Gaza Ships Attacked - Democracy Now Report on Gaza Aid Flotilla Raided by Israel Forces

Israeli forces storm aid ships destined for Gaza killing at least 10 people and injuring at least 30 on Memorial Day in international waters. The ships were carrying much needed supplies to Gaza that has been blocked by Israel by a blockade for three years. Activists on board the aid ships are shown in active conflict against the Israeli forces. Conflicting reports differ on who is to blame for the violence.

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This video is a joke! They say the militants on board the flotilla were unarmed. Many Israeli soldiers were beaten and injured when they landed on the ship!  If you try to sail to Gaza without allowing Israel to inspect the cargo at an Israeli port then you will be boarded in ANY waters, so please stop whining about "international waters".

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@OrthodoxDarwinist - So you see, there is and never was an "indigenous" homeland because the "Palestinians" never existed as a people, race or culture. The earlier Philistines were not Arabs, they were not Semites. They had no connection, ethnic, linguistic or historical with Arabia or Arabs. The name "Falastin" that Arabs today use for "Palestine" is not an Arabic name. It is the Arab pronunciation of the Greco-Roman "Palastina" derived from the Peleshet. But why confuse you with facts?

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@OrthodoxDarwinist - Palestine has never existed as an autonomous entity. There is no language known as Palestinian. There is no distinct Palestinian culture. There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians. Palestinians are Arabs, indistinguishable from Jordanians (another recent invention), Syrians, Lebanese, Iraqis, etc. It has never been the name of a nation. It is a geographical term, used to designate the region when there is no nation or state there....

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@OrthodoxDarwinist - if you go even further back into history, you will find that there is no such thing as a Palestinian Arab nation. Palestine is a name the Romans gave to Eretz Yisrael with the express purpose of infuriating the Jews. The British chose to call the land they mandated "Palestine", and the Arabs picked it up as their nation's supposed ancient name, though they couldn't even pronounce it correctly.....

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@OrthodoxDarwinist - Who is trying to "ethnically cleanse" the Palestinians? If this was Israel's goal, they would have succeeded by the 1960's. Going on the facts, Arab states have persecuted and killed far more Palestinians than Israel ever did. But that doesn't matter to you now, does it? Your own hatred for Isreal only reveals youer own blinkered and racists views. For as long as Hamas has the destruction of Israel at the core of its manifesto, there will never be peace.......

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@bgibb101

So you're trying to say that you think Israel should have the right to ethnically cleanse the Palestinian Arabs from their indigenous homeland because people of the same supposed race already have a lot of land??

Thank you for proving to everyone what a racist and morally repugnant sod you are.

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@OrthodoxDarwinist - How can Israel, which occupies one-sixth of one percent of the all land occupied by Arabs, be responsible for the political dissatisfaction of 22 Arab states with more land than they know what to do with? So all this talk of Israel giving up land for “peace” is absolute rubbish. Those 22 Arab states will never rest until Israel has been wiped off the face of this earth, and every last Jew is dead. But then again, the facts don't really matter to you, do they?

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@OrthodoxDarwinist - There is a growing Arab middle class, particularly in Galilee, where many are judges, lawyers and wealthy independent business people. Contrast this to Israels sworn enemies, which comprises of 22 Arab states covering an area 640 times greater than Israel, with a combined population 300 million Arabs. And those 300 million Arabs are part of a total of 1.4 BILLION Muslims world-wide who never cease to accuse Israel of being an “expansionist” state!

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@OrthodoxDarwinist - About 98% of East Jerusalem Palestinians has either Israeli residency or Israeli citizenship. Imagine Palestine giving a Jew “citizenship” with the right to live peacefully and run a thriving business? Most Arab citizens of Israel are Muslim, particularly of the Sunni branch of Islam, and there is a significant Arab Christian minority from various denominations, among other religious communities. ...

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@OrthodoxDarwinist - Israel is smaller than Lake Michigan, or if you like, only 1/19th the size of California, and has a population of only 7.3 million people, but with a thriving economy and a First World standard of living. Approximately 75.4% of the population are Jews, with 20.3% identified as Arabs, and the remainder are classed as “other,” meaning a mixture of largely western residents. In 2006, the official number of Arab residents in Israel was 1,413,500 people. ....