Is there a bigger asshole in this Country than Tavis Smiley?

[trev]

Yes Trev, they did.

Get some intelligence.

Are you sure? You might want to educate yourself on this one a little more.

Or go hit another brick wall.

Your choice.

[mvscal]

The biggest asshole in this country is Benny NetanYahoo. Thankfully he has left the country, from what we hear.

What a pussy you are.



Those poor "peaceful" protestors just standing there minding their own business when Israeli troops start shooting them with paintball guns.

[PSUFAN]

Oh, Israeli commandos are armed with paintball guns? My bad.

Murat Mercan, the head of the Turkish Grand National Asembly’s foreign affairs commission, said on television, “Israel launched this operation in international waters and to a ship flagged white, which is unacceptable under any clause of the international law.”

True, right?

[Dr_Phibes]

Some sort of lead paint guns, if they killed nineteen people.

Looks like the kikes are in violation of The United States government's Consumer Product Safety Commission. (16 Code of Federal Regulations CFR 1303)

[mvscal]

Oh, Israeli commandos are armed with paintball guns? My bad.

The air guns are clearly visible at the end of the video.

Murat Mercan, the head of the Turkish Grand National Asembly’s foreign affairs commission, said on television, “Israel launched this operation in international waters and to a ship flagged white, which is unacceptable under any clause of the international law.”

True, right?

Wrong.

Gaza is under a declared maritime blockade. These vessels were underway with the declared intention of violating the blockade. Under international maritime law, those vessels may be stopped and boarded. The fact that they were "flagged white" or in international water is irrelevant.

SECTION V : NEUTRAL MERCHANT VESSELS AND CIVIL AIRCRAFT

Neutral merchant vessels

67. Merchant vessels flying the flag of neutral States may not be attacked unless they:

(a) are believed on reasonable grounds to be carrying contraband or breaching a blockade, and after prior warning they intentionally and clearly refuse to stop, or intentionally and clearly resist visit, search or capture;
(b) engage in belligerent acts on behalf of the enemy;
(c) act as auxiliaries to the enemy s armed forces;
(d) are incorporated into or assist the enemy s intelligence system;
(e) sail under convoy of enemy warships or military aircraft; or
(f) otherwise make an effective contribution to the enemy s military action, e.g., by carrying military materials, and it is not feasible for the attacking forces to first place passengers and crew in a place of safety. Unless circumstances do not permit, they are to be given a warning, so that they can re-route, off-load, or take other precautions.

http://www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/385ec082b50 ... 1f002d49ce

The vessels were warned and ordered to reroute to an Israeli port to offload their humanitarian supplies. They refused so they suffered the inevitable consequences of their own actions.

[mvscal]

Some sort of lead paint guns, if they killed nineteen people.

Evidently they had a change of tactics after being greeted by metal pipe wielding "peace activists."

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

The real victims here are the Israelis who have to bear witness to the human suffering. Those poor souls.
Could you imagine the grief of having to live with boarding a cruise ship and gunning down 19 people!
Oy! The suffering!
I can only imagine a few of them got "rope burn" from cable-tying grannies and the infirm too vigorously.
...and if one of them slipped in a puddle of blood? The trauma!
How can there be a God, if he allows his "chosen people" to reap such a bitter harvest?

Clearly, they are reliving another Holocaust in these events.


I pray for these heavily armed victims. They are clearly made of better stuff than we.

[Dr_Phibes]

Gaza is under a declared maritime blockade. .

Declared by who? The UN doesn't recognise it, they argue that Israel is in violation of its obligations as an occupying power. You can't just say, 'I'm having a blockade, guys!' and start storming ships.

Apparently Somali pirates are just 'enforcing their blockade'.

[PSUFAN]

I know that you and Bennie's ilk might believe that bringing a wheelchair into gaza constitutes an act of aggression, but the rest of the world is begging to differ.

This dust-up is a real shame from the perspective of normalizing world relations with israel. Turkey had of late been trying to nudge things that way. The countries share 3 billion in trade. Sadly, because Bennie wants to prevent aid shipments to Gaza, those relations will worsen, and inevitably more innocent, probably secular jews will be blown to hamburger by terrorist bombs.

[PSUFAN]

...by secular, I mean "jews who don't pelt women in jeans with rocks and fuck their sows through sheets"...you know, the normal folks.

[mvscal]

Gaza is under a declared maritime blockade. .

Declared by who?

Israel.

The UN doesn't recognise it, they argue that Israel is in violation of its obligations as an occupying power.

Israel doesn't occupy Gaza, idiot. They pulled out in 2005.

[mvscal]

. Sadly, because Bennie wants to prevent aid shipments to Gaza, those relations will worsen, and inevitably more innocent, probably secular jews will be blown to hamburger by terrorist bombs.

He also has a responsibility to his nation to make sure that weapons and explosives are not arriving along with all the wheelchairs. What should take priority?

In any event, this escapade has absolutely nothing to do with delivering wheelchairs. They challenged the blockade in order to provoke an incident. This should be clear to you.

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

Clearly, there is no Love on this Boat...

[Dr_Phibes]

Israel doesn't occupy Gaza, idiot. They pulled out in 2005.

I'm fairly certain that when you're in a position to cut water, food, power levels of an area by force - the word 'occupation' becomes a game of semantics.

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

If Sonny Bono fought Robert Urich for a date with Charo, would Doc prescribe a candle-light dinner and a dozen roses?

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

Cities plastered with:

WE'RE WITH YOU IN THE WAR ON TERROR

...billboards sponsored by the America/Israel Partnership...

and non-stop airing of Saving Private Ryan for the next 6 months.




It's coming, you know it.

[OCmike]

They brazenly defied a blockade by a nation known for its military brutality and general disregard for Arabic life and think 9 lost lives is some sort of war crime? Puhlease.

Running a naval blockade has always been a suicide mission. I guess those floatilla tools were all burning hookas at the smoker's tree when the Turkish history teacher went over naval history.

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

If you don't obey a police officer's strict commands, he has every right to break every bone in your face and put you in a coma. Should he decide to choke you to death, that would be in his rights.

[Dr_Phibes]

I guess those floatilla tools were all burning hookas at the smoker's tree when the Turkish history teacher went over naval history.

Well it worked, didn't it? The Jews are in the shit and they're panicking, the stories coming from the government are hilarious. If you're an anti-semite, this is all pretty funny stuff.

[OCmike]

If you don't obey a police officer's strict commands, he has every right to break every bone in your face and put you in a coma. Should he decide to choke you to death, that would be in his rights.

Stop being such an idealist fag. I'm quite aware that both Israel and their muzzy opponents are murderous scum. That's why if I was going to run their blockade, I'd at least do it with gunboats blasting Metallica's "Creeping Death" and unloading .50 cals and rockets on the heeb's warships. Fuck it, at least go out in some sort of style.

Basically, all those Turkish dolts did is provide a perfect example of the consequences of "fucking with the bull":

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

They were delivering medical aid, not mustard gas, you chromosome deficient mong.

[mvscal]

I'm fairly certain that when you're in a position to cut water, food, power levels of an area by force - the word 'occupation' becomes a game of semantics.

No, actually it has very specific criteria and is not ever a matter of semantics.

I'm also fairly certain that it is a really bad idea to fire rockets at people who are in a position to cut off your water, food and power...they just might do it.

[mvscal]

They were delivering medical aid, not mustard gas, you chromosome deficient mong.

Or so they say....

In any event, there are proper channels for the delivery of such aid and they were duly notified.

[OCmike]

They were delivering medical aid, not mustard gas, you chromosome deficient mong.

Well they shoulda armed themselves.

Sincerely,

[Dr_Phibes]

No, actually it has very specific criteria and is not ever a matter of semantics.

.

Well don't blame me, I'm quoting the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights 'Navi Pillay'. My sources say she's making great strides in her new, second language.

I'd hate to be whoever thought this up, he's having his head served up on a platter just about now. I doubt the plan was 'Right, we repel down to the ship, get the ever-living shit knocked out of us by hippies, then start shooting everyone'. Ouch.

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

I doubt the plan was 'Right, we repel down to the ship, get the ever-living shit knocked out of us by hippies, then start shooting everyone'. Ouch.

double ouch

Elite military units storm the Pacific Princess and Captain Stubing yanks the rudder to the right and all the bad guys fall overboard.


Actually, the whole thing is more "Gilligan's Island" than "Love Boat". Now, we just need the Professor to make a cell phone out of two coconuts...

[mvscal]

Well don't blame me, I'm quoting the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights 'Navi Pillay'. My sources say she's making great strides in her new, second language.

I suppose I don't blame you for quoting an idiot. Just recognize that she is indeed an idiot. Gaza was evacuated. No troops. No settlements. No occupation. The result of that withdrawl was a continual barrage of rockets into Israel from Gaza. The response was this blockade. Actions...meet consequences.

I'd hate to be whoever thought this up, he's having his head served up on a platter just about now. I doubt the plan was 'Right, we repel down to the ship, get the ever-living shit knocked out of us by hippies, then start shooting everyone'. Ouch.

No doubt. That's what they get for attempting to comply with international law, though. They are required to use non-lethal force if at all possible and they did try. Unfortunately, the knife and club wielding "peace activists" weren't particularly impressed with paint ball guns.

A more definitive display of lethal intent might possibly have averted this incident.

[Dr_Phibes]

There's a slight problem with your time-line there, Israel pulls out, elections are held, Hamas wins, blockade enacted, then the rockets started firing.

And steady on with the 'kill everyone' routine. Someone just wasn't thinking.

It reminds me of the Oka crises, three sections on infantry were sent into an Indian reserve looking for weapons, the problem was that they were loaded down as if it were a NATO exercise. FN C1s, machine guns, radios, etc.
They started mingling with the natives and it turned into a bar-room brawl. The Indians were pulling off their helmets and taking their guns and beating them with it and there was nothing they could do, they couldn't move, they had too much equipment on. The worst was, half of them ran and it was all captured on film.

You saw the jews come down on those ropes, they were put in a position to fail.

[mvscal]

There's a slight problem with your time-line there, Israel pulls out, elections are held, Hamas wins, blockade enacted, then the rockets started firing.

Wrong again. They started firing rockets in 2001 (four years before the Israelis left). There was a major uptick of attacks in 2007 and the blockade was enacted.

You saw the jews come down on those ropes, they were put in a position to fail.

But surely there was nothing to fear from harmless, peace loving advocates of universal harmony intent only upon delivering wheelchairs and baby milk to those poor unfortunates in Gaza?

I do agree with your point, though. Personally, I would have cleared the deck with tear gas and rubber bullets before roping in.

[Cuda]

I doubt the plan was 'Right, we repel down to the ship, get the ever-living shit knocked out of us by hippies, then start shooting everyone'. Ouch.

double ouch

Elite military units storm the Pacific Princess and Captain Stubing yanks the rudder to the right and all the bad guys fall overboard.


Actually, the whole thing is more "Gilligan's Island" than "Love Boat". Now, we just need the Professor to make a cell phone out of two coconuts...

WWPD?

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

WWPD?

Gawd damn right.

[OCmike]

I knew he hated the Japs, but White Chocolate is a heeb-hater too?

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340 ... 31,00.html



"Don't forget 9/11, guys".