So far, the latest set-up against Israel has gone as planned. World opinion gives an easy win to the Islamists with this one. On May 31, 2010 a phony ‘peace flotilla’ set sail from Turkey for Gaza. The idea was to defy the maritime blockade that Israel had set up – something sanctioned by the U.S. and international law – so that terrorists could bring deadly weapons into the hands of Gaza terrorists. Israel has previous experience of seemingly innocuous ships that were heavily stocked with armaments, and it was appropriately suspicious of this convoy.
The ruse was that Gaza was suffering – starving even – from a dire shortage of humanitarian supplies. What a joke! Many YouTube videos show Gaza markets bursting with fresh produce, meat, candy, clothing and other consumer goods. There is even at least one luxury restaurant, The Roots. Reportedly, there are more Mercedes in Gaza than in Israel. And why not? Israel already supplies many of the basic needs of Gazans, like kids getting an allowance from their parents, leaving them free to focus on doing what they love: making jihad against Israel.
Gaza pays no taxes, and gets free water and electricity, all thanks to the Israeli tax-payers who must foot the bill
In just the past eighteen months, over one million tons of humanitarian supplies were delivered to the people of Gaza - by Israel. The reason every Gazan is not bursting at the seams from all that largesse, which comes to nearly one ton of aid for every man, woman and child, is that Hamas takes control of the goods. In addition, Gaza pays no taxes, and gets free water and electricity, all thanks to the Israeli tax-payers who must foot the bill to keep the dependants happy. Free medical care and medicine are included too. The medical care is donated even to terrorists, strictly on a needs basis. That means that if a terrorist is close to dying and the Israeli he wounded is not as severely threatened, the terrorist is treated first and the Israeli (who pays for all this with his taxes) must wait. Israeli medicine donated to Gazans is always fresh and usable. However, the phony flotilla ‘aid’ to Gaza included expired medicine and old, outdated medical equipment, which made them worthless, according to IDF sources who examined the supplies.
What else was the flotilla carrying? Terrorists determined to be martyrs. On the largest vessel, a former cruise ship, one participant declared, "Right now we face one of two happy endings: either martyrdom or reaching Gaza," according to the Turkish media. Even before they set out, the ‘peaceful’
shahids chanted an Islamic battle cry "(Remember) Khaibar, Khaibar, oh Jews! The army of Muhammad will return!" The Khaibar war cry refers to the Jewish village defeated by Muhammad’s army in 628, marking the elimination of any Jewish presence in Arabia. Clearly the ‘peaceniks’ were itching for a fight and were even willing to die. Between fifty and one hundred of these men may have been linked to al Qaida, according to the IDF. They were fully equipped for battle, with long knives, axes, metal poles, stun grenades and Molotov cocktails, as well as protective gear, bulletproof vests, masks, and night vision goggles. None of them carried any form of identification, and most of them had thousands of dollars in their pockets. They were a well organized attack unit operating under orders to violently attack the IDF soldiers expected to board, which they did. Al Jezeera was on board, and filmed these assaults. The videos clearly show the terrorists viciously attacking the IDF commandos first, although the Islamist media denies it.
So what was the real purpose of the ships sailing for Gaza? For one thing, to launch another round of propaganda assaults against Israel, goading her to look like an out of control bully. An additional goal was to breach the Israeli naval blockade both by degrading Israel’s legitimacy and by setting a precedent of pushing through it. According to Huwaida Arraf, a Palestinian American co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement and one of the leaders of the group known as Free Gaza, "It is crucial that we continue sending boats to Gaza to challenge Israel's criminal closure of the strip.” Earlier, she had urged the Palestinians to incorporate violence in their strategies in a 2002 article. Her intention was echoed by Bulent Yildirim, the chairman of the Turkish group that was the chief financier of the fleet. He admitted the convoy’s real goal at an April press conference, "We are embarking on our journey together with over 1,000 people to break the embargo."
Beyond that, we can interpret the armada’s challenge to Israel as a Turkish bid for a more dominant position in the Islamist world, a position achieved by renouncing friendship with Israel, which had once been its ally. They took the usual route: attacking Israel to appear as a champion of the Palestinians.
It looks as if Turkey is itching for war
Now we hear that more Turkish boats are expected, and some of them may be military vessels. It looks as if Turkey is itching for war.
Turkish flags were flown on three of the six ships in the convoy, and they were packed with Turkish citizens. Yilsirim’s Istanbul based group is known as the IHH (
Islan Haklary Ve Hurriyetleri Vakfi). It is Turkish and it is supported by the Ankara government, which has gone Islamist. The IHH is tied to Hamas, and even to al Qaeda, according to Israeli officials. Israel banned it in 2008 for being "part of Hamas's fundraising network." A top French intelligence expert, Jean Louis-Bruguiere, states that the IHH played an important role in the Millenium bomb plot, the 1999 al-Qaida plot to bomb the Los Angeles International Airport. Also in 2008, the U.S. designated the IHH’s parent group, the Union of Good as a terrorist entity citing its facilitation of the transfer of funds to Hamas. The Union of Good is a collection of ostensible charities run by the Muslim Brotherhood’s spiritual leader, Yusuf al Qaradawi, who is known for his religious ruling that encourages suicide attacks against Israeli civilians and who has also issued fatwas calling for the killing of Jews and Americans.
Charming bunch, aren’t they?
In the meantime, Hamas is smuggling thousands of Iranian rockets, missiles and other weapons into Gaza, according to Prime Minister Netanyahu. These missiles can already reach most of Israel’s cities, and worse ones are on their way. This is a grave problem not just for Israel, but for other countries that are in Iran’s expansionist cross-hairs.
What will the world say to these emerging facts? Will it continue to enjoy its sadistic hate-fest of Israel? Or will it defend the true defender of human rights – the tiny, beleaguered
Jewish state? Yes,
Jewish. Can you accept that?
What is your pleasure, world? The choice you make will determine what sort of a world you will live in because Islamism wants your throat too. Your choice is barbarism and lies vs. decency and truth.
Madeline Brooks is a counter-jihad activist based in New York City. Madeline can be reached at: Resistjihad@aol.com
