Ireland went hysterical about the deaths of nine radical Turkish Islamists
who attacked Israeli soldiers in the
"Free Gaza" flotilla clash of 31 May 2010.
The confusion probably stemmed from the fact that the flotilla
also contained many western peaceniks, hippies, useful idiots, appeasers, confused clerics
and other dhimmis.
But these were not the ones who attacked the Israelis
and these were not the ones who were killed.
The Irish Independent
produced an extremely stupid
liberal-left, Israel-bashing editorial, 1 June 2010.
They say Israel
"claimed that the campaigners on board the leading ship attacked the commandos, who acted in self-defence. Did they expect anyone to believe that?"
Olivia O'Leary
had a 4 minute anti-Israel diatribe:
on
Drivetime,
RTE Radio One, 1 June 2010.
She absurdly says that we tend to prefer Israelis to the Arabs because of "cultural differences",
because we prefer "people like us".
Not because the Israelis are democrats and the Arabs aren't.
Not because the Israelis believe in the Enlightenment and human freedom and the Arabs don't.
Micheál Martin, Ireland's unimpressive Minister for Foreign Affairs, in the Dail, 1 June 2010,
denied the terrorist sympathies of the flotilla:
"I took issue with the description by the deputy foreign Minister of Israel of the flotilla as "an armada of hate and violence". We know the Irish activists involved to be sincere, committed people, with deep humanitarian convictions and concerns, who were committed to breaking the blockade of Gaza but in a peaceful, non-violent way. Some Members of the Oireachtas had been with them and intended to join the flotilla. It is compounding one injustice with another to try to brand such people as somehow being terrorist fellow-travellers."
Em, why not read the
MEMRI report?
The peaceniks invited the Turks, and the Turks rounded up a whole ship full of
terrorist fellow-travellers.
Micheál Martin, interview 8 Aug 2010, says he would support another flotilla attempt.
Fine Gael
Cllr Dara Murphy, FG Lord Mayor of Cork,
opened a book of condolences for the Islamists killed in their attack on the Israeli soldiers.
Cllr. David Naughton, FG Cathaoirleach of Limerick County Council,
opened a book of condolences for the Islamists.
Cllr Joe Ryan of Labour calls Israel a "Rogue nation", June 1, 2010,
and compares this liberal, gay-friendly democracy
to "another rogue state North Korea",
which is a genocidal slave state with concentration camps and gas chambers.
Alex White
of Labour said:
"All reasonable persons would agree that what occurred yesterday morning was most shocking and a despicable act".
Anti-Israel Senator
David Norris, June 2010,
absurdly describes the violent Turkish Islamists as:
"a group .. of innocent, peaceful protesters"
who
"were slaughtered by Israeli commandos".
He also piously complains about the Israeli assassination of Hamas terrorist
Mahmoud Al Mabhouh.
Open support for Islamic terror groups in the Irish media:
Letter to the editor, 9 June 2010.
Some guy called Micheál Higgins, after complaining about the killing of violent Islamists, says:
"I am no longer morally able to vilify Hamas. It has my support from this day forward."
A rush to judgment that will be refuted by history and fact, Zion Evrony (Israeli Ambassador to Ireland), Irish Times, June 11, 2010.
Evrony is scathing about the Irish media:
"Our historian of the future will find it curious that, in an age of instant video documentation, the Irish media showed so little interest in revisiting their initial hasty judgments of the whole episode."
"SMASH THE ZIONIST STATE"
says a SWP protester at a demo in Dublin protesting the flotilla raid, 31 May 2010.
"Smash" the only democracy in the Middle East?
These Westerners will only go quiet when every Arab lives under the jackboot of
native thugs and strongmen like Hamas.
(Look at Africa.)
Photo by
Ted Leddy.
PFLP
Islamic terrorist flag at protest in Belfast, 31 May 2010.
From Indymedia.
PFLP Islamic terrorist flag at protest at Stormont, June 2010.
From Indymedia.
Dublin demo, 31 May 2010.
On the RHS,
Labour LGBT
(formerly here)
protests against Israel, the only country in the Middle East where LGBT people have rights.
On the LHS, the
Hamas flag.
Hamas
tortures and executes gays.
Photo from
Indymedia.
It is noteworthy that Indymedia chose to upload this photo
and saw nothing wrong with it.
Responses:
John McGuirk
got an unimpressive response from Labour LGBT about this.
The Labour gays aren't the only blind and foolish gays in the West:
Madrid gay pride organisers ban Israeli gays from upcoming march, June 2010,
as revenge for the death of the Turkish Islamists (who no doubt hated gays).
The Israeli gays respond:
"We invited the organisers of the gay pride event in Madrid to join a march this Friday in Tel Aviv, the only place in the Middle East where you can be gay in public.
They would be able to talk to Arab gays who travel here secretly because they would be murdered at home if they revealed their sexuality."
The Hamas flag at the Dublin demo.
From the Workers Solidarity Movement.
Full set here.
It is noteworthy that the Workers Solidarity Movement chose to upload this photo
and saw nothing wrong with it.
The Irish Times,
1 June 2010, front page photo was of the demo, showing both the Hamas flag and the LGBT banner.
And the Irish Times did not notice!
Still from video of the demo:
showing Hamas flag
being carried prominently at the front
as they march along.
Did no one notice?
Did they not care?
The video shows the flag throughout the demo, and shows chants of
"Allah Akbar!"
which is what jihad terrorists shout when killing infidels.
In fact, just three days after this march in defence of Turkish Islamists, a Turkish Islamist
shouted
"Allah Akbar!"
as he
killed a Catholic bishop in Turkey.
I wrote to the Irish Times, 1 June 2010,
pointing out the Hamas flag on their front page,
and also pointing out another photo they did not understand:
They published a photo of Neturei Karta
without knowing who they were!
They published my letter on 4 June 2010.
Here it is:
Madam
Your front page photo of the Dublin demo (1 June) works brilliantly to discredit the anti-Israel protesters. On the right of the crowd, the Labour LGBT group is protesting against Israel, the only country in the Middle East where LGBT people have rights. To their left, protesters hold up the flag of Hamas, which tortures and executes gays. Nothing could better illustrate the failure of western democrats to support a democracy fighting totalitarians.
There is another strange photo on page 10, of what is blandly described as "Hasidic Jews" protesting against Israel. You neglect to mention that these are Neturei Karta, a tiny minority of fanatics who want Israel destroyed for arcane religious reasons. They praise Islamic extremists, and went to the Holocaust-denial conference in Iran. They are about as representative of Jews as the "God Hates Fags" church is representative of Christians.
As for the clash on the flotilla, at what point exactly, when they are being beaten to death with iron bars, should the Israeli soldiers draw their guns? Should they have waited until the first soldier died?
A man wore a t-shirt saying "Death to Israel" in Hebrew and Arabic
at the above protest.
Did the many Arabic speakers
on the march not care?
Did they approve?
Protester at the anti-Israel demo, Dublin, 31 May 2010,
wears a t-shirt that says "Death to Israel" in Hebrew and Arabic.
He's hiding it from the English-speaking useful dhimmis around him.
But he wants the Israeli Embassy, and any passing Jews who know Hebrew,
to get the message.
He also assumes that passing Arabic speakers will approve,
and enjoy the secret joke.
From here.
Hebrew to English translation:
I don't even know the
Hebrew alphabet,
so how did I figure this out?
As for the Arabic, to see that the shirt says
"Death to Israel" in Arabic,
see this Iranian parade in 2007. Robert Spencer
notes that the slogan here says "Death to Israel",
not "Down with Israel",
which is just
taqiyya
for a western audience.
Protester waves the
Hezbollah flag at anti-Israel demo, Dublin, 3 June 2010.
Again, does no one notice?
Does no one care?
From video:
See
larger and
other shot.
Palestinian activist
Claudia Saba,
speaking at the above demo,
wears a t-shirt calling for the destruction of Israel.
From video:
Doesn't she care that Israel is a free society for women, gays and atheists,
while Gaza is an
Islamic sharia hellhole?
Shouldn't she be marching to free Gaza from Hamas?
Hezbollah flag at anti-Israel demo, Dublin, 5 June 2010.
From here.
"Why Are You Protesting Against Israel?"
Nice video of the kind of idiots who protest above.
A good demo - A rare sight in Ireland
A rare sight in Ireland - A demo of good people against a wicked state.
Iranian dissidents protest the visit of Iran's Foreign Minister to Dublin, 9 June 2010.
More video from Ted Leddy
here
and here
and here.
Iran, of course, sponsors Hamas and Hezbollah whose flags we see in the moron anti-Israel protests above.
A whole bunch of people from the pro-violence SF-IRA organisation,
which has a long history of
links to Palestinian terror.
Hussein Hamed
(Muslim Brotherhood candidate in Irish election).
The Islamic terror group
Hamas is, of course, the Palestinian wing of the Muslim Brotherhood.
These were previously listed as going, but in the end were just supporters:
Sinn Féin TD Aengus Ó Snodaigh,
who has said that
"Israel is without doubt one of the most abhorrent and despicable regimes on the planet."
Mick Wallace, 30 June 2011, claims that:
"The peaceful passengers on the Saoirse would never seek to justify the indiscriminate firing of rockets from Gaza into Israel."
But why have some of them declared their support for Hamas then?
Irish Ship to Gaza
says about this sabotage attack that harmed nobody:
"This was a vicious attack on Irish property by international terrorists against a boat flying the Irish flag."
I wonder have they ever described Hamas as "international terrorists".
Or Fatah.
Or Hezbollah.
I doubt it.
Turkey claimed there was no sabotage.
I suspect they are just saving face.
They are happy the flotilla was stopped.
Israel denied sabotage.
But that is to be expected.
Isn't peaceful "direct action" like this
better than the violence of last year?
Ironically, most of the lefties complaining loudly about "sabotage" would support
(and have supported) the
sabotage of American and other allied military equipment
in the past.
For example, the pro-Hamas "Irish Anti-War Movement"
supported the sabotage of the offices of US defence company Raytheon in Derry in 2006.
Shamefully,
Cork city council, 11 July 2011, passed a motion about the sabotage which said there is "an Israeli regime"
(as opposed to an elected democracy)
"which has no respect for life or for international law."
Pathetic ignorance.
The motion was proposed by a councillor from the
North Korea linked
(and formerly Soviet linked)
Workers Party.
Israeli activist law firm Shurat haDin
is fighting the flotilla using peaceful methods.
The 2011 flotilla failed, mainly due to the actions of Greece and Turkey,
who did not want a repeat of the violence of the previous year.
The flotilla will have to look for different countries to enable it next time.
"MV Saoirse" sailed again in Nov 2011, with the usual crowd of ignorant Israel-haters on board, and was stopped by the Israeli navy.
Fianna Fáil leader
Micheál Martin attacks Israel, 6 Nov 2011.
"I salute the people who undertook this humanitarian mission to Gaza
and their efforts to highlight the plight of the Palestinian people living there.
...
Israel's actions in boarding the vessel and detaining citizens are totally unacceptable."
Micheál Martin is one of the main reasons why I won't vote for Fianna Fáil.
Gaza 2011.
Life expectancy in Gaza
is 73.42 yrs.
That is higher than life expectancy in Turkey, Egypt, Iran or Pakistan.
Funny comment on the video:
"NOOOOOOOOOO this is lies!!why GaZa only get iPhone 3GS? when IsRaeiil get iPhone4???? crimeeesss!!1 i tell UN!!!"
Anti-Israel
FF ex-TD Chris Andrews
(1st cousin of Ryan Tubridy)
issues a
rather dodgy tweet, June 2011, about the only Jew in the Irish government, Alan Shatter.
I was pleased to see Chris Andrews lose his seat in the Feb 2011 election.
Chris Andrews with
Syrian terror-state leader
Assad.
From a Chris Andrews constituency leaflet.
(He actually chose to display this photo of himself to the voters!)
Credit to Monique Walsh for finding this.
See larger
and full page.
Might be put online here.
on
Drivetime,
RTE Radio One, 1 June 2010.
She absurdly says that we tend to prefer Israelis to the Arabs because of "cultural differences",
because we prefer "people like us".
Not because the Israelis are democrats and the Arabs aren't.
Not because the Israelis believe in the Enlightenment and human freedom and the Arabs don't.
The PFLP stabs 3 small children to death, Mar 2011.
showing Hamas flag
being carried prominently at the front
as they march along.
Since 1995.
