Israel attacks aid ship!
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- Khurram0
Ok, i'll say it.
I don't understand why Israel is getting so much flak for this, when there was nothing like this much opposition to what they did in Gaza last year and Lebanon before that.
I mean they attacked a ship that was trying to defy its blockade. And there's outrage at the UN and all this debate on TV.
I mean they're killing innocent protestors and civillians every day of the week, stealing land and committing god knows wot other crimes, no one says shit.
Few years back, when they still controlled Gaza, a bunch of unarmed Palestinians protested at one of the crossings Israel had closed down (and had bulldozed a ton of houses to create an exclusion zone at the border) and those guys were gunned down with REAL LIVE BULLETS, you never heard squat from anywhere. Let alone hasty UN resolutions or nothing.
What is the big deal with this?
- My guess is that the people they killed were citizens of sovereign countries and not a disputed territory...I'm thinkingWrappedInBooks
- georgesIII0
- i love teh fact they included the sharpener from he kitchen on the leftlowimpakt
- So a fish fileting knife justifies 5.56mm of love and affection, I guess.Continuity
- Love the fact that they put the "weapons" on an Islamic inscription with arab head scarf for added menace...Khurram
- @continuity - those soldiers should have just asked nicely of the nice aid workers to stop repeatedly stabbing themadded_valium
- Maybe those soldiers should have stayed home instead of acting like pirates in int'l waters.Continuity
- i agree with you on that. but if you're gonna stab an armed soldier - expect some bullets coming your wayadded_valium
- I'm still waiting for evidence of said 'stabbings'. Those videos are anything but convincing.Continuity
- seriously added valium, most of this knifes, look like they came out of the kitchen, still don't see anything illegal theregeorgesIII
- inv0
So they had no lethal weapons when the rappelled down on the boat.........and then they climbed up again to get the weapons that killed the 19 aid workers?
- lowimpakt0
Israel have been saying that the commandos initially had no lethal weapons and that there was no resistence or injuries on the other boats...
Edward L. Peck, a retired US diplomat that was also deputy director of the White House Task Force on Terrorism under the Reagan Administration seems to say something different.
- xcarlx0
must see.
- benfal990
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- toe_knee0
Funny how the US launch a criminal probe on an oil spill, but attack a ship of civilians in interantional waters? Go right ahead, just be sure to investigate yourselves afterwards, y'all.
Oil > everything else
- ukit0
- lowimpakt0
Aipac is just one lobby. I refuse to believe that one or two lobby groups can impact significantly policy programmes across successive governments.
I do think that the US has made it's way into the affairs of so many countries and regions that it has a de-facto diplomatic presence in many places - e.g. the US had a strong positive role in the peace process in Ireland.
The US makes its money from selling tightropes.
- actually, I must write down that "selling tightropes" linelowimpakt
- nice onebigtrickagain
- JSK0
US can't or unable to put stable regime in middle east. Look what happened Saddam
- bliznutty0
This whole Israeli Zionist ideology is made possible by the U.S. and controlling monetary interests... it's a complete setup of the american people.. for us to support such an extremist religious ideology at the expense of our liberty.. its such a contradiction that it makes me sick.. and this whole 'american dream' ideology of good will is the biggest joke i've ever seen.. instead of being wise consequentialists who lead by example, americans are fucking immoral stupid deontologists!
- lowimpakt0
I'm really unclear why the US constantly abstain or block UN moves to impel Israel to do anything of substance.
I can accept that in this case the US may be pushing a wider and longer view on the peace talks than Turkey is.
- lowimpakt0
I'm really unclear why the US constantly abstain or block UN moves to impel Israel to do anything of substance.
I can accept that in this case the US may be pushing a wider and longer view on the peace talks than Turkey is.
- Depends on who you're talking to. Some would say it's because the Jews in the US have control of government, media and business.Continuity
- ... business.Continuity
- I'm of the opinion that it's because being friends with Israel gives the US a pied-à-terre in the Middle East and, therefore, ready access to oil.Continuity
- ... access to oil.Continuity
- egosmoke0
Not surprisingly, the US has blocked an international inquiry. Everything is back to "normal". I think American Gladiator is on...
- Thats going to work out wellJSK
- this was inevitablebigtrickagain
- like clockworkegosmoke
- lowimpakt0
In other news, Mordechai Vanunu that has already spent 18 years in jail for revealing that Israel had nuclear weapons has been sent back to jail for three months.
His recent jailing is because he has a Norwegian girlfriend... ?
- lowimpakt0
TBO... from your earlier post about new boats. The Irish Government have always held a strong position on Palestine.
More recently, Israel pissed of Ireland (and other governments) big time by allowing Mossad assassins forge Irish Passports used during the assassination of a Hamas representative in Dubai.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspa…
The UK and Australia also expelled Israeli Diplomats over the passport affair
- It happened with Canadian passports, too, some years ago.Continuity
- PonyBoy0
blueOne... get a grip...
... I'm talking about when they boarded the ship and were attacked by the pipes and knives... they didn't go in guns blazing.
wife-beating?
...nice melodramatic jump outside the topic...
:)- They still have no right to board those ships.georgesIII
- right... and I commented on that!! I asked what gave them the right... ... I didn't take any sides... jeeeeeeeeeeeezPonyBoy
- TheBlueOne0
"The Jews (from what I can see... were defending themselves)..."
What part of a ship on international waters when boarded by commandos form a helicopter gunship do you not fucking understand?
Seriously? Are you going to defend wife beaters next?
"Well, she deserved it for provoking me, so I had to beat the bitch officer. Surely you understand..."
- TheBlueOne0
"
Israeli military aircraft came under anti-aircraft fire over Lebanon on Tuesday but there were no casualties, an Israeli security source said.The source said the fire was aimed at Israeli planes on reconnaissance flights over southern Lebanon. An Israeli military spokesman had no immediate comment.
Tension has risen in the region since nine people were killed aboard a Turkish-backed aid ship heading for the Gaza Strip when Israeli commandos seized the vessel in Mediterranean waters on Monday."
Rueters - http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/…
- what was Israeli aircraft doing over Lebanon???????????pr2
- checking for floatillas?locustsloth
- PonyBoy0
Now that I've had time to get a feel for what's going on...
It seems to me that the floating convoy was an absolute provocation toward Israel... they more than new better to expect Israel to board them given the current blockade...
... the folks on that ship were ready to beat and cut whatever Jew stepped aboard...
... what am I missing here? The Jews (from what I can see... were defending themselves)...
... now... my only Q to the Jews - what gives you the right to block off that waterway? What makes that specific area 'yours' to control? If this is part of a Jewish response to all those missiles being hurled into their country... I guess I get it - self defense etc... but wow what a shitty situation...
My comments aren't meant to take sides here - I truly could care less which of these religions attempts to wipe out the other one... ... neither of them is 'holy' in my eyes... ... so - once again I'm left asking - how do you fight faith? How do you help BOTH sides see what a bunch of douchebags they're being?
I have no clue what to make of this situation, btw... I just reiterated what I've come to understand from all the news stories posted and the media I've been reading / listening to...