No Flotilla to Gaza this Year?

[nirreich]

Maybe it would be best if IHH organises flotillas to Syria, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Egypt (and the list can go on and on).

However, armed militant like IHH activists are not very interesting in their Muslims brother's fate or willing to take their chances against the dictatorial regimes in the ME. Israel as a democracy is a better target.

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Relief group signals U-turn on Gaza plan
Fulya Özerkan
ANKARA- Hürriyet Daily News
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
The aid ship Mavi Marmara has to wait a bit longer as a Turkish nongovernmental organization is considering canceling its relief mission to the Gaza Strip.
A Turkish civil-society group appears to be backing away from its previous resolve to send a new aid flotilla to Gaza, saying Tuesday that it may cancel its plans depending on developments, especially in Syria.

“We are reconsidering our plans. We cannot close our eyes to the developments on our doorstep,” Hüseyin Oruç, a board member of the Humanitarian Relief Foundation, or İHH, and the spokesman for the new flotilla, told the Hürriyet Daily News. The group had previously demonstrated a firm insistence on sending the Mavi Marmara, the vessel on which nine people were killed last year in an Israeli raid on an earlier flotilla, back to Gaza in late June.

“Our goal is not to set sail to Gaza. We think we can serve the purpose by sending a ship or canceling it,” Oruç said Tuesday. “We’ll make our decision by the end of this week,” the spokesman added.

Twenty-two vessels from different countries, including the Mavi Marmara, are set to meet in international waters close to the southern parts of the Mediterranean island of Cyprus on June 27 before sailing to Gaza, according to the initial plans. The international activists involved in the new flotilla will meet in Athens this weekend, Oruç said.

“We will discuss the emerging conditions. Every country has its own balance. From our point of view, the developments in neighboring Syria are critically important,” he told the Daily News.

“We are reconsidering our plans. The international community is talking about an intervention in Syria, a development that would affect Turkey very much, as well as Palestine and peace in the region. All the factors are inter-linked and we must be looking at all of them,” Oruç added.

The İHH insists that the Turkish government did not interfere in the flotilla plans, but Ankara’s call to the group to reconsider sending a ship to Gaza is believed to have been influential on their current position.

Early this month, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu urged the flotilla’s organizers to see how the Egyptian opening of the Rafah border crossing with Gaza, as well as the intra-Palestinian unity between rival factions Hamas and al-Fatah, has affected the situation before heading to the blockaded strip. That was the first time the government had suggested flotilla organizers should reconsider their plans.

“The government’s warnings should not be regarded as strange,” Oruç said.

Relief group signals U-turn on Gaza plan - Hurriyet Daily News and Economic Review

 

[silko]

as long as israel don't attack them on international waters, i will be happy!

and please, use other methods than just going in with weapons!

 

[araz]

There is a flotilla/convoy leaving from UK on the 30th of this month for palestine.
Araz

 

[nirreich]

as long as israel don't attack them on international waters, i will be happy!

and please, use other methods than just going in with weapons!

Every maritime blockade is enforced in international water and so is the legitimate blockade on Gaza which is controlled by a barbaric terror organisation known as Hamas.

I can assure you that another attempt for violence from your Turkish friends (and other riff-raff), while attempting to break the blockade, would be countered with the firmness of Israel's security forces. Any blood spilled would be the responsibility of the reckless organisers who deliberately created this provocation.

Israel will prevent any assistance to the Hamas terror organisation. Any humanitarian support could be easily delivered through Israel or Egypt without the need for any flotilla and breaking the maritime blockade.

 

[silko]

Every maritime blockade is enforced in international water and so is the legitimate blockade on Gaza which is controlled by a barbaric terror organisation known as Hamas.

I can assure you that another attempt for violence from your Turkish friends (and other riff-raff), while attempting to break the blockade, would be countered with the firmness of Israel's security forces. Any blood spilled would be the responsibility of the reckless organisers who deliberately created this provocation.

Israel will prevent any assistance to the Hamas terror organisation. Any humanitarian support could be easily delivered through Israel or Egypt without the need for any flotilla and breaking the maritime blockade.

i do agree with you here.

i want to point out that they are not my "friend", rather some idiots that thinks getting killed by israelis automatically makes you martyr! stupid people with stupid idelogies, that i dont support!

israel has a big coastline dont they? they have a lot of time before the ship can settle to dock in gaza! try stopping the engine by putting some nets and force it to stop!

 

[secularbuster]

i do agree with you here.

i want to point out that they are not my "friend", rather some idiots that thinks getting killed by israelis automatically makes you martyr! stupid people with stupid idelogies, that i dont support!

israel has a big coastline dont they? they have a lot of time before the ship can settle to dock in gaza! try stopping the engine by putting some nets and force it to stop!

People like nazi reich are your friends, perhaps you should move to israel.

 

[nirreich]

i do agree with you here.

i want to point out that they are not my "friend", rather some idiots that thinks getting killed by israelis automatically makes you martyr! stupid people with stupid idelogies, that i dont support!

israel has a big coastline dont they? they have a lot of time before the ship can settle to dock in gaza! try stopping the engine by putting some nets and force it to stop!

I mistakenly thought you are one of their supporters, sorry for that.

I am no expert on maritime blockades and the means which are mandatory for this kind of policy.

As far as I know the Israeli navy did considered all kind of options how to stop the flotilla including sabotage in the ship's engines. However, from what was published this method might jeopardise the safety of all passengers and not just the hooligans who aspire to engage with IDF soldiers. Unfortunately, the only way to stop a ship in the size of the Marmara without risking the lives of the entire crew while it sails with fool steam ahead is by boarding it and seize control over its bridge and other critical areas.

 

[nirreich]

People like nazi reich are your friends, perhaps you should move to israel.

Ignorance is bliss.

You have no idea what the Third Reich was.

 

[harpoon]

Good time to test the new Barak missile.

 

[nirreich]

Good time to test the new Barak missile.

That could be a typical response of a rogue or dictatorial state like one of the countries in the ME.

Israel will do its best to hurt civilians as less as possible. As long as they avoid any confrontation with Israel's security forces, no harm is expected to them and after a short investigation they will be deported to their countries.

 

[harpoon]

That could be a typical response of a rogue or dictatorial state like one of the countries in the ME.

Israel will do its best to hurt civilians as less as possible. As long as they avoid any confrontation with Israel's security forces, no harm is expected to them and after a short investigation they will be deported to their countries.

I am kidding bro. No need to get serious.

 

[mirage 5000]

no body want to kill himself for these lazy Arabs let them stay hungry we should mind our business .

 

[nirreich]

I am kidding bro. No need to get serious.

That's all right, no hard feelings.

 

[harpoon]

no body want to kill himself for these lazy Arabs let them stay hungry we should mind our business .

Pakistan would have been a much better place if some of your countrymen had not decided to kill and be killed for Arabs like OBL.

 

[mirage 5000]

Pakistan would have been a much better place if some of your countrymen had not decided to kill and be killed for Arabs like OBL.

no one damn try to understand damn . its no-1 failure of Pakistan and its no-1 problem of Pakistan that we think work care others such as Arabs .they massed up Pakistan and we still care them .