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Gaza Flotilla Attack: World Unites in Condemnation of Israel's Actions. All Except U.S.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/01/gaza-flotilla-at...

In a scene echoed around the world, a woman flashes a victory sign during a protest outside the Belgian foreign affairs building in Brussels. Photograph: Francois Lenoir/Reuters

Israel's calculated gamble in sending commandos to raid the Mediterranean flotilla looked likely last night to exact a high price, leaving it increasingly isolated internationally and diplomatically and losing the vital public relations war in the Middle East.

The first and biggest casualty of what appeared to many as a rash act of night time derring-do was Israel's relationship with what used to be its key strategic, regional and Muslim ally, Turkey.

Anger erupted on the streets of Istanbul and Ankara, with Israeli flags burned and the Netanyahu government advising Israelis to stay away from Turkey. Thousands took to the streets and marched on the Israeli consulate.

Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, described the Israeli raid as "an act of inhumane state terrorism", while the foreign ministry spoke of "an act of piracy" and of "irreparable damage" to relations between Ankara and Tel Aviv.

Three of the six ships flew the Turkish flag, the convoy was organised by a Turkish charity, and several hundred of those on board the ships were Turks. "We had a very good relationship with Israel, but we have had all kind of difficulties in the past," said a senior diplomat in Ankara, Selim Yenel. "This tops them all."

Protesters scaled the high fences protecting the Israeli consulate in Istanbul, only to be repelled by security forces.

"I cried all night. What Israel did was murder and terrorism," said Mehmet Tas, a computer software student. "Turkey and Europe should unite and attack Israel."

The fury on the streets was mirrored by high-level rage. Ankara recalled its ambassador from Israel. Erdogan rushed home from a trip to Latin America to deal with the fallout. Observers predicted a possible breach in diplomatic relations.

"Israel has targeted innocent civilians," said the foreign ministry in Ankara. "It has shown yet again that it does not care about human lives or peace initiatives."

Noting that the dawn raid occurred in international waters, Ankara hinted at demanding legal redress.

The Turks convened an emergency meeting of generals and security ministers and called off military exercises with Israel, as did Greece.

The United Nations security council was expected to meet last night in New York over the incident.

"I heard the ships were in international water. That is very bad," said Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general.

The Obama administration, while regretting the death toll, reserved judgment on apportioning blame.

"The United States is currently working to understand the circumstances surrounding this tragedy," said White House spokesman William Burton.

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On Fox and MSNBC this morning it was all about

defending Israel. The Congress will defend Israel right or wrong.
The vast majority in Congress either support the violence or are too afraid of AIPAC to tell the truth.
The gutless there are sickening.
Let's see where Rand Paul comes down on this one. I suspect I already know.

First things first JB

Also rans can do little long term good.

This one is extra critical as it is the first go. Failing the first shot makes subsequent shots much harder. With the alternative there is no doubt we get continued status quo. With this one, very, very good odds that much if not all of the status quo agenda would suffer a major hit.

"You are a den of vipers and thieves."

I mean to rout you out!

-Just because you are among us, does not make you with us

-The door is wide open, anything can slither in

Entangling alliances destroy both USA and Israel

What a prime example of the disastrous results of "entangling alliances"!

At this point the voice of reason should no side... and, maybe a sound constitutional government never would. But that, it seems, has fallen into the black hole of the violated oaths of history, long ago!

Practically, what do we know?

As Ron Paul has alluded to repeatedly in his sound speeches on the floor of congress, concerning foreign policy, when we entangle so mischievously into the affairs of the world, especially for perfidious reasons related more to corporate fascism, stealing the wealth of a once free people at home, through fiat money to fund these ends, we reap the whirlwind!

There should be pity and feelings of compassion for the people of Palestine, but also for the people of that whole region! Much of the same below applies also to the Palestinians. Having relatives and friends from Israel, Lebanon, and Palestine, it is a completely different picture when one finds that they are also human beings created by the same law of nature and Nature's God, possessed of love and compassion, having lost freedoms long ago, yet living still with a desire for liberty, seeing the entangling of giant powers manipulating their land for the greater manipulation to come...!

They survive in an existence we know little of, never experienced, and cannot imagine such life without the blessings of freedom bequeathed to us. On top of that we have allowed our own constitutionally challenged oath breakers to crush these nations and concepts for their own ends!

There should be feelings of pity also for the people of Israel, who with the forced co-option of their foreign policy and economy by the US, are faced with:

No win situations with communists who are raping the Palestinians;
Not allowed to make peace;
Not allowed to make defensive war;
Forced to make peace with liars;
forced to make war when we wish it so;
are given huge amounts of Americans wealth, which they in many circles are begging us to stop already!
Even they tell us that it prevents efficiency in their own country, fuels a top heavy military industrial complex, which is totally inefficient and heavy with white collar workers living off the sweat of Americans! It is destroying even their independence and economy.

In the end, it destroys their own ability to live peacefully with their neighbors, even the Palestinians, whom the rest of the middle east have long hated and rejected!

Notwithstanding Israel's US controlled actions, they are a people who also struggle for peace within, and friendship with neighbors... at home, they are not Zionists. They are as controlled a government as we are, and to fall into the trap of condemning the people and nation as such, is the same as the middle east condemning those of us, who love them and wish peace, notwithstanding the corporate fascism and numerous complexes which currently and unconstitutionally direct war upon them instead!

An understanding of history and our manipulation of tyrants is required to understand the way this event is now being orchestrated. Again, it is a dialectical even, an event begging the pre-determined response; an event covering other more dastardly events; an event so orchestrated that innocents are drawn in; the predictable players of global socialism and the NWO, are the main actors singing on stage!

No doubt Israel was sucked into this event for a very precise cause, which will become more clear as the days go by.

Israel must deal with a reality with which everyday Americans do not deal... the daily influx of weapons used to rain down what I prefer to call, 'death for the global cause'!. It is an action which has for many years been designed by the corporate funded communist agents, such as Arafat, who trained in Moscow specifically to become an agent for the violent overthrow of free countries everywhere, and the furtherance of the NWO.

He was as such, a tool of the same corporate fascism which has funded the Soviets, the Nazi's, and numerous war machines to their own globalist ends for nearly 100 years. His fellow Palestinians and his neighbor Israeli citizens, have been the pawns! Who are these people who manipulate these affairs under the guise of support for Israel? You know well who these Trusts, big names, secret organizations, and NWO societies are! I would be preaching to the choir.

On the ground however, the people of Israel need to control the ships known to be bringing in these tools of war. Though this particular ship might not have had such, there is no doubt in my mind that this whole operation was set up to break down this process Israel uses to ensure supplies are humanitarian and not weapons for the global elites wars! I feel sorry for the men ordered into what I would think was an obvious cause celeb'! It is not likely anyone there wanted to be beaten, or shot!

Believe me there are those in Israel who understand the influence of globalism, and it's cause and effects upon the whole middle east. They are to be used as pawns next, to bring down our former ally, Iran, to get the 'ball rollin', or at least keep it on the burner of fear!

Ask yourself, is it any wonder that every communist supporting nation in the UN and middle east is the first to protest this event, like clock work, even before the truth is yet known, and You tube videos are vying for supremacy!? These are also the ones even, who hated the Palestinians and discarded them long ago as refuse?

There is a simple path to bring in supplies to needy people... any humanitarian organization knows this! The fact however that the US, in the phony UN, is playing the defender of Israel, is hypocritical. They have through the afore mentioned economic policies facilitated the socialistic stagnation of what could have been a vibrant free market, an economy far more likely to result in peace and prosperity for the region!

The foreign policy of the USA has for years manipulated the middle east relationship for continuous control and presence, but not towards a true peace. The phrase, "...just and lasting peace...", has always long been 'communese' for 'continuous conflict towards unsettling free markets and or free nations, for the end purpose of global socialism ... euphemistically called the NWO!

Wake up America! Become a beacon of hope and liberty once again!

It is time to expose and shun the forms of foreign policy condemned by Nuremberg:

The top two charges were: the 'planning' of aggressive/pre-emptive (Wolfowitz doctrine) war; and the 'making' of aggressive/pre-emptive (Wolfowitz doctrine) war! These unchristian, archaic relics of the dark ages of Lords and feudal system crimes, not countenanced by Judeo-Christian, just Constitutional war theory for hundreds of years now, were punished with the hanging of Nazi's!

The sound, constitutional practice of non-interventionist and defensive war, no nation building, friendship and commerce with all nations, was more the doctrine espoused at least in word, as recently as Bush, in the 2000 election! Would that he had followed his own pronouncements rather that perfidiously deceiving the public for gain against Gore. We would likely not be having this discussion right now!

Maybe even the 'Boys who sit in dark holes' would be healing, back home, by now!

Worldwide Protests of Attack on Aid Ships

There have been protests all over the world. In US: New York, Chicago, Boston, SanDiego and many other cites

Also Spain,Greece,Sweden, UK, Paris, Ireland and Turkey, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Jordan ,Israel and Gaza

These are the ones I have heard of so far...there are more locations I'm sure.

Sorry no link ..just google Protests Aid Ship Attack
Do not trust MSM or BBC reports..they are only giving one sided info from Israel and IDF. ( I know you know that ,,but just a reminder)

I'll be offline for a few days at least..family emergency..heading out the door for GA. I'm sorry I lost my temper upon hearing of this news Sunday morning.

Peace.

"I think we are living in a world of lies: lies that don't even know they are lies, because they are the children and grandchildren of lies." ~ Chris Floyd

Yet no 24/7 coverage in the

Yet no 24/7 coverage in the US MSM. Their silence is deafening.

However, they didn't remain silent when people in Iran were protesting. We were bombarded with nothing but 24/7 coverage.

thanks

to our sell-out congress/senate...we are so "owned" by AIPAC/israel..owners of our MSM

What goes around

Comes around..It's coming around folks. The US better tread lightly and decide who they swear their allegiance to.

"I have found that being rich is not about having the most but about needing the least"

If Bush were still in office

If Bush were still in office he'd probably be awarding the IDF the congressional medal of honor.

There's right and there's wrong and in my opinion the US government is wrong in supporting Israel on this one.

Useful abbreviations-

CTCI-Criminals that Control Israel

CTCUS-Criminals that Control the Unites States

Very likely, I repeat myself.

Make your own.

"You are a den of vipers and thieves."

I mean to rout you out!

-Just because you are among us, does not make you with us

-The door is wide open, anything can slither in

Clearly Obama does not want

Clearly Obama does not want to upset daddy. (AIPAC)

Israel targets innocent civilians every day.

That's their standard procedure.

This is nothing new for them.

I wonder...

when they will "find" the hidden weapons on the ships?

I was wondering that myself

They now need a good reason.

"You go and carry off the enemy's land; the enemy comes and carries off your land"-Ancient Sumerian tablet

i'm so

Fing sick of hearing about Israel and the pure BULL $HIT that never seems to end with that country.

is it just me? or has everyone been hearing about this for their entire life as well?

O'bama is silent? You mean

O'bama is silent? You mean there's finally something out there he doesn't want to open his big mouth about?

I am out of touch with most Americans precisely because I am not out of touch with reality.

Hahaha You know if it were

Hahaha You know if it were Iran who did something like this, you couldn't keep Obama away from the microphones...Where he would "open his big mouth."

Israelis celebrating attack on Turkish Aid Ship

in front of Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6a3_1275348204

American neocons would be doing the same thing.

.

Ron Paul "Sign Wave Across the USA" -- November 5th!

The US GOV/MSM

will have the 'facts' all laid out for everyone and Israel will be the victim again by tomorrow or by weeks end. Go back to sleep.

The American people are so EVIL.

See how that works.

Think about it.

Blame the criminals, remove the criminals, but do so in a way that does not open the door to a fresh crop of different brand criminals.

"You are a den of vipers and thieves."

I mean to rout you out!

-Just because you are among us, does not make you with us

-The door is wide open, anything can slither in