So threatening… 31 May 2010
Posted by marisacat in 2012 Re Election, Border Issues, Culture of Death, DC Politics, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter, Israel/AIPAC, WAR!.trackback
Pro-Palestinian activists from Turkey hold a news conference on board the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara as part of a humanitarian convoy. (Erhan Sevenler / Reuters / May 31, 2010)
It’s not the first time activists have attempted to break the Israeli blockade. Previously, protest ships have been turned back, escorted to Israel or allowed to pass through to Gaza. But the current flotilla, organized by Free Gaza and other pro-Palestinian advocacy groups, presented a greater challenge due to the sheer number of people — as many as 800 — taking part.
Yup.. the Great State of Israel, nuclear armed, is under attack from the high seas.
FFS.
Marisacat 
Catching up to Carole Browner on MTP………. SO bad. So bad…
“Our” scientists will be there, asking the “probing questions”.
Declaring our “independence” from BP.
OK but can I get a Boston Tea Party!??? A real one? In New Orleans, and Fourchon and Venice… and Barataria
Can I????
I don’t know if this is true… but there is a report out that one of the officers of the USS Liberty is aboard the flotilla…
Yes, someone named Joe Meadors
wow, really? Brave man … the IDF is fucking batshit murderous crazy and I admire anybody who could put themselves in their crosshairs.
A lot of Americans don’t know about the Liberty, and they should … only way to understand how violent that fucked up country is.
David Gergen makes his umpteenth bid to be brought into the admin. snicker. Sad to say, things look to be such a mess, his list of To Dos looks very smart.
Can we get more pathetic.
I don’t think this is going to work… the CG has little credibility left… by now.
5 years of co-opting them in the time after Katrina, when they still had cred, still were apart from the other mil services…
O V E R
Et les voici les mots dutrou-du-cul
oh ffs…………..
people who cannot let go of israel are complicit.
god and then it gets WORSE… BHL, one more thug.
goes to show that willful blindness isn’t just an American affliction.
which is so true… of course BHL is a big time American suck up. So tedious.
BTW, I notice the new name for the whatever Plan H is… it is NOW being called a “marine cap”. Instead of the acronym for ‘Low Riser Whatever Batship crazy next thing’ ….
So prophylactic of BP.
how about “Magic Suppository rammed up the low riser”?
oh too funny!
This guy produces an unstoppable torrent of drivel. Is there a top hat or top kill that can put an end to this toxic gusher?
containment box… anything. Such a terrible person.
Netanyahu has canceled his Washington trip and is issuing propaganda drivel from Ottawa.
He’s yours now!
He can’t leave soon enough. And the Canadian and US gov’ts have issued very similar statements: they’re waiting for the facts to come in. Sure. Meanwhile, the UN so-called security council is having another toothless emergency meeting.
Sounds like pretty intense demonstrations at the Israeli Embassy in London…………….
Gah… full text of post frm Ben SMith
Earlier I read a comment from Bill Burton that we are “struggling to understand what happened”.
Struggle on!
There you go…
Al Jazeera video report from the ship.
I see Obama got rained out, lightened out, at the cemetary in Chicago……………….
Maybe a marine cap would hve helped!
LOL. HuffPo has the vid The forthcoming pics I think are worthy of the Mcat Archives:
Obbie getting drenched at the Prezzie podium holding a wind rattled umbrella. IOW, the optics were PERFECT.
And it so true what you say about him when unscripted.
He said ” if the rain stops in about 15 minutes I’ll stick around…”
At a Memorial Day service..Where he is to no doubt shovel heavy on Valley Forge, the Invasion of Normandy, Bataan etc – ya know “the Good Wars” . I mean whatt the fuck-
“I can do rain in the car for the next 15 min, otherwise mind if I phone it in?”
Mission Rained Out.
Gawd is not cooperating with Obby. Seems that way to me. Honestly this was all around a bad luck weekend for him, the righties have seized hold of the idiotic Fruit of Islam … I dunno, show of force… when Ob went to watch hockey (think it was) at a house right across the street from Farrakhan.
Somebody end this………………… the years to come just stretch out….
Well God was rather standoffish with His Only Begotten Son.
So Foundling Barry might have a bit of a problem with God the.
“See Ya In Three Days” Father.
Besides , he’s black.
maybe he can convert… you know, born again Judaism.
I don’t know, we seem trapped in jokes.
Some Mem Day event at ………. think Staten Island, the rotors of the mil planes rotated too strongly and whipped branches off trees, which then flew into the assembled faithful.
Anything, anything.. if the summer would speed up.
Some good news…
BP lost 5.3 % in day trading overseas.
So here’s the deal: IDF commandos parachute onto the ship on what is clearly an offensive military operation. The commandos are mobbed by a lot of angry people with their fists and whatever else they can get a hold of. Then the IDF has the audacity to claim they were attacked and acting in self defense? Who do they think they are?
Israel…the IDF who do they think they are?
They know who they are. They also know who we are.
it really is reprehensible… and anyone opposed to the State of Israel (for wahtever reason!, by now!) personally pulled a switch at a concentration camp. Or would have…
Never have so many deaths been so devalued.
They were going to kill people to teach them a lesson. If there hadn’t been any violent reaction to storming the ship with paratroopers, they still would have put guns in their dead hands.
I heard an Israeli spokeswoman on NPR claim that the civilians on the ship were “lying in wait” to … believe it or not … LYNCH the poor defenseless battle-armored highly trained commando.
I shit you not … LYNCH.
I just read that in this BBC report too.
If they don’t have anything to hide, why aren’t they letting the activists speak yet?
not just activists, but from what I’ve read two Australian journalists and an Al Jazeera journalist haven’t been heard from since, either.
The Ausralians surfaced but the reporter, the man, was shot in the leg during the attack…
That’s true. I just lumped them all together.
According to wikipedia
This is one of instances where soi-disant is appropriate.
Just a headline… but it is interesting that ANYONE thought a tired and ridiculous Sex in the City could spark the box office take. The camel stuff in the desert was such a rip off from Ab Fab of how many year ago? Geesh:
Summer box office sees its worst Memorial Day weekend in 17 years
Los Angeles Times (blog)
Guatemala: First, volcanic eruption; then, devastating tropical storm
Boing Boing compendium of links about the Gaza flotilla attack.
John Cole links to some interesting pieces on the IDF’s latest, with some interesting points about where it could all lead and escalate, such as:
and and more in that vein, and what else Turkey could do:
Article V (from Wikipedia:
I did not see it anywhere else, but Business Insider said that immediately Israel told israelis in Turkey to come home.
Also there is pseculation around, but I have no idea, that Israel would nto have done this had we not green lighted it…
One vid I saw, had audio with IDF yelling as they boarded that they were being shot with live rounds.. whatever came down, if that is true it was planned to be as it is rolling out…
they do seem to be eager for a widened war in the region.
oh I also saw speculation that Israel might have some harebrained idea about going to war for water resources.
Geesh who knows, they are as crazy as we are…
Easest way to kill the peace movement is to start another war. They’re still miffed we have not taken out Iran.
What a piece of shit that country is. Started out in a blood bath, and they continue that legacy.
And why was every western country in meltdown over the financial crisis…except Israel.
Cynthia McKinney is on my Canadian CBC teevee.
She filibustered the interview so that was over quickly!
Some Israeli apologist was on CNN saying the IDF was armed with paint ball guns at first.
Israel shoots young American Peace Activist [with a tear gas canister], she Loses Eye…
oh but it is all good.. I just heard a repot taht “No. 3 AQ” is dead. al-Masri.
Soon to die again, no doubt.
On and on it goes…
Mankell he Wallander series author is among the Swedes held in Israel…
Obviously, Swedish Crime Novelists are a nefarious threat.
What is Israel and her Zionist supporters worldwide trying to accomplish?
Reinforce EVERY Jewish stereotype throughout the ages?
Lying, cheating, manipulative, etc? Not to mention… the pound of flesh?
Well I can say that a rabid pro Israel host on KGO is arguing right and left iwth callers about how wrong all of this is, you don’t board on the high seas, for starters. That the humanitarian relief effort is not beholden to Israel.. that the occupation of the lands must be settled, it has gone on for nearly two generations, etc… that 9 are dead (my guess higher, one reason so many people are being held) etc… .
And how Israeli tv is nothing but ”pure propaganda”, no one can believe wht is being shown on it……. reiterates his having been to Israel many times over the years, most I would suspect paid for by government connected entities, theirs and ours.
We shall see……………….
An Israeli national is calling into KGO saying he boats were “full of terrorists”.
Oh gah.
next verse, same as the first.
Jerusalem Post is calling it …an AMBUSH.
CRAZY. FUCKIN. JEWS. I don’t which tribe the descended from, by that’s what the fuck they are.
Robert Fisk: Western leaders are too cowardly to help save lives
gnu
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