Israeli Soldier Describes Attack By 'Peace Activists': "They Wanted to Kill Us… Each One With a Knife In His Hand"
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, June 1, 2010, 6:04 AM
“We thought we’d encounter passive resistance, perhaps verbal resistance… We didn’t expect this. Everyone wanted to kill us.”
The Israeli soldier who was stabbed, beaten and thrown off the deck of the Mavi Marmara Gaza Flotilla ship described the attack by the terror-linked ‘peace activists’ to the Israeli media.
Here again is video of the Israeli soldier being stomped on, beaten, stabbed and thrown from the upper deck, via IDF website:
YNet News reported:
In the first interview since he was wounded in Monday’s raid on the flotilla, Captain R, who commanded the troops who boarded the Marmara via helicopter, spoke of the battle that took place on vessel.
According to R, hundreds of people who were on the boat took part in attacking him and his soldiers and they were forced to use weapons because of danger to their lives.
“Dozens of people beat each soldier on the roof (of the vessel),” he said from his bed in the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa.
“They wielded clubs, axes and knives,” he said. “I was the second to go down the cable, one of the guys from my group was already down there, and there were a few people on him. At first it was one-on-one, until more soldiers came down.”
Regarding the troops’ preparation for a more extreme scenario on the decks, R said they had prepared for both passive and violent resistance, but admitted he had been surprised by the strength of the resistance.
“We knew they were peace activists,” he said. “Though they wanted to break the Gaza blockade, we thought we’d encounter passive resistance, perhaps verbal resistance – we didn’t expect this. Everyone wanted to kill us. We encountered terrorists who wanted to kill us and we did everything we could to prevent unnecessary injury.”
R said that some 75% of the people in the vessel resisted violently, “each one with a knife in his hand.”
R. was the soldier who was thrown from the deck, as shown in the footage distributed by the IDF. “I was in front of a number of people with knives and clubs. I cocked my weapon when I saw that one was coming towards me with a knife drawn and I fired once. Then another 20 people came at me from all directions and threw me down to the deck below.”
“Then I felt a stabbing in my stomach. It was a knife. I got the knife out, then somehow got down to the lower deck where there were more people. This was when the soldiers had got control of all the boat except the lower deck. Me and another soldier managed to get to the deck, and we jumped into the water, from where our forces collected us. Another soldier who was beaten hard lost consciousness. Other soldiers covered him until we managed to get him out.”
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Alice L. commented:
The Palis and their lefty pals are animals. Period. Of course, the world rushes to condemn Israel for defending itself and its soldiers. The Turks are behind this “flotilla”. When are they going to be condemned for the Armenian genocide? Read Ralph Peters in today’s NY Post. Very interesting article about Turkish culpability. As for me, I live in a ‘hood with many Turks – I will not be going to their businesses for a while.
myohmy commented:
Hamas and their henchmen is making a case to attack and destroy Israel. No thanks to all these american leftists meddling to Middle East affair.
Sojourner commented:
..’Humanitarian Activism,’ Turkish style:
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/202683.php
Joanne commented:
Thank goodness there was video. It is evident that the men on board this boat were going to ambush the commandoes and were ready for them. Animals….the lot of them.
Joanne commented:
I hope the Israel military blow that boat to high heaven.
curlybill commented:
Before you make your mind up about this remember who owns most of the world’s media, who can put the most spin on the situation?? Frankly I don’t believe anything the media spews, especially when it concerns Israel..
Militant Conservative commented:
Anyone know where the flotilla originated?
IF it originated from or passed through Cypress, there very well could be arms aboard.
Joanne commented:
Let’s see – have Muslims ever acting civilized throughout the ages? Nope. Not hard to believe they attacked the Jewish soldiers – yup, pretty easy to believe, considering they hate them and want them all dead.
Libertylanding commented:
They come in peace, they’ll leave you in pieces.
Pat the First commented:
Way, way OT: Fox just announced that the Gores are separating. That explains the $9M home in CA. They need 2 homes now.
bg commented:
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via TRBO
Connecting Some Communist Dots: The Free Gaza Movement Flotilla, Illegal Migrant Workers, May 1st Coalition and Organizing for America
aka: “INTERNATIONALLY ORGANIZED PROPAGANDA”
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Lc Scott commented:
I must be extra cranky today.
Sink the next one on site with no rescue ops. after.
Israel is going to get the bad press here anyways.
Problem solved, till the next white lib gets a hair up his @##
Patriotic commented:
To all of the liberal Jewish people out there:
When are you going to pick a side and stick with it?
How much longer do conservative Americans have to be confounded by so many liberal Jewish people, supporting the same people (Progressive Democrats), that are AGAINST the Jewish people?
You can’t have it both ways. You can’t support their twisted “forced social justice” programs and then whine that these same people are trying to push Israel into the sea.
It seems pretty simple to me…common sense tells you that Israel is a very very very tiny nation, compared to all of the land in the middle east that is held by Muslims. Muslims already have Mecca in Saudi Arabia.
Are the Jewish people supposed to just surrender their tiny bit of land, and let the Muslims completely own 100% of the Middle East?
If I was Jewish, I would not give up one inch of my land, and I would not support one single democrat. I would not support any Progressive republican either.
Christians are faced with clearing out this “forced social justice” from their ranks as well. Even important Christian organizations like World Vision, are lured into these “social justice” programs. It is not “charity” when we pass laws that FORCIBLY tax us, for the government to redistribute our wealth to Progressive causes.
So liberal Jewish people, whose side are you really on? I can assure you that conservative Americans will not give up one single inch of our land…to anyone…ever.
Jim Rose commented:
Seems like the IDF just went “the Chicago/Obama way.” They brought knives, so the Israelis brought guns. How could the White House find fault with that?
Kevin commented:
Next time drop flash bangs and CS gas on the deck before you rope in, maybe a few stinger ball grenades for good measure– All they understand is force, so show ‘em all the force they can handle, you will be amazed how quickly they turn in pacifists.
bg commented:
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some attack, why didn’t they toss a few tear gas canisters at the Allahu Akbar PACIFISTS for cover before shimmying down the rope?? /sarc/
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bg commented:
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oh i don’t believe this..
Kevin @ 11:08 am #16
yours is the second post i sort of duplicated today (and i’ve only posted twice so far, guess i’ll have to expand my preview before clicking post..
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bg commented:
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Violence and Humanitarian Aid
[Egypt announced Tuesday that it would open its border with Gaza, which Reuters describes as "a major boost for Hamas and a blow to efforts by Israel and its Western allies to cripple the Islamists." Turkey is threatening to send more ships, escorted by its own navy, while there are fears Hizballah will use the incident to justify a new wave of rocket attacks toward Israel.
Was it, as some suggest, the plan of flotilla organizers all along?
It's worth remembering why the aid was being transported by sea in the first place. A convoy led by then-British MP George Galloway ended in violence at the Egyptian-Gaza border in early January after authorities delayed their entry into Gaza.
An Egyptian police officer was shot and killed by Hamas gunmen. Egypt deported Galloway, made it clear he was unwelcome there again, and told the convoy it could no longer enter through its crossing. Galloway's partner in that convoy was the Turkish-based International Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH), which helped lead the flotilla.
IHH was a key player in the Free Gaza Movement flotilla. Israeli officials say IHH is tied to Hamas, and even to al Qaeda, and it was banned in Israel in 2008 for being "part of Hamas's fundraising network." Court papers in the U.S. prosecution of Abdurahman Alamoudi also tie it to terrorist activity, citing French intelligence expert Jean Louis-Bruguiere's assessment that IHH played "[a]n important role” in the Millennium bomb plot.
IHH also is part of the Union of Good, a collection of charities run by Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Yusuf al-Qaradawi. The union was designated by the U.S. Treasury Department in 2008 as a terrorist entity due to its fund-raising activities on behalf of Hamas and Hamas-controlled organizations in the West Bank and Gaza.
During the past year, the Investigative Project on Terrorism has chronicled the Hamas-ties of relief convoy participants, led by Galloway. In March 2009, he defiantly handed a bag of cash directly to a Hamas minister and announced that:
“By Allah, we carried a lot of cash here. You thought we were all fat. We are not fat. This is money that we have around our waists … We are giving you now 100 vehicles and all of the contents. And we make no apology for what I am about to say: We are giving them to the elected government of Palestine; to the Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh.”]
more & links @ link..
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Stuart commented:
Just like a dumb ass Pali to bring a knife to a gun fight.
(With apologies to Sean Connery.)
bg commented:
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Militant Conservative @ 10:26 am #7
re: [Anyone know where the flotilla originated?]
don’t rightly know, but here’s a bit of info via the FGM:
Ships and their flags
1. Mavi Marmara passenger Flagged in Turkey
2. Sofia cargo ship Flagged in Greece
3. Gazza 1 cargo ship Flagged in Turkey
4. Gazza 2 cargo ship Flagged in Turkey
5. Spendoni passenger Flagged in Greece
6. Challenger 1 Flagged in U.S.
A Ship’s Flag
[APL Limited operates 13 ships; eleven of them are U.S. flag, two of
them are foreign flag. What does this mean; U.S. flag, foreign flag?
The flagging of a ship is very similar to the registering of a car. If you live in the state of Illinois, you register your car and pay automobile taxes to the state of Illinois. A ship must be registered (flagged) with a country. Ship registration (flagging) is required in order for authorities to track tonnage and collect taxes.]
also don’t have a clue if any of that helped, but hope it did..
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bg commented:
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btw.. the propaganda machine has already upped the casualties from 9 to ‘at least’ 16, but i may have missed something, so, did i miss something??
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myohmy commented:
Who bank rolled the flotilla?
kansas commented:
It’s kind of disturbing that Israeli soldiers did not expect these animals to behave like animals. They were running a legal blockade and all the boats should have been sunk.
Andreas K. commented:
But remember, islam is peace.
Gerry commented:
Yeah, and don’t forget the brutal, unprovoked by the USS Liberty on poor, defenseless Israel.
rulm commented:
All the boats should have been target practise for the IDF Air Force …….. period. End of Story. Full stop!! Evil does not get a pass.
Gerry commented:
How South Korea apologized for it vicious destruction of the North Korean torpedo?
befuddled commented:
forget this, the real issue is the soldiers have been castrated, just like us soldiers and policemen. 20 knife wielding hatemongers set upon them and they still have to ask permission to shoot. stop acting like the nice guys on the block and perhaps you won’t see the fall of the jewish nation in your life time. hmmm, how would russia have handled it.
better to be feared and alive than compliant and dead.
red lemur commented:
pirates plain and simple
blast um out da water
so sad so sorry