As Predicted, UNHRC Blames Israel in Flotilla Probe
by Maayana Miskin
September 24, 2010, Tishrei 16, 5771
The United Nations Human Rights Council probe of the late May flotilla clash between Israel commandos and Turkish terrorists has ended, as predicted, in a report harshly condemning Israel for the incident. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/news.aspx/137889
The report termed Israel's response to the attempt to defy its blockade of Hamas “disproportionate and brutal,” and suggested that Israel be prosecuted for “willful killing.” The report accused Israel of “a series of violations of international law.”
UNHRC-appointed panel members also questioned Israel's right to impose a naval blockade on Hamas, saying residents of Hamas-controlled Gaza should be allowed to import by sea as well as by land. Israel has refused to allow imports by sea due to the lack of oversight over such imports, which could allow Hamas to import weapons.
In May, a group of international citizens attempted to forcibly defy Israel's naval blockade on Hamas. Israeli commandos opened fire on passengers aboard one ship, the Mavi Marmara, after soldiers were stabbed, beaten, and briefly kidnapped by members of the Turkish pro-terror group IHH. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/news.aspx/137877 Nine IHH members were killed.
The UNHRC report was conducted independently of the main body of the UN, which is carrying out its own probe. Members of the Human Rights Council announced the probe only after releasing a resolution accusing Israel of committing an “outrageous attack.” http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/news.aspx/137864 A UN watchdog warned at the time that the probe verdict was already set. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/138510
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's office released a statement terming the UNHRC report “tendentious” and “distorted.” The UNHRC is a group “most of whose decisions are based on an obsessive persecution of Israel,” the statement said.
Videos showing passengers on the Mavi Marmara ambushing IDF soldiers and violently attacking them as they came aboard are widely available for viewing, the statement noted. However, it went on, “this did not prevent the committee from ignoring the facts and drawing false, predetermined conclusions.”
Major-General Giora Eiland, who led the IDF probe into the flotilla incident, slammed the UNHRC report as biased and flawed. He proposed that Israel prepare a legal defense detailing the events aboard the Mavi Marmara.
Pro-Hamas activists http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/139681 led by former British MP George Galloway are planning to launch a large flotilla to Gaza in October. The flotilla will approach by land and by sea. IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi has warned that a clash may occur if activists try again to break the maritime blockade. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/news.aspx/139736
Kinderen als middel om te voorkomen dat je wordt overgenomen door het Israelische leger?
25 augustus 2010
http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/hamas_e108.htm?tr=y&auid=6420613
Israel Asked France, US to Drop Anchor on All-Women's Gaza Boat
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
August 22, 2010, Elul 12, 5770
Cyprus refused to allow a Gaza-bound “all-women’s” ship to dock and Israel is asking France and the United States to help prevent a possible clash on the high seas. Israel warns that Hizbullah-linked elements are behind the proposed sailing.
The women insist they are not affiliated with Hizbullah, but Samar al-Hajj, the organizer of the ship, is the wife of Lebanese general Ali Hajj, who is in a Lebanese jail for involvement with the 2005 assassination of former anti-Syrian Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. She reportedly met with Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah several weeks ago.
"Our position is clear. The arrival and departure of vessels to or from Gaza via Cyprus ports is prohibited and we will implement that decision," Cypriot police spokesman Michalis Katsounotos told Reuters.
The announcement from Cyprus came several days after Gabriella Shalev, Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, warned the international body that backers of the all-women "Mariam" boat may be linked with Hizbullah terrorists.
After the announcement, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said he had appealed to the United States and France to help prevent the boat from trying to challenge Israel’s sea embargo on Hamas-controlled Gaza. A confrontation with a boat of women could pose a serious public relations dilemma for Israel, which is determined to prevent opening the sea for Hamas to import more advanced weapons, ammunition and terrorists,
The organizers of the boat have said they want to bring to Gaza books, toys and medicine - all of which are allowed to enter overland, making a flotilla superfluous.
The Mariam was set to sail from Lebanon Sunday night but must dock first in another country, mainly to circumvent a legal problem of traveling directly from Lebanon—a declared enemy of Israel—to Gaza, where Israel maintains sovereignty over its coastal waters.
"Israel reserves its right under international law to use all necessary means to prevent these ships from violating the aforementioned naval blockade," Shalev wrote the United Nations earlier this month.
Mariam spokeswomen Rima Farah claimed the ship would sail from Tripoli despite the delay posed by Cyprus.
The Mariam passengers include Muslim and Christian women headed by a Hizbullah backer and also received the blessing of Catholic women. Farah previously has stated, “The participants are committed to making progress and our only weapons are faith in the Virgin Mary and in humanity.”
Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon responded, “If there was a mask of humanitarianism on previous flotillas, the mask has been removed completely from these boats, which are carrying representatives of Hizbullah and Iran.”
Filmmateriaal, opgedoken op internet, over de situatie op de Marmaris in juni 2010. Deze beelden zijn op het schip zelf opgenomen en bewerkt voor internetgebruik. De beelden spreken voor zich.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVlaU_jO8Hk&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ1945WsNWk&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=iv&v=B6sAEYpHF24&annotation_id=annotation_171048
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O5N1Gh3tjo&NR=1
Muzikale link: Only Israel - Yedida Freilich
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaGHUZ-8DWw
Verdere achtergrond bij deze informatie is te lezen bij Brabosh:
http://brabosh.com/2010/08/23/wij-israelcritici/
Onderstaande opmerking is een statement uit dit artikel, dat zeker hout snijdt.
Loor Schrijft: “Wie het echter om de rechten van de Palestijnen gaat, moet ook de terechtstellingen van dissidenten, het rechteloos maken van vrouwen en homoseksuelen door Hamas in Gaza of de systematische buitensluiting van de Palestijnen in Libanon noemen.”