Israel Hijacks Aid cargo, executes hostages - Pak journo, Talat Hussain taken hostage

[asq]

Some time ago a famous terrorist led hundreds of people on a raid of a government establishment.

He was clearly and explicitly breaking the law.

The government asked him NOT to do it, NOT to commit a crime.

But the terrorist went ahead anyway. Marched his gullible followers right up to the gates of the establishment.

The government naturally had the RIGHT to take restrictive measures against these lawless people.

So it happened that in 1930 that the British government savagely clubbed the living daylights out of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's followers, in an event rightly famous and glorified in our history books as The Salt Satyagraha, or The Dandi March.

so the moral of the story is...............
that some countries in 2010 still act like those living in dark ages.

 

[vishal_gutsy11]

The Gaza Flotilla’s Skirmish At Sea Diverted Attention From Hezbollah’s Weapons Imports


Dr. Walid Phares
At first glance, the takeover by the Israeli Navy of the “humanitarian flotilla” heading towards Gaza is just one more of the disputed crises between Israel and its foes. As in all previous incidents, the spiral of accusations will eventually reach bottom. While media attention will highlight the tactical events – seizure of the ships, rules of engagement, who fired first, the legal location of the incident and the other dramatic details – the rapidly expanding debate will soon reach the strategic intent of the “flotilla.” After all the governments involved issue their condemnations and warnings in all directions, after the UN conferences and issues a statement and international forums mobilize to indict their predictably targeted foe – in this case Israel – the question unavoidably will be: why is there a flotilla heading towards a military zone, and what is the ultimate goal of the operation?
According to the organizers of the “Free Gaza” network which enjoys the support of Hamas and its backers in Damascus and Tehran but also of governments considered in the West as “mainstream” such as the AKP of Turkey and the oil rich Qatar, this vast coalition of regimes and organizations assert that the aim of the 700 militants and activists was to pierce the encirclement of Gaza and lift the naval blockade of the enclave. Hence the actual goal of the humanitarian effort is to relieve Hamas, not to ensure aid to the civilians trapped in the strip. For if aid and comfort was the sole objective of the operation, the material would have been calmly handed to the United Nations’ agencies which would have forwarded it to the network of humanitarian associations and NGOs inside the afflicted zone. Either Egypt or Israel would have checked it and would have, under international obligation, sent it across the cease fire lines.
But the organizers of the flotilla, a vast coalition supporting the Jihadist organization based in Gaza, aimed clearly at a geopolitical gain: open a maritime path for Hamas to receive strategic support from the outside and solidify its grip over the enclave. Spokespersons for the “flotilla” would obviously deny the long term goal and focus on the humanitarian stated agenda. But had the architects of the initiative added a global plan to solve the crisis in Gaza, one would have given credit to the humanitarian version of the story. From Ankara to Doha, from Damascus to Tehran, policy planners are aiming at reaching “their piece” of Palestine, ironically at the expense of the Palestinian national authority.
Indeed, beyond the evaluation on tactical or legal grounds and who should be blamed, the picture on the strategic level is much more ominous. The launching of the “flotilla” timed up with two major developments, one by the moderates in the region backed by the United States and the international community and the other by the radicals in the region led by Iran and Syria. After repeated attempts to bring Israelis and Palestinians back to the table of negotiations over the past few months, Washington was close to achieving that goal with the help of moderate Arab governments and the European Union. The Palestinian Authority and the Israeli government were on their way to a sit down – direct or indirect – to proceed at an advanced stage in the process. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and other players were blessing the move cautiously. But this process was moving outside the control of Iran and Syria and their protégés in Gaza.
Hence sending activists via high seas to break the encirclement of Hamas was part of collapsing US and international efforts to resume the peace talks. Indeed as we all know, once the radicals trigger (and organize) a wave of “Jihadism” in the media and streets, no moderate will show up for discussions. And that’s what is happening as of today: a spiraling crumbling of the latest chance for peace talks.
This is not new: It is a modified repeat of previous manipulated incidents: The Hezbollah War in 2006, the Hamas coup of 2007, the Gaza war in 2008 and many similar successful maneuvers in the 1990s: obstructing the peace process by using militants wearing peace jackets. But the more ominous development this flotilla is camouflaging is a real land fleet bringing missiles and advanced weapons to Hezbollah from Syria to the Bekaa Valley.
Over the past weeks reports have abounded about Iranian long-range missiles shipped via Syria to Hezbollah and satellite images have shown terror bases in the vicinity of Damascus growing under Baathist protection. As soon as the attention of the international community began to focus on the flow of strategic weapons to Hezbollah, the “brotherhood of regimes” unleashed the Gaza flotilla across the Mediterranean. Seasoned geopolitical experts would rationally link the move to create an incident off the coasts of Gaza with the move to equipping Hezbollah with lethal missiles.
In the end we’re looking at two flotillas, the maritime one in the south being only a decoy for the land fleet to achieve its goal of war preparations, in the north.
Dr Walid Phares is a professor of Global Strategies and the author of The Confrontation: Winning the War against Future Jihad. He is a contributor to FamilySecurityMatters.org.

 

[P.kid]

The Gaza Flotilla’s Skirmish At Sea Diverted Attention From Hezbollah’s Weapons Imports

That line was all that i needed to read. Bull sh**. They just want reasons to attack hezbollah. the entire operation was only to divert the IDF attention. do they have a short attention span or what?

 

[vishal_gutsy11]

why did Israel take the bait? Here is the answer:

Israel cannot allow ships to go directly to Gaza for security reasons. Innocent Israeli families are threatened daily with missile attacks launched from Gaza, and Israel must make sure weapons are not being smuggled into Gaza in “humanitarian” cargoes. Israel offered to offload all humanitarian supplies on board this ship and deliver them to Gaza.
These Turkish ships know that the U.N. will deliver any and all humanitarian supplies after first examining shipments to make sure they contain no weapons. Thus it appears they deliberately provoked this incident for propaganda purposes.
Israeli commanders were attacked and beaten by the “humanitarian” workers on this ship who were armed with iron bars and knives. One soldier was thrown off an upper deck and fell thirty feet to the deck below, sustaining significant injuries to his head.
Israeli soldiers repeatedly told each other “Don’t shoot! Don’t shoot!” as they rappelled to the surface of the ship. They fired only as a last resort and in self-defense.
According to the Weekly Standard, the organization behind this flotilla belongs to the Union of Good, which was created for the specific purpose of transferring tens of millions of dollars a year to Hamas-controlled entities in the Gaza Strip and whose leaders have been designated by our State Department as Specially Designated Global Terrorists.

 

[asq]

Israel’s naval blockade pitches and rolls with the Law of the Sea

Reactions to the Israeli seizure of the Gaza-bound flotilla have shared two traits: They have virtually all invoked international law, and they have virtually all been marked more by their rhetorical excess than their knowledge of international law.

Israel’s critics have levelled the phrases “war crimes” and “piracy,” while its supporters have invoked the spectre of “terrorism” and “weapons of mass destruction.” But when it comes to the Law of the Sea, they may all be out to sea. While much of the international law that gets tossed around at the United Nations is up for ideological grabs, the rules of engagement at sea are among the few islands of stability. It therefore behooves us to have a look at the accepted law before going overboard on politicized interpretation.

Israel and Hamas are in a state of armed conflict. That much is clear to everyone who has looked at the situation, from the General Assembly to the Human Rights Council in its Goldstone Report, which has stressed the need to conform to the laws of war. Accordingly, the accusation of piracy is inapt, since under both customary law and Article 101 of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea that applies only to acts done for private gain. Israel’s acts must be analyzed in terms of the law of naval warfare.

A blockade of an enemy’s coast is an established military tactic. It is recognized as a means at the Security Council’s disposal under Article 42 of the UN Charter where collective action is authorized. Likewise, as made clear in Article 539 of the Canadian Forces manual Counter-Insurgency Operations, it is an action that one belligerent can potentially impose on another, provided that the accepted conditions for the blockade are met.

The law regulating force at sea is found in several sources updating the eight conventions on the law of naval warfare adopted at the Second International Peace Conference at The Hague in 1907. These include the U.S. Naval Handbook, an equivalent U.K. publication, and Germany’s 1992 manual, Humanitarian Law in Armed Conflicts. A consolidated set of rules was issued in 1994 by the San Remo Institute of International Law in co-operation with the International Committee of the Red Cross and several national humanitarian law societies, including Canada’s.

A naval blockade is defined in Article 7.71 of the U.S. Naval Handbook as “a belligerent operation to prevent vessels and/or aircraft of all nations, enemy as well as neutral, from entering or exiting specified ports, airfields, or coastal areas belonging to, occupied by, or under the control of an enemy nation.” It is designed to stop ships from crossing a cordon separating the enemy’s coast from the high seas. It is therefore often enforced in what would otherwise be international waters approaching, but not necessarily inside, the territorial sea of the blockaded party.

The San Remo conference set the specific rules for implementing a blockade. It must be publicly declared and notification sent to all states whose vessels are likely to be nearby. Further, the blockade must be effective. International law permits no fictitious blockade designed to frighten away third-party ships.

The San Remo rules also specify that a blockade be applied with impartiality to all states whose flagged ships enter the blockaded area. It must be conducted in a way that does not block access to neighbouring states and their ports.

A maritime blockade is for security purposes only, and must allow humanitarian assistance to the civilian population. Since the ships sailing for Gaza were on a declared humanitarian mission, those on board had the right to expect that any humanitarian goods would ultimately find their way to their intended recipients. On the other hand, having announced its blockade, Israel had no obligation to take the ships’ crew at their word as to the nature of the cargo. The blockading party has the right to fashion the arrangements, including search at a nearby port, under which passage of humanitarian goods is permitted. San Remo specifies that this inspection should include supervision by a neutral party to prevent the unwarranted seizure of humanitarian supplies and the abuse of humanitarian assistance by the blockaded party.

Finally, the rule of proportionate force, applicable to all armed conflict, applies equally to a naval blockade. Blockading navies are obliged to arrest a ship rather than simply fire on it, and once its soldiers are on board an arrested ship their actions must be proportionate to the threat that they meet. While Israel appears to have met the other criteria eliminating a macro offence, here the facts will have to be gathered from witnesses and videos to determine what level of force was truly needed at the spot where the paintballs met the hammers.

We may still have to swim through an ocean of polemics, but once the legal background is set out, the Law of the Sea becomes far more cut and dry.

Ed Morgan is a professor of international law at the University of Toronto.

Israel’s naval blockade pitches and rolls with the Law of the Sea - The Globe and Mail

All your big winded halablu is not true as it says that hamas and Israel are at war. Wrong Hamas is trying to defend, Onec again is trying to defend itself from a brute milatry force which has a proven record of commiting massacres and killing innocents. Even in last attack civilians were killed who came out to serender.

http://communities.canada.com/share...ead-as-israeli-navy-storms-gaza-aid-ship.aspx

this video is being blocked some how, pl. click on utube logo and watch it at
the source.

The proprtionate force u ar stalking about as if u r sitting in a court room and talking about war to be, sir u should not put this kind of stuff up because the killing has already happened, now we need to investigate and punish the guilty.

Now why all the Indians on this froum are speaking for Israel, since when Indians became spokes persons for Israel, what gives.

Lay off and let the Israelis speak for themselves, not Indians, so stop being like what they say in Pakistan.

chor kolon pandh kali.

 

[Ahmad]

why did Israel take the bait? Here is the answer:

Israel cannot allow ships to go directly to Gaza for security reasons. Innocent Israeli families are threatened daily with missile attacks launched from Gaza, and Israel must make sure weapons are not being smuggled into Gaza in “humanitarian” cargoes. Israel offered to offload all humanitarian supplies on board this ship and deliver them to Gaza.
These Turkish ships know that the U.N. will deliver any and all humanitarian supplies after first examining shipments to make sure they contain no weapons. Thus it appears they deliberately provoked this incident for propaganda purposes.
Israeli commanders were attacked and beaten by the “humanitarian” workers on this ship who were armed with iron bars and knives. One soldier was thrown off an upper deck and fell thirty feet to the deck below, sustaining significant injuries to his head.
Israeli soldiers repeatedly told each other “Don’t shoot! Don’t shoot!” as they rappelled to the surface of the ship. They fired only as a last resort and in self-defense.
According to the Weekly Standard, the organization behind this flotilla belongs to the Union of Good, which was created for the specific purpose of transferring tens of millions of dollars a year to Hamas-controlled entities in the Gaza Strip and whose leaders have been designated by our State Department as Specially Designated Global Terrorists.

thank you very much for this usful information.

 

[Indiarox]

why did Israel take the bait? Here is the answer:

Israel cannot allow ships to go directly to Gaza for security reasons. Innocent Israeli families are threatened daily with missile attacks launched from Gaza, and Israel must make sure weapons are not being smuggled into Gaza in “humanitarian” cargoes. Israel offered to offload all humanitarian supplies on board this ship and deliver them to Gaza.
These Turkish ships know that the U.N. will deliver any and all humanitarian supplies after first examining shipments to make sure they contain no weapons. Thus it appears they deliberately provoked this incident for propaganda purposes.
Israeli commanders were attacked and beaten by the “humanitarian” workers on this ship who were armed with iron bars and knives. One soldier was thrown off an upper deck and fell thirty feet to the deck below, sustaining significant injuries to his head.
Israeli soldiers repeatedly told each other “Don’t shoot! Don’t shoot!” as they rappelled to the surface of the ship. They fired only as a last resort and in self-defense.
According to the Weekly Standard, the organization behind this flotilla belongs to the Union of Good, which was created for the specific purpose of transferring tens of millions of dollars a year to Hamas-controlled entities in the Gaza Strip and whose leaders have been designated by our State Department as Specially Designated Global Terrorists.

dude whats with the Israeli propaganda
May be the Israelis forgot about something called non lethal weaponry

 

[vishal_gutsy11]

 

[vishal_gutsy11]

 

[vishal_gutsy11]

dude whats with the Israeli propaganda
May be the Israelis forgot about something called non lethal weaponry

no propaganda bro. its just that they helped us when we needed it most.
and today when they need our support , we shouldnt leave them in the middle of all this..

as for using non lethal weaponry , well i guess this is the reason why israel has managed to survive in middle of so many hostile nations , they just cant afford to take anything for granted.

 

[notsuperstitious]

no propaganda bro. its just that they helped us when we needed it most.
and today when they need our support , we shouldnt leave them in the middle of all this..

as for using non lethal weaponry , well i guess this is the reasons why israel has managed to survive in middle of so many hostile nations , they just cant afford to take anything for granted.

Why can't you see a more harmonious Israel is in Israel's self interest? No Indian here is supporting Hamas, I hate those thugs, but critcizing Israel's unnecessary actions won't cause Israel's destruction.

Don't you criticize India at times too? Doesn't mean I'll leave India when she needs me.

 

[asq]

YouTube - Israeli IDF soldiers attacked by "peace" activists

Israeli propoganda

 

[Indiarox]

no propaganda bro. its just that they helped us when we needed it most.

Expand on what you said with source please

and today when they need our support , we shouldnt leave them in the middle of all this..

they are in the middle of this situation coz of what they did and believe me stopping food from coming to starving people and medicines for the injured is a gross disrespect to human rights.

Besides this was international waters and Israel no rights to do this what they did is an act of piracy or Privateering(govt. sponsored piracy)

 

[asq]

no propaganda bro. its just that they helped us when we needed it most.
and today when they need our support , we shouldnt leave them in the middle of all this..

as for using non lethal weaponry , well i guess this is the reason why israel has managed to survive in middle of so many hostile nations , they just cant afford to take anything for granted.

israeli propoganda, Hay more arab countires have relations with Israel.

If today all Arabs cooperted, Israel will be in big trouble.
And u sir as an Indian why are U peaking on behalf of Israel. Are u their spokes person

 

[asq]

YouTube - Israel's Critical Security Needs for a Viable Peace

Vishal dude, do u represent Israel.