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Lumi · Jun 3, 2010

Misleading Photos Used by Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs to Justify Killing Activists

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
June 2, 2010

If there is one constant about government it is this ? they tell lies and fabricate propaganda in order to bamboozle their citizens. Israel is no exception.

In order to make the case that the Gaza aid flotilla consisted of terrorists ? including al-Qaeda, Hamas, and Hezbollah, never mind the absurdity ? the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs has posted a number of photos on its Flickr page purporting to show weapons and military equipment supposedly found on the Mavi Marmara.

Several of the photos, however, were not taken on the ship as claimed. In fact, at least two of them were taken in 2006.

Israeli ?Defense officials also say some activists had military-style gear such as bulletproof vests and night-vision goggles,? the Associated Press reports today.

EXIF data posted on the Flickr page reveals that both photos were taken in 2006. Digital cameras often save EXIF (Exchangeable Image File) data with the image file, including shutter speed, date and time, focal length, exposure compensation, metering pattern and if a flash was used. Ficklr as a matter of course mines this data and posts it on the page.

Bulletproof vests. See EXIF meta data on this image.

Night vision equipment. See EXIF meta data on this image.

The corporate media often pegs internet journalists and bloggers as rank amateurs who have damaged the reputation of journalism and often spread conspiracy theories, lies, and disinformation. And yet the seasoned journalism professionals working the desks at the Associated Press were completely duped by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its obviously bogus photos.

It was a French blogger going by the name of Ibn Kafka who discovered the EXIF data. The Political Theatrics blog translated his original post.

Digital cameras, of course, often do not have the time and date set correctly and this may be the case with the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs photos. Even so, the EXIF data should raise questions about the validity of the claims made by the Israeli government about what they found on the Mavi Marmara.

Don?t expect the Associated Press to do this.

After all, they are basically script readers passing along official propaganda designed to dupe the masses and manufacture consent.

Governments tell pathological lies and it is the job of the corporate media to disseminate these lies.

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Trench · Jun 3, 2010

Trampled Underfoot said:
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I miss Howard already. But I'll always have his books.

Trench

Lumi · Jun 3, 2010

Israel's Defenders Mobilise, Threaten
By Jim Lobe*

WASHINGTON, Jun 2, 2010 (IPS) - Faced with what the Wall Street Journal calls "one of Israel's worst international relations disasters in years", the right- wing leadership of the so-called "Israel Lobby" has been pulling out all the stops to defend the Jewish state against global outrage over its deadly seizure of a Gaza-bound vessel in international waters carrying humanitarian supplies early Monday morning.

Its biggest concern for now is to prevent the administration of President Barack Obama from distancing itself in any way - let alone joining in the almost universal condemnation - from the military operation in which at least nine civilian passengers of Turkish-flagged Mavi Marmara were killed by Israeli commandos.

"As the international community is engaged in a biased rush to judgment against Israel and a diplomatic lynching, now is the time for the United States to firmly stand with the Jewish state and its people," said Abraham Foxman, director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Wednesday.

"The U.S. must show the world that it not only supports Israel's right to defend its borders and citizens against terrorism, but that it supports Israel's right to protect itself from people who pretend to be 'peace activists,' and parade under the guise of humanitarians while supporting Hamas and violently attacking Israeli military personnel," he added.

Indeed, even after Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's spokesman publicly thanked Washington for its efforts to "water down" a statement by the president of the U.N. Security Council issued early Tuesday morning, hard- line neo-conservatives complained bitterly that Obama had betrayed its closest ally by not vetoing it.

"So why did we agree to the presidential statement?" asked Elliott Abrams, former President George W. Bush's top Middle Eastern aide, in an article entitled "Joining the Jackals".

"The White House did not wish to stand with Israel against this mob [of Security Council members who condemned the Israeli attack] because it does not have a policy of solidarity with Israel," Abrams, who is now based at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), wrote for the neo- conservative 'weeklystandard.com'. "?t would have been simple to stop the mob had the White House wanted to." [Emphasis in the original.]

Some neo-conservatives, whose worldview is closely aligned to that of Netanyahu's Likud Party, even suggested that Obama's failure to unconditionally defend Israel in its hour of need could well make the Jewish state take even more aggressive action in the future.

"If Obama decides it is in America's interest to make an example of Israel after the Gaza flotilla incident in order to win goodwill in Cairo, Beirut, Tehran, and Ankara," warned Michael Rubin of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), "then he must also recognise that the leadership in Jerusalem is going to conclude that it cannot trust the United States to safeguard its security, and that therefore it must take matters into its own hands on any number of issues, not the least of which is Iran?s nuclear programme."

In effect, if the White House decides to come down hard on Israel now," he added in National Review Online, "it is the same as giving a green light for Israel to strike Iran."

That threat was echoed in a remarkable column published by the neo-conservative Wall Street Journal Tuesday in which the author, Ronen Bergman of Israel's Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, argued that the operation itself was "irresponsible" and evidence that a "siege mentality" - based on the belief that world opinion is irreversibly hostile to the Jewish state - had taken hold of the country and its governing elite.

Citing Iran's nuclear programme, Bergman argued that such an "unhealthy" mindset "is profoundly disturbing when the fatigued and isolated country itself has the means to strike pre-emptively and punishingly at its enemies, including in ways from which, realistically, there may be no return."

While neo-conservatives were warning darkly about the geo- political consequences for the administration of any distancing from Israel's position, the Lobby's leaders and their friends in Congress focused more on defending Israel's version of the pre-dawn incident that took place Monday some 100 kms off Gaza's coast.

They insisted, among other things, that the Israeli commandos who carried out the operation, armed only with paintball rifles and handguns, acted in self-defence after coming under attack from passengers brandishing iron bars, knives, and other crude weapons.

"Israeli soldiers had every right to defend their lives against a lynch mob attacking them with knives and clubs," said Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Based primarily on a short video distributed by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), this version of events, including the weapons involved on both sides, has been called into question by the testimony of many of the 600 some passengers. After being towed to Israel and held incommunicado for some 24 hours, they were deported Wednesday.

It also failed to take into account the right of self- defence of those aboard a vessel that came under attack in international waters. "This is like a carjacker complaining to the police that the driver bashed him with a crowbar that was under the seat," noted M.J. Rosenberg, a Middle East analyst at Media Matters.

Israel's defenders have also tried to focus media and public attention on what they have called the "terrorist-linked, radical Islamic" group that reportedly bought the Mavi Marmara, the Turkish-based Insani Yardim Vakfi, or IHH, and helped sponsor the flotilla of eight vessels that set out to breach Israel's three-year-old blockade of Gaza.

According to a release put out Monday by the powerful American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), a declassified report by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) after 9/11 named the IHH "as part of 15 organisations that employed members or otherwise the facilitate the activities of terrorist groups - INCLUDING AL Qaeda."

Another AIPAC release cited testimony by a "famed French counter-terrorism investigator" that the IHH had played "[a]n important role" in the Al-Qaida Millenium [sic] bomb plot" that targeted Los Angeles International Airport.

But, while the IHH appears to have played a role in recruiting fighters in the Bosnia and Chechnya conflicts in the mid-1990s when the CIA report was written, it currently carries out relief operations in more than 100 countries, including Haiti and a number of African countries, as well as in Gaza, the New York Times reported Tuesday. And, aside from an assortment of sticks and kitchen knives, no weapons were found aboard any of the ships seized by Israel.

Similar talking points, however, were deployed by The Israel Project (TIP), another right-wing Zionist group that mobilised its members to write emails to lawmakers and media outlets in their area calling on them to stand by Israel. In the space of two hours Tuesday afternoon, the Washington bureau of IPS received nearly 20 emails from TIP members in support of Israel's version of the incident.

*Jim Lobe's blog on U.S. foreign policy can be read at http://www.ips.org/blog/jimlobe/.

Lumi · Jun 3, 2010

Israeli Knesset Member: Israel Wanted High Number Of Fatalities

Israeli Knesset Member: Israel Wanted High Number Of Fatalities

Israeli Knesset Member: Israel Wanted High Number Of Fatalities
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Steve Watson
Prisonplanet.com

Tuesday, Jun 1st, 2010

A member of the Israeli Knesset, the legislative branch of the Israeli government, who was on board the Marmara ship when it was ambushed by IDF troops, has told reporters that the intention of the raid was to kill as many on board as they could in order to ward off others from attempting to reach Gaza by sea.
Hanin Zoabi, who currently serves as a member of the Knesset representing the Balad party, made the following comments at a press gathering today:

?It was clear from the size of the force that boarded the ship that the purpose was not only to stop this sail, but to cause the largest possible number of fatalities in order to stop such initiatives in the future.?

Zoabi added that the international flotilla to Gaza did not have any intention to cause violence:
?Our goal was to break the siege. We had no plans for a confrontation. Israel carried out a provocative military operation. Israel is used to doing as it pleases with the Palestinians. The main problem is not the ship, but the siege.?
Zoabi, a Palestinian Arab citizen of Israel, also told the media that she did not hear any warning from the Israeli commandos before they boarded the ship, an account that conflicts with statements from several Israeli government officials.

?They were dinghies and choppers. At 4:30 am the forces landed quickly. I did not hear any warning from the ships, because noise was coming from the ships and the choppers. Within 10 minutes there were already three bodies. The entire operation took about an hour.? Zoabi said.

Zoabi described gunshots coming from the Israeli boats toward her direction. While she also claimed that from her vantage point there was no resistance from the activists once the commandoes boarded, video footage has revealed that the troops were attacked with poles. However, the evidence suggests that this was after the fact that they had been fired upon, and sustained fatalities, despite raising a white flag.

?A clear message was being sent to us, for us to know that our lives were in danger. We convened that we were not interested in a confrontation. What we saw was five bodies. There were only civilians and there were no weapons. There was a sense that I may not come out of it alive. Israel spoke of a provocation, but there was no provocation.? Zoabi said.

Zoabi?s party published a statement saying, ?Those who should be questioned are Barak and Netanyahu, who gave the order for an armed takeover in the middle of the sea. Behind this crime are criminals who should be interrogated.?

As prominent political scientist Norman Finklestein has pointed out, the Israeli government convened and mapped out what actions would be taken against the flotilla weeks ago. Given that heavily armed elite commandos were sent in under cover of darkness and reportedly fired at sleeping civilians according to eyewitnesses, it can only be assumed that the intention of the Israeli government all along was to use force, as Hanin Zoabi claims.
This is backed up by the discovery of an apparent assassination list which had been prepared in advance by the Israelis, showing names and pictures of people on board of the ships to be murdered, who, according to Israel, were ?involved in the International humanitarian aid for Gaza?.

Prior to the launch of the Flotilla, it was suggested in the Israeli press that the involvement of pro-Palistinian and Hamas-affiliated figures involved in the convoy, including Zoabi, indicated that the mission was not humanitarian in its nature and was a direct provocation.

The flotilla was also manned by the head of the Islamic Movement?s Northern Branch Raed Salah and the head of the Arab-Israeli Higher Monitoring Committee Muhammad Zidan, as well as members of the Muslim Brothers activist movement in Britain.

In the wake of what has unfolded, Israeli officials have seized on the presence of these figures to justify the actions of the IDF.

However, while Israel considers these people enemies of the state, it is clear from videos and testimony presented on the websites witnessgaza.com and freegaza.org that the flotilla, which was manned by over 700 activists, intellectuals and political figures from over 40 countries, was entirely peaceful and constituted no physical threat to Israel.

Despite worldwide condemnation, Israeli forces have declared that next time they will use more force.

?We boarded the ship and were attacked as if it was a war,? a top Navy commander told The Jerusalem Post.

?That will mean that we will have to come prepared in the future as if it was a war.?
Israeli has also released images of what it says are weapons found aboard the Marmara. They consist of a hammer, a wrench, a spanner, a screwdriver, kitchen knives, wooden and metal poles ? all items you would find on board the boat in any situation.

Other items include a slingshot and some rocks and a bottle with tubing and wires that Israel calls an ?improvised explosive device? ? hardly an impressive arsenal, certainly not something you?d go about attacking a machine gun wielding elite commando unit with.

Another two ships, including The Rachel Corrie, are expected to attempt to enter Israeli waters in the coming days. Activists on board the Corrie are reported to have decided to go ahead with their attempt to break Israel?s blockade.
Because the Corrie is is an Irish-flagged vessel, any attack on it in international waters would be an attack on the government and people of Ireland. Michael Higgins, the foreign affairs spokesman of the Irish Labour Party today called on the Government to demand safe passage for the Corrie.

In a statement, he said some of those on the vessel had contacted him earlier today and had stressed they wanted to avoid conflict and to be allowed unload their cargo to help the residents of the Gaza Strip.

?The Minister for Foreign Affairs . . . must make it clear that any assault on the Rachel Corrie would be regarded as a hostile act against Ireland and a clear breach of international law that could not be ignored by this country,? Mr Higgins said.

Lumi · Jun 3, 2010

Mavi Marmara Activist and Member of Knesset Threatened with Death

Mavi Marmara Activist and Member of Knesset Threatened with Death

Mavi Marmara Activist and Member of Knesset Threatened with Death
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Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
June 3, 2010

Can you imagine what would happen if members of Congress called for the murder of Dennis Kucinich on the floor of the House for his opposition to the illegal war in Afghanistan?

Or if Michele Bachmann was violently threatened for her support of the Arizona immigration law?

Haneen Al-Zoubi, a Palestinian Arab member of the Israeli Knesset, found herself precisely in this unenviable position yesterday.

Al-Zoubi was on the Mavi Marmara when it was attacked by Israeli navy commandos. ?There were deaths within minutes. The aim was to create an atmosphere of terror,? she told Al-Jazeerah after the fateful incident. ?Israel had days to plan this military operation,? she told a press conference in Nazareth. ?They wanted many deaths to terrorize us and to send a message that no future aid convoys should try to break the siege of Gaza.?

?The Knesset meeting of yesterday could be described as one of the most violent sessions in the history of the Knesset,? writes blogger Kawther Salam. ?The Knesset members cursed Al-Zoubi and tried several time to attack her, calling her ?terrorist, traitor, trojan horse, bloodthirsty,? demanding that security check if she had a knife with her in the Knesset, and also that she should be deported out of Israel.?
A member of Likud said her participation in the flotilla was a moral crime against Israel while a member of the ultra-extreme Yisrael Beiteinu party approached Al-Zoubi and tried to physically assault her. The party?s leader, Avigdor Lieberman, has demanded Israeli Arabs submit to loyalty tests.

?Al-Zoubi received hundreds of phone calls and electronic messages which called for killing her or physically hurting her,? writes Salam. ?Others sent her office messages wishing her a soon death, and wishing various members of her family to die in the same way as the peace activists were murdered on the freedom flotilla. Others again called for her expulsion from the Knesset and the country.?

Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai of the radical Shas party petitioned Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein to have Al-Zoubi?s citizenship revoked. In 2001, the spiritual leader of Shas, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, called for the extermination of Arabs. ?It is forbidden to be merciful to them. You must send missiles to them and annihilate them. They are evil and damnable,? he was quoted as saying in a sermon delivered to mark the Jewish festival of Passover.

In such an atmosphere, can anybody envision Knesset actually investigating the Mavi Marmara incident with any degree of objectivity?

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Lumi · Jun 4, 2010

Lighten up

Lighten up

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:0002 :0002

gardenweasel · Jun 4, 2010

gardenweasel said:
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they could do a whole moonbat concert series...follow this up with "bribe aid"......:mj07:

i have the theme for the next single...

"the haaaaate boat...,
hating on all the jooooos,

the haaaate boat....
it will never make primetime news".....:mj06:

or something like that...

and the next hate boat is sailing toward the joos as we speak(not to create a confrontation or anything)..

Lumi · Jun 4, 2010

gardenweasel · Jun 4, 2010

you guys sound down....need a pick-me-up after a long ,hard day of joo-hating?....

stop over to dunkin` donuts and get a free donut to go with your iced latte.....:toast:

Trench · Jun 4, 2010

gardenweasel said:
you guys sound down....need a pick-me-up after a long ,hard day of joo-hating?....

Twin Sons of Different Mothers

Lumi · Jun 4, 2010

gardenweasel said:
you guys sound down....need a pick-me-up after a long ,hard day of joo-hating?....

I'm sure you giggle yourself to sleep every night

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