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Global Community Condemns Israeli Actions As Crowds Of Protesting Turks Scream “Long Live Global Intifada”
Things for Israel are getting from bad to worse. The Israeli attack on 6 Turkish ships carrying aid to Gaza, which has left 19 dead and 36 wounded according to latest estimates by Israel's Channel 10 TV, has drawn a wave of global outrage, resulting in "widespread international condemnation of Israel, with Israeli envoys summoned to explain their country’s actions in several European countries" according to the NYT. Additionally, Turkish website World Bulletin has formally branded Israel's attack "privacy" (no, not another stab at Google killer du jour Facebook, but a reference to government authorized attack on foreign shipping). Turkey's foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu has said he will create an international legal case against this case of piracy and that "Israel's attitude has hurt the conscience of all humanity." Also, Turkey has joined the bandwagon of countries condemning the Gaza blockade, and is now openly supportive of the Hamas cause: "We hope that Israel learns lessons from this incident. Israel's blockade on Gaza is against laws and is not legitimate, Davutoglu said." Prime Miniter Erdogan also voiced in, saying: "by attacking innocent civilians, Israel displayed to the whole world its disregard of human values." The head of the Turkish Grand National Assembly’s Foreign Affairs Commission said, “We are going to see in the following days whether Israel has done it
as a display of decisiveness or to commit political suicide.” Making a strong case for the latter, minutes ago Reuters reported that Israel PM Netanyahu has canceled plans to meet president Obama on Tuesday as was previously scheduled.
Turkey recalled its ambasaddor in Tel Aviv as of Monday, even as Israel told all its citizens to get the hell out of dodge, which is a smart thing - everyone knows not to mess around with the descendants of the Ottomans and the Seljuks when angry. And pissed off they are:
Thousands of protesters gathered in Istanbul’s Taksim Square, chanting anti-Israeli slogans and repeating Islamic verses while government officials called for calm and urged demonstrators to avoid retaliation against Israeli nationals.
Protesters met in front of the Israeli Consulate earlier and marched toward the square carrying a banner that read, “Zionist Embassy should close down,” and chanting slogans including “Damn Israel” and “Long live global intifada.”
Crowds also gathered outside the Ankara residence of Gabi Levi, the Israeli ambassador, who was summoned to the Foreign Ministry.
Also, with Israel amassing a nuclear-armed Armada in the Persian Gulf, it may have considered for a more opportune moment before stirring the Muslim hornet's nest:
The outcry from Muslim leaders was strong and immediate. Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, called the incident “a massacre,” according to the official Wafa news agency. Mr. Abbas is to meet with President Obama in Washington next week.
Saad Hariri, the Lebanese prime minister, denounced the raid as “a dangerous and crazy step that will exacerbate tensions in the region,” while the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said it was “inhuman.”
All in all, just another day in the life of an increasingly unstable world, where even Bloomberg is forced to publish such oximoronic sentences as the following: "European stocks and oil advanced as
investors speculated the economy is strong enough to withstand
the region’s debt crisis. Spanish government bonds fell after
Fitch Ratings stripped the nation of its AAA rating."
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Many? How about all.
Yeah, the extreme right-wing has only moderately deluded individuals.
The lefties love the palestinian "victim" shtick not to mention the marxist strain. Its weird. Rachel Corrie is a great example of such delusion. The same individuals despise social conservatives in their own countries while defending and providing aid and comfort to conservative cubed in the middle east, I mean pre-medieval conservative.
41 And when He approached, He saw the city and wept over it,
42 saying, "If you had known in this day, even you, the things which make for peace! But now they have been hidden from your eyes.
43 "For the days shall come upon you when your enemies will throw up a bank before you, and surround you, and hem you in on every side,
44 and will level you to the ground and your children within you, and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation."
(Luk 19:41-44 NAS)
It is widely accepted that this prophecy came to fruition with the seige and destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount at the hands of the Romans.
Yes - from then on there is no distinction between the "Jew and the Greek" - there is no longer a chosen race in the terms of nationality.
seriously folks wake up, there is footage clearly showing some of the idiots on that ship thought they could duke it out with the Israeli commandos.
My bet is they are the sort of weekend thugs who usually just burn down Macdonald stores at globalisation events. Looks they bit off more than they could chew this time ...oops.
I just feel sorry for any "genuine" protestors on those boats who got shot by mistake. But the fuckers doing the attacking in those videos deserve no sympathy.
Seriously man, in international waters? There is no other word for it than piracy or terrorism. The Israelis have just shown the world (again) that they have no moral high-ground and are no different to the radical muslim terrorists.
If you board a ship, armed and uninvited, in international waters, with the clear intent to commandeer the ship, that is piracy.
What is the principle that you feel permits israel to engage in acts of piracy without reproach or resistance?
Is this the USS Liberty principle? Israel can slaughter and maim when ever, who ever, where ever just because?
It begs the question, who is the terrorist? who it the existential threat to humanity?
"Israel attacked and nearly sank the USS Liberty belonging to its closest ally, the USA. Thirty-four American servicemen were killed in the two-hour assault by Israeli warplanes and torpedo boats."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5073.htm
To all zionist nazis: Go suck a pig's ass
Your sparkling intellect impresses us all.
Abused and neglected children (ISRAEL) are involved in
delinquency and criminality earlier, commit more offences, and
more often become chronic or repeat offenders than control
children. (Child Abuse And Neglect. 1982. R.E. Allen)
At a time when the civilized world is in denial about Iranian nukes and Islam in general it is interesting to see the world's attention being diverted by the usual "palistinian" crap. Watch the civilized world now expend great energy, passion and time on attacking Israel, all the while continuing to turn a blind eye to Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons. It is folly and will end in disaster. That disaster will include the destruction of the radical Arab/Persian states, starting with Iran and including Syria, Lebanon and ending with the sneakiest weasel-bastards of them all, the House of Saud.
When I saw the picture of BHO, POS POTUS, bowing to the king of the House of Saud, I realized then and there that he worked for them and not us.
BHO is bought and paid for by sovereign hydrocaron monopolies.
Thank god he's a total f-up. They bought a foolish incompetent. Not much of a bargain. But then, they're not quite as smart as they believe themselves to be, either, so I guess it's two peas in a pod.
But did he hold his hand and give him some sugar? Now that would've been some SHIT if a president did that! Oh wait...
Such immense BS. Who is Rahm Emmanuel? Who is David Axelrod? They must work for the House of Saud too?
BHO is bought and paid for, but your disinformation spiel is directed at the wrong party.
Self loathing Jews?
First things first: I am an atheist that hates all religions equally..
And then, shame on those calling Palestinians 'a bunch of lazy retards living on aid' and thinking Israel is defending itself. Sudden Debt has put the issue very clearly in a post above but I will repeat many more times. To all of those ignorant dumbasses with no historical knowledge, answer these questions.
I write a religious book and claim that God has sent me this instructions and I am the messenger. I call this new religion 'whateverish'
In my book , I argue that Texas is the promised land for followers of my religion.
I find 1 million followers that believe in my book and this new religion.
We all move to a small town in Texas and buy land.
After a while, we declare independence and say this town is called Whateverael from now on.
We tell everybody else living in this town to fuck off or start killing them.
We begin to move out of our town to other towns in Texas and invade them, telling everyone living there it is our land. (read the enlargement of Israel from the day of its foundation before you spit your racist Anti-Muslim vomit)
We kill whoever resists. We put blockade for any help coming to those people from abroad. When anyone tries to send help, we say we will take the aid and give them to the previous residents ourselves.
We call it self-defense.
What would you do as Americans?
Surprised? This is the history of Israel-Palestine war. Read history before you talk.
Heheheheh, Jewish lobby fast at work..Junked in 2 minutes. Congratulations indeed, Israel will be junked at the same speed one day I hope :)
atheist that hates all religions equally
The path of intolerance and moral relevance is paved with hate.
Apparently MacroEconomist is a little at odds with the conquest of Texas. Or did he think the Alamo was about Mexico invading the US? The history of conquest is not in fact very PC.
Adding to the specualtion on this thread
Israel has figured out a while back, what the American intelligentsia is slowly coming to terms with, Mr. Obama is just a hollow figurehead with good oratory skills. when it comes to policy both domestic/international, he has no say but has to listen to his powerful masters whoever they are?.. and Israel not being one of 'em. (BP and Goldman fall into to tier III masters)...so with that background Israel feels it can longer count on the US, at least not for the next few years, and given the volatile conditions in ME, in the interest of self preservation, Israeli powers are most likely looking to consolidate and increase their position in ME. Having said that, Israel needs Turkey, and definitely Europe, so this attack on the flotilla maybe a folly of a low rung officer in the military, who is being groomed for the imminent conflict and went overboard with the operation entrusted to him, without proper approval or realizing the strategic mistake he/she was making.
This attack for sure did not have the approval of the upper echelon, especially given the timing of Mr. Netanyahu's visit to the White house.
Although one might argue that Israel might have planned this particular incident to initiate the process that would help achieve its larger goal, it seems unlikely, for given enough time, they would have a better reason courtesy of Iran and they would have had the world community backing them, including Mr. Obama, who given the reason would have had more flexibility with his masters...
But now that the ball is in motion, I see a 60% chance that this could escalate forcing decisive actions by the powers in ME. -IB
Interesting.
Yes, interesting. And it will get even more interesting once Europe no longer has the will or money to bribe the Arabs with their support, because they are going to be poor as hell once this euro-thing finishes hitting the fan. That could happen within weeks if things don't go well.
The one thing we've lacked in the past sixty years is honesty about the ME. Israel might as well display some honesty by destroying its enemies. We've fought fake wars since Jimmy Carter tried to create peace in the Middle East. It's time for a real one to destroy the insane impasse that "progressive" diplomacy created.
You are a true fascist aren't you? But do a check and see that Lebensraum is not all it's cracked up to be.
Maybe our president can address some problems closer to home -- possibly using the State Department's "smart diplomacy" strategy:
http://dailycaller.com/2010/05/31/israeli-pm-continues-canada-trip/
http://dailycaller.com/2010/05/29/obama-doesnt-have-time-to-meet-with-ar...
Congrats ZH community on possibly having the **junkiest** thread that I have ever read. And what a bunch of strange revelations on politics and Zionism from what would appear to be otherwise sane posters.
Sheesh.
For overall being a bunch of people who generally speaking hate the current system, hope for a reset, and tend toward a god (unknown if you prefer), Guns and Gold approach, it is somewhat interesting that so many are against any kind of military conquest, whether it be by Israel, Gazans or anyone else.
Might I also suggest that Tyler(s) and Marla deactivate all the new people that suddenly showed up since about 4 pm the 30th of May. Does ZH exist to be a playground for the Zionist/Anti-Zionist debate between the spokesmen of who knows whom?
Really?
Hint hint - Zina et al
re. deactivate all the new people that suddenly showed up since about 4 pm the 30th of May.
Please resist the GIYUS program.
http://giyus.org/
Isreal/Palestinian heated arguments will continue forever. The problem is that....drum roll.....Both sides are right. Can't say that very often.
That's why everybody is so pissed,,, and passionate. That's why this hasn't been fixed yet. And never will be, until somebody's wiped completely off the map.