First, though, you need to know about a recent Guardian interview with Khaled Meshal, the political leader of Hamas, which reeked of scorn against the U.S. whose envoys, he claimed, talk to the terrorist group directly but the U.S. isn't brave enough to do it openly (i.e., they meet in secret). He then lavished praise on Russia's president for a direct meeting with him in what appeared to be a political ploy to make the U.S. look very timid.
We all know Israel is the stated enemy of Hamas who wants its destruction for "Islam" that you can read all about in their 1988 charter. This is just one part of a much larger global Islamist movement to regain the land once under the firm control of a long series of Islamic supremacist caliphates. The ultimate goal of this movement is global control aided by multiple jihadist attacks carried out daily worldwide which, surprise, surprise, the Obama administration refuses to recognize.
It seems to me Muslims don't want to be reminded that in June 2007 Hamas violently overthrew the Gaza Strip (area in white above) in a Palestinian civil war that seized power from the Fatah government. After this happened, access to the area was severely limited by Israel and Egypt. Yes, Egypt.
A flotilla of ships heading towards a Gaza port was stopped by the Israeli Navy today after it has been warned it would not be allowed to sail directly to the strip. In spite of the warnings, Hamas had planned a big reception for them.
While the Arab world condemns Israel, a recently released video by the IDF appears to shows Israeli soldiers being attacked as they boarded one of the ships in the flotilla:
Anna Baltzer, CAIR Oklahoma's keynote (anti-American, anti-Israeli) speaker recently, was to travel to Palestine during this time as noted on her twitter post. Here you will also find two links to the speech she gave in Oklahoma City posted on May 20th. I don't know if she was on the flotilla but she is an excellent example how Islamists and their leftist minions try to make everything all Israel's (and the U.S.'s) fault.
Meanwhile, Hamas welcomes Israel aid ship action 'condemnation' (good video interview) which hasn't waivered from their goal to destroy Israel for Islam in over 22 years. And as a final reminder, Palestine was a territory of the Ottoman Empire - an Islamic hegemony that lasted centuries, It did not exist in Bibical times and was never mentioned in the Quran which was written centuries later.
Update 6/1/10: It also appears secular Turkey, whose ancient city, Istanbul, once thrived with Christians until it became the headquarters of the Ottoman Empire, has taken a turn towards Islamism; Turkey urges world to punish Israel for 'massacre' and Turkey wants US condemnation of Israeli raid.
The Turkish flag was flown on at least one of the flotilla ships.
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