'(T)he Israeli blockade and closures over the past two years had pushed the Palestinian economy into such a stage of ‘de-development’ that as much as US $2.4 billion. had been drained out of the economy of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip
Are you aware of the reasons for the ship? If you do and you still try and defend what happened,you're a scary person.
do you understand why the blockade exists in the first place? it is to stop Hamas from smuggling in weapons that are used in their fight against Israel.
the reasons for this ship? don't try to pretend that these ships were peaceful activists just trying to bring in humanitarian supplies. This was an intentional attempt to provoke the Israelis and give them another public relations disaster. i'm sure that you are aware that the ships members had connections to Hamas.
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Prominent among the coalition organizations participating in the aid flotilla scheduled to arrive in the Gaza Strip in the coming days is the Turkish IHH (Insani Yardim Vakfi, IHH, “humanitarian relief fund”). It is a radical Islamic organization which was established in 1992 and formally registered in Istanbul in 1995. It is headed by Bülent Yildirim. …
In practice, besides its legitimate humanitarian activities, IHH supports radical Islamic terrorist networks. Inrecent years it has prominently supported Hamas (through the Union of Good). In addition, the ITIC has reliable information that in the past IHH provided logistical support and funding to global jihad networks."
The ships had every intention of trying to go through the blockade as you will see here:
also, as it relates to you saying they had the right to defend themselves. The Israelis came onto the ship and were immediately attacked with weapons. how is it self defense on the ships part when the Israelis hadn't done anything before they were attacked. again i'll give you evidence of this.
why do you believe they are peaceful when they had connections to Hamas, a terrorist organization and that the peaceful activists were armed with weapons and attacked the IDF soldiers. how is that peaceful?
Not it's not,you can link all the videos in the world and try and sugar coat it all the way to the candy shop but the facts remain and what happened was inexcusable,barbaric and horrific. 19 people where killed and dozens injured on an AID SHIP. End off.
Not it's not,you can link all the videos in the world and try and sugar coat it all the way to the candy shop but the facts remain and what happened was inexcusable,barbaric and horrific. 19 people where killed and dozens injured on an AID SHIP. End off.
they were killed because they ignored warnings and requests to work with Israel to import the humanitarian aid. this was shown by my last video.
I then gave you video of them beating down and violently attacking the IDF soldiers who were forced to board the ships after the ships refused to abide by Israel's requests and instead proceeded to try to head towards the blockade. the IDF troops who first boarded the ships were only armed with paintball guns and violently beaten. it was at this point that Israeli commandos had no choice but to strike back. had they just been peaceful activists who just wanted to get their humanitarian supplies to Gaza, they would have worked with the Israelis initial request.
I'm giving evidence here and all you are saying is no you are wrong. it's obvious that your anti-israel bias is too strong to look at the factual evidence of this incident.
they were killed] because they ignored warnings and requests to work with Israel to import the humanitarian aid. this was shown by my last video.
I then gave you video of them beating down and violently attacking the IDF soldiers who were forced to board the ships after the ships refused to abide by Israel's requests and instead proceeded to try to head towards the blockade. the IDF troops who first boarded the ships were only armed with paintball guns and violently beaten. it was at this point that Israeli commandos had no choice but to strike back. had they just been peaceful activists who just wanted to get their humanitarian supplies to Gaza, they would have worked with the Israelis initial request.
I'm giving evidence here and all you are saying is no you are wrong. it's obvious that your anti-israel bias is too strong to look at the factual evidence of this incident.
At least you admit it was an aid ship.But what a way to die huh?Killed for bringing aid to a country which desperately needs it. Makes you wonder about the world.
Don't put words in my mouth. And I already told you the factual evidence, 19 killed, dozens injured on an aid ship.
At least you admit it was an aid ship.But what a way to die huh?Killed for bringing aid to a country which desperately needs it. Makes you wonder about the world.
Don't put words in my mouth. And I already told you the factual evidence, 19 killed, dozens injured on an aid ship.
Note they all describe it as an aid ship But keep telling yourself they where in the wrong for trying to help.
you are giving me news stories of the end result. I gave you visuals of the events, both before and during, which actually show the Israelis trying to assist in helping. Requests were ignored.
if you really think this was for the sole purpose of delivering aid to gaza, then you are clearly naive. don't you think it would be counterproductive to have members of the ships who had Hamas connections? heck, I even showed you a video of the women claiming that the end result would be either martyrdom or getting to Gaza. doesn't sound like a normal AID delivery. it sounds like they knew a confrontation was going to take place.
this was planned to provoke the Israelis plain and simple. because they knew that no matter how justified the Israelis were in their self-defense, that there would be outrage against Israel no matter what by people like you who are clearly anti-israel in every situation despite of any factual evidence which might aquit the Israelis.
When will the agony end? When Hamas and other Palestinians renounce their sworn goal of destroying the Jewish state and agree to live in peace and prosperity with their Israeli neighbors. No blockade of Gaza will be needed then.
This article is idiotic.
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The media left unasked some obvious questions, like: If Israel did have a reason to search a civilian vessel in international waters, why didn't it ask permission to come aboard, and do so during the daytime, so as not to appear as a violent threat? Why did it instead order a commando raid in the middle of the night?
Another question for the media: If a U.S. vessel in international waters was boarded by a team of Iranian commandos in the middle of the night, wouldn't you expect the passengers to see the raid as a violent act and to attempt to defend themselves as best they could?
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IF ISRAEL is especially concerned about slandering the peace activists from the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, it isn't only to justify the murder of some of them, but also to distract attention from their mission--to break the no-less-deadly Israeli siege of Gaza.
Palestinians and those struggling in solidarity for Palestinian rights have for years referred to Israeli-occupied Gaza as an "open-air prison." But that phrase has taken on new meaning with the siege imposed by Israel in 2007. Gaza City resident and left-wing activist Haidar Eid says that what is happening to the 1.5 million residents of occupied Gaza is a "massacre in slow motion."
The blockade, carried out with the cooperation and support of the U.S. government, is punishment for the victory of the Islamist Hamas party in 2006 elections for the Palestinian legislative assembly--and an attempt to further divide Gaza, where Hamas is strongest, from Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Basically, Israel's strategy has been to tighten the noose until Palestinians cry "uncle."
The Israeli government ritually claims that there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza, but even its supporters in Washington can't go along with this fraud--the evidence is too overwhelming.
To take the latest example, just days before the assault on the flotilla, Amnesty International released its annual report on human rights, which had this to say about Gaza under the siege:
Mass unemployment, extreme poverty, food insecurity and food price rises caused by shortages left four out of five Gazans dependent on humanitarian aid. The scope of the blockade and statements made by Israeli officials about its purpose showed that it was being imposed as a form of collective punishment of Gazans, a flagrant violation of international law.
Former President Jimmy Carter was harsher still in a speech at American University in Cairo in 2008:
Palestinians in Gaza are being actually "starved to death," receiving fewer calories per day than people in the poorest parts of Africa. This is an atrocity that is being perpetrated as punishment on the people in Gaza. It is a crime...an abomination that this is allowed to go on. Tragically, the international community at large ignores the cries for help, while the citizens of Gaza are treated more like animals than human beings.
Israel claims that the blockade is limited to so-called "security" items that could be used to carry out violence against Israelis. But when Sen. John Kerry visited Gaza in 2009, he and other members "of the highest-ranking American delegation to tour Gaza were shocked to discover that the Israeli blockade against the Hamas-ruled territory included such food staples as lentils, macaroni and tomato paste," reported the Independent.
As of mid-May, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights reported that Gaza health facilities had run out of 110 types of medication and 123 types of medical supplies as a result of Israel's blockade--and within three months would be without 76 more types of medication and 60 types of medical supplies.
When the siege was first imposed, Dov Weisglass, an adviser to then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, commented coldly: "The idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger."
This "diet" has been catastrophic for the people of Gaza, as Jamie Stern-Weiner documented at the New Left Project Web site.
-- As of November 2009, 60 percent of people in Gaza were "food insecure," according to the UN's World Food Program and Food and Agriculture Organization, and another 17 percent were considered vulnerable to food insecurity.
-- Among those at risk for hunger, two-thirds are children, and they are suffering rising levels of malnutrition and stunted growth. The level of anemia in infants aged nine to 12 months was 65.5 percent, according to a World Health Organization assessment.
-- According to a survey by the UN Relief and Works Agency, "[T]he number of Palestine refugees completely unable to secure access to food and lacking the means to purchase even the most basic items, such as soap, school stationary and safe drinking water...has tripled since the imposition of the blockade in June 2007."
-- Because of the blockade, there has been almost no reconstruction of homes and buildings destroyed in the 2008-09 Israeli onslaught against Gaza. According to the UN Development Program, one year after the assault ended, at least 20,000 Palestinians were still displaced from the nearly 3,500 homes destroyed during Operation Cast Lead. Only 17.5 percent of schools and educational facilities had been rebuilt.
These are just some of the consequences of Israel's slow strangulation of Gaza--yet the Israeli lie machine is working overtime to demonize the international activists who were part of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla for their supposed violence.
The truth is obvious: The sticks and other improvised weapons that activists used to defend themselves from a commando assault could never do a fraction of the damage that Israel does every day with its siege of Gaza.
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