Member of Israeli Parliament ... Accuses Israel of Intentionally Killing Peace Activists

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Member of Israeli Parliament Reveals Her Terror on Ship, Accuses Israel of Intentionally Killing Peace Activists to Deter Future Flotillas
By Jonathan Cook, AlterNet
Posted on June 2, 2010, Printed on June 2, 2010
http://www.alternet.org/story/147083/

Nazareth, Israel --An Arab member of the Israeli parliament who was on board the international flotilla that was attacked on Monday as it tried to take humanitarian aid to Gaza accused Israel yesterday of intending to kill peace activists as a way to deter future convoys.

Haneen Zoubi said Israeli naval vessels had surrounded the flotilla's flagship, the Mavi Marmara, and fired on it a few minutes before commandos abseiled from a helicopter directly above them.

Terrified passengers had been forced off the deck when water was sprayed at them. She said she was not aware of any provocation or resistance by the passengers, who were all unarmed.

She added that within minutes of the raid beginning, three bodies had been brought to the main room on the upper deck in which she and most other passengers were confined. Two had gunshot wounds to the head, in what she suggested had been executions.

Two other passengers slowly bled to death in the room after Israeli soldiers ignored messages in Hebrew she had held up at the window calling for medical help to save them. She said she saw seven other passengers seriously wounded.

"Israel had days to plan this military operation," she told a press conference in Nazareth. "They wanted many deaths to terrorise us and to send a message that no future aid convoys should try to break the siege of Gaza."

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[indepat]

1. This description of events would be called terrorism if committed by the guys who wear black hats,

but the guys who wear the white hats do not commit acts of terrorism no matter how precisely their act(s) meet all the classical definitions of terrorism. :P

[ConsAreLiars]

2. This is the very core truth of what was being done in that action.

"They wanted many deaths to terrorise us and to send a message that no future aid convoys should try to break the siege of Gaza."

This is the same policy applied to those in Gaza and the West Bank and those resisting the continued seizure of more and more territory.

Stand in our way and we will murder you, we will starve you, we will maim you, we will deny you water, we will destroy your schools and deny you books And very much more.

There is an ideology behind these tactics. and it is one the US and USSR once defeated, but one which has resurfaced in the US and among it's allies in several parts of the world.