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

[Kompromat]

Thousands protest against Israeli raid

Updated Tue Jun 1, 2010 9:02am AEST

Greek clashes: protesters throw stones at police near the Israeli embassy in Athens (Reuters: John Kolesidis)

Thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets in Europe and the Middle East to protest against the Israeli storming of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, which left nine activists dead.

In Athens, about 3,500 protesters rallied outside the Israeli embassy, chanting "hands off Gaza" and "free Palestine".

Several hundreds clashed with police, throwing chunks of marble, stones and bottles. Police fired teargas to disperse them.

"Demonstrators set barricades on fire, police chased them; there were a lot of stones and teargas and a few people had blood on their heads," a witness said, adding he saw four people injured. Police said they detained five protesters.

The Israeli action sparked street protests and government ire in Turkey, long Israel's lone Muslim ally in the region, and thousands of followers of an anti-US cleric took to the streets in Baghdad.

Across Egypt, which in 1979 became the first Arab state to sign a peace treaty with Israel, up to 8,000 Egyptians protested, demanding the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador in Cairo and calling on the government to open its Rafah borders with Gaza.

The protests were organised by the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's biggest opposition group, which is affiliated to Hamas, the Islamist group that took control of the Gaza strip in 2007. Two Brotherhood parliamentarians were on board the convoy ships.

"Hamas, you are the cannon and the Brotherhood is your voice," chanted thousands of Egyptians protesting in Cairo.

The Brotherhood routinely organises protests demanding the lifting of the Israeli blockade on Gaza.

Police used teargas in Paris when about 2,000 people demonstrated near the Israeli embassy, hurling stones, waving Palestinian and Turkish flags and brandishing banners saying "long live free Palestine" and "criminal Israel".

Small, peaceful anti-Israel demonstrations were held in Rome and other Italian cities.

"The Italian government needs to immediately call back its ambassador from Israel as other countries in Europe have done," said Paolo Cento, a left-wing politician among the demonstrators.

"This is extremely serious and has no precedent whatsoever in the history of international diplomacy."

Swedish police said more than 5,000 protesters marched from a central Stockholm square towards the Israeli embassy, carrying banners and shouting slogans.

Chanting "boycott Israel", they held banners saying "free Gaza", "put Israel on trial", "Israel to the Hague" and "Gaza bleeds"

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/06/01/2914743.htm

 

[Ahmad]

The foreign minister continued to say that the majority of Israeli officials oppose an international inquiry,

yes, and NK should also appoint its own investigating panel to investigate the sunken ship of SK.

 

[cabatli_53]

Cyber Attack...

Likut webpage

Israeli Navy's website:

 

[Ahmad]

^^ i cant see it, what has happend?

 

[cabatli_53]

And Israeli Officials blocked Turkish IPs in attempt to stop the Turkish hackers.

The hackers say they will continue to hack official and unoffocial Israeli sites.

 

[cabatli_53]

Mossad's webpage has also been closed to enter by Turk hackers...

The lists of websites hacked by Turkish hackers...

http://ekonomi.haberturk.com/teknoloji/haber/519945-mossada-agir-darbe-flas

 

[mjnaushad]

YouTube - Weapons Found on the Flotilla Ship Mavi Marmara Used by Activists Against IDF Soldiers

These are really dangerous weapons. Tell me how many of them are banned in Israel or any country. Which of these weapons require govt permission to have in your house hold inventory. Forget all other countries. Just tell me Israel.

 

[FreekiN]

Holy ****. Turkish hackers are beastly.

fruckin' hacked mossad.

 

[Fighter488]

Israel's defenders mobilize, threaten​

By Jim Lobe

WASHINGTON - Faced with what the Wall Street Journal calls "one of Israel's worst international relations disasters in years", the right-wing leadership of the so-called "Israel Lobby" has been pulling out all the stops to defend the Jewish state against global outrage over its deadly seizure of a Gaza-bound vessel in international waters carrying humanitarian supplies early on Monday morning.

Its biggest concern for now is to prevent the administration of US President Barack Obama from distancing itself in any way - let alone joining in the almost universal condemnation - from the military operation in which at least nine civilian passengers of the Turkish-flagged Mavi Marmara were killed by Israeli commandos.

"As the international community is engaged in a biased rush to judgment against Israel and a diplomatic lynching, now is the time
for the United States to firmly stand with the Jewish state and its people," said Abraham Foxman, director of the Anti-Defamation League, on Wednesday.

"The US must show the world that it not only supports Israel's right to defend its borders and citizens against terrorism, but that it supports Israel's right to protect itself from people who pretend to be 'peace activists', and parade under the guise of humanitarians while supporting Hamas and violently attacking Israeli military personnel," he added.

Indeed, even after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's spokesman publicly thanked Washington for its efforts to "water down" a statement by the president of the United Nations Security Council issued early on Tuesday morning, hard-line neo-conservatives complained bitterly that Obama had betrayed its closest ally by not vetoing it.

"So why did we agree to the presidential statement?" asked Elliott Abrams, former president George W Bush's top Middle Eastern aide, in an article entitled "Joining the Jackals".

"The White House did not wish to stand with Israel against this mob [of Security Council members who condemned the Israeli attack] because it does not have a policy of solidarity with Israel," Abrams, who is now based at the Council on Foreign Relations, wrote for the neo-conservative Weeklystandard.com. "It would have been simple to stop the mob had the White House wanted to." (Emphasis in the original.)

Some neo-conservatives, whose worldview is closely aligned to that of Netanyahu's Likud Party, even suggested that Obama's failure to unconditionally defend Israel in its hour of need could well make the Jewish state take even more aggressive action in the future.

"If Obama decides it is in America's interest to make an example of Israel after the Gaza flotilla incident in order to win goodwill in Cairo, Beirut, Tehran and Ankara," warned Michael Rubin of the American Enterprise Institute, "then he must also recognize that the leadership in Jerusalem is going to conclude that it cannot trust the United States to safeguard its security, and that therefore it must take matters into its own hands on any number of issues, not the least of which is Iran's nuclear program."

In effect, if the White House decides to come down hard on Israel now," he added in National Review Online, "it is the same as giving a green light for Israel to strike Iran."

That threat was echoed in a remarkable column published by the neo-conservative Wall Street Journal on Tuesday in which the author, Ronen Bergman of Israel's Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, argued that the operation itself was "irresponsible" and evidence that a "siege mentality" - based on the belief that world opinion is irreversibly hostile to the Jewish state - had taken hold of the country and its governing elite.

Citing Iran's nuclear program, Bergman argued that such an "unhealthy mindset" was "profoundly disturbing when the fatigued and isolated country itself has the means to strike pre-emptively and punishingly at its enemies, including in ways from which, realistically, there may be no return."

While neo-conservatives were warning darkly about the geopolitical consequences for the administration of any distancing from Israel's position, the Lobby's leaders and their friends in US Congress focused more on defending Israel's version of the pre-dawn incident that took place on Monday some 100 kilometers off Gaza's coast.

They insisted, among other things, that the Israeli commandos who carried out the operation, armed only with paintball rifles and handguns, acted in self-defense after coming under attack from passengers brandishing iron bars, knives and other crude weapons.

"Israeli soldiers had every right to defend their lives against a lynch mob attacking them with knives and clubs," said Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Based primarily on a short video distributed by the Israel Defense Forces, this version of events, including the weapons involved on both sides, has been called into question by the testimony of many of the 600 some passengers. After being towed to Israel and held incommunicado for some 24 hours, they were deported on Wednesday.

It also failed to take into account the right of self-defense of those aboard a vessel that came under attack in international waters. "This is like a carjacker complaining to the police that the driver bashed him with a crowbar that was under the seat," noted M J Rosenberg, a Middle East analyst at Media Matters.

Israel's defenders have also tried to focus media and public attention on what they have called the "terrorist-linked, radical Islamic" group that reportedly bought the Mavi Marmara, the Turkish-based Insani Yardim Vakfi, or IHH, and helped sponsor the flotilla of eight vessels that set out to breach Israel's three-year-old blockade of Gaza.

According to a release put out on Monday by the powerful American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), a declassified report by the Central Intelligence Agency after 9/11 named the IHH "as part of 15 organizations that employed members or otherwise facilitate the activities of terrorist groups - INCLUDING al-Qaeda".

Another AIPAC release cited testimony by a "famed French counter-terrorism investigator" that the IHH had played "an important role" in the al-Qaeda Millenium [sic] bomb plot" that targeted Los Angeles International Airport.

But, while the IHH appears to have played a role in recruiting fighters in the Bosnia and Chechnya conflicts in the mid-1990s when the US Central Intelligence Agency report was written, it currently carries out relief operations in more than 100 countries, including Haiti and a number of African countries, as well as in Gaza, the New York Times reported Tuesday. And, aside from an assortment of sticks and kitchen knives, no weapons were found aboard any of the ships seized by Israel.

Similar talking points, however, were deployed by The Israel Project (TIP), another right-wing Zionist group that mobilized its members to write e-mails to lawmakers and media outlets in their area calling on them to stand by Israel. In the space of two hours on Tuesday afternoon, the Washington bureau of Inter Press Service received nearly 20 emails from TIP members in support of Israel's version of the incident.

Jim Lobe's blog on US foreign policy can be read at http://www.ips.org/blog/jimlobe/.
(Inter Press Service)


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[Fighter488]

Israeli strike echoes in Pakistan​

By Syed Saleem Shahzad

ISLAMABAD - Over the past few years the Palestinian issue, which has seen the rise of the fundamentalist Hamas in Gaza, has in many respects been downgraded from an international conflict into a complex local issue.

Israel’s deadly attack on Monday on an unarmed Turkish aid ship trying to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza has overnight changed this, sparking protest rallies across the Muslim world. Even the biggest facilitator of the Gaza siege, Israel's ally Egypt, reacting to the protests, opened the Rafah border crossing into Gaza.

The incident has also turned the spotlight on the United States, which ultimately might be the major loser, especially in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Hundreds of members of a pro-Iran Islamist group, the Imamia Students' Organization, marched through the streets of Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi on Tuesday in protest against the Israeli attack on the Mavi Marmara. The protest was just one of several hundred staged in other parts of the country.

The rally was supposed to take place in front of the Karachi Press Club. As the protesters made their way to the club a group of men suddenly started shouting inflammatory slogans. These included "La Sharqia La Gharbia Islamiya, Islamiya" (We neither believe in East nor in the West, we only believe in Islam), "Death to America, death to Israel" and "Allies of the Americans and Israel are traitors."

At this point the marchers veered off towards the United States consulate and the protest turned violent as police tried to block the march. At least two dozen student activists were arrested and the remainder dispersed by water cannons.

In Pakistani terms this was a relatively small incident with no deaths, but it is a sign of a fresh anti-American campaign in the country that could easily be replicated in other nations.

The heightened temperature on the streets in Pakistan could not have come at a worse time.

The government is under intense pressure from Washington to launch a massive military offensive in the North Waziristan tribal area, which the US recognizes as the crucial base for the Afghan resistance and the global headquarters of al-Qaeda. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) troops in Afghanistan are also poised for a big offensive against Taliban strongholds in Kandahar province - a move that is highly unpopular with the local population.

Even though Pakistan is termed a most important non-NATO ally in the war in Afghanistan, Islamabad does not have diplomatic relations with Israel. Three Pakistani citizens were on the Mavi Marmara and the incident, including Turkey's unequivocal condemnation of the attack, received widespread media coverage.
International Islamic movements immediately showed up on the streets and formulated plans for demonstrations, including the Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan, which after a high-level meeting in Lahore outlined a prolonged protest campaign.

Former Afghan interim prime minister Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai told Asia Times Online from Kabul that sustained protests could also break out in Afghanistan.

The Kandahar offensive, which was supposed to have been launched before April, is further delayed pending the fate of the operation in North Waziristan, first promised by the Pakistan army last year.

Meanwhile, the Taliban's Operation Fateh (Operation Victory) is on schedule, having begun last month with the attack on a NATO convey in Kabul in which several senior officials were killed, followed by an attack on the massive Bagram air base outside Kabul and one on Kandahar air field.

There have also been pitched battles at Logar air base and deadly assaults in Helmand, Farah and Kuduz. The Taliban captured the only pro-government district of Barge Matal in Nuristan province, including all government buildings. On Tuesday, NATO forces recaptured the district headquarters, but the Taliban still control the mountains and the nearby villages.

The level of the insurgency is expected to increase during the summer months. In short, it is vital for NATO to dismember the Taliban's central command structures - the branch that controls the southeastern Afghan insurgency that is based in North Waziristan, and the southwestern branch based in Kandahar province.

Now, with anti-Israeli and anti-US sentiment at a five-year high, mustering political support behind a pro-American operation in North Waziristan and a Kandahar offensive, already heavily opposed by local tribes, seems impossible. Any delay benefits the Taliban's Operation Fateh - which already has key strategic border towns in Khost, Paktia, Paktika, Kunar and Nangarhar in its sights.

If the offensives do get off the ground, they will certainly stir already inflamed passions and further radicalize youth in Pakistan and Afghanistan - and there is no guarantee of their success.

Syed Saleem Shahzad is Asia Times Online's Pakistan Bureau Chief. He can be reached at saleem_shahzad2002@yahoo.com

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[T-Faz]

What a moronic bunch these neo conservatives are, US wants to fight exremists worldwide but it forgets the plethora of hate mongering and loony religious idiots it has in its own backyard.

Some of these guys are exactly like the taliban, the only difference is that they were born in a first world country and enjoy a better lifestyle which somehow makes them sane in the eyes of others.

Many of thes nuts beleive that it is their God given duty to protect Israel and assemble all the jews in Israel where Jesus will come back to punish them. According to them who so ever supports Israel will have good luck on its side.

What a bunch of nutcases, these Americanibans need to be eliminated.

 

[rameez ahmed]

This fool Talat hussain would never go to helpless people in HUNZA VALLEY but is ready to make a trip to PALESTINE just because it is MORE GLAMOROUS and HEROIC.

What a hypocrite, instead of helping his own countrymen, he cares about others.

DISGUSTINGLY UNPATRIOTIC. These people enjoy every thing by virtue of our FATHERLAND but yet they shamelessly display their sympathies on others.

What does he think? Is Pakistan is some SWITZERLAND where all people are happy and don't need any help?

Talat Hussain is not a fool.. One man would have done no change in the reporting of Hunza lake incident.. If he was not their then other journalists were their to do his job while he prefered to go to Palestine..

I think , if you are saying so, then you should go to Hunza lake and help them.. but surely you won't .. you know why ? because every man can't be at many places at a time and when he is required at many places , he will decide what is more important..

He thought being the Part of the Activist is more important so that when he gets in Palestine, he could bring the voices of Innocents Palestinians in our country.. Thats all .. it was his own choice and he is not at all wrong in this...

 

[rameez ahmed]

The Holy Prophet (SA) said"

"Surely you will fight the jews. and surely you will kill them. And on that day even the stones will speak to muslims that O Muslim !! There's a jew hiding Behind Me. So come and Kill Him'

(sahih Bukhari)


If We study the history of Jews you will Come to know that they are waiting for their MESSAIH (to be Sent by ALLAH to them) who will liberate the Israel for them and will make them rule the world. But the True MESSIAH is Hazrat ISA (AS) who will return on this world for Muslims . So their MESSIAH According To Holy Prophet (SA) is DAJJAL or the FALSE MESSIAH...

They are doing all this to gain power so that their FALSE MESSIAH may come and rule...

The Israelis started to come to the Holy Land (Jerusalem) in early 1900s.... Then they create the State of Israel in 1948 ..... Now they are making steps to rule the world .. they have completed almost 60% of their 3rd objective, and when they will achieve it , DAJJAL WILL EMERGE and will say that he is the MESSIAH.

US is the Biggest supporter of Israel and have given it great weapons so that it may rule the world as the SUPER POWER .. And undoubtedly now its a very big power and can deal with the Middle east alone now..

Brothers and sisters ask any Islamic Scholar who have studied the Signs of Emergence of Imam al Mahdi , Dajjal and Hazrat Isa (SA) in detail.. He will tell you that WE ARE LIVING IN THE AGE OF DAJJAL.....

If you don't agree with me search on net the Lectures of late Dr Israr Ahmed (may Allah bless his Soul) and Maulana Imran Hosein (he is Sunni)......

You can see the lecture on Dajjal by Sheikh Imran Hosein at the following link:

Abaut dajjal

 

[Dr.Evil]

The Holy Prophet (SA) said"

"Surely you will fight the jews. and surely you will kill them. And on that day even the stones will speak to muslims that O Muslim !! There's a jew hiding Behind Me. So come and Kill Him'

(sahih Bukhari)


If We study the history of Jews you will Come to know that they are waiting for their MESSAIH (to be Sent by ALLAH to them) who will liberate the Israel for them and will make them rule the world. But the True MESSIAH is Hazrat ISA (AS) who will return on this world for Muslims . So their MESSIAH According To Holy Prophet (SA) is DAJJAL or the FALSE MESSIAH...

They are doing all this to gain power so that their FALSE MESSIAH may come and rule...

The Israelis started to come to the Holy Land (Jerusalem) in early 1900s.... Then they create the State of Israel in 1948 ..... Now they are making steps to rule the world .. they have completed almost 60% of their 3rd objective, and when they will achieve it , DAJJAL WILL EMERGE and will say that he is the MESSIAH.

US is the Biggest supporter of Israel and have given it great weapons so that it may rule the world as the SUPER POWER .. And undoubtedly now its a very big power and can deal with the Middle east alone now..

Brothers and sisters ask any Islamic Scholar who have studied the Signs of Emergence of Imam al Mahdi , Dajjal and Hazrat Isa (SA) in detail.. He will tell you that WE ARE LIVING IN THE AGE OF DAJJAL.....

If you don't agree with me search on net the Lectures of late Dr Israr Ahmed (may Allah bless his Soul) and Maulana Imran Hosein (he is Sunni)......

You can see the lecture on Dajjal by Sheikh Imran Hosein at the following link:

Abaut dajjal

How many times will you post the same material. Why dont you keep this predictions out.

Isn't fortune telling & Listening to it Haram in Islam.

 

[rameez ahmed]

How many times will you post the same material. Why dont you keep this predictions out.

Isn't fortune telling & Listening to it Haram in Islam.

Firstly its for muslims and not for non muslims..

these are the saying of out Holy Prophet (SA) that are about to happen..... this is not the fortune telling.... he mentioned us the Signs that will show that the Emergence of Dajjal is near...

with this the muslims will come to know that we are living in that age of which Prophet Muhammad (SA) Propehsized...

You can say it anything.. But a MUSLIM will atleast read what I have to say and try to get information in this regard because its an important part of our religion and all of the signs of emergence of Dajjal are proving true in today's world....