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The Freedom Flotilla Fraud
The Washington Times ^ | June 2, 2010 | Editorial
Posted on June 1, 2010 5:15:01 PM PDT by Abakumov
What was supposed to be a routine Israeli maritime boarding and inspection operation is turning into a propaganda victory for the Islamist terror group Hamas. The main lesson learned from the incident on the ship Mavi Marmara is: Don’t bring a paintball gun to a knife fight....
Backers of the illegal blockade-running effort portray themselves as humanitarians, but this claim is dubious. They had rejected an Israeli offer to send the supplies they were carrying to Gaza overland, joining the tons of supplies that flow to Gaza daily, but this would not have fulfilled the organizers’ goal of having a splashy, made-for-media event. So they went ahead with their voyage, fomented the incident, and international organizations, governments and the press fell for it, as expected.
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“Barak meets soldiers, praises operation against flotilla”
SNIPPET: “Defense minister visits commando base along with IDF, Navy chiefs to question soldiers who took part in Monday’s lethal raid on Gaza-bound ship. He lauds their determinations, says, ‘Israeli government thanks you’”
Roni Sofer
Published: 06.02.10, 11:30 / Israel News
SNIPPET: “Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Wednesday met with the commando unit that took part in the lethal raid on the Gaza flotilla, and thanked them in the name of the government for their work.
Nine people were killed in the raid and 41 others were wounded, including five commandos.”
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Terrorists at the helm
NY Post ^ | June 02, 2010 | Editorial
Posted on June 2, 2010 4:21:41 AM PDT by Scanian
Turkey’s Islamist prime minister, Tayyip Erdogan, knows better than most why Israel found it necessary to confront that phony “peace” flotilla off Gaza Monday.
Certainly he knows that the convoy was organized and manned by the Foundation for Human Rights & Humanitarian Relief — as bloody-handed a terrorist gang as exists in the Mideast.
Known by its Turkish acronym, IHH, the group has strong and enduring ties to Hamas and al Qaeda.
Indeed, the Turkish government itself raided IHH’s Istanbul office in 1997, uncovering guns, explosives, bomb-making manuals and jihadist flags — along with documents showing that its members had been dispatched to war zones like Afghanistan, Bosnia and Chechnya.
And a 2006 report by the Danish Institute for International Studies linked IHH to a foiled al Qaeda bombing plot against Los Angeles International Airport.
No surprise, then, that the one vessel whose passengers violently resisted boarding by Israeli commandos seems to have been the IHH flagship — and that most, if not all, of those who died in the ensuing struggle were IHH members.
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