Six million dead over the past ten years.
Six. Million.
Murdered through barbaric violence and mass starvation.
But, oddly enough, not with that weapon of death, the paintball gun.
Mass rape is a weapon unleashed on thousands of women every single day.
Over a million refugees are living in filth, dying of disease and starvation.
We’re talking about… Congo.
Perhaps the scale of the humanitarian tragedy is too much for people to comprehend, or perhaps the hidden corporate agenda of mainstream media in the United States will not allow this story to see the light of day. The rape and plunder of Congo’s resources is behind the great silence which surrounds this story. The proxy armies of Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda serve the international corporate agenda. The story is complicated, and will never be fully understood except within the confines of historical analysis.
Meanwhile, six million are dead in the last ten years, 1,200 people die every day, unspeakable crimes against women’s bodies go unreported, and the 1.2 million innocents in refugee camps cannot afford the time to wait for history’s analysis of the reasons behind their despair and misery. More than 2,000 rape cases were recorded last month alone in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s violent North Kivu province.
Full story here.
But no one questions the legitimacy of the Congo, arguably the most barbaric, dysfunctional country on the face of the earth.
The U.N. barely notices Congo.
And all the so-called peace activists on the left who wail and gnash their teeth about non-existent Israeli atrocities are criminally silent when it comes to authentic war crimes; the oceans of innocent blood barely registers in their collective conscience.
You know why?
Because there are no Jews in Congo.
Because Congo is not the Jewish State.
Because anti-Zionism is the new Jew-hatred.
Because Jews were despised when we did not have a state, and now we are despised because we do have a state.
Israel’s enemies are not interested in human rights. They are interested in the destruction of the Jewish State, the extermination of the Jewish people.
That is the reality.
And the genocide in Congo.
Okay, now let’s go to some videotape of the IDF boarding the terrorist ship:
Shocking Footage: Flotilla Terrorists Attacking IDF Soldiers, Throw One Off Ship:
Video taken by IDF naval boat shows the passengers of the Mavi Marmara, one of the ships in the ‘Free Gaza’ Flotilla, violently attacking IDF soldiers who were trying to board the ship after having sent repeated requests for the boat to change course.
Large groups of passengers surrounded soldiers and beat them with metal poles and chairs, and threw one soldier over the side of the ship. Some passengers grabbed pistols from the IDF soldiers and opened fire. As a result of the attacks, seven IDF soldiers were injured, and nine of the passengers were killed.
The ‘Free Gaza’ Flotilla had publicly insisted on their non-violent intentions, however their violent attack on the IDF soldiers was clearly premeditated. They had knives, metal rods, firebombs and other items ready to use.
IDF Aerial Video of Gaza Flotilla Disaster:
IDF video of Gaza Flotilla Attack – The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have released a video of Israeli Navy commandos boarding a ship in the ‘Freedom Flotilla’, a convoy carrying humanitarian aid and international activists to Gaza. Reports say up to 20 people were killed and dozens injured as Israeli commandos stormed the vessels over a hundred kilometres off Gaza’s coast. Some of the ships have been towed to the Israeli port city of Ashdod.
Flotilla Evidence Video, Lethal Weapons Found Aboard Mavi Marmara:
Weapons Found on the Flotilla Ship Mavi Marmara Used by Activists Against IDF Soldiers, 31, May 2010:
Early this morning, IDF Naval Forces boarded six ships attempting to break the maritime closure of the Gaza Strip. This happened after numerous warnings from Israel and the Israeli Navy that were issued prior to the action. The Israel Navy requested the ships to redirect toward Ashdod where they would be able to unload their aid supplies which would then be transferred over land after undergoing security inspections.
During the boarding of the ships, the demonstrators onboard attacked the IDF Naval personnel with live fire and light weaponry including knives and clubs. Additionally one of the weapons used was grabbed from an IDF soldier. The demonstrators had clearly prepared their weapons in advance for this specific purpose.
As a result of this life-threatening and violent activity, naval forces employed riot dispersal means, including live fire.
According to initial reports, these events resulted in over ten deaths among the demonstrators and numerous injured, in addition, more than four naval personnel were injured, some from gunfire and some from various other weapons. Two of the soldiers are moderately wounded and the remainder sustained light injuries. All of the injured, Israelis and foreigners are currently being evacuated by helicopter to hospitals in Israel.
Reports from IDF forces on the scene are that it seems as if part of the participants onboard the ships were planning to lynch the forces.
Gaza Flotilla Video: Activist Mob Attempt Lynch of Israeli Navy Soldiers:
Demonstrators Use Violence Against Israeli Navy Soldiers Attempting to Board Ship, 31 May 2010.
Early this morning, IDF Naval Forces boarded six ships attempting to break the maritime closure of the Gaza Strip. This happened after numerous warnings from Israel and the Israeli Navy that were issued pr
ior to the action. The Israel Navy requested the ships to redirect toward Ashdod where they would be able to unload their aid supplies which would then be transferred over land after undergoing security inspections.
During the boarding of the ships, the demonstrators onboard attacked the IDF Naval personnel with live fire and light weaponry including knives and clubs. Additionally one of the weapons used was grabbed from an IDF soldier. The demonstrators had clearly prepared their weapons in advance for this specific purpose.
As a result of this life-threatening and violent activity, naval forces employed riot dispersal means, as well as live fire.
According to initial reports, these events resulted in the deaths of nine demonstrators and seven naval personnel were injured, some from gunfire and some from various other weapons. Two of the soldiers are moderately wounded and the remainder sustained light injuries. All of the injured, Israelis and foreigners have been evacuated by helicopter to hospitals in Israel.
Reports from IDF forces on the scene are that it seems as if part of the participants onboard the ships were planning to lynch the forces.
The interception of the flotilla followed numerous warnings given to the organizers of the flotilla before leaving their ports as well as while sailing towards the Gaza Strip. In these warnings, it was made clear to the organizers that they could dock in the Ashdod sea port and unload the equipment they are carrying in order to deliver it to the Gaza Strip in an orderly manner, following the appropriate security checks. Upon expressing their unwillingness to cooperate and arrive at the port, it was decided to board the ships and lead them to Ashdod.
IDF naval personnel encountered severe violence, including use of weaponry prepared in advance in order to attack and to harm them. The forces operated in adherence with operational commands and took all necessary actions in order to avoid violence, but to no avail.
Videos and commentary courtesy of Wejew.
Steven Emerson provides valuable information and historical perspective regarding the terrorist flotilla: Violence and Humanitarian Aid.
Son-in-law #1 just sent me this article: Stop the Hypocrisy, by David Frum, in which he points out that the Turkish ships departed from, uh, Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus.
Turkey’s occupation of half of Cyprus is deemed illegal by the European Union and the United Nations. If the government of Turkey feels so strongly about ending disputed occupations, why does it not start with the disputed occupation it is operating itself?
It’s nice to see this article published on the normally anti-Israel CNN website.
Barry Rubin, always compelling and knowledgeable, asks: How Can Helping a Repressive Fascist, Genocide-Intending Hamas Regime be Noble?
The answer is quite simple: Killing Jews, to many Muslims, Arabs, and their leftist western enablers, is a noble undertaking.
Ariel Chaim Avrech, ZT'L, May His Righteous Memory be a Blessing.
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Rhiannon,
Use the contradictions as teaching moments to show the kids how to think for themselves.
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Put the rancor aside for a moment. I wonder whether the US intel (NSA et al) knows about this or cares about it and if so why nothing being said–placate Turkey?
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/06/exposed-gaza-flotilla-aid-group-has-clear-long-standing-ties-to-terrorism-and-jihad.html
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I’m proud to be a staunch supporter of Israel and “brainwashed” evangelical Christian.
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PCD:
Way ahead of you, dude. It just gets hard when half the institutions in the U.S. support the opposite of what you’re fighting for. It’s really frustrating.
I just don’t want people like Phillip to ruin all that I’ve been working for. I’ve recommended this site to high schoolers I’ve been working with in an Israel advocacy group, but now I’m scared that they’ll read a post like Phillip’s and get confused…
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Rhiannon, Take your mind off such evil as Phillip by doing something about it. Work against anti-Jewish candidates. Pray for soldier Shalit. Stand up to Jihad Zealots and enablers, and don’t back down!
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Seriously Phillip?
There is nothing more I can say to you that the wonderful people who commented above haven’t said. You should be ashamed of yourself. If you’re going to be an anti-Semite, at least don’t do it under the pretext of humanitarianism. People like you are the great white hope of terrorist organizations.
And Erdogan? You’re saying if HE said the ships were checked then it MUST be true. Oh riiiiight – because since when have politicians been known for lying? Good one.
Hey – maybe when you graduate from kindergarten you’ll realize that you shouldn’t trust everything that comes out of someone’s mouth. Especially if that someone is a grossly biased famously Jew-hating prime minister of a closeted (well, maybe not anymore) anti-Semitic country.
People like you make me sick.
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Let’s talk about the silly “disportionate response” argument, because it is quite ridiculous.
For example, if someone holds up a bank, we put him in jail for a few years. Isn’t that a “disproportionate response?” I mean, wouldn’t it only be fair to simply hold that guy up at gunpoint so he could see how it feels? And besides, the holdup only took minutes to occur, why do we put him in prison for YEARS?
If someone kills an 80-year-old woman, we put that guy in jail for LIFE. Even though that woman only had a few more years to live! Shouldn’t we just put that guy behind bars for 5 years, tops?
As you can see, there is no such thing as a “proportional response.” That is a silly trick used by the enemies of civilization. Any politician or commentator who uses that term should be banned from our minds.
There is only justice and injustice. Civilization or barbarism.
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http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=177169
Hey Phillip! How are bulletproof vests and gas masks humanitarian aid? Why to protesters need great wads of cash, especially when they say there is no food or medicine in Gaza to buy???
In respect to Robert and Karen, I will refrain from detailing the short comings of your character and myopic observations based in Global Jihadi propaganda.
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JKB:
Philip is long gone to post his views on other blogs. He, like other supporters of Hamas, willfully ignore what the leaders there say about wanting to kill all the Jews in Israel and just assume the problem must be with the Zionists.
It is amazing when you consider what is said on Arab tv every day that people actually admit to supporting Israel’s enemies. Iran talks about pushing Israel into the sea and people like our president consider it a call to have more dialogue as if they don’t really mean it.
Israel has to use disproportionate force because if they don’t their enemies have already calculated how many suicide bombers walking in Israeli restaurants it will take to clear all Jews from the ME. People like Philip think Israel should roll over and die so they can win the propaganda war.
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Philip:
Please forward to us all the letters and comments you have written over the years regarding the Congo genocide.
Just, y’know, askin’.
Because I’m sure that you’re a true human rights activist, as opposed to just another crude Jew-hater.
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Congo? Well, what can you expect of the wogs?
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Well, Philip the Turkish prime minister might want to explain how 40 members of Al Qaeda got on board and why a larger number of militants brought and collected weapons to resist capture. Capture which is permitted by international law governing warfare at sea.
“98. Merchant vessels believed on reasonable grounds to be breaching a blockade may be captured. Merchant vessels which, after prior warning, clearly resist capture may be attacked.”
In accordance with international law the blockading party has “(a) the right to prescribe the technical arrangements, including search, under which such passage is permitted;” for the delivery of humanitarian aid.
Israel notified the vessels of the arrangements that would permit their cargo to be discharged and transported to Gaza. Therefore they were in compliance with international law.
Also, since the stated purpose of the vessels was to breach the blockade, that is reasonable grounds that they were attempting breach the blockade so the vessels were subject to capture as soon as they entered the high seas. Israel simply waited until they approached the exclusion zone to enforce their sovereign rights.
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Magnificent job, Robert.
I have blogged on the same theme and linked to yours here
http://breathofthebeast.blogspot.com/2010/06/political-realism-kill-jews.html
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The hypocrisy and stupidity of the useful idiots and anti-semitic terrorist-enablers of the modern left appalls, but does not surprise me.
What I genuinely regret is that this is a major win for the terrorists. With the Gaza-Egypt border open, we know what comes next: a flood of rockets into Hamas arsenals.
Tehran must be delighted. The next war is close now. I hope that this time, your government and people understand that no matter what you do, you will still be damned by those who hate you. And that includes nearly all the media.
So you might as well be ruthless, and fight to win. Really win.
God be with you all, during what is coming.
MarkL
Canberra
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Well, Philip, you figured it out. The video obviously shows those peace loving humanitarians on the boat were just sitting around a campfire singing Kumbyaya and making smores for the Israeli soldiers. I think I even saw one put a flower in the barrel of an Israeli rifle.
I never knew I was one of those brainwashed Christians because I saw the commandos getting beat with metal pipes. I’m going to put on my rose colored glasses and look at the video again. And thanks for letting me know that the word of the Turkish government is gold, Jerry, gold!
People such as yourself are a blunt reminder that ridiculous anti-semites are still around. But then, you knew that every time you look in a mirror.
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No one in the world will believe that Israel attacked ships in international waters carrying Israeli citizens, a Nobel Laureate, elected politicians, and noted humanitarians bringing medicines and building materials to Palestinians in Gaza, who have been living in the rubble of their homes without repairs or medicines since January 2009, without first clearing the crime with its American protector. Without America’s protection, Israel, a totally artificial state, could not exist. No one in the world will believe that America’s spy apparatus did not detect the movement of the Israeli attack force toward the aid ships in international waters in an act of piracy, killing 20, wounding 50, and kidnapping the rest. Obama’s pretense at ignorance confirms his complicity.
Once again the US government has permitted the Israeli state to murder good people known for their moral conscience. The Israeli state has declared that anyone with a moral conscience is an enemy of Israel, and every American president except Eisenhower and Carter has agreed.
Obama’s 12-hour silence in the face of extreme barbarity is his signal to the controlled corporate media to remain on the sidelines until Israeli propaganda sets the story.
The Israeli story, preposterous as always, is that the humanitarians on one of the ships took two pistols from Israeli commandos, highly trained troops armed with automatic weapons, and fired on the attack force. The Israeli government claims that the commandos’ response (70 casualties at last reporting) was justified self-defense. Israel was innocent. Israel did not do anything except drop commandos aboard from helicopters in order to intercept an arms shipment to Gazans being brought in by ships manned by terrorists.
Many Christian evangelicals, brainwashed by their pastors that it is God’s will for Americans to protect Israel, will believe the Israeli story, especially when it is unlikely they will ever hear any other.
Americans will never hear from the US media that Turkey’s prime minister Erdogan declared that the aid ships were carefully inspected before departure from Turkey and that there were no terrorists or arms aboard: “I want to say to the world, to the heads of state and the governments, that these boats that left from Turkey and other countries were checked in a strict way under the framework of the rules of international navigation and were only loaded with humanitarian aid.”
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Great video of pro-Israel demonstrator from LA.
It is good to see that some of our youth are not embarrassed to act Jewish.
http://www.democracybroadcastingnews.com/2010/06/daniel-walks-boldly-through-lions-den.html
(HT: http://muqata.blogspot.com/2010/06/jew-we-can-all-be-proud-of.html from http://israeltruthtimes.blogspot.com/2010/06/this-is-great-video-i-am-proud-of-you.html)
It is good to see that some of our youth are not embarrassed to act Jewish.
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A good critique of Israel’s deplorable procrastination in releasing the videos:
http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=177187
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Seeing this video makes me wish they had killed more of these vicious people.
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“When You Attack Israeli Commandos, You Should Expect Them to Defend Themselves”
Posted by Timothy Lee
Few events could better illustrate the moral and intellectual decadence of the “international community.” To wit, a collective global yawn greets North Korea after sinking a South Korean naval ship and killing 46, while feigned outrage greets Israeli commandos’ self-defense against an attacking militant mob.
A great article from CFIF (Center for Individual Freedom) full article here: http://cfif.org/v/freedom_line_blog/5504/when-you-attack-israeli-commandos-you-should-expect-them-to-defend-themselves/
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Robert, the hypocrisy is appalling.
Israel has every right to protect Herself.
I laud the IDF for their bravery.
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The cynic in me says they should have just sunk the boats in deep water.
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On the Congo:
I just got back from a whirlwind, 1400 mile trip helping my friend Larry move his mother’s belongings from Southern Utah (near Bryce Canyon National Park) to Mammoth Mountain.
Down the street from the mother’s house in Utah is a busy Bed and Breakfast, owned (and run) by her daughter in law.
While there as guests for dinner, the daughter in law was telling us about some experiences she has had with her many international guests. Many have come from Europe and Israel – all over the world.
A few weeks ago she had a couple from the Congo – and in the middle of the night the wife was screaming and hysterical because the street by the B & B was not lit.
The unlit street reminded her of the hell she endured in the Congo.
The B & B owner said that the husband drove her to a local hotel downtown then came back for the rest of the evening.
“You can’t take these things personal”, she said.
On Israel I was disheartened to learn that the people behind this flotilla is a Turkish Islamist group wanting to replace Turkey’s government with Sharia law.
If they do take over (and they are making inroads) Turkey’s membership in NATO – which was so valuable during the Cold War, will have to be reevaluated.
The left and the Islamists work hand in hand.
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From now on you can bet the IDF will not stop boats armed only with paintball guns. Any more pro-terrorist groups that want to support Hamas are on notice that they will be met with deadly force if they try to evade the blockade.
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I would take Johnny’s comment a few steps further.
Every Jew and supporter of Israel needs to ask why anyone would listen to anything at all that any person or country that is condemning Israel right now has to say.
Europe and the leftists of the world are leading the charge against Israel. They also carry the flag for socialism, government-controlled health care, immediate withdrawals from Iraq and Afghanistan, bans on oil and coal.
Why would anyone with a moral compass broken enough to villify Israel for defending itself against the vile supporters of terrorism be worth listening to ever?
This is yet another wake-up call to the still majority of Jews who are left-leaning to stop the madness.
The Left is attacking Israel and the Jews on the high sea, at major universities, and in the halls of governments across the world.
Who is defending Israel? The Right. In America, that’s the overwhelming majority of the Republican pary and Evangelicals. Are my fellow Jews really more afraid of them than the kinds of people who are calling this pseudo-terrosists “martyrs?”
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Israel did one thing wrong. They assumed the people on the boat would willingly allow the ships to be searched. And of course there was no problem with the other ships in the flotilla. But someone in the IDF has to answer why they allowed the commandos to take the beatings they did after making a bad assumption.
That being said, the people on the boat are entirely responsible for the deaths and violence. They were ready to attack the commandos when they left Turkey. And Turkey is also responsible because they allowed this ship to break the blockade knowing the aid could go through if they went to the Israeli port. Israel lets all aid for Gaza go through but they are not going to allow weapons or material for tunnels to get in there.
If the U.S. doesn’t make a strong statement defending the blockade and supporting Israel they don’t deserve another vote from any Jew or Gentile that cares about Israel. There is no moral equivalency between the legitimate government in Israel defending their citizens and Hamas and their supporters that want to kill those citizens. Of course I don’t expect the UN to understand such a simple premise.
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I’m with you 100% on this Robert.
Nothing like hypocrisy – especially on a world wide scale.
Refuah Shleimah to the injured IDF members.
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Actually at the end of the article the New York Times does have the accusations, quoting Greta Berlin of the “pro-Palestinian Free Gaza Movement. speaking by phone from Cyprus oon Monday” as saying that Israeli soldiers dropped down to the deck and “opened fire on sleeping civians at four in the morning.”
The preceding paragraph seems to excuse in advance any possible error the organizers might have made because it says the organizers of the flotilla were “relying mainly on footage filmed by activists on board the Turkish passenger ship, because all other communications were down.”
Apparently the New York Times found the accusations against Israel so over the top it didn’t even bother quoting them for the most part, and when it did, it found an excuse for the people making them. It finds two voices of israeli opposition to boarding the vessels.
The New York Times at the end gives the history like this: The earliest Free Gaza voyages were allowed to go through (Israel probably assumed they were 99% certain to be test cases and carried no contraband) Others have been intercepted and forced back. One last June (2009) was commandeered by the Israeli Navy and towed to Ashdod. This time they had six boats. It was the most ambitious attempt yet to break the blockade.
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The New York Times headline is:
After Deadly Raid at Sea, Israel is Sharply Criticized / Commandoes Halt Flotilla for Gaza – Netanyahu Cites Violent Resistance. by Isabel Kershner datlined Jerusalem.
The tone is like: This is Israel’s Defense – but we can’t say how true it is and sort of doubt it.
The New York Daily News has on its front page:
EYE OF THE STORM Israel faces Backlash after Shootout at Sea.
It also describes it as a Botched Raid but gives a whole article “Nightmare of operation Sea Breeze” that basically describes it and quotes Israeli soldiers not just official statements and mentions video and what it shows.
The New York Posts’ bigger front page headline is about Ted Koppel’s son bewing found dead after a night of drinking, but it has: Commandoes: We Were Attacked on the front page and Israelis Tell of Hell at Sea Claim activists Attacked First on page 4-5.
The tone in these two newspapers is that the Israeli accounts ar probably credible.
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The New York Daily News has it (that the Israeli soldiers boarding the ship were attacked) and the New York Post has it.
As for the New York Times – it presents this as sort of an he-said he said situation, although it doesn’t actually give any accusations made against Israel! But it characterizies what Israel says as an Israeli defense to apparently unknown and unspecific charges. Probably this article is a rewriting of something. Everything that they think could be wrong has been edited out, but that includes any independent source that could back up official Israeli statements.
The New York Times article quotes Aluf benn of Haaretz who said blaming the organizers of the flotilla for ignoring Israel’s orders to turn back is inadequate and demanded an investigation.
(This would imply that Israel would be at fault later on)
This probably stayed in, even if Aluf Benn later on realized he was somewhat mistaken, after all, he did write that.
The whole point of view is that they they are afraid to vouch in any way for Israel’s version of events, but by press time was maybe even more reluctant to print accusations they can’t vouch for. But people will have heard them.
On the website yesterday at first they didn’t have much of anything except that the people shot had been taken to an Israeli hospital in Haifa.
The article also says says Israel called IHH a dangerous Islamist organization Then it adds: “Yet..it is now active in 120 countries and has been present at..Haiti and New Orleans.”
It gives a full play to Israel’s defense but doesn’t mention YouTube, maybe because they never like to mentions a possibly unreliable competitor.
But this is not *that* bad.
The real problem is that no hint of this is present, and flat out lies are present, in Al Jazeera and the Arab media.
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So how many media outlets do you think will report this side of the story? Did any mention it yet?
I wager a grand total of three (I’m talking major news)…
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Thank you for your efforts here Robert.
I am proud of the IDF they did nothing wrong here.
To all the rabid Jew Haters in the world, the buck stops with the IDF. All the bs trying to educate you to be human beings… I was horrified at the injuries suffered by the soldiers at those
with the pipes bashing them repeatedly.
I wish a speedy Refuah Shleima to the soldiers and would be interested in getting their names for a Mi Shebarch.
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