Peanut Gallery: For more background information on the Mavi Marmara and the Turkish government‘s role in provoking a violent conflict with Israel, I refer you to Spring Fever: the Illusion of Islamic Democracy by Andrew C. McCarthy (chapter on The Neo-Ottomans).

In addition, the Israeli Defense Force put forth this account of the incident – see YouTube timeline:

Numerous other accounts are available on YouTube. It all gets down to whom you think is the more credible witness.

At any rate, the IHH (Wikipedia) continues to wage its public relations war with Israel in the Istanbul courts. Pay attention to what these people are saying. It’s not just talk. They really believe this stuff.
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Trial at Istanbul Court Against Four Israeli Officers.

by Aimee Braddock, battlegroundblog.com November 27th 2012

An Istanbul court holds a show trial of Israelis accused of responsibility for the deaths of nine Turkish operatives aboard the Mavi Marmara. The IHH, whose operatives waged a violent attack on the IDF, is exploiting the trial for hate propaganda and plans to use it for international lawfare.

Show Trial at Istanbul Court Against Israelis

On November 6, 2012, a hearing began in the Istanbul Court for Serious Crimes in the case of four senior IDF officers, who will be tried in absentia. According to the prosecution, they are charged with responsibility for the deaths of nine Turkish shaheeds (martyrs for the sake of Allah) aboard the Mavi Marmara in May 2010.

In our assessment, the proceedings are a show trial in which Israel is not represented and the nine Turkish citizens killed aboard the Mavi Marmara were not innocent civilians, but rather operatives belonging to the IHH and other radical Islamist organizations which presents only one side of the events, depicted with bias and sometimes untruthfully. Continue reading “Turkey’s IHH ramps up incitement against Israel in Istanbul show trial” →