Middle East

IDF: Five Gaza flotilla activists linked to Hamas, Al-Qaida

Haaretz 7 June 2010
By Anshel Pfeffer

The Israel Defense Forces revealed on Sunday that five of the pro-Palestinian activists aboard the Turkish-flagged ship it intercepted last week en route to the Gaza Strip have links to the Hamas and

 

Turkey's Islamist PM Says Hamas Not Terrorist

ANSAmed 7 June 2010

Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan has today said that Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic movement which controls the Gaza Strip, is not a terrorist group. ' 'Hamas has resistance fighters who fight to

 

It's Time to End the Blockade of Gaza

Like virtually every political step Israel has taken since 1991, the Disengagement from Gaza and the blockade of Hamas was done under the assumption that if Israel took the most moderate path

 

Confronting Anti-Israel Propagandists

FrontPageMagazine 7 June 2010
By Rob Harris

[Author's introductory note: The following is a letter I wrote to the Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Michael Martin, a pro-Palestinian supporter and vocal critic of Israel. I did not initially

 

Hamas Praises Helen Thomas for Saying the "Jews Should Get The Hell Out of ...

Weasel Zippers 7 June 2010

Of course, what the Wicked Witch said mirrors Hamas’s stated goal, the destruction of the Jewish State… Hamas affiliated Al Qassam website on Sunday, June 6th, regarding remarks made by White

 

Turkish (blood)bath: Ankara ambushes Israel at sea. Bad Omens

cliftonchadwick 7 June 2010
By Ralph Peters

Yesterday’s "aid convoy” incident off the coast of Gaza wasn’t about bringing humanitarian supplies to the terrorist-ruled territory. It wasn’t even about Israel. It was about Turkey’s

 

Turkey Turns on Israel

FrontPageMagazine 7 June 2010
By Askar Askarov

Two weeks after delivering a blow to the U.S.-led efforts to strengthen sanctions against Iran by mediating a uranium exchange agreement involving the Islamic Republic and Brazil, Turkey once again

 

Turkey Says Good Bye to Israel and the West

Right Side News 7 June 2010
By Prof. Efraim Inbar

BESA Center Perspectives Papers No. 108 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: By endorsing the "Gaza Flotilla" Turkey escalates tensions with Israel. This is just another reflection of the change in Turkish foreign

 

The Turkish Conundrum

Arutz Sheva 7 June 2010
By Amil Imani

An expert gives an overview of Turkey and explains that Erdogan was quite right when he said: "There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that’s it.” Baffled by the strict

 

The Problem with Playing Defense

Commentary Magazine 7 June 2010
By Noah Pollak

Given past performances, I'd say that Israel and its supporters are doing a better-than-average job of quickly beating back the international lynch mob that loves nothing more than propagating lies

 

Obama and Hamas

American Thinker 7 June 2010
By Ted Belman

President Obama is not letting the flotilla crisis go to waste. He is using it as a springboard to change U.S. policy regarding Hamas. In his words, uttered in a recent interview by Larry King,

 

Saudi Telecom sees more users in India

Saudi Telecom Co, the Arab world’s largest phone company, predicted subscription growth will accelerate "significantly” by the end of the year on expansion in markets including India. The company,

 

The Emperor's New Clothes In Turkey

New Europe 6 June 2010
By Robert Ellis

The Danish writer of fairy tales, Hans Christian Andersen, has amused the world with his fable from 1837, “The Emperor’s New Clothes”. The story tells of two weavers who persuade an emperor that they can weave him a set of clothes that are invisible to those who are either incompetent or hopelessly stupid. Everybody, of course, is duped by the illusion, except a small boy, who, when he sees the emperor parading his new suit, yells: “But he’s got nothing on!”

 

Gaza Flotilla's Leader Explains: It was a Jihadist Attack not a "Humanitarian Operation"

Gloria Center 04 June 2010

Bülent Yildirim, the main organizer of the Gaza Flotilla, explained at a Hamas rally in Gaza that the operation was no humanitarian effort but part of a global Jihad to overthrow governments and install Islamist dictatorships. He made no secret of that fact, as shown in the MEMRI translation and video.

 

Video: Gaza Flotilla "We Con the World"

LatmaTV 03 June 2010

The Gaza Flotilla participants explain how they can con the world.

 

Bat Ye'or & Sam discuss Islam

ICLA 05 June 2010

Two experts on Islam discuss with Michael Coren the religion, the political ideology, and its implication for the free world.

 

Fox’s Evansky Details Terror Ties of Turkish Charity in Gaza Operation

Ben Evansky of Fox News has penned a very good and extremely timely report on the Foundation for Human Rights and Humanitarian Relief (IHH), an Islamic charity involved in the so-called "relief”

 

Opinion: Turkey is playing a dangerous game

Deutsche Welle 2 June 2010

Turkey has attempted to play mediator in Middle East, but that was before an Israeli military attack on a Turkish aid ship. Ankara is playing with fire, says Baha Guengoer of Deutsche Welle's Turkish

 

Flotilla Fraud Fallout: Another moderate Muslim joins the jihad -- Mustafa Akyol

Jihad Watch 2 June 2010

Over the years I have seen it happen more than once: a plausible "moderate Muslim" appears on the scene and becomes the darling of hopeful non-Muslims who believe that he epitomizes the peaceful,

 

Pictures of weapons used by 'peace activists' on the flotilla of fools

Israel Matzav 2 June 2010

I would suggest that you all go here and have a look at some of the weapons used by the 'peace activists' (and clearly not just by one or two of them as they are now trying to claim) on the flotilla

 
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