
Note how stringent Egypt is about their border with Gaza. In fact, doesn't it seem they treat the Gaza border in the exact same manner as Israel? Why do you think that is? Could it be that the Palestinians really are a murderous and malevolent population?

In fact, the Egyptians consider the Gazans so dangerous that they have constructed a steel wall along the Gazan border that goes up to 100 feet underground, so that they Palestinians can not tunnel through to Egypt either.

Arab News has reported on the wall, and here we learn some interesting information:
RIYADH: The Egyptian ambassador to Saudi Arabia has dismissed allegations that a steel underground wall being built by his country on its border with the Gaza Strip is aimed at starving local Palestinian people or forcing them to support any resumption of peace talks with Israel.
Mahmoud Ouf issued the denial at the launch of the new Egyptian Cultural Center in Riyadh on Wednesday night. “Forced starvation is not possible because 95 percent of Gaza’s food, medicine and electricity do not come through these tunnels, but via crossing points along the border with Israel,” he said.
So, the Egyptians build a wall to keep the Palestinians out, and you don't hear about it in the UN or the world's press. But, when the Israelis build a security fence, you hear that the Israelis are attempting to turn Gaza into a prison cell, that they're trying to commit mass genocide against the Palestinians, etc., etc.

But, here we see the Egyptian government admit, 95% of Gazas food and supplies come through the Israeli border.

In other words, the Jews make sure the Gazans are fed and supplied, not the Arabs.

Why is that not reported ad nauseum?

It's almost as if the Arab people are attempting to commit genocide against the Palestinians, so that they can blame it on the Jews, isn't it?

Almost as if, indeed.

2 comments:

Lady-Light said...

Just discovered your blog. Kol haKavod!
Am still beside myself from this outrage of blame against Israel. Should've expected it, right? Mind if I appropriate some of your videos or posts (credit/links will be given)?

midnight rider said...

Lady-Light -- Welcome to the party! Link Away!