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Zero Hedge Video Analysis Reveals Paintball Guns, Secret Turkish Weapon
Tellingly, a number of commentators on the recent "Gaza Flotilla" kerfuffle, including some right here on Zero Hedge, appear to have fallen prey to the seductive wiles of the Palestinian (and now Turkish) propaganda ministry, painting the Israeli Defense Forces as a "go in guns blazing" murder squad victimizing a few, poor, international protesters on an innocent blockade runner on a diplomatic mission that absolutely, positively did not intercept those transmissions. True, it seemed quite unlikely that the IDF would board a blockade runner ("Darth Vader. Only you could be so bold.") with just paintball guns, but exclusive Zero Hedge analysis can now reveal that not only did IDF forces board the Mavi Marmara with sidearms holstered and only paint ball guns as their primary weapons, but, in what must be the most significant Israeli intelligence failure in decades, they were unwittingly lured into facing a historic and potent enemy they could not hope to vanquish with colored ink.
We refer, of course, to Turkish cavalry.
While surely unconventional to deploy at sea, Turkish cavalry has commanded fear and respect since the Battle of Bapheus in 1302, and, in more contemporary times, in the Greco-Turkish war between 1919 and 1922, most notably in the Battle of Dumlup?nar, finally vanquishing the Greek presence in Anatolia.
Indeed, had we not seen the video with our own eyes, it would be difficult to credit the addition of Marine Cavalry units to the asymmetric order of battle facing the IDF, but the video evidence is incontrovertible. Our frame by frame analysis of IDF provided video clearly shows the presence of feared Turkish Marine Cavalry on board the Mavi Marmara.
Frame-by-Frame Slow Motion Analysis
IDF Member with Paintball Gun
Dreaded Turkish Cavalry
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See and Hear for yourself.
http://www.youtube.com/user/idfnadesk
As well as a horse or something on deck, I do see a paintball gun pointing down and seems to shoot a guy in the leg with him going down. I wonder if that's the guy in the other footage with the bullet wound in his leg? May be a coincidence.
Visit, Search and Capture
Customary international law has long recognised that all merchant vessels at sea are subject to belligerent visit and search outside neutral waters, provided that there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that they are subject to capture. All enemy merchant ships other than those exempt from attack (supra) are subject to capture, however, neutral merchant ships are only subject to capture if there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that they:
(a) Are carrying contraband;
(b) Are breaching a blockade; or
(c) Have engaged in un-neutral service.
www.austlii.edu.au/au/...2005/8.pdf
As you can see there is no requirement that the action be within the waters of the state conducting the visit and search.
That's very interesting.
Since the main argument of most of those angry about Israel's action was that it was illegal because it occurred in international waters, this seems to directly undercut that.
I am curious to hear what the counterargument will be. If it is established international law that it is acceptable to board and search neutral merchant ships in international waters if there are reasonable grounds for suspecting they are breaching a blockade (clearly the case here), then what basis is there for objecting to the Israelis boarding?
And if the Israelis are attacked with deadly force as they board (which clearly happened - they were attacked and beaten by multiple attackers) and defend themselves, where is the wrong here? If the ships were only stocked with non-military items, there was no reason to resist being boarded and searched, since I understand that Israel had previously allowed in humanitarian supplies. Even if they had turned the ships away, what was to be gained by a supposedly peaceful supply ship's crew violently attacking the boarders? Even if they had been turned away they would have made a political point.
It is a different sort of logic. Martyrs are manufactured. The why and how of it doesn't matter to those who believe in the Palestinian cause and to those who want to rile the masses.
Remember the Allah cartoon fiasco? How many realized that the most offensive of the cartoons were never published but were rather creations of the Danish based Mullah who went to the middle east to raise money? 90% of the population Hamas is trying to rouse are barely literate and those that are have almost no access to free press.
The Israelis lost this one when they failed to recognize and prevent the Al Jazeera live feed. Am I the only one wondering why the Al Jazeera reporter and camera crew were on the one boat that attacked the Israelis? Weren't the prior peaceful boardings news worthy - after all Hamas claimed such boardings were illegal ? It was a clear set-up, round one to Hamas. It won't matter if the UN clears Israeli actions, damage done.
It is the same reason Hamas launches rockets next to schools and hospitals. It is a win win from the Hamas point of view. Kill a few Israelis if they are lucky, do it again if no one shoots back and even better if they shoot back and take out a few innocent civilians.
I get it, the funnies. When situations become so weird and hopeless, what better than ridicule the whole thing.
But I feel this post may be a bit too soon, should have waited a few more days.
Had she waited too long though, we wouldn't have gotten a glimpse of all the gimps posting here.
The ironic thing is that the Jerusalem Post is actively stating that the IDF Commando's were armed with Paintball guns, as ludicrously preposterous as it all sounds.
But then again the Israeli news were claiming that Al-Qaeda were aboard the ship, which was the exact same point when I stopped believeing what they had to say.
I think this piece is one of the all time classic posts.
Indeed! It is a little sad to discover the anti-everything bent of many ZH readers though.
Marla, I admire your chutzpah. I was actually worried that many ZH'rs were too grossly in lock step with each one another. You fixed that! When the gilded-anarchist, fundamental free marketeers, et al, have too much in common there can not be healthy discussion going forward - only compromise and group thinkers.
Jews 10, Gentiles 0
games over folks, shalom :-)
So you are keeping score! I knew it.
I'm neither Israeli nor Jewish you plonker. Which proves my original point that you are antisemetic scum :-) Keep digging you moron.
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/zero-hedge-video-analysis-reveals-paint...
Then megaloser, why are you keeping score?
On no! You've ouuted me a joooooooo. Your amazing intellect was able to put the following together: "shalom" = he must be a jew. And only a jooooooo would make a joke such as Jews 10, Gentiles 0.
Its a farking joke you moron! I suppose if i say "Bonjour" i must logically be fwench?
Gotta say, i am dissapointed in the quality of antisemite on this site. Very poor showing guys.
Are you ashamed?
Of your ethnicity?
I can't help you.
marla, glad your feeling better, now a days!
Israel confiscates video cameras of the activists because they can hide "bombs":
http://www.lavanguardia.es/internacional/noticias/20100601/53937835325/i...
"Bombs"... Haha!
If Word is a Weapon, then Footage must be a Bigger Weapon?
Just nuke the Middle East. We can then drill through the glass and get their remaining oil.....BWAHAHAHAHAHA. I'm sick to death of the both of them, the Arabs and the Jews.
What does Israel fear from media coverage?http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/06/01/israel/index.html
The truth maybe.
They've tried their best to blame it on Al-Qaeda.
They did their best to state the ship was full of guns and missiles.
They've stated that it was actually the Commando's who were attacked first, even with video footage showing otherwise and the small case of the fact that the Israeli's invaded the ship, not the other way around.
And they actually believe that someone with a club poses a threat equal to someone with an automatic machine gun. But then this is the land where rocks thrown are met with tank rounds.
And the western world has (though not to the same Operation Cast Lead levels) shown complicity and enacted a media blackout, where most of the news is of the Israeli viewpoint. The same viewpoint which maintains there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza, and if you believe that send me a PM if you wish to buy a bridge over the Pacific, going cheap.
http://www.france24.com/en/20100601-mubarak-orders-rafah-border-crossing...
Who called out the AIPAC TROLL-PATROL!?
Paint guns? More like high-powered air rifles. Whatever; you anti-existence apologists need to come to terms that your boys committed piracy & murder on the high seas. Period. End of fucking story. They boarded; murdered; then collected & removed personal items.
Yeah; it's all PR; and right now, 90% of Turkey wants blood.
So, if I read this correctly, under the Rule of Marla™, international Law of the Seas means jack (Union Jack?), which, therefore, lead us to the following scenario:
So you're XwalkingX riding down the street heading to a friend's house to deliver him Gold, biatchezz!. His pro-FIAT (=bona fide) neighbour (which is holding him hostage against the law (boring!!)), fearing he'll lose Xstreet credX authoritay, decides to barrage you proceeding to take (paint-ball!) pop shots at you while failing to impress you (hmm...). At that point you _defiantly_ use your right(?) to self-defence (now, that...) and, by doing so, entitle him (YES!!!!) to just shoot you in da head (head-shot!!!) with a deadly weapon. You are deathed (lame!!) in the spot and there's nothing to see - move along, folks, we don't have all day (no, seriously!).
Priceless!
edit: ok, anyone can tell me why strike-trough and unlerline aren't working?
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Let's use simple logic here. Typically white trash engage in the "sport" known as paintball. Therefore, white trash are proficient in identifying paintball guns. The author seems to be the foremost authority in identifying paintball guns. 2+2=4, right?
Daniel Levy, a former Israeli negotiator in the peace process, says that Israel underestimated world reaction to the raid.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/06/2010624659743443.html
Thanks for breaking this week’s endless parade of grim news, Marla!
The real question is: “Is the blockade itself lawful?’” says Douglas Guilfoyle, a specialist in international and maritime law at King’s College London. “Everything else turns on that.”
Mr. Guilfoyle says that under the international Law of Armed Conflict a state that has legally established a blockade can enforce it by boarding vessels in international waters that it reasonably expects might breach the blockade.
But a blockade itself is illegal, he says, “if it will cause excessive damage to the civilian population in relation to the military advantage gained… so therefore intercepting a vessel on the high seas to support or enforce the blockade would not be lawful.”
That part of the globe could really be a world travel destination right up there with Rome. Get your act together Middle East. This isnt a win-lose.
Marla,
You were right about the paint guns. No camels mentioned in this first hand account by a passenger.
http://gazaflotillasurvivors.posterous.com/attack-came-in-three-phases-s...
Ahhh.... a-ha!
and only took me, like, forever...