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Israel intercepts Gaza blockade runners: 14 dead.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 31st, 2010 at 05:37 AM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

The Israelis are very, very serious about maintaining said blockade:

At least 14 people were killed and 50 were injured early Monday as the Israeli Navy took over the ships taking part in the aid sail to Gaza, Arab and Turkish media reported.

The IDF reported that four soldiers were injured during the takeover from live ammunition and knife stabbing. One of the troops was said to be in serious condition and three in light to moderate condition. The injured were evacuated to the Chaim Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer by helicopter.

According to an IDF source, “The sail’s participants were not innocent and used violence against the soldiers. They were waiting for the forces’ arrival.”

See also: Liberty Pundits, Israpundit, the New York Times, Hot Air Headlines, The Other McCain, and Pajamas Media.  It’s early in the morning for me and I’m only up because the eldest kid had bad dreams – as will I, once I go back to sleep – so I’ll add only this: violent resistance to a military seizure of your vessel will lead to violence in return, and PR disaster or no the IDF acted as a professional military force following the civilian policy of two sovereign governments (Egypt’s also maintaining the blockade).  But this is all the excuse that an Israel-hater needs to break diplomatic relations with that country.

Which means that we’re about to find out the true extent of this administration’s supposed antipathy to Israel.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to Moe Lane.

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  • Raven

    How long till the Israelis get tired of playing games?

  • bk

    “mission of peace” …

    sounds about as peaceful as …

    “religion of peace”

  • http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/ reaganiterepublicanresistance

    The IDF was met with small arms fire upon boarding the ships… who ignored REPEATED warnings to port at Tel Aviv.

    Hard to imagine what the Gaza activists were thinking, firing their pea-shooters at Israeli commandos armed to the teeth… thus the lopsided result.

    And the IDF says it was a highly orchestrated ambush, too…

    http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/2010/05/jerusalem-post-israeli-navy-vs-gaza.html

    Turkey getting to be a BIG problem… first the deal with Tehran, now THIS

  • cmate

    “”"Hard to imagine what the Gaza activists were thinking, firing their pea-shooters at Israeli commandos armed to the teeth? thus the lopsided result.”"”

    They were thinking they will get the kind of reporting they will get from the dhimmi media.

  • http://www.dcworksforus.com Kenny Solomon

    Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit has video linked from Hurriyet (NTV/CNN Turkey).

    http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/05/protesters-shouting-allahu-akbar-storm-israeli-consulate-in-turkey-video

    Hundreds of Islamic protesters in Istanbul stoned the Israeli consulate and screamed ?Allahu Akbar? as they tried to storm the building.

  • constitutionalconservative

    I wish we were as serious about protecting our borders as the Israelis are about protecting theirs.

  • mikerazar

    but our moronic politicians can’t risk displeasing their old college professors.

    Solemn prayers on behalf of the brave IDF soldiers May their wounds heal quickly.

  • http://www.hopeychangemas.com VizBiz

    Funny, she’s the first person I thought of when I read the story this early morning. I can’t wait to hear the trash that will be coming out of her mouth in the aftermath of this event. She’s such a classy woman, you know.

  • eastbaylarry

    seemed to say that the soliers were shot at with their own hand guns. Guns taken from the first to repel in from helicopters which were met with clubs and knives.
    I support what the Israelis did here, but we need to watch how this gets reported. The people on the ships were clearly aggressors, but it does not seem like they were equiped with their own firearms.
    Words like “…highly orchestrated ambush…” or refering to the incident as an assault on a relief mission are just intended to inflame emotions, and neither seems to really define what happened.

  • redneck_hippie

    Before reading your post, I thought “well, if Obama has been waiting for an excuse to walk away from Isreal, this is it.” Then I read your last paragraph (that’s what I’m confessing, I have a bad habit of doing that to see if I want to read the whole thing, bad, bad, bad). I find myself echoing your thoughts a lot. Probably we must have the same brand of common sense. Anybody paying attention may have thought the same. Obama is an Israelphobe. The world watches and waits.

  • izoneguy

    The so-called ?peace activists? from Gaza AKA Hamas, use violence against the Israeli Navy Soldiers. What the hell were ?peace activists? doing with guns, grenades, metal pipes? This was all to provoke. Israel was right in defending itself.

  • JamesSmith130

    in trying to appease Europeans and others on this matter.

    They should just invade the West Bank, Gaza Strip and the rest of the territory and just take it over. They should just kick the Palestinians out and tell them to find another place to go. Period.

    Actually, I think that the entire Middle East region should belong to Israel, it would be a heck of a lot easier than dealing with countries like Saudi Arabia.

  • JamesSmith130

    either stop this garbage or it is war. Attacking an embassy is an act of war.

  • JamesSmith130

    I’m sick of hearing the diarrhea constantly spewed out of her mouth.

  • izoneguy

    will end up at the bottom of the sea.
    I hope those peace activists know how to swim.

  • http://www.dcworksforus.com Kenny Solomon

    http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3896859,00.html

    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided to cut short his visit in Canada and move up his return to Israel, the Prime Minister’s Office informed Monday. This, following the violent clash during the IDF’s takeover of the Gaza aid flotilla on Sunday night.

    — — — — —

    PS……. Before he does the boogidee back to Israel, Bibi’s gonna meet with Canada’s PM.

    He was supposed to pop by DC and meet with O-I-Won and Rahm The Kapo.

  • cactusjack

    For anyone interested in a little religious- historical buttressing of the above thread of viewpoints, read: [KJV] Exodus 23:31. The word “river” here = Euphrates River. That’s one heckuva General Warranty Deed from a Grantor with an impeccable chain of title.

  • klondike

    He knows Rahm supports Israel’s (and our) enemies. I think Bibi knows he’s on his own until we get a new president. God help him, because it’s pretty clear our country under its current leadership won’t.

  • izoneguy

    with the Nation of Islam chief Louis Farrakhan.

    Look who else is tied to Nation of Islam …

    http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=160569

    “The Manchurian President: Barack Obama’s ties to communists, socialists and other anti-American extremists,” also ties David Axelrod, Obama’s top advisor, to a church that practices black liberation theology and is heavily linked to the Nation of Islam chief Louis Farrakhan.

    Although he is Jewish, Axelrod sits on the finance committee of St. Sabina, the Chicago Catholic parish that was led by controversial pastor Michael Pfleger, an outspoken Farrakhan supporter who hosted the Nation of Islam chief at his parish several times.

  • mbecker908

    Israel has her hands full on her borders and with Iran. They really don’t need to be rattling sabers over an embassy. They just need to reinforce some of them.

  • http://www.dcworksforus.com Kenny Solomon

    …….including The Secret Service and media pool getting into it with some of TNOI “peace lovers”.

    http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/05/president-obama-skips-arlington-to-spend-memorial-day-with-louis-farrakhan-amidst-nation-of-islam-th.html

    Read it all….. very long entry.

  • carryon

    It probably isn’t a good idea for Israel to threaten Turkey. For a Muslim country Turkey has been relatively sympathetic to and supportive of Israel. Israel needs more friends than just the US, and lord knows it has plenty of enemies. Turkey can play a positive role in moderating Middle East attitudes towards Israel.

    BR

  • izoneguy

    I met Pamela when she came to Texas. Very lovely & entergetic.
    We need about a million more Pamela’s to expose the dark veil of Islam.

  • Castor

    Some cruise missles launched from Israel?s dolphin class submarines aimed carefully at Natanz, Qom, Bandar Abbas ,their air bases ,Busheyr and the refinery for gasoline and diesel fuel will make anyone think twice before they try anything foolish especially if the cruise missles are armed with 2.5 kiloton nuclear warheads.
    They can?t afford to wait out the end of the Obama regime.There aren?t enough sands left in the hour glass.
    GO ISRAEL: NUKE IRAN NOW!

  • http://erickbrockway.wordpress.com/ Erick Brockway

    Of course, the left is hammering this on Twitter;

    “Shoq

    Nothing distracts from a dying ocean like our client state murdering innocents bringing food & medicine to #Gaza. #flotilla #oilSpill”

    Shocked that it would be “Shoq”. /snark

  • http://pocketchangeproductions.net/ anotherindyfilmguy

    They can document the cargo, shove into the worlds view any weapons/cash, stuff that can be made into weapons etc.

    Auction everything of including the ships (unless the IDF wants to convert/use them for something them else etc).

    Question the idiots on board for anything useful and make their lives miserable for awhile etc.

    Rub the noses of all the idiots/enemies condemning them for taking the blockade runners in any evidence found that contradicts the claims against Israel. (starting with the video about the takeover)

    If they sank them outright then the dead would be martyrs and the next group might have “escorts”. Oh-and the sunk ships might be navigational hazards to be dealt with… Oh-Oh and the fish man! Think of the fish that would die from the violence and the seeping fluids from the ships!

  • bk

    Maybe she wasn’t since today she was able to post a story about how the evil US is helping the even-more-evil Zionists commit these atrocities against all the peace-loving terrorists people.

  • bk
  • iftheirinofficevoteemout

    http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/05/31/close-up_footage_of_flotilla_passengers_attacking_israeli_soldiers.html

  • http://www.dcworksforus.com Kenny Solomon

    Well, well, well….. Whadda we gots ourselves heah, eh ?

    Courtesy of Jim Hoft at Gateway……..

    http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/05/figures-obamas-pal-bill-ayers-top-bundler-jodie-evans-are-top-activists-in-gaza-flotilla-group

    —————

    Follow the money………

    When asked for comment, TOTUS replied, ‘These aren’t the terrorists peace activists and money launderers I thought I knew. I must go play golf and think it over.’

  • conservativecrusade

    if both parties do not desire it. Problem with your assessment is that Turkey, and other countries, play peace maker in front of the world camera, yet supply arms, training, men, etc for those trying to destroy Israel. There is undeniable proof that Turkey has been a start point for weapons and other such things that head into Palestine and into the hand of the Israeli enemies.

    And Israel needs less friend like the US. They have been one of our best allies in the last 20 years and look how we ( not everyone just a country as a whole) are treating them now.

    There will never be peace in that region, it is impossible. The two years I spent there, I saw more than one peace agreement broken by rockets coming from Palestine and human suicide bombers. And even then Israel showed constraint. The muslim people despise the Jews in a way we can never understand. They believe that no Jew should be left alive, period. They will never honor any treaty and will, till the day our good Lord returns, be an enemy of Israel.

    Israel knows very well how to remain as safe as possible and how to keep their country intact. They also have one of the best, if not the best, intelligence groups in the world. They know who is aiding their enemies and who is not. When they attack, they do so for a reason and with all the needed proof.

  • jeffreywturner

    I wonder how many such statements you are going to see on the left-wing blogs today.

  • conservativecrusade

    and for those not filled with evil bias, we can see who the aggressors are. But I would bet everything I have, if it has not started already, the leftist in this country and those in this country who hate Israel, will use this video, twist its pictures, and claim what we are seeing is those “poor souls” defending against Israeli aggression. Israel and its people were the beginning of it all, and when the world turns against them, the end will start there too.

  • commenter

    let’s get this straight: Israel armed forces boarded a Turkish ship in international waters, 40 miles outside of Israel’s borders. Leave the aftermath alone for the moment — the simple act of boarding a vessel of a sovereign nation in international waters is an act of war.

    Furthermore, Turkey is a NATO member, which is protected by articles 5 and 6 against an aggression. Article 6 clearly spells out “a vessel” and “the Mediterrenean”. So, Israel committed an act of war against a NATO ally! What should the US, UK, and the rest of the NATO members do?

    My opinion: this is a terribly boneheaded move by IDF. They walked right into this PR trap — there was no way they would come out of this with any upside, and they managed to make the worst out a bad situation

    My other opinion: i don’t know why IDF could not wait until the ships entered the Israeli waters (or Gaza waters)! This negates any legitimacy in their arguments about self defense: what are they defending 40 miles out?

    Also, put yourself in the shoes of the ship’s crew and passengers (however loose the term passenger may be): what would you do if someone forcibly entered your house? your car? your ship? Israel has no jurisdiction over the waters or the ship, yet they land armed commandos from helicopters into a civilian ship! For all the bravado going on here, i don’t see anyone here welcoming an armed intruder into their personal space with open arms. So, any resistance by the ship’s crew and passengers is justified — IDF was too stupid not to wait until the ships entered its waters, and too violent to kill 16 people and injure over 50 (latest report i saw)

    Now, Turkey is threatening to send more ships, this time protected by the Turkish navy! Mind you, this was the one country in the Middle East that actually had a positive relationship with Israel. “Nuke ‘em all!” type empty rhetoric may sound good and manly, but it not the solution to any problem, especially this one. And blind support of Israel regardless of the legitimacy, reasonableness, and justness of its actions will only prolong the Middle East problem

  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    http://blog.camera.org/archives/2010/05/ny_times_flotilla_coverage_mis.html

    Even when the people doing the blockade are Jews.

    Now scram.

  • Jack_Savage

    I especially love the way leaders of both groups send others to die for them, then stand on the bodies to score points as if the dead actually meant something to them.

    Looks like we have Kent State all over again! Hot DOG! Neil Young is probably already working on the song – or maybe he got a heads up, and we’ll see it on ITunes later today.

  • mbecker908

    They should have sunk all of the blockade runners. And they should have let any “survivors” swim to shore.

  • http://www.dcworksforus.com Kenny Solomon

    Here’s just a few………………….

    =================

    Protests erupt across the world after Israeli raid.

    http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-world/protests-erupt-across-the-world-after-israeli-raid-20100601-wrnp.html

    Paris, London, Greece, Egypt, Jordan, Sweden, Morocco and more.

    =================

    Astute blogger is reporting:

    http://astuteblogger.blogspot.com/2010/05/jews-being-hunted-down-in-copenhagen.html

    JEWS BEING HUNTED DOWN IN COPENHAGEN

    http://ekstrabladet.dk/nationen/article1354751.ece

    It is being reported that in their bloodthirsty search for vengeance after the interception of the “aid flotilla” to Hamastan, any Jew is fair game in the predominantly Islamic neighborhoods of Copenhagen. Observant Jews are advised to keep a low profile and not go in public with a traditional head covering. The situation is getting dangerous…

    ==================

    Arab Nations, PA Demand UN Flotilla Probe.

    http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/137800

    Lebanon, which holds the rotating presidency of the United Nations Security Council, convened it Monday afternoon New York time on the heels of a diplomatic storm following the flotilla clash. Turkey and the Palestinian Authority also requested the Council to discuss the violence that has almost universally been blamed on Israel, despite documented evidence that armed Muslim extremists planned violent attacks on Israeli naval soldiers.

    ====================

    …and in a completely unrelated-to-anything story……….

    Remember the mosques in Pakistan where non-true-believer Muslims were attacked by true-believer 12th Imam types ?

    The peace-lovers tried to finish the job today by attacking the hospital where the wounded are being treated……..

    http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-world/gunmen-open-fire-at-pakistan-hospital-12-killed-doctor-20100601-wrnq.html

    Gunmen opened fire at a Pakistan hospital where victims of attacks on Ahmadi mosques were being treated late Monday, killing 12 people in a shootout with security forces, a doctor said.

    The attackers stormed the gate of Jinnah Hospital in the eastern city of Lahore, where at least 30 victims and one of the alleged attackers in Friday’s suicide, gun and grenade attack on the minority sect were being treated.

    ==================

    Fasten your seat belts…….. The whole M.E. zone is going hot.

  • Jack_Savage

    Bonehead statement #1:

    “i don?t know why IDF could not wait until the ships entered the Israeli waters (or Gaza waters)! This negates any legitimacy in their arguments about self defense: what are they defending 40 miles out?”

    Negated by boneheaded statement #2:

    “what would you do if someone forcibly entered your house? your car? your ship? ”

    Answer:

    Kick myself in the ass if I had an opportunity to handle the situation 40 miles from my house like the IDF just did, that’s what I would do.

    I wouldn’t board anything any more. I would haul out the torpedos and sink every damn one of the ships. What – people are going to be mad at Israel if they do that? Really?

  • Jack_Savage

    The aggessors – whether they are the SEIU, Hamas or Bill Ayers – have figured out that they have a green light, and his name is Barack Hussein Obama.

  • http://www.dcworksforus.com Kenny Solomon

    Two child-brides in Afghanistan flogged in public.

    http://www.theage.com.au/world/afghan-child-brides-lashed-as-officials-turn-a-blind-eye-20100531-wrap.html

    Two Afghan girls had every reason to expect the law would be on their side when a policeman at a checkpoint stopped the bus they were in.

    —- —- —- —-

    Read it all.

    I’m beyond unable to comment on this without getting seriously inciting.

    But I will ask one thing and I’ll be nice about it……… I forget his screen name, but y’all know who I mean……. The double-standard-laden supposedly moderate Muslim in that long thread the other day…… I want him to justify this…….. I dare ya, dude…….. double dare ya with whipped cream and a cherry on top.

    No Mr. Knight, not you…. I know you’d never even remotely accept this kind of thing.

  • ashland_avenue

    Carolyn Glick has the following:


    In the space of four days, Israel has suffered two massive defeats. A straight line runs between the anti-Israel resolution passed last Friday at the UN’s Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference and the Hamas flotilla. And in both cases, Israeli officials voiced “surprise,” at these defeats.

    It is here http://www.carolineglick.com/e/2010/05/ending-israels-losing-streak.php

  • ashland_avenue

    MJ Rosenberg.Senior Foreign Policy Fellow, Media Matters Action Network
    calls it Israel’s Kent State.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mj-rosenberg/obama-no-sucking-up-to-bi_b_594791.html

  • ashland_avenue

    Yeah, you have to wonder where they were when suicide bombers were killing civilians outside Israeli pizza parlors.

  • ashland_avenue

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrM0dAFsZ8k&feature=related

  • http://www.dcworksforus.com Kenny Solomon

    Here’s a link to one of the ‘completely objective’ news outlets in the peace-loving, freedom-preserving Republic Of Turkey………….

    www.worldbulletin.net

  • http://www.dcworksforus.com Kenny Solomon

    Jim Hoft links to The IDF’s website……..

    http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/05/peaceful-leftists-pro-hamas-thugs-beat-idf-soldiers-with-pipes-metal-rods-chairs

    The peaceful leftists and pro-Hamas thugs were caught on film beating the Israeli soldiers with pipes, metal rods and chairs.

    http://dover.idf.il/IDF/English/News/today/10/05/3101.htm

    also

    http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=48226

    May 31, 2010 ? 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.

  • http://www.dcworksforus.com Kenny Solomon

    Once again, Pamela Geller has the items…………..

    http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/05/reislamicized-turkey-turns-a-corner-attacks-israel.html

    Turkey Calls Israel State Terrorist BBC….. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/middle_east/10199824.stm

    Turkey has warned that its relationship with Israel has been severely damaged after at least nine people died when troops stormed ships trying to break the Gaza blockade.

    ===========

    Photos of the Tel Aviv rally and more news at the A-S link.

  • http://www.dcworksforus.com Kenny Solomon

    More than 800 people marched through the city centre and down Oxford Road, where the crowd surged at the BBC’s entrance, smashing its front doors.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/10199808.stm

    Talat Ali, 40, organizer from the Palestine Solidarity Campaign said: “This is a peaceful demonstration against the attack that has taken place on the Gaza flotilla. We are not happy with the way commanders boarded vessels and butchered people. We are not happy with the biased news given by the BBC.”

    A BBC spokesman said: “‘There was a protest outside the offices of BBC Manchester, however staff and visitors were safe and services were not interrupted.”

    Greater Manchester Police were unavailable for comment.

  • izoneguy

    hundreds of thousands of dead bodies.
    Bush was able to keep a lid on everything but Obama
    has blown the lid off and is letting this all happen.
    Obama needs crisis after crisis so we will forget the
    crisis of one month ago.

    It would really suck to be an Obama right now.

  • andisheh_nouraee

    Our rep. at the UN issued a statement implying the flotilla was provocative.

    http://usun.state.gov/briefing/statements/2010/142381.htm

    So much for the Obama Administration’s “supposed antipathy” to Israel.

  • Jack_Savage

    Israel is alone. Don’t act like you don’t know it, pal.

  • mbecker908

    Five days here and you post this crap. We don’t take kindly to apologists for our LittleEichmann-in-Chief. Here’s what the statement says…

    The only viable solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is an agreement, negotiated between the parties, that ends the occupation that began in 1967…

    My highlighting.

    And you can kiss my occupation. If you think for one second that anti-Semitic statement, from a virulently anti-Semitic Administration, headed by a pro-terrorist president implies anything other that “antipathy” your reading comprehension is zero.

    Barry & his boys would happily feed Israel to Louis Farrakhan’s best friends in a heartbeat.

  • mbecker908

    And now you’re solidly zero for two.

  • wannabeanncoulter

    International waters are international waters. The Israeli military used to have a much lighter touch handling these events. And the Special Forces were both incredibly stealthy and patient.

    I can’t believe that Israel’s sophisticated military and political elites could not have devised a plan in which (1) the flotilla was prevented from entering Israeli waters without injuries and deaths; and (2) an independent third-party offloaded the aid and delivered it to Gaza.

    It certainly would have saved a lot of bad PR and a ticked off Turkey. Oh, and couple of dead people.

  • acat

    this is long past due.

    If the U.S. is no longer going to be the “big stick” in the region, then Israel must do the best she can in our absence.

    Gloves off if needed.

    Mew

  • http://www.dcworksforus.com Kenny Solomon

    Lookie lookie here……. Jim Hoft put a nice piece together on money, people and non-reportage……

    http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/05/western-media-forgets-to-mention-that-gaza-flotilla-is-a-terror-linked-organization-video

    The International Humanitarian Fund (IHH), which plays a central role in organizing the Gaza Flotilla, is a Turkish humanitarian relief fund with a radical Islamic anti-Western orientation. The president of IHH (Bulent Yildirim) recruited ?Jihad warriors? and transferred firearms, and explosives to Al Qaeda and other Islamic terrorists organizations.

    Video and more at the link above.

    — — — — — —

    http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/05/the-oic-puppets-at-the-un-issue-statement-on-jihad-flotilla-condemning-the-jews-classic-islamic-anti.html

    United Nations, New York, 31 May 2010

    The President of the General Assembly, H.E. Dr. Ali Abdussalam Treki, joins international condemnation of the Israeli storming of the flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza, which has resulted in killing of more than 10 civilians and injuries to scores of others.

    The President of the General Assembly is deeply shocked over this inhuman and totally unacceptable aggression and use of force against humanitarian personnel from around the world, and which is a flagrant violation of all principles and rules of international law.

    — — — — —

    UN Gen. Assem. Pres. Dr. Treki.
    He’s not a doctor, he’s a doc…….. oh, wait.
    Phasors on stun !

    His brother is named DeathStar, because their mom wanted multiple series credits.

    Sorry…. I just had to.

    ‘Tain’t funny, but it’s funny….. Know what I mean ?

  • cactusjack

    One of the weird benefits of invading Iraq, which MSM never saw and Bush couldn’t claim for PR reasons, was that the end result of the conventional war in 2003 left us with at least four combat ready divisions of PO’d, mean & tough veterans, plus two airwings, plus at least two carrier battle groups, parked right smack in the middle of the MiddleEast bazaar – American power pushed in the face of a bunch of regimes every direction from there (including Iran) – in a region which respects only… power. Proabably one of the reasons Iran hasnt made a move yet. But with obama’s effective white flag out and flying, it gets dicey.

  • http://www.dcworksforus.com Kenny Solomon

    http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=177051

    Counterprotesters and angry passersby faced off against more than 100 left-wing demonstrators who had gathered in Jerusalem?s Paris Square on Monday night to rally against the IDF naval raid off the coast of Gaza and what they called ?the ongoing illegal blockade? of the Hamas-run territory.

    Members of the Hadash party, its Hebrew University student branch and activists who frequent the weekly Sheikh Jarrah protests in east Jerusalem turned out for the spontaneous rally around 7 p.m.

    —————————-

    Spontaneous ?

    I don’t think so. Homey don’t play that.

    Especially when a counter to ‘spontaneous’ is in the same article.

    —————————-

    ?Something terrible has happened and I feel provoked,? Jerusalem resident Yosefa Raz, who said she was an active Sheikh Jarrah protester, told the Post.

    ?Every week we protest in Sheikh Jarrah, which is out of the public eye,? Raz continued. ?And after what has happened, I think people felt that something more public needed to be done. We wanted to be seen and heard.?

    —————————-

    That’s a network……. kind of like the tea parties, yes ? I wonder if the left wing protesters will be called……… ahhhhhhhhh, never mind.

    The balloon is about to go up over there…….. and over here, it’ll be the crisis too good to waste, with whatshisname at 1600 taking his marching orders on international moves from Samantha Power and domestic stuff from Harold Koh.

    Now where did I put that big yellow star to pin on my clothes………..

  • http://www.dcworksforus.com Kenny Solomon

    http://www.jpost.com/HealthAndSci-Tech/InternetAndTechnology/Article.aspx?id=177059

    According to the latest firewall data, there was an approximately 50 percent jump in attempts to bypass it.

    ————-

    As of this post, Israel National News is down.

    Jerusalem Post is fighting it off.

    Ynet is running, but slower than normal.

  • http://www.dcworksforus.com Kenny Solomon

    http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-world/israel-holds-480-activists-expelling-48-report-20100601-wu5u.html

    Israel has detained 480 pro-Palestinian activists captured in its deadly commando raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla and will expel 48 others, public radio reported Tuesday.

    Those detained were being held at the southern Israeli prison of Ashdod, while the other 48 were being taken to Ben Gurion international airport to be sent back to their home countries, said the report.

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    ‘My people’ are once again playing nice in the sandbox.

  • http://www.dcworksforus.com Kenny Solomon

    http://media.theage.com.au/national/national-news/prime-minister-condemns-israeli-attack-1531876.html

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    PM Rudd must be still corked off about those passports and a nation doing something every other nation would do to protect itself…….. well, every nation now except ours.

  • http://www.dcworksforus.com Kenny Solomon

    http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9G2ECF81

    ‘Activists’ sending at least one more ship.

    Greta Berlin of the Free Gaza Movement, which organized the flotilla, said another cargo boat was off the coast of Italy en route to Gaza. A second boat carrying about three dozen passengers is expected to join it, Berlin said. She said the two boats would arrive in the region late this week or early next week.

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    http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9G2E1OO2

    Turkey’s PM demands Israel immediately end the “inhumane” blockade of Gaza.

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    http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9G2EIJO0

    Turkey PM calls Israeli raid on ships a massacre.

  • melmel

    Humanitarian organizations always have a leading spokesperson, the Flotilla has Greta Berlin. She wants to feed the hungry in Gaza, but not in North Korea. Her agenda is to destroy Capitalist Israel but not to disturb the dictatorship of Kim Jong 11. Expect Marxists and Jew haters to make Greta Berlin the worlds wealthiest humanitarian.

  • Raven

    All the stuff on board can be documented and/or recovered by submersible equipment and/or divers.
    The PR stuff has never done them any good anyway.
    Any “escorts” will get sunk too, and if the nation they belong to wants to make an issue of it, they will find themselves at war with Israel, their territory soon to be transferred to new ownership.

    Sinking the ships is a win-win for Israel.