Israeli forces attack aid Gaza aid flotilla, kill activists

[shuraimfan4lyf]

Israel says it has released all of the foreigners who were on the ship except for a few who remain in Israeli hospitals. Israeli officials said all humanitarian aid on the ship may enter Gaza, but Israel will not allow cement or other building materials in. The activists say the cement is meant to rebuild homes Israel destroyed in Gaza, but Israel says Hamas could use the cement to build bunkers.
http://www.aolnews.com/world/article...ttack/19501699

of course written by a gradstein, like her closing statement .

I knew they would do that..I just knew it! Like I said they would not let the building materials go to Ghazza because they want Ghazza to be some unknown third world city. Alla7omma a'izzal islama wal muslimeen, Alla7umma a'izzal-Islama wal-Muslimeen, wa adhillash-shirka wal-Mushrikeen, wa dammir a'daa'ad-deen, Alla7omma ansur ikhwana fee filisteen, Alla7omma ansur ikhwana fee filisteen, Alla7umma ansur mujahideena fee sabeeli, Alla7umma ansur mujahideena fee sabeeli..Laa illaha Illa anta subhanak inna kunna minath thalimeen.

 

[جوري]

ameen ameen ameen ya rabb..
Allhouma unsar ikhwanona almostad3feen fi mashari al'ard wa maghribha.. wa dammer alkufar walmoshrkeen wa a3onihim..

 

[almahdali]

I have a friend who lives in Israel right now and I still consider him as a brother, instead he's also from the ahlul-bayt family but he has to become a Jews due to his father's family negligence and he fled away from our country to Israel, I feel so ashamed to G-d that our brother had to undergo a life like that and he's still young. now he has to serve IDF. I hope he quickly finished up the IDF service and just return to the US if not returning back to our country, I feel bad for him and his life is quite.

What Israel did to the people on the ships are so cruel as they are actually unarmed, I also heard from Kol Israel radio that the MP Haneen Zo'abi will have to face the consequence because telling the world on what happened to the world and they also had planned to kill Sheikh Raed Salaah, may G-d bless the Muslim in Israel and keep them safe too, not only those in Gaza Strip and West Bank :'(

 

[Supreme]

Turkey has held funerals for nine activists killed in Israel's raid on a Gaza aid flotilla amid emotional scenes.

The bodies were flown from Israel to Istanbul, along with more than 450 activists, to a heroes' welcome.

Israel has said there is no need for an international inquiry into the incident, insisting its own will meet the "highest international standards".

The UN Human Rights Council (HRC) voted earlier to set up an investigation.

US President Barack Obama has described the situation as "tragic".

But in an interview on CNN, to be aired later, he also says Israel does have "legitimate security concerns" in Gaza.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/10226151.stm

A sad day for Turkey, having to mourn the dead of this brutal and fatal incident.

 

[marwen]

Obama described this week's flotilla incident, in which nine activists were killed and dozens, including Israeli soldiers, were wounded, as a "tragic situation" but also said it needed to be used as an opportunity to advance the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, CNN said.

U.S. President Barack Obama was quoted in a television interview on Thursday as saying the deadly Gaza flotilla incident was "tragic," but expressing hope it could somehow provide an opening to boost Middle East peace efforts.
...
he said Israel "has legitimate security concerns" about the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, the network said on its website. But he also said Israel's blockade of Gaza "is preventing people" from pursuing economic opportunities,"
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The Obama administration has taken a relatively cautious line while Israel faces international condemnation over the deaths of nine pro-Palestinian activists, including a 19-year-old American, aboard a ship carrying supplies to Gaza on Monday.
U.S. officials have said the incident underscores the need to make progress in indirect U.S.-brokered peace talks that began last month and have failed so far to make much headway. But analysts and many people in the region believe the incident is more likely to undermine fledgling peace moves.

source..

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As usual Obama is convinced that everything can be repaired just by making speech, speech and speech. "YES WE CAN", you remember?

 

[shuraimfan4lyf]

Meh, I dont give a jack about what the U.S. Presidents say. Bunch of puppets who cant say or do a thing on their own...To me it really does not matter of what U.S. is going to do about Israel. Israel gets aid from them and all that, but they are slowly trying to deteriorate from U.S. support. Remember when Hillary said thing or two against Israel about the settlements?? What did Israel do? did they say "Yes Mam, we will stop this right now" or was it the opposite. I am sure she got summoned by Israeli lobby for blurting out such things. In the end, its all going to end up in a massive war, Muslims vs. Zionists, in which Muslims will prevail by the Help of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. insha'Allah.

 

[Nájlá]

Obama needs to get a life! What change has he provided us with? Allah almust'aan.... I don't care about his boring speeches.

I knew they would do that..I just knew it! Like I said they would not let the building materials go to Ghazza because they want Ghazza to be some unknown third world city. Alla7omma a'izzal islama wal muslimeen, Alla7umma a'izzal-Islama wal-Muslimeen, wa adhillash-shirka wal-Mushrikeen, wa dammir a'daa'ad-deen, Alla7omma ansur ikhwana fee filisteen, Alla7omma ansur ikhwana fee filisteen, Alla7umma ansur mujahideena fee sabeeli, Alla7umma ansur mujahideena fee sabeeli..Laa illaha Illa anta subhanak inna kunna minath thalimeen.

ameen ameen ameen ya rabb..
Allhouma unsar ikhwanona almostad3feen fi mashari al'ard wa maghribha.. wa dammer alkufar walmoshrkeen wa a3onihim..

Allahumaa Aameen^^^

I wish i was in one of them ships imsad

 

[islamirama]

Glenn Greenwald Destroys MSNBC's Israeli lapdog Apologist


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j3XH...layer_embedded



It is a Crime to attack a ship on International Waters. Israel Doesn't own it. Due to this blockade, 60% of the Children in Gaza have anemia, the entire Palestine Economy has collapsed.

When the blockade was first imposed, the Israel Prime Minister's top aid - The purpose is to put the Palestine people on Diet.

Here's what Glenn had to say about his appearance..

I was just on MSNBC talking about Israel, the Gaza blockade and the flotilla attack with Eliot Spitzer, who was guest-hosting for Dylan Ratigan. It was a rather contentious discussion, though quite illustrative of how Israel is (and is not) typically discussed on American television, so I'm posting the whole 8-minute segment below. Two points: (1) before I was on, Spitzer had on an Israel-defending law professor, followed by Netanyahu's former Chief of Staff, and both of them (along with Spitzer) were spewing pure Israeli propaganda in uninterrupted and unchallenged fashion; at the end of Spitzer's discussions with them, he asked them to "stick around just in case," and once I was left, he brought at least one of them back on to respond to what I said without challenge; (2) literally 90 seconds before my segment was about to begin, the new cam and sound system I just acquired stopped working, forcing me to unplug everything and use only my laptop cam and mic, which caused the technical aspects to be less than ideal (though still perfectly workable)

 

[marwen]

Meh, I dont give a jack about what the U.S. Presidents say. Bunch of puppets who cant say or do a thing on their own...To me it really does not matter of what U.S. is going to do about Israel. Israel gets aid from them and all that, but they are slowly trying to deteriorate from U.S. support. Remember when Hillary said thing or two against Israel about the settlements?? What did Israel do? did they say "Yes Mam, we will stop this right now" or was it the opposite. I am sure she got summoned by Israeli lobby for blurting out such things. In the end, its all going to end up in a massive war, Muslims vs. Zionists, in which Muslims will prevail by the Help of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. insha'Allah.

Ameen !

If Israel decided one day to bomb the US, they will still support israel. It's really disturbing how the US strongly want to be always Israel's Dog.

 

[astrogirl]

isreal has become a rouge state with the backing of the us, it is a bigger devil then the U.S.

remember that assassination in dubai using canadian passports, canadians who went to isreal and were asked if they could use their passport, i heared of one guy who said he is wanted for a murder he didnt' commit.

isreal has attacked lebanon several times

isreal has nuclear weapons, and when it is condemned for having them they point their fingers straight at iran.

and now they attack a ship of unarmed civilians and cry victim when their disgusting behaviour disgusts the rest of the world

this is an article from colorlines, an american webmag that deals with issues of race and color.

http://colorlines.com/article.php?ID=727

and another one i just found from the huffington post, duel american/turkish citizen who was shot four times in the head at close range.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/03/furkan-dogan-us-citizen-k_n_599173.html

i personally don't care what barack has to say, he is being spinless, in the end this will bit him in the butt.

 

[sister herb]

Putting Names To Faces
Lawrence of Cyberia



June 3, 2010

A brief introduction to the nine Turkish people shot dead on 31 May 2010, by Israeli soldiers who attacked the Turkish vessel M.V. Mavi Marmara, as it attempted to transport humanitarian aid to the people of the Gaza Strip.

1. Ibrahim Bilgen, 61, an electrical engineer from Siirt. Member of the Chamber of Electrical Engineers of Turkey. Married with 6 children.

2. Ali Haydar Bengi, 39, from Diyarbakir. Graduate of Al-Azhar University, Cairo (Department of Arabic literature). Married with 4 children.

3. Cevdet Kiliçlar, 38, from Kayseri. Originally a journalist, later an aid worker with the Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH). Married with two children. Participating in an IHH African relief project.

4. Çetin Topçuoglu, 54, from Adana. Former amateur soccer player and taekwondo champion, who coached Turkey's national taekwondo team. Married with one son.

5. Necdet Yildirim, 32, an IHH aid worker from Malatya. Married with a three-year-old daughter.

6. Fahri Yaldiz, 43, a firefighter who worked for the Municipality of Adiyaman. Married with four children.

7. Cengiz Songür, 47, from Izmir. Married with seven children.

8. Cengiz Akyüz, 41, from Iskenderun. Married with children aged 14, 12 and nine.

9. Furkan Dogan, 19, student at Kayseri High School; planned to become a doctor. Son of Dr. Ahmet Dogan, Assoc Prof at Erciyes University. A Turkish-American dual national, with two siblings.

http://lawrenceofcyberia.blogs.com/news/2010/06/putting-names-to-faces.html

http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m66629&hd=&size=1&l=e

 

[syilla]

If you had a gun, wouldn't you want to blow his head off? Its the same old **** every time! Lies, lies and **** more lies!

Turkey Zindabad!

ya Allah........ i feel like throwing shoes to the monitorrrrr :hmm:

 

[Bittersteel]

This has got to be the most pathetic thing ever done by the Israelis.Hats off to all those activists,I don't care the western people say,what they did was right and simply because of the fact that it WAS right.

 

[sister herb]

By the international laws of shipping those ships were sailing under flag of Turkey at the international waters and by this reason they were counted as territory of Turkey nation. Passangers were full rights to defend themselves agains kidnappers. Any kind of reason what zionists try to give as "reasons" are just excuses why they (and only they) have right to broke law.

 

[Ramadhan]

9. Furkan Dogan, 19, student at Kayseri High School; planned to become a doctor. Son of Dr. Ahmet Dogan, Assoc Prof at Erciyes University. A Turkish-American dual national, with two siblings.

http://lawrenceofcyberia.blogs.com/news/2010/06/putting-names-to-faces.html

http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m66629&hd=&size=1&l=e

It seems the US governments does not mind that one of their citizens was killed in barabaric way by the israelis (it was reported that he was shot four times in his head at close range).

 

[Supreme]

It seems the US governments does not mind that one of their citizens was killed in barabaric way by the israelis (it was reported that he was shot four times in his head at close range).

Y'know, I found that strange, too. Does the US only react to the ill treatment of its nationals at non-Israeli hands? I only hope that if he was a British citizen, the British government would be giving Jerusalem a lot of hassle right now.

 

[marwen]

Upcoming Canada wide demonstrations


Please forward any scheduled world wide demonstrations to [email protected] or visit gazafreedommarch.org for a full list of demonstrations.


DEMONSTRATIONS
Note that the following activities are not organized by CJPME, but by local solidarity groups active in the specified cities as noted. Cities are listed in alphabetical order.


Halifax, NS

Date: Friday, June 4, 2010
Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Location: Maritime Mall (Aliant Bldg., where the passport office is)
Departure: Barrington Street and Spring Garden Road

Date: Saturday, June 5, 2010
Time: 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Location: Victoria Park
Departure: Spring Garden Road at South Park St.
Organizers: Ad Hoc Committee to Defend Palestine
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Hamilton, ON

Date: Friday, June 4, 2010
Time: 5:00 p.m.
Location: Federal Government Building in Hamilton
Departure: 55 Bay St. North
Organizers: Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War
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London, ON

Date: Friday, June 4, 2010
Time: 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Location: Victoria Park
Departure: Central & Richmond
Organizers: Canadian Palestinian Association, London People for Peace, C Friends of Sabeel (London) PAL Student Association.
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Montreal, QC

Date: Saturday, June 5, 2010
Time: 1:30 p.m.
Departure: corner Peel and Ste-Catherine
End point: The Old Port of Montreal
Bring a small tent to plant on site!
To build a camp where we will all be ''refugees of Gaza'' waiting for the ships transporting humanitarian aid to arrive.
Organizers: Coalition for Justice & Peace in Palestine (CJPP), Solidarity for Palestinian Human, Rights (SPHR), Tadamon! Montreal, Palestinian and Jewish Unity (PAJU)
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Ottawa, ON

Date: Saturday, June 5, 2010
Time: 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Location: Human Rights Monument
Departure: Elgin and Lisgar
Organizers: Ottawa Palestine Solidarity Network
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Penticton, BC

Date: Saturday, June 5, 2010
Time: Noon
Location: Stockwell Day's Office
Organizers: Penticton Peace Groups
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Quebec City, Qc

Date: Friday, June 4, 2010
Time: 5:00 p.m.
Departure: corner of Honoré-Mercier Avenue, Grande-Allée Blvd. W. and St-Louis St.
Organizers: Collectif de Québec pour la paix
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Toronto, ON

Date: Friday, June 4, 2010
Time: 5:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Location: Israeli Consulate
Street: 180 Bloor Street West

Date: Saturday, June 5, 2010
Time: 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Location: Israeli Consulate
Street: 180 Bloor Street West
Organizers: Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA), Palestine House Community Centre, Canadian Arab Federation (CAF), Toronto Coalition to Stop the War (TCSW), Canadian Peace Alliance (CPA)
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Vancouver, BC

Date: Saturday, June 5, 2010
Time: 1:00 p.m.
Location: Vancouver Art Gallery (Georgia Side)
Street: 750 Hornby Street, Vancouver, BC
Organizers: Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights - UBC, Canada Palestine Association, Independent Jewish Voices, Canada Palestine Support Network (CanPalNet), Boycott Israel Apartheid Campaign (BIAC), No One Is Illegal, Stop War Vancouver
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Victoria, BC

Date: Saturday, June 5, 2010
Time: 11:00 a.m.
Location: Centennial Square (near fountain)
Street: Douglas and Pandora
Organizers: Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid, Central American Solidarity Committee, Victoria Peace Coalition, Victoria Goods For Cuba.
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Waterloo, ON

Date: Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Time: 1 p.m.
Departure: SLC Courtyard, Waterloo University campus
Organizers: Students for Palestinian Rights
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Winnipeg, MN

Date: Friday, June 4, 2010
Time: 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Departure: Broadway Avenue and Osborne Street
Organizers: Peace Alliance Winnipeg, Independent Jewish Voices, and CanPalNet

source : Norman Finkelstein Newsletter

 

[Argamemnon]

June 3, 2010

A brief introduction to the nine Turkish people shot dead on 31 May 2010, by Israeli soldiers who attacked the Turkish vessel M.V. Mavi Marmara, as it attempted to transport humanitarian aid to the people of the Gaza Strip.

Interesting that most of these people are from eastern parts of Turkey where people are sill dedicated to Islam, unlike the "white Turks" in the West.

 

[shuraimfan4lyf]

Not all of the people who are supporting Ghazza are dedicated to Islam..As you can see many of the women who were on the boats were Muslim without hijabs. I think most of them were supporting for sake of Humanity. may Allah guide them to the right path and guide them to wear hijab.

 

[Argamemnon]

Not all of the people who are supporting Ghazza are dedicated to Islam..As you can see many of the women who were on the boats were Muslim without hijabs. I think most of them were supporting for sake of Humanity. may Allah guide them to the right path and guide them to wear hijab.

The number of women wearing hijabs are declining in Turkey. Some hijabis have boyfriends and they celebrate Valentine's Day and eat out with their lovers. I have stopped reading about the decline of Islam in Turkey because it was very depressing. I've decided to save myself and forget about everybody else.