About that guerilla flotilla


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Ron - Posted on 04 June 2010

Once in a while, something happens that makes people, governments, and media outlets show their true colors. This year, on Memorial Day, a group of 6 ships led by communists and terrorists tried to run Israel's arms blockade of Gaza. Because of all the rockets and mortar shells that have rained down on innocent Israelis since 2005, Israel will not allow any country or entity to ship goods directly to Gaza. All food and other aid is transferred to Gaza after being inspected first by Israel to eliminate an avenue of contraband. Ayers, Dohrn helped organize flotilla group | Washington Examiner» Media Matters Covers Up Obama Ties to Hamas Ally Jodie Evans - Big Government

According to international law, Israel is well within its rights to have the blockade and to intercept any ship that tries to run it. President Kennedy did that in 1962 to keep missiles and nuclear weapons from the Soviet Union away from Cuba. Turkey violated that law by sending those ships. The Israeli navy managed to peacefully divert 5 of the ships to the port of Ashdod so that the aid could be offloaded, searched, and transferred to Gaza. The sixth ship was a very different story since it was controlled by 50 paid terrorist mercenaries who carried no papers except for envelopes stuffed with money. Armed with paintball guns, IDF commandoes rappelled down ropes from a helicopter onto the deck of the large Turkish vessel and were immediately beaten with steal rods, bats, sledgehammers, chains, wrenches, stabbed with knives, and shot.

Efforts were made to lynch and kidnap some of the IDF soldiers. One soldier was thrown off a deck to another 30 feet below. After an hour of beatings, stabbings, and flash grenades, the soldiers had to resort to using their sidearms to subdue the crowd, resulting in the deaths of 9 terrorist combatants. IDF: Mercenaries to blame for violenceThe Vicious Babushka: IDF Uses Flotilla "Activists" Own Videos Against Them; Seething Erupts.

The instant reaction from the worldwide media and the UN was violently against Israel but the rhetoric toned down a bit after the IDF tapes surfaced, showing conclusively that the Russian and Arab media had lied their asses off about what happened. Israeli PM Netanyahu was due to meet with president Obama at the White House but Obama told Netanyahu: Go Home, Don't Explain From Here « Daily News.

President Obama, true to form, threw Israel under his speeding bus Thursday night on Larry King. He said the Israeli raid on the "peace" flotilla was "tragic and unnecessary." Yes, the loss of life was indeed tragic and unnecessary since it never would have happened had the flotilla not tried to run the legal blockade. Israel's actions, though, were completely necessary for the protection of the citizens of Israel. The primary function of any government is to protect its citizens. Given our president's record, he doesn't seem to understand that since he won't enforce federal law and protect our borders. His weak foreign policy emboldens our enemies, making us less safe at home. Anti-Israel sharks sniff O's weakness - NYPOST.com

President Obama may be the biggest threat to this country ever and we are now in one of the most dangerous times in history. When I saw how the media was treating Obama in January, 2008, alarm bells went off in my head because it seemed like Germany in 1932. Some have recently said if feels like 1936 Europe. That's when there was the second dip in the double-dip recession that was known as the Great Depression.

Now, two other ships, including the Rachel Corrie, are due in blockade waters soon. Netanyahu: No ships to reach Gaza - Israel News, Ynetnews

There's no need for ships to try to run the blockade since massive amounts of aid enters Gaza daily from Israel by truck. CIC Scene » Facts Beyond the Spin: Israel Delivers Massive Aid to Gaza. There is no siege. Israel's only interest is in seeing to it that illegal military contraband is kept out of that terrorist-run region. Even as Israel ships huge amounts of aid into Gaza daily, 4 rockets hit south - Israel News, Ynetnews.

While there wasn't any military contraband on the ships this time, the goal of the guerilla flotilla was to end the blockade so that ships could carry it next time. StandWithUs | Flotilla Facts



By the way, N. Korea torpedoed a S. Korean ship in international waters, sinking it and killing 46 people and the world and the media says next to nothing about the tragic incident. Nope, it just doesn't suit their purpose. Israel legally defends herself with a blockade, stops ships trying to run it, and kills a handful of terrorists aboard a ship illegally trying to run the blockade and is universally condemned for that action. Nice double standard, isn't it?









Every time anti-Semitism rears its ugly head, you should know why. It's the ugliness of Marxism, socialism, and communism along with Islamofascism that's at work to bring down Western civilization and the combination of freedom, democracy, and capitalism that goes with it. Remember what Marx said: to defeat capitalism, you have to first defeat the Jews. Israel is the only speck of freedom in a region of the world in a swath that spans Northern Africa across Asia. How dare Israel be a free, successful capitalist country amidst so many Muslim countries that aren't free?

Perhaps the next time a ship tries to run the blockade, the Israelis won't be armed with paintball guns.

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I never understood how Germany sanctioned Hitler until this week. It's been an eye opener.

The United Nations has lost its way. (I wonder how much of the money earmarked for Haiti is being sent elsewhere to do harm.)

 

 

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Imagine how scary it was for me to see how it could happen here when the media went gaga over Obama in early January, 2008 at the time of the Iowa caucus. He was saying nothing of any substance and the crowd went wild. It was nuts and frightening. No vetting, no questioning—nothing.

The UN lost its way a long time ago. They let terrorist countries be on the security council but never Israel.

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This is nothing like Germany.  This is plain old mass stupidity brought on by media.  I also think is has nothing to do with progressives.  It is historically blind people on all sides who fall for everything they read and see.

A better comparison to understand how Hitler happened would be the Obama campaign.  Not that he is a fascist or in anyway comparable but the campaign was a masterful show of the power of word and the even more powerful power of peer pressure.  Throw in hypnotic chanting and you have all the ingredients for mob rule.

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It was damn spooky. At least now, more people are wising up. Thank goodness.

DR Susan Rice is a progressive, and she is our ambassador to the UN. Why did she allow the UN to sanction the flotilla under its human rights umbrella? For that matter, she seems to agree with Ahmadinejad being placed on the global women's rights committee, because nothing came out from her office disagreeing with that fiasco.

(I've read that the Communist-rogressive Bill Ayers  and his Communist- Progressive wife are behind the idea of the flotilla; I am waiting to see if its true.) You can read about it here http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/world-mainmenu-26/asia-mainmenu-33/3701-the-truth-about-the-qpeacefulq-flotilla 

and here http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/ayers-dohrn-helped-organize-flotilla-group/blog-339949/

The Progressives have allowed the human rights bandwagon to be infiltrated by people who represent governments that are run by fascists, who limit freedoms and are extremely malevolent. Look to Iran, and see if you can come up with anything to refute what I've said. The human rights umbrella under Progressives includes far-Left crazies that breed hate and division. Under them, the term can be stretched to its limits to include Castro.

Obama is a progressive, and I'll let your eyes do my talking until you fully wake up.

Hampy, I don't know how many times I have to repeat this, the Democrat Party is dead. The Progressives have taken over, and it is a completely different ball game. You think Progressive Nancy Pelosi "has herded the cats". I, on the other hand, think she is mad with power (literally); she reminds me of the idiot Dennis Hestert.

Nothing the progressives have done since Obama took office has made America stronger or better. Have you been following the latest on Obamacare?

I love ya', Hampy, so I will not continue along these lines. We just disagree.

 

 

 

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The other day, RAR said I should have an epiphany. Well, I've had many in my life. My first political epiphany was in the summer of 2006 during the second Lebanon war when all the progressive Web sites I visited went berserk spewing hatred against Israel. The degree of hatred and anti-Semitism was a big surprise to me because I had an outmoded idea of what liberalism was. That's when I learned I was a classic liberal, not a progressive, not a leftist. I had absolutely nothing in common with those horrible people.

My second political epiphany was around January 3, 2008, when I saw the bizarre reaction to Obama's speeches by young Democrats and the media. How could people fall for that crap? It was scary weird. There was the changing of the DNC rules in the fall of 2007 and the stripping of delegates from Florida and Michigan. The final blow was the RBC meeting in DC on May 31, 2008, and for me, that was the last straw. The Democratic party died that day and along with it, my 40 years of allegiance.

Another moment of revelation or insight (epiphany) was the realization that conservatives were very decent on some issues like small government, fiscal responsibility, and issues like Israel. Note that I said conservatives, not Republicans, because some in the GOP are also progressives.

A progressive is basically a Marxist, communist or socialist with patience. The goal is socialism or communism but by systematic rather than radical means. They've wormed their way into education, the media and government so that step by step over the years we've been wending our way towards a society that's less free.

I started watching Fox news during the Lebanon war because it was the only news service that had decent coverage of it. CNN was OK after that but I couldn't watch it anymore during the 2008 campaign. Fox news was far more fair to Hillary than any other channel. Now, I can't stand to watch any of the network evening news programs.

Every Friday, Glenn Beck has Founders Fridays show and this time it was on Benjamin Franklin. Very informative.

We get a chance to fire Congress in 150 days. Can't wait.

I do not understand how Jews can support Progressives, what makes your people do it, Ron?  They are empowering an enemy for their own destruction.

Did you see this?

Anne Bayefsky from EYE on the UN published this article  at Forbes:

The Obama administration is pushing for an internationalized investigation of Israel’s recent effort to preserve its naval blockade of Hamas-run Gaza. In an extraordinary interference with the sovereignty of a democratic society and its right of self-defense, Secretary of State Hilary Clinton said Wednesday that the United States wants “a prompt, impartial, credible and transparent investigation. … We are open to different ways of assuring a credible investigation, including international participation … ”

 

Assistant Secretary of State Philip J. Crowley elaborated that the administration was demanding Israel produce “an investigation that is broadly viewed as credible by the international community.” That would be the same international community which has condemned Israel without the facts, and which has refused to walk back their spontaneous reactions, though the video evidence of armed “civilian” attackers and martyr-seeking “humanitarians” now stares them in the face.

 

Late Monday night President Obama agreed to a unanimous U.N. Security Council presidential statement, which demanded “a prompt, impartial, credible and transparent investigation conforming to international standards.” At the U.N. everyone knew that such language meant a new U.N.-sponsored investigation mirroring the infamous U.N. Goldstone Report on the 2009 Gaza war. That report was produced by four investigators who had all publicly declared Israel guilty before they began, and who operated under a mandate that incorporated a guilty verdict from the outset.

 

Right on cue–and encouraged by the Security Council statement–on Wednesday the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) adopted a resolution deciding “to dispatch an independent international fact-finding mission to investigate violations of international law, including humanitarian and human rights law, resulting from the Israeli attacks on the flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian assistance.”

 

In other words, once again the U.N. created a fact-finding mission to determine the facts it had already found. Among other things, the resolution states: “the Human Rights Council … condemns in the strongest terms the outrageous attack by the Israeli forces.”

 

While the Obama administration voted against the HRC resolution, it did not use its membership on the council to impede in any way the numerous breaches in procedure which made the debate and the introduction of the resolution to condemn Israel possible in the first place. Never in its history had the council held what was uniquely labeled an “urgent debate” on any human rights issue at all, anywhere.

 

 

 

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…that half the Jews who supported Obama in 2008 no longer support him and wouldn't vote for him a second time. Far too many Jews are too far left to do anything that makes sense.

If anyone wants to seriously investigate what happened, just review the videos and the statements from those aboard the ship, take a look at the weapons stockpile, and read the international law that makes what Israel did perfectly legal. Maybe these links would help (due to the number of links, I didn't have time to make them open in a new window so please use the back button to come back for more):

The Terror Finance Flotilla | The Weekly Standard

UPDATED FACTS: The Gaza Flotilla and the Maritime Blockade of Gaza

CAMERA Snapshots: More Footage of Passenger Violence on Ship Mavi Marmara

Right Truth: Arabs Try to Lynch Israeli Paint-Gun Commandos – Myths and Facts about the Israeli Naval Operation

Flotilla ‘Aid’ to Gaza Includes Expired Medicines, Old Equipment - Defense/Middle East - Israel News - Israel National News

Probe reveals flotilla lynchers have ties to Global Jihad - Israel News, Ynetnews

It’s a bird; it’s a plane; no….. it’s the Muslim Brotherhood flotilla

Krauthammer's Take - NRO Staff - The Corner on National Review Online

Turkish Jihadists Attack Israel | FrontPage Magazine

FOXNews.com - Obama Abandons Israel to UN Feeding Frenzy

International Humanitarian Law - San Remo Manual 1994

IDF: Global Jihad links on flotilla

Israel Ambassador: "Responsibility rests solely with Hamas" for Jihad Flotilla incident - Jihad Watch

IDF: Hamas stops flotilla aid delivered by israel - CNN.com

Pajamas Media » As Reality Unfolds About Flotilla, World Media Continues with Fictional Narrative