Earlier flotilla ships in 2007-08 got rammed by the Israeli navy, and then others were boarded by commandos with beatings and kidnappings of harmless peace activists. Last year, they attacked the flotilla. They beat, tasered, gassed, and shot 63 peace activists, murdering nine and outright executing five unarmed, helpless, wounded civilian aid workers on the deck of the Mavi Marmara.
Now the Israeli government is reduced to sabotaging our civilian aid ships while we are in foreign ports. Skulking around in the dark with high tech diving gear and underwater cutting equipment … how pathetic.
If they put this much energy and funds into honestly trying to find peace with the Palestinians, their Middle East problems would have been solved years ago. But of course peace is not their goal. Illegally seizing land and resources is the goal, and with the announcement of Israelis grabbing the Jordan Valley, the possibilities of peace are rather dimmed.
With our meager resources and volunteers we are trying our best to fend off an Israeli assault on our little Canadian ship and protect your investment in peace and justice.
We are still in the game, we’re still sailing to Gaza!
You are a total idiot.
Greeks know Israel has no option but to stop idio0ts like you from breaking the blockade.
Read San Remo Manual 1994 , the current law of blockades.
Israel is legally correct the the 9 IHH militants on the Mavi were killed because the attacked the IDF !
You give HR activists a bad name. Obey the UN and deliver your aid through Israel !
Shame on all those who would sabotage the efforts of this Gaza flotilla including the NDP who put the interest of Zionist Israel above that of truth, justice and peace by opposing the Canadian Boat to Gaza. Good luck Kevin and all there. Viva Viva Palestina!
Well they have done this on the Friday of a long weekend for both the US and Canada at the beginning of July so unfortunately Israel's terrorism will not sink in very much. Just like in 82 when they used the weekends of July to drop phosphorous bombs on civilians in Lebanon. They know how to traverse the pathways of public relations very well.
The Palestinians have never been a real partner for peace. They are used by the Arab world as a weapon against Israel. Anti-Israel activism will not bring peace because Israel has always been on the defensive. Always. Therefore, the anti-Israel activists on this site are either Jew haters or too afraid to go after the real bad guys. Personally, I think it's both. Sprinkle a dose of narcissism, father issues, self hate, and whatever else the bored modern western consumer is coping with and you end up with fucked up bigots like QuAIA and the Floterrorists.
I know the truth is very offensive to revisionists so I wouldn't expect this comment to last long.
The Palestinians have never had a chance to be a partner for peace; Israel was imposed on them and its creation at the hands of the British and later the rest of the West was not something that had a chance to really challenge peacefully. Israel has always been on the offensive in every meaning of that word including invading Lebanon and then dropping phosphorous bombs on unarmed civilians.
Can you provide any evidence that the vast majority of pro-Palestinian activists here are 'Jew haters' beyond your reflexsive accusation?
Have you met any of those who post here in solidarity with Palestine? As in person, have you met them? Are you a trained clinical therapist who is accredited to diagnose people? Or are you just throwing mud like most bullies because you know there is so little space in Canada to raise any criticism of Israel?
Is Norman Finkelstein anti-semitic? Is Noam Chomsky? Have you read either?
The Orange truck bombing in Jaffa was Zionists being on the offensive well before Israel was created. The bombing of the King David Hotel was Zionist aggression against the British after the British helped create Israel. Zionist efforts have historically been offensive in almost every meaning of that word.
I have met some of you and I don't discuss politics with you in person because true anti-zionists are immune to logic. The evidence for your Jew hate is in your double standards, support of genocidal terrorist groups, and lies of omission.
There are 57 Islamic states. Are you telling me that Jews who have been living in the middle east for thousands of years have no right to a little piece of their own land where they are not constitutionally considered to be second class citizens descended from apes and pigs and forced to pay a Jew tax and slaughtered in the occasional massacre? I mean, Israel was full of journalists and UN observers in 1947. Arabs weren't driven out en masse. The Naqba is bullshit. Historical facts must trump narratives or you ARE a bigot. Youtube "Pallywood", use google translate to see what the palestinian leaders say in Arabic. Just do your homework instead of jumping on whatever political crusade let's you hate on the Jews. To thine own self be true hater.
Who have you met? Can you actually name anybody here that you have met? What doublestandards? Can you give a specific example of any above and beyond thowing mud? Almost every author I have mentioned has not only been Jewish but has also been adamant about confronting anti-Semitism of all kinds, in public, in a wide variety of forums (read: Noam Chomsky, Robert L. Friedman, Israel Shahak, Norman Finkelstein, Gideon Levy, Uri Avnery, Ilan Pappe). Can you cite an actual source for your position that the Nakhba never happened? You ask me to do my homework but you cannot provide any specific source or meaning to anything.
Does 'Paranodandroid' refer to your work as a Zionist internet bot?
Please spare me your anarchist socialist philosophers, revisionist historians and anti-Israeli journalists. Moral relativism doesn't excuse terrorism. Look up the Palestine Post article by Dorothy Bar-Adon from August 17th, 1948. Just one specific example. Go to the library and stop relying on "new" history. I have met members of QuAIA and being Jewish does not mean that you won't support the most vile ideologies, including those that call for genocide. Israel is not perfect but apartheid? Ethnic cleansing? Nazis? Obviously bullshit. Obviously Jew hate. There were Jewish nazi supporters so contemporary Jewish retards don't really strengthen your weak appeals to authority. Btw- I am a proud Zionist. It means one who supports Jewish self determination. I know you don't. There's your double standard bigot.
You claimed you have met anti-semites off of rabble who where the critics of Israel and I asked you to identify them. You said nothing in return.
I never mentioned anything related to 'moral relativism'; you are trying to construct a straw target here. More evasion but no evidence. There are lots of comparisons between South Africa and Israel:
... "do Israel's actions meet the international definition of what apartheid is?"
The word apartheid refers to any institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over another. The "Israeli Arabs" - about 1.4 million Palestinian Christian and Muslim citizens who live in Israel - vote in elections. But they are a subordinated and marginalized minority. A Star of David on Israel's flag symbolically tells Palestinian citizens: "You do not belong." Israel's Law of Return grants rights of automatic citizenship to Jews anywhere in the world, while those rights are denied to 750,000 Palestinian refugees, and their descendants, who were forced or fled in fear from their homes in what became Israel in 1948.
Even members of the Israeli political elite use the term apartheid to describe the system they administer -- the latest being the current defense minister (and former prime minister) Ehud Barak who stated: "If there is only one political entity, named Israel, it will end up being either non-Jewish or non-democratic... If the Palestinians vote in elections, it is a binational state, and if they don't, it is an apartheid state." more
"The Jews took Israel from the Arabs after the Arabs had lived there for a thousand years. Israel like South Africa, is an apartheid state" (Rand Daily Mail, 23 Novemeber 1961). Those were not the words of Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Tutu or Ruth First, but were uttered by none other than the architect of apartheid itself, racist Prime Minister, Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd.
http://ceia-sc.org/
You can call me a 'bigot' but can you quote anything that I have said to substantiate that? Are you doing anything more than throwing mud? It is the state of Israel that is currently passing laws curtailing political activity related to the boycott - that smacks of totalitarianism and a desperation to close down all discussion. Just like throwing mud the way you are doing here.
As for the history of Nakba, ...
http://www.alnakba.org/testimony/audeh.htm
http://www.alnakba.org/testimony/abu.htm
http://www.alnakba.org/bibliography/england.htm
There you go; lots of references for Nakba or Naqba or Nakhba. Enjoy or choke or whatever but please spare us your Zionist nonsense. Even in Israel itself, 'Zionism' has become associated with 'nonsense.'