Israel Kills 10 in Palestinian Aid Convoy

Six of the nine passengers killed in an Israeli raid on an aid convoy bound for Gaza were shot by a single Israeli commando, who is being considered for a medal of valour for saving his injured comrades as passengers attacked them with clubs, knives and even guns they had taken from downed Navy Seals.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7144099.ece

Thousands of anti-Israel demonstrators take to the streets throughout Europe
Published 03:45 06.06.10
Latest update 03:45 06.06.10
By Danna Harman/Haaretz

BERLIN - From Frankfurt to Berlin to Dusseldorf - thousands of anti-Israel protesters marched across Germany yesterday, hoisting Palestinian flags and calling for action against the "massacre" aboard the Mavi Marmara.

There are an estimated 2.8 million Turks or Germans of Turkish origin in Germany. Eleven Germans were aboard the Mavi Marmara.

"We want justice for our comrades killed!" said Hamit Savas, a kefiyyeh-wearing protester in Berlin. "We insist on an end to the insane blockade of Gaza and freedom for our brother Palestinians."

Paris, London and Dublin saw similar protests. In Dublin, protesters were angry not only about the Marmara, but also about Israel's stopping the Rachel Corrie yesterday, which carried Irish activists.

In Sweden, dockworkers announced yesterday that Israeli ships trying to dock and unload goods would be "ignored" next week. A spokesman for the 1,500 strong Swedish Port Workers Union said it's workers are being told to refuse handling Israeli goods and ships during the June 15-24 boycott. A union spokesman, Peter Annerback, said the dock workers would use "detective work" to figure out if any Israeli goods were arriving on non-Israeli ships. He urged other unions to join in similar initiatives. Seven Swedish citizens were detained on board the Gaza-bound flotilla.

Norway announced yesterday it was canceling an upcoming special operations seminar because the Defense Ministry objected to the inclusion of an Israeli army officer in the program. A spokeswoman, Maj. Heidi Langvik-Hansen, said it was "not the right time" to hear a talk by an Israeli officer [identified only as Colonel Toledano].

In England, in Bournemouth, a coastal resort town with a large Jewish population and a Jewish mayor, there were calls yesterday to cut the city's twinning links with Netanya. In a letter to the local Daily Echo, resident Tony Williams charged that "the latest atrocity' illustrated Israel's "contempt not only for the rule of law but for the opinions of civilized nations throughout the world." Williams said: "Next year in Bournemouth we shall be electing councillors, and it is essential that all candidates standing for election state their position on the Palestine-Israel conflict."

Mayor Barry Golbart said people should work for a "peaceful solution." Golbart said: "Speaking personally, and not as mayor, my position is that I am not an Israeli; I'm a Jewish man living in England. It is an extremely sorry state of affairs, whatever the rights and wrongs of it," he told the Echo.

Unless you are willing to say that the US Coast Guard has a blockade of the US going on, then what Israel is doing is NOT a blockade.
You cant blockade your own waters.

Only those people that havent read the law want to call it a blockade.
Or those that are anti-Israel.

bring yourself up to speed on the war crimes/genocidal actions committed by the USA

Gaza blockade: Iran offers escort to next aid convoy
Ian Black, Middle East editor
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 6 June 2010 21.20 BST


Ali Shirazi, an aide to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, speaks under a picture of the supreme leader in Tehran Hojjatoleslam Ali Shirazi, an aide to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, pledged Tehran would send Revolutionary Guard units to escort Gaza aid convoys. Photograph: Reuters

Iran has warned that it could send Revolutionary Guard naval units to escort humanitarian aid convoys seeking to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza " a move that would certainly be challenged by Israel.

Any such Iranian involvement, raised today by an aide to the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, would constitute a serious escalation of already high tensions with Israel, which accuses Tehran of seeking to build a nuclear weapon and of backing Hamas, the Islamist movement that controls Gaza.

"Iran's Revolutionary Guard naval forces are prepared to escort the peace and freedom convoys that carry humanitarian assistance for the defenceless and oppressed people of Gaza with all their strength," pledged Hojjatoleslam Ali Shirazi, Khamenei's personal representative to the guards corps.

The threat came as the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, dismissed a UN proposal for an international commission to investigate last week's commando assault on aid ships, in which nine people died. Another aid ship, the Rachel Corrie, carrying Irish and other peace activists, was boarded peacefully by Israeli forces on Saturday, escorted to the port of Ashdod, and its passengers deported.

Netanyahu has defended Israel's right to maintain the blockade by arguing that without it Gaza would become an "Iranian port" and Hamas missiles would strike Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Israel's undeclared aim is to weaken or bring down the Hamas government.

Iran continued to exploit the "freedom flotilla" affair to lambast Israel. Its foreign minister, Manuchehr Mottaki, told the Organisation of the Islamic Conference in Jeddah on Sunday that Israel's crime was "another instance of the Zionist regime's brazen and merciless treatment of Muslims, especially the oppressed Palestinian people."

Mottaki also called for a UN resolution condemning Israel. The security council is discussing imposing new sanctions on Iran because of its failure to meet international demands over its nuclear programme.

Iran and Israel have had no diplomatic relations since the 1979 revolution and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad regularly predicts the disappearance of the Jewish state as well as denying the Holocaust.

Shirazi said Iran should encourage international efforts to break the blockade. "We should expose our enemies to spontaneous global action and not let them achieve their heinous goals," he was quoted as saying by the semi-official Mehr news agency.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards, which have a command structure separate from the regular armed forces, are fiercely loyal to the supreme leader. Khamenei has attacked the raid as a "mistake" that "showed how barbaric the Zionists are" ...<cont>

Little kids brutally murdered, after watching their mothers raped and their breast cut off.

Quote:

Little kids brutally murdered, after watching their mothers raped and their breast cut off.

?????This is very exciting for you isnt it ? Do you know where this fantasy of yours is supposed to have taken place ?

with nothing at all in your little quiver.

I've provided sources showing the extent of the war crimes,

All you've done is try to explain them away

to divert attention from them

Gaza-Egypt border to stay open
JASON KOUTSOUKIS, JERUSALEM
June 10, 2010/the AGE

EGYPT will open its border with Gaza indefinitely, partially ending the three-year siege of the tiny Palestinian enclave that is blockaded by Israel.

After Israeli commandos stormed a Turkish-flagged ship attempting to break the siege last week, killing nine passengers, Egyptian authorities opened the Rafah border crossing with Gaza for people only.

Strong popular expressions of support within Egypt for the plight of Gaza's 1.5 million residents appear to have persuaded President Hosni Mubarak to keep the border open.

Yesterday a spokesman for the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, Hossam Zaki, said the Rafah crossing that connects Gaza to Egypt would ''remain open indefinitely until further notice''.

''Egypt is the one that is breaking the blockade,'' said Mr Zaki. ''We will not allow the [Israeli] occupation to evade its responsibility.''

With US Vice-President Joe Biden in Cairo this week for meetings with Mr Mubarak, it is likely the decision was made with the approval of the Obama administration.

Since June 2007, Egypt has opened the Rafah crossing only intermittently, effectively joining with Israel to maintain the Gaza blockade as a way of weakening Hamas, the Islamic resistance movement that controls Gaza.

According to Israeli human rights group Gisha, Egyptian authorities have allowed an average of 3192 people to cross the border with Rafah each month since 2007, compared with an average 40,000 who crossed the border before the closure. ...<cont>

Israelis Explain, and Mock, Flotilla Clash
By ROBERT MACKEY

Last Updated | Sunday | 12:15 p.m. On Friday, The Jerusalem Post published the accounts of an Israeli commando who took part in Monday’s deadly raid on a ship challenging the naval blockade of Gaza. The day before, a columnist for the right-leaning Israeli newspaper released a satirical music video, “We Con the World,” which suggests that the activists on board the flotilla were, in fact, violent provocateurs.

In the interviews, the commando described the beginning of the raid, which took place before dawn on Monday, and is still shrouded in some mystery, in part because Israel has so far refused to release all of the video filmed during the raid by its military and by journalists and activists on the ship. Instead, the media unit of the Israel Defense Forces has uploaded short, annotated clips to its YouTube channel, edited from its own footage and from some of the video confiscated after the ship was seized.

I condemn whoever believes in normalizing relations with [Israelis], whoever supports sitting down with them, and whoever believes that they are human beings. They are not human beings. They are not people.

(Jews) want to present themselves to the world as if they have rights, but, in fact, they are foreign bacteria "" a microbe unparalleled in the world.

May He annihilate this filthy people who have neither religion nor conscience.

suffering by fire is the Jews' destiny in this world and the next...Therefore we are sure that the Holocaust is still to come upon the Jews.

Hamas will continue the resistance until the last drop of blood

"...the Jewish faith does not wish for peace nor stability, since it is a faith that is based on murder: 'I kill, therefore I am'... Israel is based only on blood and murder in order to exist, and it will disappear, with Allah's will, through blood and Shahids [martyrs]."

...but our nation was tested by the cancerous lump, that is the Jews, in the heart of the Arab nation... Be certain that America is on its way to utter destruction, America is wallowing [in blood] today in Iraq and Afghanistan, America is defeated and Israel is defeated, and was defeated in Lebanon and Palestine... Make us victorious over the community of infidels... Allah, take the Jews and their allies, Allah, take the Americans and their allies... Allah, annihilate them completely and do not leave anyone of them."

"[Hamas will] never recognize the legitimacy of the Zionist state that was founded on our land."

By God, we will not leave one Jew in Palestine. We will fight them with all the strength we have. This is our land, not the Jews..."

"The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, (evidently a certain kind of tree) would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews."

...the things that Gazans say they need most: jobs, reliable electricity and a ticket out.

Gaza has been turned into a mini-welfare state with a broken economy where food and daily goods are plentiful, but where 80 percent of the population depends on charity. Hospitals, schools, electricity systems and sewage treatment facilities are all in deep disrepair.

grocery stores are stocked wall-to-wall with everything from fresh Israeli yogurts and hummus to Cocoa Puffs smuggled in from Egypt. Pharmacies look as well-supplied as a typical Rite Aid in the United States.

"We have microwaves in our homes, not only me, everybody. If you go to a refugee camp, the house is bad, but the people and the equipment are very modern. The problem is the public infrastructure."

The prohibition on concrete, which Israel says is necessary because Hamas can use it to build bunkers, has forced Palestinians to harvest cement and wire from buildings Israel bombed last year.

During a typical week in May, Israel allowed in 637 truckloads ferrying 14,069 tons of food, medicine and other supplies.