The IDF has intelligence that says members of the IHH are part of the Gaza flotilla, and they intend to harm Israeli soldiers. The news media are already setting the narrative that the charges are false, thus setting up another Israel-bashing when the IDF have to forcibly take out the IHH plants in the flotilla. The flotilla leadership is already covering for the would-be murderers.
Military elements monitoring the Gaza flotilla said that radical elements taking part in the sail have said they were planning “surprises for the IDF” and plan to kill many soldiers.
The information suggests that radicals are planning to equip some of the vessels with bags containing chemicals, possibly sulfur, which they will use against soldiers who may try to take over the ships.
So what does the leader of the flotilla say? That’s impossible, because they signed a nonviolence declaration.
An organizer of a Gaza-bound flotilla is dismissing Israeli allegations that extremists aboard the ships plan to harm Israeli soldiers who would be dispatched to stop them.
Dror Feiler says the hundreds of people planning to sail soon in a bid to break Israel’s naval blockade of the Palestinian territory have signed a declaration of nonviolence.
Oh, that’s all right, then. They signed a nonviolence declaration. That’s just like last year, when the IHH said they were bringing humanitarian supplies and there would be no violence against Israeli troops. Oh. Wait.
An IDF source told the JPost the possible uses of sulfur as a chemical weapon against a person.
“This is a chemical weapon, and if poured on a soldier it can paralyze him,” an IDF source told The Jerusalem Post Monday night. “If the sulfur is then lit on fire, the soldier will light up like a torch.”
The information was obtained from closed meetings held by participants on the ships during which some voiced their intention to “murder Israeli soldiers,” according to the IDF.
Note the words in bold. The Mossad is all over this flotilla, which doesn’t surprise me in the least. That would explain how one of the flotilla boats had its propellor cut while in a Greek port. Amira Hass notes that things just keep on happening to the ships in Greece.
Let us not forget that the flotilla is not trying to break the blockade for humanitarian purposes. Only two of the ten ships going are cargo chips. The rest are carrying passengers. Even the New York Times acknowledges that Gaza is not in crisis.
Two luxury hotels are opening in Gaza this month. Thousands of new cars are plying the roads. A second shopping mall — with escalators imported from Israel — will open next month. Hundreds of homes and two dozen schools are about to go up. A Hamas-run farm where Jewish settlements once stood is producing enough fruit that Israeli imports are tapering off.
The flotilla organizers want an end to Israel (see Point 9).
There is also this relevant news that the various wire services and other media organizations keep dropping to the end of their flotilla articles. It explains why Israel is warning about plans to murder soldiers. It’s the very last paragraph in this Voice of America article.
The Turkish aid organization IHH, which was involved in last year’s effort, said several of its activists will join the ships sailing for Gaza. But the group dropped plans to send its own vessel, the Mavi Marmara, again this year.
It should be right up in the lead. It should be followed with an explanation that the only violence in last year’s flotilla was on the Mavi Marmara, the ship sent by the IHH. But of course, that would go against the narrative. Just read whitewashes like the Christian Science Monitor’s, and you will get no background on why there is a blockade except for revenge against the kidnapping of Gilad Shalit. The full story isn’t even being told any more. It’s just the standard boilerplate that the IDF killed nine Turkish “activists” after boarding their ship last year. The guns, knives, clubs, chains, and attacking of the soldiers as they rapelled down onto the ship? Not a word of that in the media narrative a year later. The anti-Israel narrative, carried in the anti-Israel media, wins the day. Watch what happens if the IHH terrorists do attack the soldiers. Even if they’re caught on video, red-handed (or should I say, “sulfur-handed”?). The narrative will still be the evil, monstrous IDF soldiers attacking the innocent, nonviolent flotilla fools.
No way this ends well.