In 2010, six ships sailed from Turkey in an attempt to break the Israeli blockade of ships to Gaza. The passengers of one of the ships, the Mavi Marmara, attacked the Israeli commandoes as they attempted to board.
The passengers claimed they were “activists” bringing “humanitarian aid” to Gaza.
Here is footage of the attack on the IDF soldiers by the “humanitarians.”
And judge for yourself.
Via Breitbart:
A Spanish judge issued an arrest warrant Tuesday for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials over the 2010 raid on a Gaza flotilla that was attempting to break an Israeli blockade, the Jerusalem Post reports.
The International Criminal Court decided not to prosecute Israel over the incident, and the United Kingdom took steps to prevent judges from acting on activists’ requests to issue warrants.
Still, the Spanish warrant risks dividing the world in the wake of terror attacks in Paris.
In the May 2010 incident, six ships sailed from Turkey, with the support of an Islamist group, the IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation, that Israel considers a terrorist organization. The flotilla was also backed by Turkey’s ruling Islamist party.
While Israeli naval commandos boarded five of the six ships without incident, they were met with armed resistance on the main ship, the Mavi Marmara, whose passengers fired guns, threw flash grenades, and attacked Israeli commandoes with knives and bars. In the melee, the passengers took Israeli personnel hostage. The Israeli naval commandos eventually fired back, killing nine “activists”….
The purpose of the blockade is to prevent shipments of weapons to Gaza, as well as supposedly “humanitarian” supplies that can be re-purposed for military uses, such as concrete that Palestinian terror groups like Hamas use to build underground tunnels….
Related:
Israel National News: It’s Official: There was No Humanitarian Aid on Mavi Marmara
Specifically, the ship sailed from Antalya, Turkey, where the G20 was meeting and Obama gave that speech yesterday. As bad as the judge’s ruling is, if I were that judge, Obama’s speech would have been green light rather than red light. Didn’t some politician say, Don’t tell me words don’t matter.
Boy, we think our courts are off the rails, but that takes the cake. Leftist hatred knows no bounds. Liberalism: the AIDS of Western Civilization.
That judge had a little too much sangria, for sure.
Spain has its problems including not fully facing history. Example, today is 40th anniversary of Francisco Franco’s death (Newsflash; Franco is still dead.) and 16 Catholic churches are holding memorial masses for him. While I don’t know anything about Franco and religion, assuming Catholic, a mass 40 yrs. ago upon his death-no problem, multiple memorial masses today-problem. And a hotel hosting Franco Fdn. dinner next month has come under fire. I support the hotel, let the Franco Fdn. be transparent and make money off it.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/12006647/Fury-in-Spain-over-tributes-on-anniversary-of-Francos-death.html