A video has been racing around the Internet — purportedly showing heavy weapons discovered behind bags of flour on the Mavi Marmara. The find would serve to justify the lethal raid on the flotilla to Gaza and some posters have asked why no uproar? The answer is because the video is a fraud — it shows a boat that was actually searched in 2009.
The video is often accompanied by the same text, which was posted by a commenter on this blog:
This video shows that during the unloading of the Marmara boat in the port of Ashdod, behind the bags of flour were boxes of heavy weapons and ammunition: mortars, artillery shells, bazookas, without counting a trunk where more than one million euros was found intended for Hamas. This video should be widely distributed as evidence of why the IDF Naval commandos were dispatched to intercept the six vessels including the M/S Mavi Marmara. One wonders what is aboard the Irish vessel, the M/S. Rachel Corrie, that Israel will intercept sometime today when it approaches the Naval blockade line off the coast of Gaza. Clearly the Turkish AKP Islamist government is complicit in permitting this military cargo to be loaded on the ‘peaceful’ Free Gaza Flotilla. Please distribute this video widely. If you had any doubt about what was on the flotilla, here is the video. The French explains that the arms on display were hidden behind sacks of grain.
There appears to be a conscious misinformation campaign afoot. The people who originally posted this video obviously knew it was false but wanted to mislead viewers. They succeeded.
AWK,
You need help. Buddha is talking about the Holicaust in reference to Industrial-Suicide.
Not that China does not have the monopoly currently but in a different form.
Hey, if other races are bad, did you build your own computer made solely of white made American parts?
I too think you are a racist.
Never mind. The “Stupidity” third of your Holy Trinity answers that rhetorical question.
If you skinheads are so proud of that lily white skin, why do you cover it up with blue ink?
Mr. Laughing,
Industrial-Suicide? What is this you speak?
No, I remember just fine. Just like I remember it was racist bigots like yourself that killed six million people in an attempt at industrialized genocide.
Mr. Laughing,
So, you must remember the words of Patrick Henry:
“We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power… the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.”
I do think you need to take these words to heart.
Whitey Knight,
Just to be clear and as evidenced by your posts, your God is the Trinity of Hatred, Bigotry and Willful Stupidity. That’s pretty funny. Because Jesus’ God was Peace, Love and Understanding.
I’m pretty sure that’s what Elvis Costello believes in too.
Here is a more in depth look at the legal issues surrounding the ICRC statement that the blockade of Gaza is illegal. It is well worth reading:
“The International Committee of the Red Cross has described Israel’s blockade of Gaza as a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
That conclusion rests on the Israeli government’ status as an occupying power in Gaza, which assigns it certain obligations to the people of Gaza.
Those obligations are spelt out in detail by the Fourth Geneva Convention. At their most basic, though, they require Israel to provide for the basic needs of the people, particularly food and medical care.
To the fullest extent of the means available to it, the Occupying Power has the duty of ensuring the food and medical supplies of the population; it should, in particular, bring in the necessary foodstuffs, medical stores and other articles if the resources of the occupied territory are inadequate.
The convention also requires the occupying power to allow sufficient shipments of aid – food, clothing, medical supplies and other essentials – and to take steps to preserve the health care system in the occupied territory.”
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/06/2010614102758862244.html
Mr. Mespo727272,
How dare you call one of my people out. You carry the sins of the children of Israel. A plague will follow all that you do, your riches await when you awaken to the way of the right.
What is antisemitic to you is a way of life for me. You state your case and I’ll state mine. My God knows what I do is right.
Below is important information which addresses the legal question of the blockade. As with others here, I decry the anti-Semitic comments above.
“The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has described Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip as a violation of the Geneva Conventions and called on the Israeli government to lift it.
The ICRC said goods smuggled through tunnels are often overpriced and of poor quality. (AFP)
In a statement released on Monday, the organisation called the blockade “collective punishment”, a crime under international law. It described Gaza as a territory plagued by frequent power cuts, a ruined economy, and a collapsed health care system.”
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/14-0
Munford Coldwater
“… And so I try to decide for myself if this is a recent behavioral development or is it some long standing pathology. …”
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Slightly more subtle …. wrapped nicely … pretty bow … but alas, same old thing.
Mespo727272,
You stand upon quicksand.
I do not intend to debate historic accounts, many which are true, some of which are exagerations, and others which are simply fabrications.
I only point out that the attempts to bury the truth concerning recent events do not speak well for those who would use such tactics.
For these people, truth is apparently of no importance and some other agenda takes precedence.
And so I try to decide for myself if this is a recent behavioral development or is it some long standing pathology.
A response such as yours really supplys no useful information. A predictable programed reactionary response on your part, but not so interesting.
Nike
” … Is it any wonder that the same sneaky, manipulative behaviour has resulted in these people being expelled from so many countries throughout history? …”
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Are you f*%kin’ kidding me!? Sick, sick, sick!!!
Nike:
“Is it any wonder that the same sneaky, manipulative behaviour has resulted in these people being expelled from so many countries throughout history?”
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I think bdaman and James M deserve great credit for getting the anti-Semites like you so upset that you reveal your true intentions. Bravos all around.
Speaking of a ‘disinformation campaigns,’ I’d want to thank posters like ‘James M’ and ‘Bdaman’ for helping make the point. There is no act so dishonourable – up to and including attacking an aid ship in international waters and massacring the aid workers aboard – that these paid shills will not stoop to misrepresent what has happened. Is it any wonder that the same sneaky, manipulative behaviour has resulted in these people being expelled from so many countries throughout history?
Munford Coldwater:
“At this point, given the many examples of fradulent reporting concerning this event forwarded be Israel and it’s supporters, one might be inclined to wonder about the accuracy of currently accepted discriptions of the Holocaust.”
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Intriguing logic. The credibility of a country not in existence has a direct bearing on the occurrence of a manifest historical fact verified by thousands of sources. My, you must have had mush for breakfast and it went directly to your head. Not that I am saying that you’re a mush brain myself, you see, merely “I simply submit that a total loss in credibility in one area is likely to drift into others.”
At this point, given the many examples of fradulent reporting concerning this event forwarded be Israel and it’s supporters, one might be inclined to wonder about the accuracy of currently accepted discriptions of the Holocaust. Not that I am a denier myself, I simply submit that a total loss in credability in one area is likely to drift into others.
James M confuses fair with favourable. That’s why Israel doesn’t want an independent investigation, that’s why the US would not welcome an independent investigation into, say, the invasion of Iraq, Abu Ghraib, etc… Both prefer investigations that they know will absolve the status quo and at worst will find a few “rotten apples”.