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Schumer Wants Probe into Turkish Flotilla's Terrorist Ties

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Turkey is demanding an international inquiry into Israel's fatal raid of a convoy carrying aid to Palestinians in Gaza last week, Israel's U.S. Ambassador is promising that his country will never apologize "for measures that were necessarily taken to defend the lives of our soldiers, and Senator Chuck Schumer is calling on the State Department to determine if the Turkish group bankrolling the flotilla has ties to Al Qaeda. And to top it off, the Pixies canceled their Wednesday concert in Tel Aviv to protest Israel's handling of the convoy.

Kim Deal could not be reached for comment, but Schumer has cited reports that the organization, Insani Yardim Vakfi, has "long-standing ties" to terror groups. Some say the group was connected to the 1999 "millennium plot" to bomb the Los Angeles airport. No military supplies were found aboard the ships. Yesterday activists on board the ships released a few photos to AP which the group insists shows activists "tending" to the injured soldiers. An Israel government spokesperson said the series of images "shows that our boarding party in fact did face deadly violence from the hardcore Islamist activists on the boat from the fundamentalist IHH movement."

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  • potsmoker

    all the other online rags are reporting and highly critical of Schumers recent comments before a meeting of cheering orthodox jews,

    "we have to strangle gaza, they dont believe in the torah they dont believe in david"

    look it up kids

  • jpeditor

    Mondoweiss is a jihad-asslicker site for kapos.

    Anyone here with brains know the turks / ottoman empire tried to take over the world once, failed, slaughtered 1.6 million armenians, sided with the nazis (like most muslims) and has barely 150k people on the internet, the rest of the 70 million are ignorant jihad following camel-thumpers who you hope will give their lives so you, the islamic-leftist coward you are can get your rocks off watching the muslim world go up in a giant nuclear BBQ / bring on the 12th madhi.

    YOU'RE THE NABKA. You and that skank napalm will be the next story in the Post about loser jihadis caught with weapons / at the airport.

  • Bitter Elitist

    "I am un chien andalusia"

    Cordoba is in Southern Spain, was a medieval caliphate

    Cordoba Initiative has Muzzlums

    There are Muzzlums in Turkey

    Kim Deal is a terrorist

  • thefacts

    The AIPAC lobby is out in force on this one. Good going, kiddo. Keep their feet to the fire.

  • martis

    The US needs to un-attach itself to Israel. Stop subsidizing their economy and their military. Spend those tax dollars on the citizens of the USA. Senators like Schumer & Leiberman need to remember which country they are representing. They are so blinded by their tribal connections to Israel that its disgusting.

  • jpeditor

    Hey ahole, the U.S. is giving a billion to the schmuckistinians and 2.5 billion to POCKEESTAHN.

    Where's your outrage, or is it ONLY FOR THE JOOS?

    PS

    Gaza Flotilla's Leader Explains: It was a Jihadist Attack not a "Humanitarian Operation"

  • 5borough

    If every jew in the world disappeared tomorrow, would Palestinians or Arabs in general be any better off?

  • thefacts

    The Palestinians would have their land back to live on, not living in s squalid enclave blocked in by IDF gun thugs.

  • Mr Mel

    And they would be killing each other which is what they do best.

  • Mr. Shankly

    Again with this shit.

    Cut them loose and let the UN deal with them, for what that's worth.

    It's not our fucking problem. The planet is rife with eternal ethnic/tribal/religious/post-colonial conflict and the US is not its policeman. Playing one side against the other always comes back to bite us in the ass in one way or another.

  • Mr Mel

    "Israel is the only country other than the US that has displaced people, herded them into camps"

    I think you're a bit confused here. The countries that have the Palestinians in camps are Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.

  • you're wrong

    The West Bank has 19 official camps with 194,514 refugees.

    The Gaza Strip has eight official camps with 478,854 refugees.

    Syria has 10 official camps with 119,776 refugees.

    The total number of registered refugees in Lebanon is 409,714. There are 12 official camps with 225,125 refugees. There are ten refugee camps in Jordan. Probably another 300K

    there are now about 4 million refugees. these are all people who LOST their homes when a 'land without a people was given to a people without a land'

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_refugee_camps

  • 5borough

    I have been reading and hearing that the Israelis and Egyptians were letting all the aid people want to send in through (after inspection), that kind of blows holes in the need for these boobs and their boat for "aid."

  • jules1000

    of course he wants votes...uhm... I mean ... "a probe into Turkish terrorist ties".

    what a joke

  • potsmoker

    youre forgetting our political leaders LOVE the middleeast conflict, some dont believe that the rapture and armagedon will happen until Israel is destroyed, they are not friends of Israel, they believe that they will go to heaven with Jesus and leave you suckers and the people of israel in the dust.

    our politicians supposedly beleive in jesus,

    theirs believe in no jesus, the others believe in allah.

    the middle east conflict in a nutshell:

    STUPID PEOPLE PUT OTHER STUPID PEOPLE IN CHARGE OF THEIR LIVES WITH LIES ABOUT RELIGION.

    outlaw religion and the world will be fixed soon.

    more sex and drugs and less religion.

  • Jamie McDonald

    Here's my thing with the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: it is so, so, so boring. Basically, just the same thing, over and over - all the leaders are either psychotic, can't think their way out of a wet paper bag, or a combination of the two, and don't care about their constituents except for the factions consisting of insane extremists. Every few years, some relatively well-meaning outsider thinks of a new plan to fix it, and it invariably fails. Then someone losses their shit and does something violent, which is retaliated for with more violence, etc., etc. No one ever has any new ideas, no one ever says anything new or intelligent, just the same fucking boring talking points over and over (see this thread, for example). So, so boring. Fuck the both of them; they deserve each other.

  • Armchair_warrior

    remember that lady that got fired for saying people in israel should go back to europe.

    israel has even less of a claim than china has on tibet lol, but one is protected other isn't and even encourage to protest to.

  • gawkthis

    Israel's claim to their lands is somewhat more substantial than our claim to the USA: nobody deeded the USA to us; we just killed the natives and took it.

    in fact every country that seems to object to Israel's right to exist, has a similarly weak claim to their own lands, so constanlty repeating that BS about the validity of their claim to the lands, is just another Big Lie.

    Shame on you..

  • Armchair_warrior

    Bible gave white people excuse to enslaved and murder all the natives.

  • jpeditor

    So what, did LORD KWANZA give Africans the "right" to enslave their OWN people and then sell them to ARABS and EUROS?

    Israel OWNED THAT LAND for almost a thousand years before islam was a nightmare than should have run down MoHAMhead's daddy's leg (if he knew who his daddy was, piss be upon him and all his supporters / appeasers).

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