ISRAEL ATTACKS A SHIP

www.barrychamish.com                                                    PASS OUT THE TREATS, WE'RE HERE - ISRAEL ATTACKS A SHIP                                                                                by Barry Chamish       Armed with paintball guns and marshmallow treats, a platoon of Israeli commandos were shocked by actual violence against them as they landed on the ship. "Wait, thought one, were is the band, where are the balloons?"       PM Netanyahu's defence of the killing of nine activists was, our troops were attacked. Well, of course they were. They gatecrashed a party and you know how Turks hate intruders. He'll get nowhere if that's the best he can come up with. But it's better than, this operation was done so stupidly, it had to have been a planned fiasco. But neither he nor any critic dare name the planner of the embarrassment.      http://samsonblinded.com/blog/gaza-flotilla-what-went-wrong.htm When the first Marine who landed on the Marmara was attacked on the spot, Admiral Marom should have changed tactics immediately. It is hard to doubt his expertise in such simple matters, but they continued dropping the Marines with paintball guns onto a ship which was exploding with rage. Apparently, the Marines did not receive fire cover from several helicopters right above them, despite being in mortal danger. They went with mere pistols against hundreds of armed rioters: in close combat, the rioters' knives and axes were easily equal to Navy handguns. Someone sent the Marines to their deaths, and one is left to ask oneself about the role of Admiral Marom, who narrowly escaped discharge a year ago due to his tendency to frequent strip joints, and who may be indebted to high-ranking leftists in the establishment who saved his job.        This writer notes that "someone sent the Marines to their death" and safely blames the wrong man, Admiral Marom. He is too timid to write the obvious; Marom took orders from his superior, Defence Minister Ehud Barak. It was Barak who probably planned and certainly approved every detail of this intentional naval "fiasco." One way you can tell that he's being protected is when the military establishment starts an obvious coverup: http://www.imra.org.il Yediot Ahronot's senior military analyst, Alex Fishman provided the following Q&A in the 4 June edition relating to the commando operation that took over the Mavi Marmara. Q: Why weren't chains or ropes used to jam the propellers of the ship? A: It wouldn't work. Any method that requires sending frogmen near propellers that are running is unacceptably dangerous. Who said anything about frogmen? This is use of obfuscation, appearing to be answering a question but actually avoiding it. Nets or shells could have been used to foul the propellers and they weren't. Q: Why were ships simply placed to block the boat? A: A boat can't block another ship. The only way a ship can effectively stop another one is by ramming it. Q: Why not ram the boat? A: You need to hit it with a heavier ship. The Mavi Mamara might have sunk if hit.      Here is one option: The ship receives a warning shell. With lots of advanced warning, the ship knows it must shut down engines or risk a shell in its lower hull. The flotsam is then rescued. Everyone on the ship expected this and put on their life preservers. But Israel surprised them. Instead, a small platoon arrived on deck prepared to take care of a mob outnumbering them 40-1 with goodwill, tasty treats and a fun game of paintball. All because it was a better option than sinking the ship.     In 2000, Barak was the Israeli Prime Minister who went to Camp David and gave Yasir Arafat the works, even half of Jerusalem. That his plan was inexplicably turned down by Arafat doesn't mean it couldn't be revived right now. All he needs to do is force Netanyahu out with an incident so bloody and outrageous that every nation on earth condemns Israel and its leader. One publication from the other side implies that Barak cut a deal with Rahm Emmanuel that gave him the go ahead to plan the flotilla disaster:  The Israeli press confirmed that Rahm Emmanuel had a meeting with Defense Minister Ehud Barak, whose Ministry was responsible for overseeing the Commando attack on the Flotilla. There have been reports to the effect that Rahm Emmanuel  would "lead a team of high octane Democratic party pro-Israel political operatives to run the campaign for the Defense Minister Ehud Barak" against Netanyahu in the next Israeli election. (Ira Glunts, Could Rahm Emanuel Help Barak Unseat Netanyahu? Palestine Chronicle, June 2, 2010) "Barak is more of a team player than Netanyahu, and appeals to many Americans and Israelis who see Netanyahu’s belligerence as an embarrassment. If Barak was elected Prime Minister and the peace process was restarted, President Obama could get the credit for the resumption of the talks."      There is an Israeli commission of inquiry that I expect will be a whitewash, but it must answer the core telling question spreading throughout the IDF and the country; Did Barak approve this operation behind the backs of the Knesset and his superior PM Netanyahu? My reading of the facts is precisely that. Which means Barak did unto Netanyahu that which, in 1982, he did unto Menachem Begin. As I recently wrote: I learned the real facts of the Sultan Yakob massacre as told by brigade commander, Gen Avigdor Ben Gal, to the newspaper Kol Ha'ir in 1997. He set out on a jeep tour when two lower officers, took over the brigade command radio against all orders. Both would become leaders of the Labor Party; Amram Mitzna and Ehud Barak. This was not a Labor Party war; it was initiated by the newly powerful Menachem Begin and his Likud Party. If the war went well, Labor wouldn't see power again for the foreseeable future. So Barak and Mitzna were ordered to sabotage it by killing Jews. But not Labor secular Jews. Only the religious would serve their purposes. So with the maps in front of them, they deliberately sent a religious brigade to its doom.       Barak is a worm boring its way through the government. At the Herzliya Conference in 2010, he offered unilateral withdrawal and begged the PA to assume power in Judea and Samaria. Otherwise, he warned, "Israel was in danger of becoming an apartheid nation."       Once again the Israeli public will reject any hint that their Defence minister was prepared to sacrifice the lives of their children to win political points. They have been fleeced again, under deadly attack by their own Defence Minister, and because they are not treacherous enough to order the slaughter of their own, they can't believe anyone is.       And once again as always, another Israeli Labor Party heads gets to murder with impunity. end