Confession: Gaza flotilla participants PLANNED to attack Israel; wanted to martyr themselves for jihad

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posted at 7:27 pm on June 1, 2010 by Cassy Fiano
[ Israel ] My Newsreal co-blogger David Swindle has a rather illuminating video up today. The video aired on Hamas TV the day before the confrontation at sea, and in it, a university lecturer states that the people on board were going to use resistance against the zionists, and wanted to become martyrs.



According to Palestinian Media Watch, the man in the video is Dr. Abd Al-Fatah Shayyeq Naaman, lecturer in Shari’ah law at a university in Yemen.

So several days before the Gaza flotilla incident occured, the flotilla commander was saying that he was planning on a confrontation and that they were seeking martyrdom. It seems an easy conclusion to reach that the people aboard the flotilla knew exactly what they were doing, were counting on their boat being boarded, that they wanted to provoke the IDF soldiers into violence, and that there was nothing humanitarian about their mission at all.

Considering the multiple videos the IDF released showing how their soldiers were ambushed, you’d think this would be an open-shut case. Once you add in the apparent premeditation of violence, how could anyone continue to blame Israel for this? (That’s a rhetorical question, by the way.)

The IDF’s account of what happen continues to hold. They thought they were going to be facing peace activists bringing humanitarian aid. It couldn’t have been further from reality, and they were ambushed as soon as they set foot on board. The soldiers did everything they could to avoid using lethal force, but were given no choice.

Of course, the left will do anything they can to demonize Israel, so they will ignore and manipulate the facts of the situation. (Don’t call them anti-Semitic, though!) The fact is this: Israel’s actions were perfectly justified. The Gaza blockade was in effect, the flotilla knew this, and was intent on running the blockade after being told to turn back. IDF soldiers boarded the ship, and we all know what happened. What were they supposed to do? Let the ship run the blockade without knowing if there were weapons on board that could be smuggled to Palestinians and then used to kill innocent Israeli civilians? (And of course, several caches of weapons were found on board.) Once faced with violence on board, should they have just stood there and let themselves be slaughtered? Apparently, these are the only two options for Israelis from the left: let people smuggle whatever they want into Palestine, a country filled with backwards, bloodthirsty, homicidal maniacs intent on eradicating all Jews from the planet, or when confronted with violence, choose not to fight even in their own self-defense. (Again, don’t call them anti-Semitic though! They love Israel!) Because Israel chooses to not allow themselves to be annihilated, they are always the bad guys in the eyes of the left, no matter what. This case is just another example of that.

It won’t matter to them that the commander of the Gaza flotilla said ahead of time that he was going to use violence against the IDF. It won’t matter to them that all of the deaths on board that flotilla were in self-defense. The narrative is already set. Anything to benefit Palestine is inherently good, because Palestinians are leftist-certified victims. Anything Israel does to prevent the destruction of their country is bad. It’s despicable, and every single person out there demonizing Israel for this incident should be ashamed of themselves.

Israel did exactly the right thing in this situation. Even the UN Security Council didn’t explicitly condemn Israel, as shocking as that is. It’s a sad statement of the culture in this country when a significant number of people in the United States sympathize more with terrorist organizations like Hezbollah than they do with Israel, the only functioning democracy in the Middle East.