IDF says flotilla activists are "planning to kill soldiers" (thanks to Max Blumenthal). And Dena Shunra tweeted this: "Haaretz publishes libel that #flotilla2 activists are armed & violent - keeps comments closed link to tinyurl.com to prevent dissent." And this is from Haaretz in Hebrew, via translation (Does Haaretz dogwhistle its Hebrew readers?). Notice the pure Islamophobia. No Muslim activists should be on the boats?
Senior military sources told Haaretz yesterday "that are increasing signs in recent days on the intention of some of the participants in the flotilla of aid to Gaza to initiate a violent confrontation with the navy. According to them, coordination meetings held by some groups active in the flotilla, activists talked about their desire to use violence and even "shed blood of soldiers." Also, although previous estimates, it appears that members of IHH [Turkish charitable org] and Arab and Muslim activists will join several ships to go out in the flotilla to Gaza....
[I]n some of the participants in the flotilla is a clear intention to violent conflict.
And some pinkwashing with a twist (hoax exposed by … Max Blumenthal!):
link to haaretz.com
Seriously. Is everyone who says good things about Israel lying about who they are?!
Where to start? I don’t know how any haaretz journalist could publish this trash.
link to haaretz.com
1. “Since IHH was chiefly responsible for the violence aboard last year’s flotilla”
WTF?
2. “Mohammad Hannoun of the Italian ABSPP foundation, which Israel claims is also involved in financing terror.”
Teghogh
3. The information also indicates that flotilla organizers may be stowing chemicals aboard for use against soldiers who board the ships, the officials said, adding that a few extremists among the organizers had been heard threatening in recent days “to spill the blood” of Israel Defense Forces soldiers.
Absurd
4. Senior defense officials told Haaretz that the chemicals, including sulfur, are aboard ships carrying French and American passengers, among others.”This is a dramatic development,” one defense source said. “The picture emerging here is that some of the flotilla participants clearly intend a violent clash.”
Obvious dog whistle for Israeli paranoia- Thank God we have the IDF.
5. far-left activist Dror Feiler
Obviously not serious , carry on settling
and the creme de la creme
6. Israel continues to condemn the planned flotilla, with Barak calling it on Monday an “unnecessary provocation.”
“There is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza,” he said.
They lie to us and they lie to themselves .
Senior defense officials told Haaretz that the chemicals, including sulfur, are aboard ships carrying French and American passengers, among others.”This is a dramatic development,” one defense source said. “The picture emerging here is that some of the flotilla participants clearly intend a violent clash.”
i urge everyone to run thehaaretz’s hebrew text thru google translate. there’s gotta be a reason why they are publishing this stuff only in hebrew. crazy stuff.
and here’s maariv (hebrew, natch)
“Information received by the IDF finds: a lethal acid flotilla of ships“
un f’ing real.
The Zionists have so much in common with the Alawis in Syria. Bashar Assad and Bibi both know that any chink in their armour is going to bring the house down. They both head minority communities of leftfield religionists who historically have been ostracised and who have relied on secrecy and a sense of persecution to survive intact. The IDF is following in the footsteps of the Syrian army.
They both fear Sunni Islam and will do anything to stay in power.
just been informed via email haaretz has published a version of this in their english addition Israel fears Gaza flotilla activists may try to kill IDF soldiers.
(thanks steve)
Lovely.
Ignorance beyond any reason.
Really. Unf’ingbeleivable.
Hebrew phrase “מידע שהגיע לצה”ל מגלה: חומצה קטלנית על אוניות המשט” translates into English like “Information received by the IDF finds: a lethal acid on ships of flotilla”
You see, machine translation is almost never entirely correct.
It really must take a great deal of wits to make assumptions based on machine translation.
Poor Gazans, with supporters like you they are doomed.
Seriously, Lightbringer? “OMFG there’s DIESEL FUEL on those ships! They’re going to set fire to Jooooos!”
“They lie to us and they lie to themselves .”
Of course they do. This is Israel we’re talking about. If it wasn’t for lying, killing and stealing, it would nothing to do.
I can only imagine what the hysteria level is like at Yediot Idiot.
This is an excellent point since even sites such as Mondoweiss are labeled as “hate sites” by hardcore Z-teamers but if you point out their fringe sites (that are usually thought of and accepted as “mainstream” anyway), they’ll just be dismissed as inconsequential…but they’re still whipping up that victim fervor.
Yediot is the top selling Hebrew paper in Israel I believe. Not fringe at all.
What a bunch of crooks and liars. This is only a foretaste of the bankrupt and idiotic justifications which will be issue when they board the ships and assault harmless passengers. There will, of course, be no evidence to back up their infantile claims, apart from planted evidence and, as here, ‘military sources’ – newspeak for the propaganda dept. Hypocrites, fools, liars, sadists in love with themselves and violence, self-deluding and denying tinpot fascists who are hellbent on stopping Gazan children getting medicine, in case it upsets their god-given right to torture innocent people.
This is nothing more than a pre-emptive excuse for the bloodshed that the IDF is licking its chops for, hoping to cause. Anyone really surprised?
Hahahaha yeah like kill them with kindness!
Zionism is totally and utterly morally bankrupt .
Tikkun olam update :
link to ynetnews.com
Human trafficking report ranks Israel with 3rd world nations
US State Department annual Trafficking in Persons report paints grim picture of phenomenon, states ‘Israel is destination-country for men, women subjected to forced labor, sex trafficking’
i’m so shocked/not
Darfur! Why so much attention on Israel when blah blah is happening in Darfur!
Or China! Or Iraq! Or blah blah blah! You’re all antisemitic!
that card does not work any longer
The boat is not safe, passengers planning to kill Israeli soldiers….what are they going to come up with next? As Ray McGovern has said they can come on and inspect the boats. The Israeli army should know the difference between letters and weapons
This is why activist and resistance movements for decades have advocated _total_, _absolute_, _unequivocal_ nonviolence. It has to be clear to the entire world that a humanitarian activist group tolerates no violence at all. Why? Because in the US and elsewhere, police forces, conservative forces, government forces have repeatedly committed crimes while disguised as activists to discredit the movement. The FBI did this. The US did this in Central America. France did it. The Israelis have done it. It is a proven formula, and it is fantastically effective at bringing condemnation down upon humanitarian groups — especially from those (The New York Times, Obama, whomever) who are _itching_ for an excuse to side with the oppressor.
There should be no doubt at all that Israel will try to plant people among pro-Palestinian groups. Those people will spy and they will try to sow dissent and they will try to push people to violence. The US has done this very recently via the NYPD in New York (during the 2004 Republican National Convention). It did it frequently in the 60s and 70s.
It is bad enough that _any_ act of violence will likely be attributed to progressive activists (witness the NYPD cop who was _successfully_ blaming a bicyclist until cellphone videos started cropping up to prove the NYPD liars).
Even if violence is in some way justified under the _exact_ standards of justice endorsed by Obama or Michael Walzer or Ignatieff or whomever, progressives must go to every length possible to avoid even the appearance of violence, just as progressives must make the best legal and political arguments humanly possible while right-wingers and moderates (again, like Obama) are given a pass on every kind of lying.
In domestic American protests, when police cart protesters away, while some will lie down, forcing the police to drag them off, others will simply do as the cops say. Why? Because all it takes is one cop suffering a heart attack while kicking and beating a protester in the summer heat for the New York Times or Fox (there is little to distinguish the two in these cases) to say that the protesters were “violent anarchists” bent on injuring the police. This has happened; it’s a matter of historical fact — not that the Times will ever admit it or resist calling someone mentioning it, like me, a conspiracy theorist.
As I said in a post a few days ago, this is emphatically not conspiracy theory. It is proven beyond any reasonable doubt — beyond any doubt of any kind — by decades of American, Israeli, European practice.
hughsansom,
Very interesting post–thanks!
If the IDF were truly fearful of violent protestors, I guess that they would be welcoming of foreign journalists to document such violence. Such documentation would be hugely supportive of their cause, but they are instead trying to discourage said journalists. I wonder why???
since the truth is the opposite of what they tell us?
the idf intends to kill the flotilla passengers?
then it’s up to us*
only STAT
*us, as in you are i, i am you, we are one
Chris Hedges is one of America’s best journalists. Click on link to view part of his speech regarding the 2008/2009 massive Israeli destruction of Gaza, the massacre of about 1400 Palestinians & many of them were women & children.
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Chris Hedges on the Gaza Massacre
“Chris Hedges speech at the protest Gaza Massacre. Chris was the former Middle East Bureau Chief for New York Times. He now speaks and writes against fascism/war.”
link to youtube.com