Israel Attempts to Stop Flotilla as Mayhem Ensues
Editors Note: It has come to my knowledge that there could have been or most likely was, agent provocateurs aboard the Gaza Aid Flotilla.If this is the case then that would indicate that it was a planned attack. Provocateurs attack Israel forces in order to cause a greater rift between the Jewish and Muslim worlds as well potentially starting world war three? Seeing as The United States and Israel have had a hand in most “terrorist” organizations throughout the world, it is not entirely impossible that this is the case.
It is clear that Israeli forces DID attack the aid ship in question first. What is also clear is that “unarmed” civilians also attacked Israeli commandos when they landed on the Turkish ship. I was quick to 100% condemn Israel and most of my problems with Israeli remain justified. That being said, the people aboard the aid ship in question do share some of the blame.
Gaza Flotilla Changes Course
Jerusalem Post
The Gaza protest flotilla changed course to gain distance from the Israeli navy boats which had hailed them, demanded they identify themselves and warned them they would not be allowed to reach Gaza, an Al-Jazeera reporter with the flotilla said just past midnight on Monday. According to the report, the flotilla organizers wish any confrontation to occur during daylight hours rather than in the dark.
The Gaza protest flotilla ships were about 150 miles from Gaza late on Sunday night, they had been sighted by the Israeli navy and were in contact with them. Flotilla passengers had put on life vests and were on high alert, they reported via their live feed.
They were told by the navy they had two options: Either be boarded or follow the navy in to Ashdod harbor to be processed there. (Read Article)
Israeli Navy Approaches Aid Ships
The New York Times
JERUSALEM — The Israeli navy made its first contact with a flotilla carrying hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists and thousands of tons of supplies for Gaza shortly before midnight on Sunday, surprising the boats in international waters, according to activists on one vessel.
Israel has vowed not to let the flotilla reach the shores of Gaza, where the Islamic militant group Hamas holds sway, putting the activists and the Israelis on a high-profile public relations collision course. Named the Freedom Flotilla and led by the pro-Palestinian Free Gaza Movement and a Turkish organization, Insani Yardim Vakfi, the convoy of six cargo and passenger boats represents the most ambitious attempt yet to break Israel’s three-year blockade of the Palestinian coastal enclave.
Three Israeli navy missile boats left the Haifa naval base in northern Israel a few minutes after 9 p.m. local time, planning to intercept the flotilla.
After asking the captains of the boats to identify themselves, the navy told them they were approaching a blockaded area and asked them either to proceed to the Israeli port of Ashdod, north of Gaza, or to turn around and go back to their countries of origin.
The activists responded that they would continue toward their destination, Gaza.
Speaking by satellite phone from the Challenger 1 boat, which has foreign legislators and other high-profile figures on board, a Free Gaza Movement leader, Huwaida Arraf, said, “We communicated to them clearly that we are unarmed civilians. “WE ASKED THEM NOT TO USE VIOLENCE.”
Earlier Sunday, Ms. Arraf said the boats would keep trying to move forward “until they either disable our boats or jump on board.”
Flotilla organizers flotilla had said they expected to confront the Israelis on Monday morning, in an effort to avoid an encounter in the dark.
Israel insists that there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza, contrary to grim reports of the international organizations operating in the area. It says that the blockade is necessary because Hamas tries to smuggle weapons into the territory, sometimes by sea. But it has offered to transfer the 10,000 tons of aid on the ships from Ashdod to Gaza through official Israeli-controlled land crossings.
Editors Note: No Humanitarian Crisis? Innocent women and children are being killed everyday in a never ending battle between Israel and Hamas. Many peoples homes have been blown up and they are very little food and water.Despite the small section in the Gaza Strip that is run by the elites, most of the people within Gaza everyday is a struggle to survive. That’s not a humanitarian crisis? People of the world MUST stand up against this!
“If they were really interested in the well being of the people of Gaza,” said an Israeli government spokesman, Mark Regev, said in a statement, “they would have accepted the offers of Egypt or Israel to transfer humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza, along with the other 15 thousand tons sent every week. Instead they have chosen a cheap political stunt.”
The flotilla organizers dismissed the Israeli offer as “ridiculous and offensive.” In a statement over the weekend they said that the blockade and the “official channels” were “directly causing the humanitarian crisis in the first place.”
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I have never understand what is wrong with this people(jews), they talk about a holocaust of which they were the victims, and look what they do to other people,
I feel so disgusted at knowing that part of my taxes are used to help them.
If there is someone that doesn’t deserve any help are this Christ deniers, we the gentiles (as they calls us) are the ones providing them security, when they consider us less than nothing, maybe Hitler was right when he denominated them as Untermenschen (sub-humans), where is their Humanity?…
I just read some news papers from the gaza area and they are talking about 10 deads.
Now wait a minute, you are telling us the Palestinians are surrounded by the People of Israel, when in fact the tiny country of Israel is surrounded by huge tracts of Muslim and Arab lands. We know the Muslims are trained to hate, they teach it to their kids and they are taught in their schools, in their very textbooks that the world won’t be safe until ALL Jews are dead. Until ALL of Israel is turned into Arab lands. Go right ahead, see what the Bible says about that. What is self defense? Is it not legal?
In addition, read up on the Voice of the Martyrs, one Muslim was converted to Christianity after bombing their church buildings and was angry that the church members continued to meet in the bombed out building. This was in Nigeria. He was trained to hate and kill from childhood. But when he infiltrated the church, and accepted and loved, even revealing his Muslim motives, he converted.