• Murder on the high seas |
Zionism 2010-06-02 |
"A U.S. citizen who lived in Turkey is among the nine people killed when Israeli commandos stormed a Turkish aid ship heading for the Gaza Strip, officials said today. The victim was identified as Furkan Dogan, 19, a Turkish-American. A forensic report said he was shot at close range, with four bullets in his head and one in his chest, according to the Anatolian news agency. " -- ABC News
"Like many of us around the world, Emily Henochowicz, a 21-year-old Cooper Union art student, joined protests on Monday against Israel's outrageous attack on the humanitarian flotilla... Emily was hit in the face with a tear gas projectile fired directly at her by an Israeli soldier... She devoted her life to seeing, to witnessing. And for this she lost her left eye." -- Naomi Klein article
Both of these courageous victims were U.S. citizens. What if it were your son who was shot in the back of the head at close range? Or your daughter who had her eyeball gouged out by these bastards?
"The bullets used to kill 19-year-old Furkan Dogan, a Turkish-American college student born in Troy, New York, were fired by soldiers in a foreign army -- but they were paid for with money extorted from U.S. taxpayers... The commando raid was simple piracy and murder. The blockade it was meant to enforce is a campaign of state terrorism...
Like the behemoth in Washington that lavishly underwrites it...and shields its rulers from accountability, the Israeli government is a criminal band that acts with utter impunity -- not to protect its citizens, but to defend and enhance the state's power..."
"Even when the Israelis blew up a US Navy ship, the USS Liberty, a military reconnaissance vessel that was monitoring Israeli troops movements prior to the Six Day War [1967], Washington went along 'in public' with Tel Aviv's fairy tale claiming it was an 'accident'. This disgrace is repeated today as the beaten and battered Americans who lived to tell the tale of what happened aboard the flotilla return to bear witness to Israeli brutality.
An American citizen is killed, and [yet again] Washington looks the other way. The ghost of Rachel Corrie is not surprised. Nor am I. Because the Israelis, after all, are our enemies... The 'special relationship' is a poisonous and deeply dysfunctional relationship, which benefits one party at the growing expense of the other. Sooner or later it will end, but how? "
The Jewish State, born of terrorism and racist ideology, has defied the norms of civilized behavior since before its official inception in 1948. Any Western politician who fails to take a stand against the ongoing Zionist aggression -- and its network of collaborators and financial supporters worldwide -- is nothing but a moral coward, an agent of a hostile foreign power, and a traitor to his country.
"They handcuffed us, pushed us around and humiliated us," said Egyptian MP [Member of Parliament] Hazem Farouq, who was also on the boat... "It was hell on the sea. I saw Israeli soldiers killing activists in cold blood and then walking on their bodies," Farouq, who was one of more than 700 activists aboard the Freedom Flotilla attacked by Israeli commandos, said on Tuesday in Cairo. "The Israeli soldiers sprayed bullets as if they were a mafia in an American film."
"Under article 3 of the Rome Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation of 1988, it is an international crime for any person to seize or exercise control over a ship by force, and also a crime to injure or kill any person in the process... One cannot attack a ship and then claim 'self-defence' if the people on board resist the unlawful use of violence... Those involved should be treated no differently than, say, the Somali pirates who are also in the habit of boarding ships by force."
-- Yvonne Ridley article
There is a big difference in this case; the Somali pirates are merely thieves. The Zionist government is a well-financed terrorist organization armed with nuclear weapons which has shown its contempt for the United Nations and the world community for over 60 years.
"This event points again to one of the most serious aspects of the situation: we live in a bubble, in a kind of mental ghetto, which cuts us off and prevents us from seeing another reality, the one perceived by the rest of the world. A psychiatrist might judge this to be the symptom of a severe mental problem.
The propaganda of the government and the army tells a simple story: our heroic soldiers, determined and sensitive, the elite of the elite, descended on the ship in order "to talk" and were attacked by a wild and violent crowd. Official spokesmen repeated again and again the word "lynching". On the first day, almost all the Israeli media accepted this. After all, it is clear that we, the Jews, are the victims. Always. That applies to Jewish soldiers, too. True, we storm a foreign ship at sea, but turn at once into victims who have no choice but to defend ourselves against violent and incited 'anti-Semites'...
To any normal person, this may sound crazy. Heavily armed soldiers of an elite commando unit board a ship on the high seas in the middle of the night, from the sea and from the air, [begin shooting people] and they are the victims?"
(Note that the author was nearly killed by Zionist thugs at a protest rally in Tel Aviv).