Gaza Flotilla Activists: One of Our Boats Was Sabatoged
- Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:10am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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STOCKHOLM (AP) — One of the 10 ships in the Gaza-bound flotilla has been sabotaged but will be repaired in time for the planned voyage to challenge Israel’s naval blockade of the Palestinian territory, activists said Tuesday.
The propeller shaft of the “Juliano,” a ship shared by Swedish, Norwegian and Greek activists, was cut off while the vessel was docked in the Greek port of Piraeus, according to the Scandinavian organizers.
“Based on a first on-site inspection the damage can be repaired before the planned departure toward the end of this week,” said a statement by the Swedish activists, who blamed “hostile divers” for the damage.
In a separate statement, Norwegian delegation leader Torstein Dahle said the incident shows “someone is willing to go to great lengths to stop the flotilla from sailing.”
The ship is part of a 10-ship flotilla due to set sail shortly in a bid to break Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza. Israel has warned it will thwart any attempt to breach the sea blockade of the Palestinian territory.
Israeli military spokeswoman Maj. Avital Leibovich told reporters Monday that, according to intelligence reports, extremists in the flotilla have supplies of what she called “dangerous incendiary chemicals” to use against Israeli forces.
Dror Feiler, one of the organizers, dismissed those claims, saying the hundreds of people who plan to join the flotilla have signed a declaration of nonviolence.
“No activists on the flotilla are out to harm Israeli soldiers,” Feiler told Army Radio on Tuesday. “If they (the Israelis) suspect someone, let them give me the information and we will talk to him. If it turns out to be true, we won’t take him on the flotilla. We have no intention of clashing with anyone.”
Dire warnings and diplomatic sensitivities shadow the politically charged plan to deliver aid to the Palestinian territory. The looming fear is a reprise of a similar mission a year ago that ended when nine activists on a Turkish vessel died in a raid by Israeli commandos who rappelled on board from helicopters in the pre-dawn darkness.
Several hundred activists, many of them from Europe, Canada and the United States, plan to board the 10 boats, including two cargo vessels carrying medicine and other aid. They say the operation is peaceful.
Two ships, the Louise Michel and the Dignite-Al Karama, carrying a total of 47 activists left from the French island of Corsica on Saturday to join the flotilla.
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Comments (147)
Alvin691
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 9:03amOr they are lying and nothing was damaged on the ship.
Report Post »@ Coyote2
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 10:26amHardly, it’s the jews that have earned the reputation of being liars.
Report Post »His Lamb is Satanic
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 11:16am@ coyote 2, the traitor mexican….
Report Post »You should join the flotilla, and lead the peaceniks against the Israeli’s. You are missing your calling? AQ pipswieak like you has no balls, just brainwashed fluff for testi’s. Use you for a bowsprit, or boogery target.
oldchevyguy
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 8:58amOne way trip!
Report Post »ginger100
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 8:57amWait ti they try to get home thru Eygpt, they’ll end up stoned to death.
Report Post »nomercy63
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 8:45amThe Israel secret service is already gathering names and info and all sorts of intelligence on these people, assassinations soon to follow!!! The thing is about Jews is that we have to fight for survival everyday and it is a fight we been have for thousands of years, or homeland is under attack in many ways and will do what it takes to survive. Do not think we will do nothing!!!!!!!
Report Post »SREGN
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 1:59pmWe are with you, Israel. And so is God.
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 3:49pmYou and the brave alquada and iraqi and afghan insurrgency.You think alike!
Report Post »Cuthalu
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 6:08pmOh, assassinations? That does not sound like the actions of godly men who are “the chosen” ones. Must be that bloodlusting god jesus warned us about that who is the great deciever. Go on, wish for more bloodlusting since there seems to be many coming to this site drooling at the thought of other human beings dying or wishing for the death of others, to fufill their father’s desires. The devil.
John 8:44
Report Post »MJR
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 8:36amLets get a huge boats and put all the obama supporters on them and let them go to.
Report Post »@ Coyote2
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 10:14amGood idea. Remember the only ones dumb enough to vote for Obumer were liberals and jews.
Report Post »palerider54
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 8:32amSINK THEM. Then chum the waters to attract sharks.
Report Post »JustaThought
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 9:25amHamas humus. Here sharky, sharky, sharky !!
Report Post »lynnissmart
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 8:31amha,ha,ha,ha….one disabled, 9 to go…….My best wishes to them for a trip to h e l l!
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 3:36pmMoney talks and poor people walks. Give money to the engine caretakers to put about 10 lbs of suger in the diesel and and you will have clogged injectors and no rings left on the pistons. The boats then will have to be pulled by a tug and no tug caption will touch with a half mile rope.
Report Post »tadroid
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 8:17amI love how the Aryans from the Scandanavian countries are leading the pack here. Where’s all the Greek money coming from? I thought they were broke! Those liberals are so slick. There’s a good chance they sabataged their own ship for the anti-Semitic ink they could get flowing. What pathetic idiots. Suleiman is pounding on Vienna’s gate again, and they’re knee-capping the only western ally in the region.
Report Post »Seagal45
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 8:04amIf they challenge the blockade Israel has the right to blow them right out of the water. No sympathy here.
Report Post »markthespark
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:42amAren’t these “peace” activists worried about their carbon footprint? They just don’t care about the planet.
Report Post »HanginOn
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:37amShip(s) of fools. All being used by people who would cut their heads off if they could get the chance. When will we stop helping our ENEMIES? Our weakness as a nation is disgusting. I hope every one of them end up at the bottom.
Report Post »Sicialian Eyeball
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:37amSunk would be the word we’re looking for.
Report Post »Liberty7
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:33amThey probably sabotaged the boat themselves in order to demonize those who are opposed to their actions.
Report Post »Southernguy
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:31amBoo hoo hoo, lol
Report Post »cloudsofwar
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:29am10 ships in harms way. IDF will defend Israel.
Report Post »Rickfromillinois
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:27amWhen you have lemons make lemonade. Doesn’t Israel have a couple of submarines? Isn’t it hard and expensive to get moving targets to train those submarines? Problem solved.
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:25amOh, gee! Only ONE??? “You ain‘t seen nuthin’ yet!”
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:24amAfter you sink them, strafe the water with machine guns in the case of any survivors.
Report Post »@ Coyote2
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 10:34amThat’s what the jew terrorists like. Harmless unarmed victims.
Report Post »50BMG
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:24am“We have no intention of clashing with anyone.” -Dror Feiler
You mean other than trying to run the blockade?
Report Post »AegisFate
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 7:44pmI know right? It’s astounding how ignorant these “people” are.
Report Post »jcizarter
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:22amHEY, USA, you need to send all TSA agents to Israel to learn how to screen for Muslim bombers.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 8:23amPut them all on the flotilla boats…and let the local muslum sub drivers of Iran know the flotilla is hauling swine into the Gaza strip…
The reaction would be worthwhile.
Report Post »nptden
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:22am‘Not out to harm Israeli’s’. They just want to ignore the legal blockade. Let them all go to Allah.
Report Post »JUSTANOTHEROPINION
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:18amSink them all.
Report Post »Bushie
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:16amI pray the Israel sinks them all.
Report Post »Dougral Supports Israel
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:29amIsrael won’t sink the ships. Its not their style. Doing so would generate instant world-wide condemnation of Israel. They’ll do something like snare the propellers and tow the ships into port for inspection. Nobody dies and the whole thing is anti-climactic.
Report Post »spirit of freedom
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 11:17ami hope they do ensnare the propellers of all 10 ships and tow them all to port and imprison all aboard to stand trial for perpetraiting an act of war. i like some of the earlier comments fooltilla! lol! or tooltilla!
Report Post »both are pretty accurate descriptions.
VRW Conspirator
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 1:05pmNO…don’t pray for that…don’t WISH that…
THIS IS A SET UP!!
NOTHING happened to one of their ships that they THEMSELVES did not do….this is a set up.. they are framing Israel…a bomb will go off, a ship will sink or capsize, someone will “fall” overboard and die.. JUST as the flotilla comes within range of the Israeli Navy…panic will follow…the western Press on the flotilla will catch it all on film…and Israel, while coming to the aid to save the people sinking, will be blamed ….
then all of these JACKWAGONS will go off to the UN and cry “MURDERERS” and the UN will be FORCED to PROTECT the flotilla…. Israel will have to back down and allow TOTAL unmonitored access to GAZA…the US and Obama will not support or protect Israel….and by the end of the year.. HAMAS, backed by Egypt, will start a FULL war against Israel…Israel will defend itself and then Syria, Iran, Turkey, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia will join in…
Report Post »the UN, US, and Europe will swoop in to bring peace….GAZA and the West Bank will be “deemed” a Palestinian Nation with ALL of Jersusalem as the capital …on the 1967 borders…within a decade Israel will CEASE to exist and there will be a Caliphate from Afghanistan to Libya..with Istanbul as the capital in Turkey..
Cuthalu
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 6:16pmSo you are praying for the harm and death of other human beings? Which god are you worshiping that lusts for human blood?
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:14am.
Report Post »10 Ships full of Fools. Sailing to their own demise willingly you got to Love it.
BIGJAYINPA
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:22amJust start a rumor that this is really a cover for whaling or tuna fishing and the Sea Shepards will take care of this motley bunch…..Just sayin’
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 8:14amI like this idea:
Tell those Iranian sub drivers the Gaza ships are smuggling in swine and bacon: they come close to the subs and then there is this:
“There are the infedel traitor boats…FIRE torpedos…”
End of flotilla.
Report Post »@ Coyote2
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 10:03amRemember the USS Liberty. The damn jews like to attack harmless ships!!!
Report Post »fatjack
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 10:39amSpankDaMonkey
Report Post »Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:14am
10 Ships full of Fools. Sailing to their own demise willingly you got to Love it
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Fooltilla…………….I love it.
rose-ellen
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 3:41pmA blockade is an act of war.The israelis are already the agressors.[and their refusal to return to 67 borders is illigal as is their occupation and collective punishment and cruel treatment of palestinians]long live the flotilla and the brave international community that is not cowed by israeli terroism..
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 3:46pmkilling civilians is fine by you .a little terrorism isn’t so wrong after all.That’s what those brave freedom figting alquada said and acted on.Your righeous indignation is reseved for who does the killing not the killing itself.What alquada and all those noble resistence fighters in iraq and afghanistan have been saying all along.Now you get too!.
Report Post »SREGN
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 4:03pmIsrael should return to the Moses borders.
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:12amMagnetic mines…”Look Mom, no Muslims”
Report Post »BIGJAYINPA
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:19amSome Limpet mines and a little well placed C4 and maybe this “Peace” Flotilla could become a Pieces Flotilla…Just sayin’
Report Post »Gold Coin & Economic News
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:26amThese fools are breaking the law with this flotilla and risk having the boats sunk and dying, and they call it sabotage when a propeller is disabled. I call it trying to save their ignorant lives.
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:31am“We have no intention of clashing with anyone.” I would like to use several four letter words here @#$%^&* because just by sending “10 ships” is a provocation to WAR!!! What a punch of @#$1 holes……
Report Post »thunder4570
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:32amAs long as everyone “signed” the declaration of non-violence, they have nothing to worry about….RIGHT! If that is the case I will sign a declaration so I can get a 50 cal machine gun. If they believe them why not believe me.
Report Post »Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:40amI love it!
I hope all these ships are sunk. What a bunch of trouble making lefties. Who needs them anyway.
Report Post »Mick1140
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:53amLOL…good one…
Report Post »Jim in Houston
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:55amBefore they arrive at their destination the Peace Flotilla will be the Pieces Flotilla. The Israelis will not and should not allow these idiots to support the Hamas terrorist.
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:59amI would definitely seek to sabotage their vessels before a violent encounter.
Screw sabotage, I would straight up SINK them before any people boarded.
There would be a Gaza Flotilla, but it would be a bunch of little pieces instead of 10 ships.
Report Post »obama-mecca-me-sick
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 8:00amThe word “war monger” has been replaced with “peace activist”.
Report Post »I hope every boat capsizes and sinks and all the activist rest in peace.
Obama Bin Lying
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 8:02amHow much do you want to bet that these attention whores either damaged it themselves, or the boats actually weren’t damaged.
I have learned not to trust anything a “peace activist” says or does. They are far from peaceful. The only time they are peaceful is when they get their way. Don’t conform to their Agenda, and they get ultra violent.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 8:12amThis is one case where the flotilla ‘useful idiots’ (the journalists in this case), need to see they are being used by the sponsors of the flotilla – any harm comes to them and the administration will be able to have America jump in fully on the side of Israels enemies claiming harm has come to the citizens of the land due to hostile action of the IDF or such.
I will put nothing past this administration to try and send in American forces to forcably establish the new Palestinian state Mr Obama so badly wants.
With these boats, a few well placed holes, enough to sink them and ensure anyone onboard could be able to get off, is a very nice way to make artificial reefs.
Report Post »rightwingheroes
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 8:18amThe terrorists, i mean activists may have signed a declaration of nonviolence, but the IDF hasn’t signed anything.
Get r dun
Report Post »Wolf
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 8:52amI’m calling B.S. on this propellor shaft being sheared and ‘repairable in time to make the trip’. On a ship that size, the entire solid steel shaft would have to be replaced and trued to prevent vibration- it ain’t gonna be like welding it back together and expect it to hold. And someone cut it off in port? More B.S…. no one saw divers working from the dock with welding hoses or power/air tools? More B.S. Either it didn’t happen or they did it themselves like the media whores they are.
Report Post »That whole flotilla needs to be deep-sixed with everyone on board.
Phoenixsoulfire
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 9:24am“In a separate statement, Norwegian delegation leader Torstein Dahle said the incident shows “someone is willing to go to great lengths to stop the flotilla from sailing.””
As they are willing to go great lengths to harass Israel. I also like the part that Israel should give names of people who they heard that was going to be on the ships who want to harm Israel’s forces and they will ask them LOL Like they will say yeah I plan on shooting them. I doubt they would even ask.
Report Post »mils
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 9:44amPiece flotilla…love it…of course it will all be someone else’s fault, never theirs with dumb moves
Report Post »grover75
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 10:22amthey will just help out the oceans by making man made refs when they send them to the bottom of the drink
Report Post »fatjack
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 10:31am“the flotilla have supplies of what she called “dangerous incendiary chemicals” to use against Israeli forces.”
Make no mistake this it a hostile action invading Israel. Danger!
Report Post »JayCee
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 10:36amI hope they sink like a rock.
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 10:37amThese people represent the craziest people on the planet. They have access to more information, they have good lives in America, they want for nothing, access to the best education in the world, more freedom than anyone and so on. And what do they do with all that?? They are the most blind and stupid people on the planet!!!
Report Post »God forgive me, I do hope they sink, do to some malfunction of their own devise. They will die in their stupidity eventually anyway. Just seems like now would be a good time……………….
hersey10
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 11:07amVideo of Palestinian woman claiming to be pregnant to get into an Israeli hospital only to blow herself up at the security checkpoint . Contradicts EVERYTHING this woman in the video says about Israel preventing women from being allowed to visit hospitals . MUST SEE http://youtu.be/M9qy4y-Y5zs
Report Post »SpiderPig
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 11:19amHmmm…A flotilla is a small group of waships. Yet their mission is “peaceful”. I doubt that it will be peaceful as they are trying to force Israel’s hand. Israel will see it as an act of terror and will have to counter, which could lead to the death of a bunch of brainwashed morons. Yet, their supporters will cry foul and demand that the US and our allies respond to Israel with violence. Peaceful, my arse!!!
Report Post »calebgs83
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 11:50amIf I were the Prime Minister of Israel I would blow your boat to he!!
Report Post »Down2TheC
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 1:53pm“Hostile divers”. Please! Google “Sacrificial Anode” and get a clue. Any idea how hard it would be to cut the shaft on even a moderate yacht? We have a 1″ steel shaft on our 37foot sailboat and I assure you, divers couldn’t cut it without a lot of gear and technology and bubbles and noise.
Report Post »And the fact that you can repair it before departure tells me that it never happened. You’d need drydock and a new shaft. You don’t just weld on a new end to the shaft.
What a bunch of fabricating, falsifying, flotilla failures.
concealled9mms
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 2:39pmi second the motion
Report Post »Sound The Trumpet In Zion
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 2:50pmI would have to say the if the truth were known that it was more likely something happened because the terrorists that they occupy these ships with aren’t trained well enough to take proper care of the boats. As to their story, I would believe that about as much as I believe obama when he opens his mouth and says something. Which is zero, zilch, NADA!!!
Report Post »Lawlcat001
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 3:52pmGold coin is right! They call it sabotage, I’d call it a chance to NOT die!
Report Post »JohnGalt
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 5:02pmquote from article – “No activists on the flotilla are out to harm Israeli soldiers,” Feiler told Army Radio on Tuesday. “If they (the Israelis) suspect someone, let them give me the information and we will talk to him. If it turns out to be true, we won’t take him on the flotilla. We have no intention of clashing with anyone.” – end quote.
So what are they going to do when they try and break the blockade? They are begging for a confrontation, why else are they going?
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 10:18pmI wonder how many will meet Osama at the bottom???
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