Published: 20 Oct 12 11:07 CET | Print version
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Israeli soldiers have surrounded and boarded Estelle, a vessel operated by Sweden-based activist group Ship to Gaza, according to reports from the crew.
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Ah, right, it's not "sexy" enough.
Hypocrite schmucks.
Gaza have border with Egypt ,,,and many food there lollllllllllllllllllllll
Gaza shoot missile almost every day to the Israelis....just for killing, you think its normal?
lolllllllllllllllllllllllll
in a peacefull way after a coordination with the Israeli custum authorithy, from Ashdod the goods may cross Gazza through Erez border cross, from Ashdod it will be transfered with trucks untill that pass and from their it is taking by Gazzan trucks inside the strip, the cross is functioning from sunday to friday and get close just in case of shelling from Gaza ...NO ONE WISH TO WORK THERE WHEN THEY DECIDE TO SHOT...
Another possibility is to transfer the goods through Eygpt Alexandria port and from there with trucks through Rafah cross to Gazza ,
the two ways function regulary .
Israel
Oh no, wait a minute . . . that won't do. Assad is just a nasty Alawite, not a nasty Jew.
You mean that European have always been in peace, without Jews and Muslims! What about all that killings done by Protestants and Catholics to each others, what about the world wars.
The peaceful Europeans have killed each others in Europe more than Jews and Muslims since the ICE-AGE.
If Israel would have been in 1933 ,6 millions Jews would have not been killed by the 2 WW.
you are right about the historical roots of the Jews and the fact they belong to the Semitic race together with the arabs,the exile of the Jews was forced by the Europeans, they were a tinny kingdom called Judea with its capital Jerusalem and they had a government and a 2 temple on the rock mountain in Jerusalem, the fact was they were exiled by force by the Romans to europe,their land was occupied and for 2500 years they had no enough force to return home , that story came to end on 29.11.47 with the creation of I srael.
as an Israeli I believe that all the Jews should live in Israel exactly because Europe hated them from their first exile day and untill today, your words just prove it,and today I do agree with you there is no reason for that exile,my parents understood it unfortuntly after Auschwizim gates were opened by the Russian army and came to Israel with the ship Exodus.
Israel
all these goods will be transfered in few days from that ship to Gazza , through Erez Pass,
those who will wish to cross with that goods will be able to do it.
From sunday to friday and from 9:00-16:00 pass trucks from Israel to Gazza strips with all kind of goods,just military stuff is blocked,
people there are not starving,
also goods pass through Rafah cross every day from the Eygptian side, specialy after Hanie visited the new Eygptian President and got his permission to keep that pass open all the days.
Just to mention that in days of shelling on our southern cities from Gazza WE CLOSE THAT PASS, WE SIMPLY DO NOT WORK UNDER FIRE.
SOUTH ISRAEL
Good job. Do not disregard this idiot's propaganda. He is inventing piles of feces and expect people to swallow it as truth.
Islamists are murdering thousands without any ships going there. The "freedom fighters" know what will happen to them if they visit Syria, Lebanon, Sudan or Somalia. So they choose the only democracy in the entire middle east to express their protest.
How freaking humiliating for them.
So how is it that you dont allow the activists themselves deliver the goods? Is it that your religious ego $hit gets hurt? Who are you to block illegally a land that does not belong to you? I mean the ship is Swedish owned and flagged Finnish... I am sure you can only find blondes in it.. no brown terrorists! Get the hell out of there....
BTW, Persian empire owned the whole middle east and part of India and and whole the region between including Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Armenia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan and.... 2500 years ago :) does it mean that Iran (Persia) can now claim owning all these countries? get lost with your 2500 years old story :) Oh I just remembered Greeks owned a big part of Europe some thousand years ago...!
Finally: thank you for not killing the people onboard this time! I mean you killed 9 people from the previous ship and it didnt turn out to be a good thing for your image... hah?! So this time, although you reaaaallly wanted to kill some of them, you didnt... well that's an improvement!
following the logic of your 2nd pargraph, the Palestiniens wishing to remove the ste of Israel should just accept that times have moved on ...as they have all over the world...
It sponsored multiple bombings and attacks in Europe, when it was hunting it's dissidents. It sponsored the attacks on Jewish center in Argentina. It is responsible for quite a few airplane downings as proved in the court of law.
Iran would very much like to annex Bahrain. It claims territories in the Caspian see that do not belong to it.
It's leadership promised a new Holocaust (sorry, the FIRST Holocaust, since it does not believe in the previous one, to an extent that it arranged a Holocaust CARICATURE competition). It spits out thousands of emigrants. It causes thousands more in surrounding countries. Iran forbids Hamas to say a word about peace and the only thing it provides the area is missiles and explosives, in it's eternal love of peace.
It is the center of all evil that Islam could produce and islam is not a noob in producing evil.
And this piece of magic is sitting here and sets rules in regards to how a state should screen the incoming cargo, as if his bucket of feces islamic countries let anyone import anything especially to their rebels (like the Kurds, Tuareg, Sudanese-Christian, Berber etc). His buddy muslims bomb rebels with napalm, cluster bombs and even chemical weapons and apparently it is not a cause for a ship with "humanitarian aid".
There are 350,000 Syrian refugees! Where is the anger and peace love on boats? Where are the demonstrations? Where are the islamic speakers on TV? Forgot? Did not notice? What a piece of...
However when it is to break a LEGAL, according to international law, border control, in order to make a legal precedent that will allow bringing tons of rockets in order to carpet bomb jewish kids, iraniboy is on a forefront of peace and love.
Menachem Begin
Oh, the horrors!
I bet that iranilie can provide multiple evidence sources like jihandonjews.com and holocaustisamyth.org.
The estelle carried flat footballs and no emergency aid, as none is needed. Even the Egyptians and other Moslems have seen through the propaganda.
According to the excellent finnish site TundraTabloids, the number of rockets/missiles.mortards fired at civilian targets insouthern Israel; This month 76, this year 645 and since the Israeli withdrawal from Gazain 2w001, the number is 15,646. Now who would want Israel to decimate the civilian targets in Israel within proportional response to these attacks?
Israel should now allow the Estelle to continue its voyage, which had nothing to do with aid, just an exercise to demonize Israel. Those on board should be denied into Israel in the future. Allow them to stay in the secular democratic state of Hamas controlled Gaza. Meanwhile Israeli Muslim/Christian Arabs are joing up with the IDF, as Israelis. What answer now?
http://www.gisha.org/graph.asp?lang_id=en&p_id=901
Seriously how some of you like motti,uncle,skatty,bcterry and co, can explain your dreadful hatred toward humans to your kids, if you have any? Aren't you afraid that your culture of inhumanity will spread among your family and children and will eventually happen to your family too?! What goes around comes around.
I'd challenge you to prove this so called hate you are accusing others of with specifics, but like every other bullsxxx lie that you tell, it would be an exercise in futility.