Oh, boy, a new one (for me anyway) ......
Posted on 05/31/2010 10:45:15 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
JERUSALEM - Israel's Navy is ready to stop another aid ship headed to Gaza, a commander said on Tuesday, playing down the prospect of his men shying from confrontation after their bloody seizure of a Turkish vessel a day earlier.
Israel's Army Radio reported that the MV Rachel Corrie, a converted merchant ship, would reach Gazan waters by Wednesday.
A Marine lieutenant who was not named told Army Radio that he expected an easy takeover of the ship.
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Turkey says their navy will defend that ship.
The RACHEL CORRIE??
Israel should take it over in OPERATION CATERPILLAR
Good for them, never surrender!
Israel isn’t going to let an unsearched ship with tons of weapons and ammo into the Gaza Strip. Turkey must think they are dealing with Obama here, but Israel won’t be pushed around. Raising the stakes won’t work, Israel will call your bluff.
That should make for some interesting news.
Will Cynthia McKinney be on it?
This is very bizarre. Essentially, this is a civilian invasion of Israeli territory from the sea. I don´t think there has been such an event before.
I think the Israelis handled the first one badly because they should actually have been fiercer and more heavily armed from the start (paint ball guns, indeed!), and probably the Muslim leftie losers on the ship wouldn´t have tried anything. The reason they did this at night, btw, was because it was known that the ships wanted to stage a big publicity stunt by being stopped during the day, with their attendant press groupies surrounding them. But obviously, the radicals on board the boat were planning to do something like this all along.
And now they have the support of the Turkish government and military. Strange that Turkey would let itself be used like this, except that Turkey has become much more Islamist in recent years.
I hope they remember to bring the syrup.
He brought this on by his asinine foreign policy.
Operation Pancake?
Am I the only one that thinks Israel should drop armered Cat bulldozers from cargo planes to sink the ship?
Doesn’t anyone believe in poetry?
You aren’t the only one. It was the first thought to came to mind when I read this article, but you beat me too it.
Great minds think alike.
MSNBC Middle East reporting should be retitled “MSNBC-Al Jazeera”.
The thugs on the boat were armed as you can see in the video. If those were “sticks”, than I’m a monkey’s sister.
SOme reports said that those were iron bars.
Give me an iron bar that is about 4-5 ft long and I’ll kill you with three hits. No problem. These items were meant to kill, and why would a “humanitarian” ship have these items on them?
The whole thing was staged by the Turkish Hamas supporting group who has ties to Al Qaeda. You’ve got to read other posts are FR to find out the truth.
Never believe MSNBC on the Middle East. In fact, never believe MSNBC on anything without checking many other sources.
No wonder they are called “Marxist Shit-Nothing But Crap”.
Is the MV Rachel Corrie a flatboat with a pancake hull? Will the Israelis waffle at sinking her? IHOPe no one gets hurt...
Oh, boy, a new one (for me anyway) ......
Man, I had a Rachel Corrie “sighting” at a job site recently...but there’s a Quaker college here and they seem to blindly believe the myths of Rachel Corrie and have no interest in the facts.
The leftist Quakers here twist themselves into knots trying to rationalize their support for terrorism...it’s kinda sickening to behold at times.
Let's get the picture folks. The elimination of Israel is in full force now that Israel's enemies see the Obama Regime with weakened relations with Israel. With the perception that the United States is wavering in its alliance with Israel, the window of opportunity is open.
This is propoganda warfare disguised as a naval warfare.
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