Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Where's a good global warming-induced super-hurricane when you need one? You know you've got trouble when Greta Berlin (remember her from this thread, insisting Wafa Sultan was never on Al-Jazeera, but "a very clever duplicate"?) is one of your spokespeople.
The International Solidarity Movement is planning a daring blockade run to bring hearing aids to Gaza. This is the boat trip the ISM thinks the government is considering placing them on the terror sponsor list in order to stop. Talk about an inflated sense of self-importance.
U.S.-based group plans to challenge Gaza blockade with boats from Cyprus
ATHENS, Greece -- A group of U.S.-based activists said Tuesday it will challenge Israel's blockade of the Palestinian territory by sailing boats from Cyprus to Gaza next week.
The Free Gaza group said it will make the trip in two Greek-flagged boats, after raising most of the $300,000 needed for the voyage from private donations.
Paul Larudee, one of the event's organizers, said the group will deliver 100 hearing aids to a Palestinian charity as a form of humanitarian aid.
"Israel says it's pulled out its soldiers from Gaza so they should have no objection to us going there," said Larudee, whose group is based in El Cerrito, Calif.
"We have been in contact with the authorities in Greece, in Cyprus and with the Palestinians ... There is no reason to contact the Israeli authorities because we will not be using their territory."
About 40 people from 16 countries, including Israelis and Palestinians, would take part in the event, he said during a news conference in Athens, adding that private boats were also invited to join the activists...
...Free Gaza organizer Greta Berlin said the group had bought two wooden sailboats that had been renamed for the voyage: The 21-metre Free Gaza and 18-metre Liberty.
The boats will sail from the Cypriot port of Larnaca to Gaza on Aug. 6 or 7, Berlin said.
"Our primary reason is for human rights but we will also carry a small amount of aid - 100 hearing aids that will be given to Palestinian children."
She said one aim was to create a permanent maritime link between Cyprus and Gaza. The activists have prepared publicity events if the trip to Gaza is blocked by Israel, Berlin said, including the release of 5,000 balloons from the boats...
Not...balloons!
No! No! Anything but balloons!
In all seriousness -- what will the Intentionally Stupid Mariners do if Israeli coast-guard boats demand the right to board... and find weapons caches?
You don't really think the Hamasniks are allowing the boats in just for the publicity and the hearing aids, do you?
respectfully,
Daniel in Brookline
Honestly, I think even the ISM isn't stupid enough to bring any weapons in. I'm sure they hope to be stopped. It's all part of their game.
Two wooden sailboats? The sellers saw them coming! Did they even bother to get a marine surveyer's written opinion?
Wooden Hulls = trouble prone after many years of use. They are beautiful if properly maintained with their polished varnished top decks. There are very good reasons why wooden hulls for larger hulls are not really made much any more.
Oh well, the Israeli Navy could use a good laugh.
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Maybe they are planning on plugging any leaks with all the chum those landlubbers will be upchucking after a few hours at sea.
If the boat encounters heavy seas, I suggest they throw self documented liar, Greta LIAR Berlin and her accompanying Vowel and Consonants Karin Pally and Mary Hughes Thompson overboard, to placate the sea.
Hopefully there would be a Great White nearby.
100 hearing aids delivered by a sail boat?
Here is one hearing aid site, just for reference.
http://www.hearingaidcentral.com/Details_Open_Ear_Hearing_Aid_Melody_A1.asp
According to that company, their hearing aid weighs
"Case w/ Sound tube & ear bud 2.22 grams or 0.078 oz"
So 100 hearing aids would weigh 7.8 ounces - almost 1/2 a pound.
These liars, dhimmis, islamofascist enablers need a sail boat to deliver a 7.8 ounces of "aid"?
Sounds fishy to me.
I don't suppose the IDF will have much of a problem towing these hulks (and the boats they plan to sail on) into Haifa. Perhaps they'll get as far as Sderot if the Qassams start flying in their honor. Boobery has many faces and many occasions, but these starry-eyed idiots are fools unto themselves. One wonders whether they would have tried to break the Red Army's blockade of Berlin in 1945.
I guess the good guys won this one. We stood up to the mighty Israeli war machine, and gutless Israel blinked.
LOL.
Mary Huge-Thompson,
It's better that Greta LIAR Berlin and her sister hags are in PaleSWINE than the US.
Pleasd send my worst regards to PaleSWINE!
I recommend that Greta LIAR Berlin walk the streets of Gaza, at night, unescorted.
Eddie,
Use your spell check...it's spelled P-A-L-E-S-T-I-N-E.
Your english teacher should be fired.
#8 Mary Hughes-Thompson:
You flatter yourself with delusions of grandeur and bravery. Israel decided to look the other way and ignore a bunch of aging boomer radicals. A crew of mostly harmless legends in their own minds standing up to the Israeli Defense Forces? If you say so.What you failed to notice is that Israel's tactical decision to let the ship of fools proceed to Gaza thwarted your plans to turn your big adventure into a media circus. You didn't soak up the all media spotlight you craved; it wasn't major headlines and didn't preoccupy the MSM for days. By deliberately letting you through, Israel turned your caper into a largely inconsequential non-event.
Rest assured that if you clowns represented a real threat, say if you were smuggling weapons into Gaza like the Karine A, or the explosive vests and guns that found in ambulances transporting patients seeking medical treatment in Israel, you'd have been stopped.
Another drive-by comment from Daoud who has nothing of substance to say.
Again with the your-English-teacher-should-be-fired shtick.
Maybe Eddie's a little over the top, but his term at least distinguishes the current miserable dictatorships of the PA and Hamastan from the original Palestinians, the Jews of the Yishuv. Back then the Arabs of Palestine insisted there was no such thing as a Palestinian, that the term was just Zionist propaganda, that they were Syrians.
Yes, the Palestinians who drained the swamps, introduced citrus agriculture, built cities, brought modern medicine to the region, founded universities, started theater companies, symphony orchestras ahd art schools are a far cry from the bloodthirsty swine who blow up buses, cafés and discos, who destroyed Joseph's tomb, who lynched the two reservists in Ramallah or who burned the synagogues after the Israelis left Gaza. The swine who looted the greenhouses that were left intact for them use to build their economy are nothing like the real Palestinians.
Watch carefully now. Nappy predicts Brer Dave will make another wise crack to insult your poor, old Uncle Nappy, but he won't respond to any of the issues raised in Sol's blog entry and the comments.
Nice use of reverse psychology. Well, David won't take the bait. David can do this as well. David predicts that Nappy will write "See, I told you so".
David also likes Naps use of the "We made the desert bloom" argument. Making the desert bloom isn't always such a good thing.
http://www.economist.com/world/mideast-africa/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11506702
David thinks Nap and Eddie might want to so splitzys on an that English tutor. Remeber, it's
D-a-V-I-d.
No Daoud, it is PaleSWINE.
It has been PaleSWINE since arafat, hamass, hexbullah, and your fellow progressively mentally ill activists have been on the scene.
Even fellow muzlims don't want paleSWINANS in their midst. That's why Kuwait kicked them out and Egypt has a wall separating Egypt from PaleSWINE.
Check in with your local madrassa, they will tell you it is PaleSWINE too.
Eddie,
Can we at least agree that proper nouns should be capitalized (Hamas, Hezbullah, etc) and that words shouldn't have whole sections bolded?
The two alteratives I propose you using are the standard pejorative form "Paleswine" or the all bolded for umph, "PALESWINE".
And remember David is spelled D-a-v-i-d....sound it out.
Daoud, may you personally know the nakba of failure , defeat, and the agony of knowing that Barack Hussein Obama loses.
Democrats should have voted for Hillary.
I can hear Hillary Clinton say "I told you so". :)
I hope those fake anti-war Islamofascist Solidarity Movement hags like Greta LIAR Berlin get a chance to witness a workplace accident in PaleSWINE first hand.
You idiots, have you ever starved for two years? Do you give a damn that every child in Gaza is malnourished? Do you give a damn that 300 civilians have died because they could not get out to hospitals, and that each one died a terrible death? You call this Solomonia? What came out of Solomon's tushee must have settled in your minds.
Jerry, No I've never starved for two years.
Please show us emaciated "palestinians" - emaciated like concentration camp prisoners.
Was arafat "starved"? Was his wife suha starved?
Is hamASS "starved"? They have money for guns, mortars, kassams, katushas. The tunnels are filled with weapons but not with food?
Jerry, maybe your brain was starved of oxygen. That might be why you are so freaking idiotic.
BTW, Jerry, no one respects an Uncle Tom. Think about it, if you can clear the fog from your damaged brain.