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'Israel flotilla raid was unlawful'

UN Gaza aid probe says the raid of Israeli forces on flotilla was in violation of international law.

The UN Human Rights Council's fact-finding mission has accused Israeli forces of violating international law when they raided a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.

The three UN-appointed human rights experts said in a report released on Wednesday that Israeli forces showed "incredible violence" during and after their raid on the aid flotilla that left eight Turkish activists and one Turkish-American killed.

The UN probe said there was "clear evidence to support prosecutions" against Israel for "wilful killing" and torture committed when its troops stormed the aid flotilla last May.

Israel's military response to the flotilla "betrayed an unacceptable level of brutality" and violated international law "including international humanitarian and human rights law." The three-member panel said.

"The conduct of the Israeli military and other personnel towards the flotilla passengers was not only disproportionate to the occasion but demonstrated levels of totally unnecessary and incredible violence."

The report is scheduled to be debated by the Human Rights Council on Monday.

The report also rejected Israel's stance that its forces acted in self-defence when they raided the flotilla, arguing that even those who did not attempt to stop Israeli soldiers from boarding the aid ships "received injuries, including fatal injuries."

"It is apparent that no effort was made to minimise injuries at certain states of the operation and that the use of live fire was done in an extensive and arbitrary manner. The circumstances of the killing of at least six of the passengers were in a manner consistent with an extra-legal, arbitrary and summary execution."

Israel's reaction

Israel rejected the report as "biased" and "one-sided."

"The report... is as biased and as one sided as the body that has produced it," the statement said.

"Israel... is of the opinion that the flotilla incident is amply and sufficiently investigated as it is. All additional dealing with this issue is superfluous and unproductive."

Israel insisted that it acted in line with international law, arguing that it had the right to retaliate against ships attempting to breach its blockade of the impoverished Gaza Strip.

However, the panel said that since Gaza was suffering from a humanitarian crisis on the day of the deadly raid, for this reason alone, Israel's blockade is unlawful and cannot be sustained in law.

Hamas welcomed the report and told Al Jazeera that the findings show that Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories violates human rights.

"More should now be done, the commander who led the raid should be taken to International Criminal Court." Hamas said.

The fact-finding mission, chaired by Karl Hudson-Phillips, former judge of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, had travelled to Turkey, Jordan and Britain to interview witnesses and officials for the probe.

Desmond de Silva, former chief prosecutor of the Sierra Leone War Crimes Tribunal, and Shanthi Dairiam, as Malaysian human rights expert, are the other members of the panel.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/09/2010922195831956543.html

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Turkish PM accuses opposition of supporting Tel Aviv

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan accused the main opposition leader Sunday of “advocating on behalf of Tel Aviv.”

Although Erdoğan did not give any names, arguing that he did not want to “promote them,” his remarks in the northwestern province of Bursa were clearly directed at Republican People’s Party, or CHP, leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu.

“Some people speak in the name of Tel Aviv, advocate for Tel Aviv,” Erdoğan said. “They question our way of diplomacy. The way you did things put us in this dire situation. As I said earlier, we do not work as the ‘mon cher’ diplomats do.”

Erdoğan said Turkey could not step aside since it has historical ties with the region and Jerusalem is a holy city for all three of the world’s largest monotheistic religions.

Kılıçdaroğlu had said Turkey should have made more diplomatic efforts for the Gaza aid flotilla, which was the target of a deadly attack by Israeli soldiers last week.

The CHP chief had also criticized Erdoğan for making a reference to the Torah and telling the Jewish people that their religion forbids murders. “Erdoğan uses the Ten Commandments as a tool,” he said. “But the eighth commandment says, ‘Thou shall not steal,’ what about that?” asked Kılıçdaroğlu, accusing the Justice and Development Party, or AKP, government of corruption.

Erdoğan was harsh in his response. “Thank God, I have read both the Torah and the Bible,” Erdoğan said Sunday. “I have read the Quran various times, he should read them. He should then talk to the people around him before making such comments.”

Support for initiative

Erdoğan met Saturday with sports figures during the fifth leg of the Dolmabahçe meetings, which are being organized to discuss the government’s democratic initiative with prominent people.

Commenting on the agenda by using a sports analogy, Erdoğan said: “It is not the time to pass the ball around in the midfield. It is time to make unerring passes, to perform a team play and, in the end, to score a goal.”

Addressing criticisms leveled against the government’s slow-moving democratic initiative, Erdoğan said: “We have to sustain it. We cannot walk ahead with the guidance of yesterday’s parameters and the burden of the past on our backs... We cannot build the future by covering or burying the issues or delaying coming to terms with them.”

Erdoğan said he had been particular irked by recent remarks on a TV channel that equated the Turkish aid flotilla with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK.

“Replying to my quotation of the New Testament, ‘Thou shalt not kill,’ [the commentator] asked, ‘What are you going to do about the killings of the PKK by the security forces?’” Erdoğan quoted the person as saying.

“What kind of reasoning is this? On the one hand we have a humanitarian aid ship cruising in international waters; on the other hand are those who are trying to violate the rights of others to live under humane terms in their own country,” the prime minister said. “How can you confuse these two?”

A lack of communication pervades all of Turkey’s problems, Erdoğan said, adding that political institutions, state institutions and especially governments have long resisted participating in efforts to establish communication and negotiate.

“Nobody has been harmed by listening, talking, carrying out discussions in a civilized manner or by constructive criticism,” he said. “Turkey has changed as we have tried to arrive at a better understanding of each other.”

Meeting with Internet media administrators at another location in Istanbul on Saturday, Erdoğan complained about user comments below news stories that he said contained such unbearable insults against his person that they could “drive one to murder.”

A letter from an Israeli chief of general staff to a muslim boy

Dr Babaammi Mohamed/Translation: Djaber Nacer Bouhedjam

http://www.veecos.net/portal/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3314:a-letter-from-a-chief-of-general-staff-to-a-muslim-boy&catid=200:-4-en&Itemid=269

O! muslim boy, Palestinian or Algerian, Turkish or Egyptian, Saudian or Iranian… know that all our plans are directed to you and all our energy is focused on you. We want you illiterate and coward.. We want you hypocrite and vagabond…
We want you a feet lover till kneeling… and pens reluctant till its breaking..

We want you lazy in learning. We want you passive just watching what’s happening..
Don’t think about your happiness, nor about your country’s glory, just grow up on our way. Hold high position for our sake. Be an abject servant in our eyes, and you’ll –absolutely- gain our satisfaction.
Be –O! muslim boy- when you grow, a war against your religion and your nation. Be an enemy to your Holy Book and to your prophet. Be peace to the unchaste and the unjust. ….

O! muslim boy, we wandered your home, and we were welcomed by all. We were helped by spies. And we were gifted your country’s resources thanks to the liars and the betrays.
This golden era lasted, till we thought it will never end. From 47 to 67 and what was between them and what came after, we were heroes in your eyes, and noble people in the world’s. The laws were stepped on for us, and the international agreements were broken for our satisfaction…

We were… and we were… but, -O! muslim boy- it seems that we are losing the control, we are being defeated. We are being inside disrupted. Lebanon and Gaza –and others- gave us a tough course.
Today, this convoy come carrying those noble men. Do you think that we are silly to let them pass to their goal?

It would be the catastrophe!!
The best solution is to kill them and tell the world that they are terrorists and that we are oppressed. We have done the same with the prophets in the history. And we are sure that the negligent will trust us. Your countries are full of such.

Beware –O! muslim boy- to follow the steps of the persistent or to join the resistant… if you do so… be sure that it is your end.
An answer from the boy will be next..

An answer from the boy will be next..

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The answer of the muslim boy to the Israeli chief of general staff

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O! You –the evil and bad people- we know you as well as we know ourselves. Our Holy book talked about you. Our beloved prophet pointed out your bad intentions. Do you remember the humiliation you received from Salahuddine?!..
We are coming –O! cowards- to free Gaza and Palestine inchallah. Wait your fate, we don’t fear death.

You tasted humiliation –from our hands- twice; the first in Lebanon and the second in Gaza, and still you’ll taste it many times. Today is the world’s role to do it for you. Turkey is the army of victory revived and a troop of a coming triumph…

I am preparing to meet you; striving in my study, observing my values and morals. I love all good people, and love to do good for all.
I am watching you, an eye here the other over there, desiring to meet you and to meet your sons and grand sons. They are frightened like a wet chicken and easy broken like a boiled eggs… with empty hearts and void minds. They have no concern and no purpose. May Allah bestow on them a wear of humiliation.
Wait us .. we are waiting!

Dad and mom, .. my teacher, seek to teach me, to educate me..teach me how to be patient and how to help people be so. Help me to strive and to control my desires. Prepare me for that day, so I ca be a good leader who can defeat the occupiers.

Don’t let me a victim of nonsense, don’t let me a target of the corruptive players and artists. Be my guard I’ll be your hope. Be my castle I’ll be your citadel.
Only at that time we can declare:
“Salahuddine is shining from amongst the woe, and “al faith” is born from the womb of the nation. At that time we can say, Allah’s promise becomes a reality: “and surely Allah will help him who helps His cause; most surely Allah is Strong, Mighty”, “and on that day the believers shall rejoice, with the help of Allah; He helps whom He pleases”

Have you understood the course you stupid Israeli?
I don’t think so, you didn’t understand the heaven message, so I think it is difficult to understand anything else.
Wait us … we are waiting.

Turkey: Punish Israel for massacre

The Turkish prime minster says Israel must be punished for the 'massacre' it committed aboard the Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla aid ships.

"The bloody massacre Israel carried out against ships carrying aid to Gaza deserves condemnation," Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday.

The premier who was addressing lawmakers from his ruling Justice and Development Party added that "nobody should test Turkey's patience."

The Israeli navy assaulted the Freedom Flotilla aid convoy on Monday, killing at least 20 activists, mostly Turkish nationals, and injuring 50 others, Palestinian sources reported.

The invasion took place as the convoy was still in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea, 150km (90 miles) off the Gaza coast.

Denouncing the Israeli raid, the Turkish premier also urged the international community to punish the Israeli regime for the "bloody massacre."

"The insolent, irresponsible and impudent attack by Israel, which went against law and trampled human honor underfoot, must definitely be punished," he charged.

On Monday, Erdogan promised a proper response to the Israeli attacks on the international convoy.

The Freedom Flotilla was carrying hundreds of activists and journalists and thousands of tons of humanitarian aid to the impoverished people of Gaza, which is under blockade for three years.

Some 487 activists were detained and taken to the southern Israeli prison of Ashdod, while 48 others will be taken to Ben Gurion international airport to be deported to their home countries.

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