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OBAMA HELPED PLAN ATTACK ON GAZA FLOTILLA?

Photo of Gaza Flotilla activists: www.thelocal.se/27022/20100603/mostread



Most likely the Gaza Freedom Flotilla carried a number of CIA and Mossad agents.



Most likely the attack on the flotilla was a joint US-Israeli operation. (US BACKING FOR ISRAELI WAR CRIMES)



One likely US-Israeli objective is to create conditions whereby Israel can have another war in Gaza and another war in Lebanon.



Israel wants to control Gaza's valuable gas fields and South Lebanon's water supplies.



Iran and Syria are also likely targets for the USA and Israel.



Most of NATO can be assumed to be supporting the US-Israeli actions.



The Turkish government cannot be assumed to be supporting the US-Israeli actions.



There may be a CIA organised coup in Turkey to put pro-Israel generals back in charge? (FLOTILLA PART OF ISRAELI-PENTAGON PLAN TO TOPPLE TURKISH GOVERNMENT.)



Photo: http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=israeli-forces-attack-kill-aid-flotilla-kill-activists-2010-05-31



Michel Chossudovsky, at Global Research, 6 June 2010, has an article entitled:



Was the Obama Administration involved in the Planning of the Israeli Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla?



Among the points made:



1. The killing of civilians is intended to trigger a response by Palestinian resistance forces, which in turn justifies Israeli retaliation.



2. Several high level US-Israel meetings were held in the months prior to the May 31st attacks.



Rahm Emmanuel, Obama's White House chief of Staff was in Tel Aviv a week prior to the attacks.



The Israeli press confirmed that Rahm Emmanuel had a meeting with Defense Minister Ehud Barak, whose Ministry was responsible for overseeing the Commando attack on the Flotilla.



3. At the time of Rahm Emmanuel's confirmation as White House chief of staff, there were reports in the Middle East media of Rahm Emanuel's connections to Israeli intelligence.



4. Israel, although exercising a certain degree of autonomy in military and strategic decisions, will not act unilaterally, without receiving the "green light" from Washington.



5. Washington influences the direction of Israeli politics.



There have been reports to the effect that Rahm Emmanuel would "lead a team of high octane Democratic party pro-Israel political operatives to run the campaign for the Defense Minister Ehud Barak" against Netanyahu in the next Israeli election.

(Ira Glunts, Could Rahm Emanuel Help Barak Unseat Netanyahu? Palestine Chronicle, June 2, 2010)



6. The attack on the Freedom Flotilla is intended to create conditions favoring an atmosphere of confrontation and escalation in the Middle East war theater.



"All the signs are that Israel has been stepping up its provocations to engineer a casus belli for a war against Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon.

"Tel Aviv sees as unfinished business its inconclusive wars: the first in Lebanon in 2006, and the second in Gaza in 2008-09."

(Jean Shaoul Washington Comes to the Aid of Israel over Gaza Convoy Massacre, Global Research, June 4, 2010)



7. Netanyahu has stated "We will not allow the establishment of an Iranian port in Gaza," suggesting that the Gaza blockade was part of the pre-emptive war agenda directed against Iran, Syria and Lebanon.

(Israeli forces board Gaza aid ship the Rachel Corrie - Telegraph, June 5, 2010) .



The raid on the Flotilla coincided with NATO-Israel war games directed against Iran.



8. Israel and Turkey are partners and major actors in the US-NATO planned aerial attacks on Iran, which have been in the pipeline since mid-2005.



The rift between Turkey and Israel undermines ongoing US-NATO-Israel pre-emptive war plans directed against Iran, which until recently were endorsed by the Turkish military.



The Israeli-Turkish military alliance was directed against Syria, as well as Iran and Iraq.



During the Clinton Administration, a triangular military alliance between the US, Israel and Turkey had unfolded.



Starting in 2005, Israel has become a de facto member of NATO.



9. Israel's blockade of Gaza is in large part motivated by the broader issue of control of Gaza's territorial waters, which contain significant reserves of natural gas.



What is at stake is the confiscation of Palestinian gas fields and the unilateral de facto declaration of Israeli sovereignty over Gaza's maritime areas.



If the blockade were to be broken, Israel's de facto control over Gaza's offshore gas reserves would be jeopardy.

(See Michel Chossudovsky,War and Natural Gas: The Israeli Invasion and Gaza's Offshore Gas Fields, Global Research, January 8, 2009. See also Michel Chossudovsky, The War on Lebanon and the Battle for Oil, Global Research, July 23, 2006)

US BACKING FOR ISRAELI WAR CRIMES

Pictures of ex US marine Kenneth O'Keefe who was attacked by the Israelis on board the Gaza Flotilla.

On 5 June 2010, James Petras*, at voltairenet.org/en, tells us how the Pentagon secretly backs Israeli War Crimes: From the U.S. Liberty to the Humanitarian Flotilla

On 8 June 1967, Israeli warplanes bombed, napalmed and machine-gunned the US ship, USS Liberty.

Unfortunately for the Pentagon and the Israelis, there were survivors.

President Johnson ordered Mediterranean-based warplanes NOT to assist the survivors.

On 31 May 2010, Israeli warships, helicopter gun ships and commandos assaulted a convoy of humanitarian ships carrying ten thousand tons of aid to Gaza in international waters.

Rahm Emmanuel, top US Presidential aide, was in Tel Aviv as a guest of top officials of the Israel Defense Force a few days before the Israelis launched the assault.

THE TRUTH ABOUT HAMAS AND ISRAEL?

Palestinians: www.rafahtoday.org/news/07/may07_report.html

We are not fans of Hamas, but it has to be said that their views are misrepresented by the mainstream media.

Duncan McFarlane, in a letter to The Herald, June 2010, refers to the idea that Hamas aims to destroy Israel and that Hamas 'rejects negotiations'.

The letter makes the following five points:

1. Hamas's leaders offered negotiations with Israel after winning the 2006 elections.

2. In the 2006 elections, Hamas did not campaign to destroy Israel.

3. In 2009, Israel assaulted Gaza.

Green - Palestinian Land. White - Jewish land.

4. In the 2009 election in Israel, Netanyahu's Likud party stated that "the Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state...

"The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria (ie the West Bank) and Gaza are the realisation of Zionist values ... Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting."

5. Children from nine to 14 years of age are routinely shot dead by Israeli forces.

This is in the West Bank, where Palestinians continue to be forced out at gunpoint and their land annexed for settlers.

Ledeen

How do the Israelis get away with it?

The Israelis are 'clever'.

They have made themselves useful to the very powerful fascists who occupy important positions in the Pentagon, and NATO, and China, and India and Saudi Arabia...

Israel appears to work with the fascists within the US, UK and European establishments.

Michael Ledeen is a neoconservative Zionist and a former employee of the Pentagon, the State Department and the National Security Council. (aangirfan: Michael Ledeen, Gladio and 9 11.)

Peter Chamberlin has written NEOCONSERVATISM - FASCIST ZIONISM and he links Ledeen to:

1. The fascist false-flag terrorism in Italy associated with Operation Gladio and the Strategy of Tension. (aangirfan: The Bologna Bomb 1980, Gladio, terrorism in Europe)

2. The Niger yellow cake forged documents.

3. The Iran/contra affair.

4. The events of 9 11.

The Israelis seem to be the brains behind much of the terrorism.

"How is it that the same Israeli security firm was in-charge of all the 9/11 airports as well as the London Tube and Madrid train station at the time of attack?" (Nexus between CIA and Mossad)

Michael Ledeen has been linked to terrorism in Europe.

In the 1970s, in Italy, Ledeen worked alongside Italian military intelligence, and he had strong connections to the right-wing in Italy, including the P2 Masonic Lodge.

Reportedly, P2, along with the CIA and its Gladio Brigades, was responsible for false-flag terrorism in Italy, including the Bologna Bombing of 1980.

In early 1978, Italy's Prime Minister Aldo Moro was kidnapped and later assassinated by people linked to P2.

P2 and its grandmaster Licio Gelli reportedly had as their base the masonic Monte Carlo Committee.

Reported members of the Monte Carlo Commitee are Henry Kissinger, Alexander Haig, former Supreme Commander of NATO, and Michael Ledeen.

Michael Ledeen reportedly wants a Jewish New World Order.

Ledeen, in his book Universal Fascism, states that a leader may have to 'enter into evil.'

In his book, Machiavelli on Modern Leadership: Why Machiavelli's Iron Rules Are as Timely and Important Today as Five Centuries Ago, Michael Ledeen proclaimed, "Change – above all violent change – is the essence of human history."

Israel is very small; but it has made itself useful to the Pentagon...

The psycopathic gangsters who run society.

IGNORE THE BBC LIES; THE ISRAELIS SHOT PEOPLE WHILE HANDCUFFED

The 19-Year-Old American murdered by the Israelis in the Gaza Flotilla Attack

twelfthbough.blogspot/ tells us more about the Israeli commandos and the attempt to target Turks:

1. People shot in the head at point blank range. People thrown overboard. People shot while handcuffed. People attacked by dogs during detention.

2. Coordinated swarming with small boats, helicopters and warships. Smoke bombs and cut communications. Clubbing with rifle butts. Electric shocks.

3. More than 600 people from around the world were on the flotilla to Gaza. So who died during the flotilla raid? Eight Turks and one Turkish-American.

A 19-year-old American was killed in the Flotilla Attack

Were Israelis injured?

Via Kawther Salam, we learn that the Israeli commandos wounded by gunfire were hit by friendly fire:

It's not just the Israelis. The CIA and NATO were blamed for the Bologna Bombing.

pennyforyourthoughts/ refers to:

"Israeli's Gunned Down Rights Acitivists from Helicopters": Victorian Neish Contradicts "official" Account of Night Raid on the Mavi Marmara

The end of the Gaza blockade, the beginning of NATO occupation?

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DID PENTAGON FACTION APPROVE OF ATTACK ON GAZA FLOTILLA?

In late May 2010, Rahm Emanuel visited Israel. (Rahm Emanuel in Israel; will meet with Netanyahu and Peres )



Did he pass on a message that Obama, or a certain faction within the Pentagon, approved of an attempt to halt the Gaza flotilla, which carried a lot of Turks and some Brazilians? (The US government tried to sink the USS Liberty)



The attack on the Gaza flotilla frustrates those within the US government who want peace in the Middle East. (Analysis: Israeli raid may hurt US Mideast plans )



Turkey is siding more and more with Russia, Syria and Iran. (US hegemony in Middle East is ending)



A few dead Turks might please the pro-Israel faction within US government?

In May 2010, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visited Turkey.



Medvedev and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan "signed 17 agreements worth some $25 billion, including building four nuclear power plants.



"The two countries also discussed Russian participation in a Black Sea- Mediterranean pipeline that would make Ankara a player in the Central Asia energy game.



"The Turks also seem to be more favorably disposed toward Moscow’s South Stream natural gas pipeline to Europe.



"And lastly, the Russian president said he would push to raise bilateral trade from $40 billion a year to $100 billion within five years." (Iran, Brazil, Turkey & the Ghost of Lord Palmerston )

Brazilian Boy Performs Capoeira - by The AlleyTree



Brazil has become more friendly with Turkey and Iran.



"Turkey ... appears to be moving out of the orbit of western democracies and into a deepening alliance with an newly forming axis of power composed of countries such as Russia, Iran, and Brazil." (A turning point for Turkey)



Iara Lee, a Brazilian filmmaker, was on the Gaza flotilla attacked by the Israelis.



Speaking to Brazil's TV Globo, from prison in Israel, Lee said the attack "was a surprise, because it happened in the middle of the night... in international waters...



"They came on board and started shooting at people...



In an interview with the Folha de São Paulo newspaper, Lee said: "Some of them shot at the passengers' heads. Many people were murdered - it was unimaginable."



('Our ship turned into lake of blood' / Israelis opened fire before boarding Gaza flotilla, say released activists )

Right wing UK historian Max Hastings writes in the Daily Mail (Israel's tragedy.):



"When I last visited Gaza City, I stood in the barren apartment of a woman named Majah Ayas while she showed me a hole in the window blind, through which an Israeli bullet had killed her two-year-old son Amir... 'My cousin, too, was killed by the Israelis. He was 27, walking along the street when an Israeli sniper saw him...'



"When Israelis begin to discuss the Palestinians, they might be speaking of wild beasts. I remember meeting Esther Armon, the elderly widow of an Israeli ambassador...



She reminisced about fighting the British, who ran Palestine before 1948...



"When I last rented a car in Jerusalem, on Avis's map there was no trace of any border between the Israeli state and the occupied territories.



There was only Israel, from the Jordan to the Mediterranean."



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"The vast majority of Israelis are recent immigrants who arrived from Brooklyn,France,Russia,Ukraine and Moldova.



"They show up in Palestine ... claiming divine ownership of the land...



"The resident Palestinian land owners are then either shot or incarcerated in open air reservation camps and their lands are confiscated and given to the recent immigrants from Brooklyn." (In cold blood: Why Israel's state thuggery must be stopped‎)

HAGUE CONTACTS NETANYAHU?

Netanyahu (Photo: www.asianews.it/news-en/Netanyahu.)

Some of the following may be true:

The UK Foreign Secretary, William Hague, has been in conversation by phone with Mr Netanyahu, the leader of Israel:

UK Foreign secretary William Hague and Seb Coe. (Seb Coe splits from his wife)

Hague: Mr Netanyahu, you have illegally detained dozens of Britons and may put them on trial.

We are a little concerned.

Netanyahu: How is Seb Coe these days?

Hague: Fine thank you.

Now, it is unfortunate that you have attacked ships which carried some important passengers.

I refer to Edward Peck, a former US ambassador. (Gaza ships: the passenger list)

Former US ambassador, Edward Peck

Netanyahu: Did we care about Rachel Corrie?

Hague: You have detained US Navy veteran Joe Meadors. (Gaza ships: the passenger list)

Netanyahu: He was also on board the USS Liberty.

He should remember that the Pentagon worked with us in trying to sink that particular ship.

Hague: You have detained Henning Mankell, the author of the Inspector Wallander books.

You have detained three German MPs and a Swedish MP. (Gaza ships: the passenger list)

Netanyahu: Are you still doing a spot of wrestling with Sebastian Coe?

Hague: No I am not.

You have detained two Australian journalists.

Netanyahu: Listen Hague, we haven't shot the Australians, like we shot your James Miller.

Hague: May I remind you that when the Argentinians detained people in the Falklands, we took action.

Netanyahu: May I remind you about David Laws?

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David Laws: 'I should have admitted I was gay but it was too hard'

New Statesman - Why gays become politicians

The US government tried to sink the USS Liberty

Gaza flotilla - Eye witness accounts of Israeli raid

Witnesses cast doubt on Israel's convoy raid account

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THE WORLD'S WORST NEWSPAPER?

Brecqhou - Home of the Barclay Brothers, who own the UK's Daily Telegraph.

Commenting on the Israeli attack on the Gaza flotilla, the UK's Daily Telegraph decides to criticise Turkey (Turkey turns away):

"As the man responsible for Turkish security, Mr Erdogan knows that the government in Jerusalem has to vet goods brought into the Strip.

"A secular, non-Arab country, Turkey is in a unique position to mediate between Israel and the Palestinians.

"Its prime minister appears instead to have chosen a more biased role designed to appeal to his domestic Islamic constituency."

The UK's Daily Telegraph is the most pro-Israel of newspapers.

The Daily Telegraph, whose tax-exiled owners are David and Frederick Barclay, works for the bad guys.

It was the Daily Telegraph that, through the expenses scandal, helped a 'loathed' Jew, John Bercow, to become speaker of the House of Commons. ('Loathed' Jew must be sacked as speaker of UK's discredited House of Commons.)

Certain Telegraph staff are reported to have links to the spooks.

Reportedly, Sir Colin Coote, a former Editor of the Daily Telegraph and a former officer in MI6, was responsible for introducing Jack Profumo's friend Stephen Ward to Soviet spy Eugene Ivanov 'at the behest of his old service', (PROFUMO, John - Spy School Bios.)

The result of the Profumo affair was that Israel's friend Harold Wilson became prime minister.

Allegedly, Dominic Lawson, who once edited the Sunday Telegraph, has links to MI6 and Princess Diana. (SPOOKY JOURNALISTS)

Photo: Coughlin

Con Coughlin is a journalist with close links to the security services.

"It was Coughlin who, with the help of unnamed intelligence sources, discovered that Saddam Hussein could launch weapons of mass destruction in 45 minutes.

"And it was Coughlin who revealed the link between the 9/11 hijacker, Mohammed Atta, and Iraqi intelligence.

"Both claims have, of course, been exposed as utter nonsense." - (UK Indymedia - Pentagon Propaganda Occupies the Guardian's Front Page:)

Now Con Coughlin is trying to spread stories about Iran.

The Telegraph newspaper had a story entitled 'Iran has resumed A-bomb project, says West' - By Con Coughlin, 07/07/2008

David Leigh wrote about 'Britain’s security services and journalists: the secret story' in the British Journalism ReviewVol. 11, No. 2, 2000, pages 21-26. (http://www.bjr.org.uk/data/2000/no2_leigh.htm)

According to Leigh:

"British journalists – and British journals – are being manipulated by the secret intelligence agencies."

Leigh gave us an example from 1995 when the Sunday Telegraph published a story about the son of Col Gadafy of Libya and his alleged connection to a currency counterfeiting plan.

According to Leigh: "The story was written by Con Coughlin, the paper’s then chief foreign correspondent, and it was falsely attributed to a 'British banking official'.

In fact, it had been given to him by officers of MI6, who, it transpired, had been supplying Coughlin with material for years."

aangirfan: Dominic Lawson, Con Coughlin and MI6

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