Hamas Gaza Jewish Flotilla Ship's PR Sinks in Ashdod, Israel
Hamas and Iran are praying that the world will never put on its glasses.
By Joel Leyden
Israel News Agency
Israel News Agency
Jerusalem, Israel ---- September 28, 2010 ..... It's no secret that no one is starving in Gaza.
Nor is it a secret that Hamas which rules Gaza is not interested in any form of a peace arrangement with Israel.
Hamas makes no secret of the fact that her only goal is the complete and total destruction of the State of Israel. It was exactly 5 years ago this month that Israel withdrew all of her forces from Gaza in a unilateral peace move.
What was the response of Iran backed Hamas?
Over 12,000 rockets and missiles were fired from Gaza and slammed into Israel cities and towns. Just ask the thousands of children in Sderot, Ashdod and Ashkelon who have been injured and forced to run into air raid shelters - if Gaza wants peace?
It took the Islamic world a bit of time to realize that Israel was not going to pack her bags and leave after being subjected to hundreds of terror suicide bombings. Buses, restaurants, shopping malls and hotels dripped with Jewish blood for years. So now it was a time for a change in tactics. Rather than seek 72 virgins, the Muslims of Islamic Jihad, Hamas, al-Qaeda and Hezbollah are now typing up news releases and sending them off to the AP, Reuters, AFP, al-Jazeera, CNN, BBC and FOX.
Today's news release was that a special Jewish ship was now organized and headed to aid the starving and suffering people of Gaza. Using the words "peace", "humanitarian" and "activists" they set sail from Northern Cyprus to Gaza.
The Israel navy intercepted the Hamas supporting catamaran today carrying nine Jewish "activists" about 20 miles off the coast of Gaza. Before surrounding the small, Hamas public relations yacht agency the IDF sent two warnings to its captain, making sure that he was aware that he and his crew were breaking both Israel and international law. The IDF stated that their warnings were ignored by the captain of the yacht who continued to sail further into the area under Israel naval blockade.
The State of Israel has a very real and very legal blockade of Gaza. The San Remo Manual on International Law Applicable to Armed Conflicts at Sea, an international treaty in effect since June 12, 1994, expressly allows Israel’s defensive actions. And for some strange, life preserving reason Israelis do not care to have weapons and rockets smuggled into Gaza that are then used to be launched into Israel city and towns.
Upon grabbing the "Irene" the IDF stated that it "regrets that it must divert the Israel Navy’s attention from its regular operational activity defending Israel and its citizens because of acts of provocation such as this."
The IDF's chief spokesperson Avi Benayahu deplored the fact that “naval forces and fighters are being diverted from our main mission” to “a surreal assignment” of intercepting a boatload of activists. Benayahu continued: “Its entire intention was to generate media attention and create a provocation. This matter is especially regrettable as we are talking about a group of Jews and of Israel citizens, and even someone who has worn an IDF officer’s uniform.”
Yossi Levy, a spokesperson for the Israel Foreign Ministry said that the boat’s attempt to break the naval blockade of Gaza was “a completely unnecessary media gimmick which should never have been born. This is a trick of hatred and publicity for people who don’t care about the love of Israel and don’t deserve more than a footnote. They poured fuel into the bonfire of hatred against Israel worldwide. We don’t expect Israelis to be patriotic, but they should definitely not act as Hamas followers.”
And Ashley Perry of the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs said this on Facebook: "Wow, nine people!!! They have shown that 'not all Jews support Israel', apparently they could only get 9 people out of almost 12 million Jews - (not even sure if all 9 are Jewish) are committed to this cause."
Iran and Hamas were very smart in their latest attempt to "break the siege of Gaza". Let's remember that Gaza also has another border - Egypt. But that's not the issue here. What we are witnessing is the most professional, the most sophisticated PR being used against Israel.
Iran and Hamas know very well that all of Israel is now on Succot vacation. Try emailing anyone at the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs. You will get an automatic reply that they will be back in their office in October.
All the same, Israel's Mossad did their job and provided the IDF with the right INTEL do create a "soft mission" in intercepting the "Irene". The IDF's new media department also gets top applause for having recorded and uploaded a YouTube video of the interception of the Gaza bound (really media bound) ship within minutes of the peaceful IDF boarding.
Islamic terror suicide bombers have been replaced by news releases, Twitter, YouTube and Facebook.
That nine passengers on board a small boat to Gaza, where the obesity rate ranks in eighth place worldwide, can carry more headlines than the genocide of thousands in Rwanda, Iran or Sudan's Darfur speaks volumes.
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