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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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“Double Standards on Hamas Action Against Palestinians”
IPT News
June 2, 2010
SNIPPET: “Any doubt that this week’s “Freedom Flotilla” to Gaza was about politics – and not about providing aid to needy Palestinians in Gaza – was erased Wednesday when Hamas leaders refused to let the flotilla’s cargo in.
Among the reasons, Hamas doesn’t want to give Israel a public relations victory. Israel’s economic embargo on the Hamas government in Gaza – designed to keep weapons and materials for explosives out of the hands of terrorists who would attack it - is decried as unjust and illegal. But don’t expect global condemnation of Hamas’ decision to play politics with the material released as promised all along.”