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Showing posts with label 2007–2010 blockade of the Gaza Strip. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2007–2010 blockade of the Gaza Strip. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Arab to Jews: You cannot make peace with us

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    A top Syrian businessman at the weekend insisted that the Middle East peace process is a farce, and that there will never be peace or coexistence between average Arabs and the Jews of Israel.
    "Don't let the moderate Arab leaders delude you," Yasser Kashlak, who is of Palestinian descent, said on Hizballah's al-Manar television, "[you] cannot make peace with us."
    "Our children will return to Palestine, you have no reason for coexistence," he continued. "Even if our leaders will sign a peace agreement, we will not sign."
    Kashlak is financing a flotilla of ships departing from Lebanon with the intent of breaking the Israeli maritime blockade of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. He said the Jews of Israel should seriously consider getting on those ships and returning to Europe, as they will never find peace in the Middle East.

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    During his tirade, Kashlak referred to the Jews as "Europe's refuse," suggesting that Jews are foreign to the Middle East, a concept those supportive of the "Palestinian cause" have long advocated. It ignores the fact that there has been an unbroken Jewish presence in the region for at least 3,000 years. That presences has been documented by successive ancient empires from the Assyrians to the Babylonians to the Persians to the Greeks and, most thoroughly, by the Romans.

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Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Iran ready to protect Gaza-bound ships

Iran's leadership is trying their hardest to Create World War III. So much so they are willing to go to Israel's front do to start it.
clipped from www.upi.com
The seized Rachel Corrie ship is escorted by Israeli navy vessels in the Ashdod military port

TEHRAN, June 7 (UPI) -- Iran is prepared to deploy the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp naval forces to escort aid ships pressing an Israeli blockade on Gaza, authorities said.

Israel enacted a blockade on Gaza in 2007 to keep weapons out of the hands of the ruling Hamas, which has vowed to destroy Israel.

A flotilla May 31 refused Israeli orders to divert to the port of Ashdod for inspections. Israeli forces then raided a Turkish-flagged vessel in the convoy in international waters, killing nine in what the Israeli military said was an act of self-defense.

"The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps navy is ready to escort the peace and freedom convoys that carry humanitarian assistance for the defenseless and oppressed people of Gaza with all its strength," he said.

He said the IRGC was ready to receive his orders, noting the enemies of Iran "should be met head-on through a spontaneous international movement, and we should foil their evil plots."

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Thursday, June 3, 2010

Helsinki Principles: Israel Was in the Right

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A perusal of  The Helsinki Principles on the Law of Maritime Neutrality, a basis for international law on the subject, shows that Israel was well within its prescriptions in forcibly stopping the Gaza-bound flotilla.

Flotilla

The relevant clauses in the Helsinki Principles read as follows:

5.1.1 Neutral ships in belligerent ports

A neutral ship in a belligerent port enjoys the same protection against attacks as civilian objects in land warfare… Neutral warships in belligerent ports retain their right of self-defense.

5.1.2 Protection against attacks

(3) Merchant ships flying the flag of a neutral State may be attacked if they are believed on reasonable grounds to be carrying contraband or breaching a blockade, and after prior warning they intentionally and clearly refuse to stop, or intentionally and clearly resist visit, search, capture or diversion.

(4) Merchant ships flying the flag of a neutral State may be attacked if they

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Wednesday, June 2, 2010

IDF: Global Jihad links on flotilla

Fifty 'Mavi Marmara' passengers tied to global jihad network.

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clipped from www.jpost.com
IDF: Global Jihad links on flotilla
Dozens of passengers who were aboard the Mavi Marmara Turkish passenger
ship are suspected of having connections with global jihad-affiliated
terrorist organizations, defense officials said on Tuesday, amid
growing concerns that Turkish warships would accompany a future
flotilla to the Gaza Strip.
According to the defense officials,
the IDF has identified about 50 passengers on the ship who could have
terrorist connections with global jihad-affiliated groups.
During
its searches of the Mavi Marmara on Tuesday, the military also
discovered a cache of bulletproof vests and night-vision goggles, as
well as gas masks. On Monday morning, at least nine foreign activists
were killed during the navy’s takeover of the Mavi Marmara, which was
trying to break Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip.
The group
of over 50 passengers with possible terror connections have refused to
identify themselves and were not carrying passports.
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