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There is a history here that needs to be revisited, but first a seemingly unbiased viewpoint of the recent incident.

1. Mr. Netanyahu defended the Israeli military’s actions, saying the commandos, enforcing what Israel says is a legal blockade, were set upon by passengers on the Turkish ship they boarded and fired only in self-defense. The military released a video of the early moments of the raid to support that claim.
2. Israel said the violence was instigated by pro-Palestinian activists who presented themselves as humanitarians but had come ready for a fight. Organizers of the flotilla accused the Israeli forces of opening fire as soon as they landed on the deck, and released videos to support their case. Israel released video taken from one of its vessels to supports its own account of events.
3. The Israeli public seemed largely to support the navy,
4. Israel had vowed not to let the flotilla reach the shores of Gaza, where Hamas, an organization sworn to Israel’s destruction, took over by force in 2007.
5. Israel warned the vessels to abort their mission, describing it as a provocation.
6. The confrontation began shortly before midnight on Sunday when Israeli warships intercepted the aid flotilla, according to a person on one boat. The Israeli military warned the vessels that they were entering a hostile area and that the Gaza shore was under blockade. (they were not awoken at 4 a.m. by being shot at in bed, as one “activist” claimed.)
7. The vessels refused the military’s request to dock at the Israeli port of Ashdod, north of Gaza, and continued toward their destination.
8. Around 4 a.m. on Monday, naval commandos came aboard the Turkish ship, the Mavi Marmara, having been lowered by ropes from helicopters onto the decks.
9. Israeli officials say that the soldiers were dropped into an ambush and were attacked with clubs, metal rods and knives.
10. An Israeli official said that the navy was planning to stop five of the six vessels of the flotilla with large nets that interfere with propellers, but that the sixth was too large for that. The official said there was clearly an intelligence failure in that the commandos were expecting to face passive resistance, and not an angry, violent reaction.
11. The Israelis had planned to commandeer the vessels and steer them to Ashdod, where their cargo would be unloaded and, the authorities said, transferred overland to Gaza after proper inspection.
12. The military said in a statement that two activists were later found with pistols taken from Israeli commandos. It accused the activists of opening fire, “as evident by the empty pistol magazines.”
13. Another soldier said the orders were to neutralize the passengers, not to kill them.
14. But the forces “had to open fire in order to defend themselves,” the navy commander, Vice Adm. Eliezer Marom, said at a news conference in Tel Aviv, adding, “Their lives were at risk.”
15. At least seven soldiers were wounded, one of them seriously. The military said that some suffered gunshot wounds; at least one had been stabbed. (maybe he just shot himself, his gun was taken from him by the “passive” activists, who were all supposedly asleep in their beds when the mean ole Israelis can shooting form the sky on their drop ropes, right?)
16. The fatalities all occurred aboard the Mavi Marmara, a Turkish passenger vessel that was carrying about 600 activists under the auspices of Insani Yardim Vakfi, an organization also known as I.H.H. Israeli officials have characterized it as a dangerous Islamic organization with terrorist links. (600 activists headed to gaza, why….. maybe to join the battle, maybe to confront the Isrealis who would come and board the ship, a dangerous Islamic organization with ties to terrorist.)
17. There were no immediate accounts available from the passengers of the Turkish ship, which arrived at the naval base in Ashdod on Monday evening, where nearly three dozen were arrested, many for not giving their names. The base was off limits to the news media and declared a closed military zone. (only cowards don’t give their names when they stand up for something they believe in {or terrorist on the watch list}, why not be proud and tell your name?
18. Organizers of the flotilla, relying mainly on footage filmed by activists on board the Turkish passenger ship, because all other communications were down, blamed Israeli aggression for the deadly results. (relying on footage filmed by activists….. blamed Israelis….. you don’t say….)
19. The Israeli soldiers dropped onto the deck and “opened fire on sleeping civilians at four in the morning,” said Greta Berlin, a leader of the pro-Palestinian Free Gaza Movement, speaking by phone from Cyprus on Monday. (all 600 hundred were sleeping on the deck, and these nasty Israelis came down on their ropes with guns blaring, bull shit…..)
20. Israeli officials said that international law allowed for the capture of naval vessels in international waters if they were about to violate a blockade.
21. The blockade was imposed by Israel and Egypt after the Hamas takeover of Gaza in 2007. (imposed by BOTH Israel and Egypt after the Hamas took over Gaza)
22. Israel’s deputy foreign minister, Danny Ayalon, said Monday that the blockade was “aimed at preventing the infiltration of terror and terrorists into Gaza.”
23. Despite sporadic rocket fire from the Palestinian territory against southern Israel, Israel says it allows enough basic supplies through border crossings to avoid any acute humanitarian crisis.
24. But it insists that there will be no significant change so long as Hamas continues to hold Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier captured in a cross-border raid in 2006.
25. The Free Gaza Movement has organized several aid voyages since the summer of 2008, usually consisting of one or two vessels. The earliest ones were allowed to reach Gaza.
26. Others have been intercepted and forced back, and one, last June, was commandeered by the Israeli Navy and towed to Ashdod. This six-boat fleet was the most ambitious attempt yet to break the blockade.

They knew what they were doing to instigate the blockade action, they must have watched whale wars and figured out how to draw the attention they desired while portraying themselves as innocent victims, there are no innocent victims when you step foot aboard a ship to deliver “contraband” to a war inflicted area where you have been told not to go, they were prepared for these soldiers, they were prepared for this fight, they took it to the Israelis and the Israelis shut it down, while protecting themselves, the flotilla had every opportunity to turn back and to change coarse and yet the activist leader put their own patron in danger. But everyone is looking now, and everyone is blaming the dirty rotten Israelis, bull shit.

Hamas:
1. Hamas perpetrated numerous suicide bombings and other terrorist attacks, at first in order to sabotage the Oslo Accords and peace process, and then as part of the Second Intifada.
2. In June of 2006, Hamas affiliates captured an Israeli soldier by tunneling across the border between Gaza and Israel
3. In June of 2007, Hamas ousted Fatah forces from Gaza in a bloody coup, throwing Fatah members off the roofs of buildings after shooting them in the knees. At least one Fatah member was sliced into steaks that were sent to his family.
4. Since Gaza had been totally evacuated by Israel in the unilateral disengagement of 2005, Hamas currently (2009) rules Gaza as a de facto state government. It has used Gaza as a base for launching rocket attacks against Israel.
5. On June 19, 2008, Israel and Hamas concluded a "lull" or Tahdiya agreement that was brokered by Egypt. Hamas, but not Israel, declared that this truce was for a period of six months. Rocket fire from Gaza was reduced but not stopped. Hamas greatly stepped up smuggling of arms through tunnels beneath the Egyptian controlled Rafah crossing.
6. Hamas dismissed the international monitors that were to have controlled the Rafah crossing, and then declared that Gaza is "under siege." Israel retaliated for rocket fire by closing the Israeli crossings periodically.
7. On December 18, 2008, Hamas declared that they would not renew the truce. Thereafter, Hamas and associated organizations directed a rain of rocket and mortar fire at Israeli towns and cities, reaching as far as 45 KM away with Grad rockets that had been smuggled in during the lull period.
. On December 26, 2008, Israel launched operation Cast Lead, attacking the Hamas in Gaza at first by air and later in a limited ground invasion.

Hamas Principles:

1. "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it." (The Martyr, Imam Hassan al-Banna, of blessed memory).
2. "The Islamic Resistance Movement believes that the land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf consecrated for future Muslim generations until Judgement Day. It, or any part of it, should not be squandered: it, or any part of it, should not be given up. "
3. "There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors."
4. "After Palestine, the Zionists aspire to expand from the Nile to the Euphrates. When they will have digested the region they overtook, they will aspire to further expansion, and so on. Their plan is embodied in the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion", and their present conduct is the best proof of what we are saying."

The charter is a rather classical Islamist document, applied to the local issues. It declares that Jihad (in the sense of armed battle) is the only solution. It cites the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a ludicrous anti-Semitic forgery.One of the most ominous aspects of the Charter however, is this Hadith: The Islamic Resistance Movement aspires to the realization of Allah's promise, no matter how long that should take. The Prophet, Allah, has said: "The Day of Judgement will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Muslims, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews." (related by al-Bukhari and Muslim).
Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. Some observers deny the relation between the Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. However, the Charter states: The Islamic Resistance Movement is one of the wings of Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine. Muslim Brotherhood Movement is a universal organization which constitutes the largest Islamic movement in modern times.

Moreover, the Charter quotes Hassan Al-Banna, a Nazi sympathizer who founded the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. There is no doubt that the Hamas views itself as a part of the Muslim Brotherhood and an ideological heir of al Banna. The Muslim Brotherhood spawned a number of radical Islamist movements including Al-Qaeda.

including Al-Qaeda……

Current Hamas Positions

1. "Jews are a people who cannot be trusted. They have been traitors to all agreements. Go back to history. Their fate is their vanishing." Ref IHT 1 April 08
2. "suffering by fire is the Jews' destiny in this world and the next." Astal concluded "Therefore we are sure that the Holocaust is still to come upon the Jews.Ref IHT 1 April 08
3. "We will not rest until we destroy the Zionist entity" stated Hamas leader Fathi Hammad in Gaza on Friday January 2nd 2009 - ref -- BBC 2 January 09
4. In a sermon aired on Hamas' Al-Aqsa television, cleric Yunis Al Astal stated, "Today, Rome is the capital of the Catholics, or the Crusader capital, which has declared its hostility to Islam, and has planted the brothers of apes and pigs in Palestine in order to prevent the reawakening of Islam. I believe that our children, or our grandchildren, will inherit our jihad and our sacrifices, and, Allah willing, the commanders of the conquest will come from among them" He maintained that Rome would become, ""an advanced post for the Islamic conquests, which will spread though Europe in its entirety, and then will turn to the two Americas, even Eastern Europe." Ref- Fox 14 Apr. 2008

There is more than one side to this story, the blockade is not new, and the secreting in of boycotted materials is well known by the Israelis, they were within the rights of protection of the Israelis citizens and the continued conflict to board the vessel. The history behind this conflict must not be forgotten or the sympathies toward the hamas may well overtake the necessity to remove them from power and to insure they cannot follow through with their principles of destruction for any and all those who do not believe what they want you to, everyone, that is their principles, that is their positions, and it still rings true today in the remarks made by those who in power would still see the destruction of all that is not Islam.

In a sermon aired on Hamas' Al-Aqsa television, cleric Yunis Al Astal stated, “the Islamic conquests, which will spread though Europe in its entirety, and then will turn to the two Americas, even Eastern Europe.”
This IS the foundation of their belief, the hamas, al-qaeda, et al. the complete destruction of the Hebraic lineage of history, period. There is very little room for freedom in the jihad minds and zero room for freedom outside the IRM or the radicals within the Muslim Brotherhood.

I am NOT attacking Muslims, I am not attacking those who are tolerant of others beliefs, I am merely stating facts about a people (the extremist) whose fundamental belief in the superiority of their own ideology, and the DESTRUCTION of any and all alternate views, and who would fight to death, forever, until they achieve their singular purpose in the annihilation of all that is Hebrew and New Testament, outside of Ishmael, but wanting to destroy the history of their own brother Isaac, or their father Abraham and all those who came from their lineage or beliefs. It’s just more intolerance's within the confines of religious warfare, but to staunch zealots like the majority of the hamas and al qaeda, there is no alternative to Allah, so assimilate or die, and most will die merely because of your lineage outside the Ishmael line.


I’m sure, since this is partially associated with the FOX network that I will be labeled an extremist right winger, a conservative wacko, if that is how you push aside your own reality, to just assume that all who are not supporting your views are against you, then it is not I who is lost in this effort of world cohesiveness, tolerance and equality, it is you who will lose yourselves to complacency, justification and pacification wherein you will slowly dissolve your own resolution of that which you seek to accomplish, a world of tolerance and equality and whine as it slips from your grasp into tyranny by those who would never admit to being your equal.

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p.s. I contradict my contradictions, with or without intention, sometimes.