A Flotilla Of Peace? Or A Flotilla Of Insurgency And Terrorists?

Israel is being excoriated for killing poor old people on a ship who only wanted to bring medical supplies and warm milk to Gaza for dying and emaciated Palestinian babies. Riots all around.

Again, if you want the truth on an issue, it is apparent you must peruse British media. From the UK Spectator:

And now we can see that the real purpose of this invasion -- backed by the Turkish Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH), a radical Islamic organization outlawed by Israel in 2008 for allegedly serving as a major component in Hamas’s global fund-raising machine -- was to incite a violent uprising in the Middle East and across the Islamic world. As I write, reports are coming in of Arab rioting in Jerusalem.

The notion – uncritically swallowed by the lazy, ignorant and bigoted BBC and other western media – that the flotilla organisers are ‘peace activists’ is simply ludicrous. This research by the Danish Institute for International Studies details the part played by the IHH in Islamist terror in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Chechnya. According to the French magistrate Jean-Louis Bruguiere testifying at the Seattle trial of would-be al Qaeda Millenium bomber Ahmed Ressamin, the IHH had played ‘[a]n important role’ in the al Qaeda Millenium bomb plot targeting Los Angeles airport. It was also involved in weapons trafficking, and played in addition a key role in galvanizing anti-Western sentiment among Turkish Muslims in the lead-up to the 2003 war in Iraq. ‘Peace activists’ these people most certainly are not.

And this flotilla was but the latest jihadi attack, deploying the Islamists’ signature strategy of violence and media manipulation. Here from MEMRI (via Just Journalism) is a clip showing the hysteria against Israel being whipped up on board before the ships set sail, with the chanting of intifada songs about ‘Khaybar’ – the iconic slaughter of Jews by Muslims in the 7^th century which is used as a rallying cry to kill the Jews today -- and threats of ‘martyrdom’. This was not merely a propaganda stunt, but a terrorist attack.

The Jerusalem Post reports here, and David Horowitz writes here. In this clip, "peaceful" people beat Israeli soldiers. Here, an Israeli soldier is being stabbed. This clip and this clip show violence against the IDF soldiers. Even Drudge reports the ship members were prepared and armed. Apparently the ship was comprised of the agile elderly.

Israel says: it waited too long to tell the real truth about the flotilla -- and, that next time, more force will be used. I completely support that notion. Activists say: there will be a next time, very soon.

Ah yes, the Evil Israelis -- who, by definition, must be evil because they want to keep their country safe and sovereign.

Ah yes, the hatred for Jews -- aided and abetted by the media from most nations, including the US -- goes on and on.

Allahu Akbar shout the American media! -- parroting the takbir.

BZ