Israel:
Hamas Gaza Terror Flotilla Organizers Not Humanitarian, Wanted
Massacre For PR
The so called Gaza
Peace Freedom Flotilla is using
electronic Jihad to incite thousands of Muslims.
By
Joel Leyden
Israel News Agency
Jerusalem
---- May 31, 2010 . The Israel Navy this morning blocked
the Hamas backed "Gaza Freedom Flotilla", a group of
ships carrying up to 800 people from entering the Gaza Strip.
Israel was well aware that this was not a humanitarian love boat
trek but rather an exercise in Islamic digital PR.
The organizers
of the Palestine Flotilla to Gaza consisted of some of the worst
global terror groups including Hamas, Islamic Jihad, al-Qaeda
and their fund raisers the Turkish Humanitarian Relief Foundation.
What made
this Palestine PR stunt or electronic Jihad exercise even more
barbaric was the blatant use of volunteers on the ship who had
good and true humanitarian intentions.
Some of these
humanitarian volunteers were unaware that they were being used
by the terror group Hamas as Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Turkish
Humanitarian Relief Foundation used both diplomats and volunteers
from the UK, the US, Sweden, France, Germany and other countries
as human shields as Hamas attacked a peaceful IDF boarding force
with guns, knives and clubs.
Just before
sunrise the IDF Navy intercepted six ships that were attempting
to break the maritime closure of the Gaza Strip. Israel and the
Israel Navy provided numerous warnings issued prior to the incident.
The Israel Navy requested that the Hamas backed ships to redirect
themselves towards Ashdod where they would be able to unload their
aid supplies which would then be transferred to Gaza after undergoing
security inspections.
Israel provides
tons of food, water, medical supplies and fuel to Gaza on a daily
basis. Israeli officials repeated that if this was a true humanitarian
event, not a PR exercise, Hamas would have used the existing channels
- the UN, the EU and Israel to transfer whatever cargo they had.
During the
boarding of the Gaza flotilla ships, protesters onboard demonstrated
that this was not a non violent event as they attacked IDF Naval
personnel with live fire and light weaponry including knives and
clubs.
"The
Palestinian Gaza demonstrators had clearly prepared their weapons
in advance for this specific purpose," the IDF
told the Israel News Agency.
Israel was
aware that Hamas true intent was to gather support for Islamic
Jihad against Israel and all Western, democratic nations. The
IDF knew that Hamas would not hesitate to use the flotilla volunteers
as human shields and thus employed riot dispersal means.
Hamas, Islamic
Jihad, al-Qaeda and the The Turkish Humanitarian Relief Foundation
were responsible for murdering 10 demonstrators on the flotilla
and injuring 7 Israel Defense Forces commandos, 2 of which remain
in severe condition.
All of the
injured from Israel and abroad are currently being evacuated by
helicopter to hospitals in Israel.
In the coming
hours, the Hamas backed Gaza flotilla ships will be directed to
the port of Ashdod port, while the IDF naval forces perform security
checks in order to identify the people on the ships and the cargo
brought on board.
Israel security
sources have told the Israel News Agency that the main
organization behind the so-called "Gaza Freedom" flotilla
is the Turkish Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH), a so-called
"relief" organization from Turkey.
This is an
organization which does not conceal its close ties to Hamas, a
terror organization as recognized by the United States, Israel
and the European Union (EU).
The Turkish
Humanitarian Relief Foundation is openly supportive of Hamas,
an organization that is widely seen as the one of the largest
perpetrators of human rights violations, having violently seized
control of the Gaza Strip, and committed immeasurable human rights
violations against secular Palestine Arabs, not to mention hundreds
of terror attacks initiated targeting the citizens of Israel.
Many find
it odd that Turkey Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan supports
the IHH in their attempt to break the maritime closure of the
Gaza Strip and ranks the IHH's efforts as his "top priority"
for the country. Turkey has withdrawn its ambassador to Israel
and canceled three joint military drills as they keep a watchful
eye on riots taking place at the entrance of Israeli ambassador's
residence in Ankara - something they could have prevented.
The IHH has
also provided aid to insurgents seeking to kill US troops in Iraq.
Not only have
the IHH stirred trouble in Turkey for supporting terror, but their
aims to promote terror activity have reached a worldwide level.
In 1996, phone
records of the IHH showed calls to an Al Qaida guesthouse in Milan
and to Algerian terror cells throughout Europe.
Sadly, much
of the international media including the BBC, SKY News
and CNN to Reuters, AP and AFP are not reporting
the terror activity and present media public relations tactics
of the IHH, as well as the long history of false NGO's created
to divert funds to Islamic terror groups.
The IHH and organizations similar to it have always sought to
generate PR publicity stunts of providing humanitarian aid in
order to mobilize their extremist base and the "Freedom Flotilla"
is yet another example of this.
"It's
going to be a big scandal, no doubt about it," Benjamin Ben-Eliezer,
the Israel trade minister, said in an interview in Doha, where
he was on a visit to Qatar, one of the few Arab states where Israeli
officials can travel.
"The
whole thing was a provocation from its beginning. They planned
it almost two months ago, and we tried all the way to explain
to them: 'Gentlemen, don't try to do it because we have all the
right to defend ourselves'," he said in English.
StandWithUs,
a pro Israel, pro democracy group denounced the anti-Israel flotilla
goals and lynching attempt.
"We regret the violence, unnecessary casualties, and loss
of life instigated by the anti-Israel flotilla when it defied
national and international law, and provoked a confrontation with
Israel early this morning. It did not have to be like this,"
said StandWithUs Israel Director Michael Dixon.
"Israel has sought peace and compromise with its neighbors
for all of its 62 years. However, Hamas terrorists and supporters,
in an intentional provocation against Israel, violated international
law, violently attacked Israeli military and security personnel
with steel pipes, knives, rocks and, according to the most recent
news reports, with gun fire, and provoked bloodshed."
As the the
White House says it: "deeply regretted" the loss of
life and injuries sustained in the clashes, those of us living
in Israel remain committed to peace.
Israelis know
that the Palestine people are being used and abused by Hamas and
Islamic Jihad.
That they use civilians as human shields to create massacres and
then attempt to secure PR for Islamic Jihad (holy war against
Jews and Christians) - a very unhumanitarian, bloody act that
has now transcended the dusty streets of Gaza and has found its
way onto "Gaza peace ships" in the Mediterranean Sea.
The
Israel News Agency,
which is accredited by Israel Government Press Office, was the
first on line news organization in Israel. The INA reaches up
to 60 million readers through Google News and Internet social
networking channels such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube from
New York, London, Moscow and Paris to Toronto, Los Angeles, China
and India. Leyden is presently launching the United
States News Agency using the INA as a successful working model.