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Middle East: 'Freedom' flotilla to leave for Gaza in September
AKI ^ | 6/9/2010

Posted on 06/09/2010 7:49:25 AM PDT by markomalley

Rome, 8 June (AKI) - Twenty ships with more than 5,000 activists on board will leave for Gaza in September in a bid to deliver aid and break the three-year-old Israeli blockade, according to Mohammad Hannoun, president of the Italian Association of Palestinians in Italy.

"Freedom Flotilla II will leave around September," he said during a panel discussion at the Turkish Embassy in Rome. Six ships have already left, he added.

Nine activists were killed by Israeli soldiers last week when they stormed a ship in international waters that was flying the Turkish flag and directed toward Gaza with aid supplies.

On Saturday, Israelis seized another aid ship.

Israel in 2007 imposed a blockade on Gaza after militant Hamas took control. Hamas routinely shoots missiles into Israel and its settlements. Israel says it needs to seal the area to keep arms from entering.

Many critics of the blockade say Palestinians are unfairly suffering.

"For 35 months, the people of the Gaza Strip have lived under siege," said a representative of the Turkish Embassy during the panel discussion.

Hannoun said the Palestinian Solidarity Festival, to be held on Sunday in the northern Italian city of Milan, will raise funds for the flotilla.





TOPICS: Breaking News; Israel
KEYWORDS: antiisrael; antisemitism; judeophobia; terrorflotilla; terroristsupporters
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1 posted on 06/09/2010 7:49:25 AM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

Send them to the bottom.


2 posted on 06/09/2010 7:54:49 AM PDT by thethirddegree
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To: markomalley

5000...That’s a lot of shark bait.


3 posted on 06/09/2010 7:55:03 AM PDT by hal ogen ($10 (I think) amounts through the internet from all over the world.)
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To: markomalley

yalla ya


4 posted on 06/09/2010 7:55:45 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Meh, soccer. ItÂ’s just commie kickball.)
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To: markomalley

“Freedom Flotilla II”


These bastards sure how to play their words. “Freedom Flotilla”, my azz. Pure propaganda B S.


5 posted on 06/09/2010 7:58:13 AM PDT by unkus
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To: markomalley

Inspecting the cargo of the Turkish Flotilla the Isreali found it worthless with expired medicine, useless equipment, junk.


6 posted on 06/09/2010 8:01:51 AM PDT by AU72
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To: markomalley; All

So now they call Islamists and Nazi’s - ACTIVISTS???

See folks, the media is in on this “1984” Orwellian NWO agenda.

Up is down and right is left and good is bad.....the world is being made crazy so that people with values and common sense will become confused and bewildered and drop out.

(Study the Marxist Hegelian Dialectic)

It’s working.


7 posted on 06/09/2010 8:05:58 AM PDT by Halgr (Once a Marine, always a Marine - Semper Fi)
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To: markomalley
"Freedom Flotilla II will leave around September," he said during a panel discussion at the Turkish Embassy in Rome. Six ships have already left, he added.

The flotilla is leaving around September, but some ships have already left in early June.

These goofballs are just making it up as it comes out of their mouths.

8 posted on 06/09/2010 8:06:15 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: markomalley

Target practice!


9 posted on 06/09/2010 8:19:40 AM PDT by b4its2late (Why does a slight tax increase cost you $200 and a substantial tax cut save you 30 cents?)
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To: markomalley

“Hamas routinely shoots missiles into Israel and its settlements”

Note the attempt to delegitimatize all of Israel.

“Settlements” are a code word for Israeli homes in areas claimed by the Arabs.

The missiles Hamas fire at Israel do not target anyplace that even under that definition could be called a “settlement”.

They target Israeli cities within the 1967 armistice lines.


10 posted on 06/09/2010 8:28:02 AM PDT by HearMe
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To: markomalley

As I have written in a post to an earlier article, this testing of the blockade will stop if Israel begins sinking the ships after they are seized.

(Well, before is okay too, if necessary.)


11 posted on 06/09/2010 8:31:23 AM PDT by Captain Rhino (“Si vis pacem, para bellum” - if you want peace, prepare for war.)
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To: markomalley

These people aren’t concerned about “human rights”. They’re part of a World-wide political campaign against the Israeli nation. There are plenty of human rights abuses in the World that these people can complain about, but you will never hear them doing so. Their anti-Israel campaign is only a mechanism to give meaning to their barren lives.


12 posted on 06/09/2010 8:33:25 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Forty years of electing leftist fools to Congress have culminated in Nancy Pelosi.)
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To: markomalley

Bitter people living meaningless lives, who find consolation in picking Israel as the “bad” nation in the World.


13 posted on 06/09/2010 8:34:56 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Forty years of electing leftist fools to Congress have culminated in Nancy Pelosi.)
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To: markomalley

This would look like an opportunity for the intelligence services to sink those ships while they are still in their various ports.


14 posted on 06/09/2010 8:35:17 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: markomalley

Please God, just bring it and show these muzzies who’s the boss. I await your glorious arrival.


15 posted on 06/09/2010 8:37:22 AM PDT by Ancient Drive (DRINK COFFEE! - Do Stupid Things Faster with More Energy!)
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To: markomalley

I’ll predict now that this convoy will be a HUGE target to either Al-Queerda or Iran.

A few charges placed on the hull of several of the “Gaza aid” ships by ISLAMIC divers and later detonated in front of TV cameras as the flotilla is confronted by Israeli boats will force the volatile situation in the ME to explode. The Islamists would then be able to pretty much whatever they want and the world would not object.


16 posted on 06/09/2010 8:50:11 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (What's black and white and red all over? - OBAMA)
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To: markomalley
Why wait until September to die, savages?

Your virgins are waiting *now*!

Don't delay, sail today!

Our IDF Operators are standing by with a special delivery for your port side...


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

17 posted on 06/09/2010 9:03:58 AM PDT by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: Captain Rhino

> As I have written in a post to an earlier article,
> this testing of the blockade will stop if Israel
> begins sinking the ships after they are seized.
>
> (Well, before is okay too, if necessary.)

They could use sunken muzzie ships to build a big, honkin’ reef.


18 posted on 06/09/2010 9:50:34 AM PDT by SlayerOfBunnies (An Indian friend of mine wishes to remind everyone... Indians <> muslims)
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To: markomalley
Sounds like and invasion fleet..And target rich environment.
19 posted on 06/09/2010 9:59:40 AM PDT by crazydad
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To: The Comedian

Is that a Harpoon or Excocet?


20 posted on 06/09/2010 10:02:30 AM PDT by crazydad
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