Israel Navy reserves officers: Allow external Gaza flotilla probe

(HOLY SHIT)

Officers denounce operation as ‘military and diplomatic failure’, slam government for placing blame on the activists.

by Anshel Pfeffer ,  Haaretz

A group of top Israel Navy reserves officers on Sunday publicly called on Israel to allow an external probe into its commando raid of a Gaza-bound humanitarian aid flotilla last week, which left nine people dead and several more wounded.

In a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi, the Navy officers denounced the commando raid as having “ended in tragedy both at the military and diplomatic levels.”

“We disagree with the widespread claims that this was the result of an intelligence rift,” said the officers. “In addition, we do not accept claims that this was a ‘public relations failure’ and we think that the plan was doomed to failure from the beginning.”

“First and foremost, we protest the fact that responsibility for the tragic results was immediately thrust onto the organizers of the flotilla,” wrote the officers. “This demonstrates contempt for the responsibility that belongs principally to the hierarchy of commanders and those who approved the mission. This shows contempt for the values of professionalism, the purity of weapons and for human lives.”

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(After the break, I have copied some of the comments on the article from the Haaretz site… they are inspiring to say the least…)

IDF admits doctoring audio of raid on Gaza flotilla

by Daniel Tencer, Raw Story

The Israeli Defense Force has issued a “clarification” admitting it manipulated audio of its raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.

On Friday, the IDF released audio of what it said was an exchange between Israel Navy officers and the crew of the Mavi Marmara, the main vessel in the flotilla. In it, voices could be heard telling the Israeli soldiers to “go back to Auschwitz” and “we’re helping Arabs go against the US — don’t forget 9/11, guys.”

But flotilla passengers quickly began disputing the veracity of the audio clip.

Investigative journalist Max Blumenthal reports that the head of the Free Gaza movement, Huwaida Arraf, could be heard on the videotape asserting the flotilla’s right to enter Gaza territory. But Arraf says she wasn’t on board the Mavi Marmara, and was actually on board another ship, the Challenger One. Another flotilla member whose voice can be heard on the audio, Ali Abunimah, also said he wasn’t aboard the Mavi Marmara.

Roger Waters – “We Shall Overcome”

“Over the new year 2009-2010, an international group of 1500 men and women from 42 nations went to Egypt to join a Freedom March to Gaza. They did this to protest the current blockade of Gaza. To protest the fact that the people of Gaza live in a virtual prison. To protest the fact that a year after the terror attack by Israeli armed forces destroyed most of their homes, hospitals, schools, and other public buildings, they have no possibility to rebuild because their borders are closed. The would be Freedom Marchers wanted to peacefully draw attention to the predicament of the Palestinian population of Gaza. The Egyptian government, (funded to the tune of $2.1 billion a year, by us, the US tax payers), would not allow the marchers to approach Gaza. How lame is that? And how predictable! I live in the USA and during this time Dec 25th 2009-Jan3rd 2010 I saw no reference to Gaza or the Freedom March or the multi national protesters gathered there. Anyway I was moved, in the circumstances, to record a new version of ” We shall overcome”. It seems appropriate.

Roger Waters

 Kenneth Nichols O’Keefe Tells About What Israelis Did

Israel Rejects Joint Inquiry Into Aid Ship Attack

800,000 kids bearing brunt of Gaza blockade   

links from What Really Happened:

PHOTO ESSAY ~~ NEW YORKERS HONOUR THE MARTYRS OF THE FREEDOM FLOTILLA

Thousands of anti-Israel protesters take to streets across Europe

Anti-US, Israel protests in New Zealand cities

Toronto protest against Israeli flotilla attack

Paris: Demonstrators tried to break into the Israeli embassy

U.S Congressman Calling for the Prosecution (and death penalty?) of U.S. Citizens Attacked by Israel

by Scott Creighton

You gotta be fucking kidding me..

Brad Sherman must resign right now.  Even writers from the American Conservative are finding this hard to believe.

In a conference call organized by The Israel Project, Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) told reporters that activists participating in the flotilla were aiding Hamas and therefore breaking US law.

“The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 makes it absolutely illegal for any American to give food, money, school supplies, paper clips, concrete or weapons to Hamas or any of its officials,” Sherman said, as quoted at Jim Lobe’s foreign policy blog. “And so I will be asking the Attorney General to prosecute any American involved in what was clearly an effort to give items of value to a terrorist organization.”

TalkingPointsMemo’s M.J. Rosenberg, a frequent writer on Middle East issues, describes Sherman as “the most pro-Likud Democratic member of Congress,” referring to Israel’s most prominent conservative political party. “But this is crazy even for Sherman.”

Sherman’s declaration has taken heat from conservative commentators as well. Writing at The American Conservative, Kelley Vlahos declares that “the overall reaction to the abuse of our citizens has been strangely muted and flaccid — whether at the White House, Capitol Hill or in the corporate media.”

Writes Vlahos: “Instead of demanding an accounting — you know, like Turkey is doing for its own citizens — we have elected leaders trying to put Americans on that flotilla in jail.”  Raw Story

The Clintons and their corrupt DLC have sold this nation out to the globalists and leaders of foreign nations to the point where the Democratic Party is actually an instrument of another sovereign state.

They have no fear of reprisal in the voting booth from the American people because of the fraudulent electronic voting machines of Diebold and ES&S.

We have an out of control foreign nation exerting undue influence on our leaders in congress and the White House which can only end badly for all parties concerned if we do not take action to remedy the situation.

PCC-772 Cheonan: “To do nothing would set the wrong precedent,” (you got that right)

by Scott Creighton

George W. Bush’s choice for Donald Rumsfeld’s replacement, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, is shaking the tree again under President Obama’s farcical regime. He is standing tall before the pages of history demanding that the Asian world help take action against the rogue state who committed an act of war on the open seas.  You think he’s talking about Israel’s piracy on international waters?  Think again.

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates told a security conference in Singapore it was the “collective responsibility” of Asian states to address North Korean “provocations,” increasing pressure on a reluctant China to rebuke its ally. “To do nothing would set the wrong precedent,” Gates said at a meeting with his South Korean and Japanese counterparts.  Reuters

As frightening as that kind of baseless rhetoric is coming from a neocon secretary of defense from trigger-happy America, the people of South Korea have even more to fear from comments like this one delivered by their own president…

South Korea President Lee Myung-bak, who announced the move in Singapore at a security conference, said North Korea “must admit its wrongdoing. It must pledge to never again engage in such reprehensible action.”

“If we think that after a while North Korea’s action will be condoned and that stability on the Korean Peninsula will somehow be maintained then we would be foolling ourselves because North Korea would once again resort back to attacking others.”  CNN

It would appear from that statement that the last thing the globalist’s puppet wants to see is “stability” return to the Korean Peninsula. Now that is a deeply disturbing statement coming from the President of South Korea. It’s no wonder his party lost so badly in the June 2 elections. When stability becomes the enemy of the ruling party, you got serious problems.  Especially when you consider they just helped forge a false-flag operation with the likes of Hillary Clinton.