Turkey’s IHH ramps up incitement against Israel in Istanbul show trial

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” →

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“Despair is never the answer. And indifference is never an option.”
— Elie Weisel

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Thomas Sowell: Obama vs Obama (Part 4) – potentially catastrophic

Obama Versus Obama: Part IV – September 28,2012

During the same week when the American ambassador to Libya was murdered and his dead body dragged through the streets by celebrating mobs, the President of the United States found time to go on the David Letterman show to demonstrate his sense of humor and how cool he is.

But Barack Obama did not have time to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the leader of a nation repeatedly threatened with annihilation by Iranian leaders, who are working feverishly toward the creation of nuclear bombs.

This was an extraordinary thing in itself, something that probably no other President of the United States could have gotten away with, without raising a firestorm of criticisms and denunciations. But much of the media sees no evil, hears no evil and speaks no evil when it comes to Barack Obama — especially during an election year.

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Barack Obama is not the first leader of a nation whose actions reflected some half-baked vision, enveloped in lofty rhetoric and spiced with a huge dose of ego. Nor would he be the first such leader to steer his nation into a historic catastrophe.

In Barack Obama’s case, the potential for catastrophe is international in scope, and perhaps irretrievable in its consequences, as he stalls with feckless gestures as terrorist-sponsoring Iran moves toward the production of nuclear bombs.

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Nor was this public rebuff of a publicly requested meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu unique in its expression of disrespect, if not contempt, for both the man and his country. Continue reading “Thomas Sowell: Obama vs Obama (Part 4) – potentially catastrophic” →