Confirmed: US citizen among those killed in Gaza flotilla raid

[ibaghdadi]

Just read it now on Washington Post:

JERUSALEM -- An American citizen of Turkish origin was among the nine people killed in a botched Israeli effort to stop a Turkish aid ship from reaching the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, a Turkish official said on Thursday.

The nine bodies were flown home from Israel to Turkey on Wednesday, along with hundreds of activists, aboard a Turkish plane. Israel was not able to identify the bodies because the dead had no identification on them, Israeli officials said.

Continues: http://bit.ly/caFXVb

Any news yet on the USS Liberty survivor on board the flotilla?

 

[Imaginos]

 

[Liberty Star]

Biden is right, a big test for Obama has just unfolded.

BTW, who was President when another US citizen Rachel Corrie was bulldozed to death alive by Israelis?

Inaction only encourages bad behavior it seems.

 

[Razmear]

Expect no response from the US other than fake regret.
Remember when they ran over a female US citizen with a bull dozer a few years back while they were destroying Palestinian housing? I don't think we even gave them a reprimand.

eb

 

[lester1/2jr]

if mother theresa had been on the boat the right wing blogosphere would be making jokes about her death. Reagan, anybody.


it's a tragedy but it won't make the news

 

[Razmear]

WOW.
I didn't know her name so I just did a google to see the answer to your question and discovered that the Irish ship that will try to break the blockade next is named after her!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/halliday-urges-irish-amer_b_598924.html

Former UN Assistant Secretary General Denis Halliday said it was imperative that the Obama administration supported Ireland's call on the Israeli authorities to ensure safe passage for the Irish-flagged Rachel Corrie to carry humanitarian aid to Gaza, the Irish Times reports.

Corrie was killed in 2003, which makes GWB the answer to your question.

eb

 

[eproxy100]

Just read it now on Washington Post:



Any news yet on the USS Liberty survivor on board the flotilla?

No worries. Joe Meadors, the USS Liberty survivor is safe.

http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/...Larudee-Badly-Beaten-But-Now-Headed-to-Greece

 

[pcosmar]

Any news yet on the USS Liberty survivor on board the flotilla?

Yup, He's back.

http://www.caller.com/news/2010/jun/02/israel-deports-corpus-christi-man-flotilla/
CORPUS CHRISTI — Retired Corpus Christi accountant Joe Meadors arrived at Corpus Christi International Airport on Tuesday after Israel deported him following an incident Sunday

As are several other Americans.
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_15212084?nclick_check=1

SAN FRANCISCO—When Israeli commandos seized a supply flotilla bound for Gaza, Paul Larudee decided he would not go gently.

Larudee, a 64-year-old former linguistics professor and Fulbright scholar, put on a life vest and jumped in the Mediterranean Sea, said Joe Meadors, one of five Americans in Larudee's group known as the Free Palestine Movement.

On his swim toward Gaza, the Northern California man eluded an Israeli patrol craft for 30 minutes before he was cornered, Meadors said.

Larudee was taken to a prison, bruised and cut, where he refused medical treatment, said Akiva Tor, the Israeli consul general in San Francisco.

Tor said all the Americans in the flotilla except for Larudee would be back in the U.S. by Thursday.

http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/...Larudee-Badly-Beaten-But-Now-Headed-to-Greece

 

[ctiger2]

So is it 9 or 19 people killed?

YouTube - IT'S NINETEEN KILLED NOT NINE!

 

[Baptist]

I don't think that the U.S. government should have done anything over the Corrie death. Give me a break. If I decide to pack my bags tomorrow and head to Sudan to help save the black Christians from being attacked by the Arab Muslims, and I get killed in the process, should the U.S. government make a deal out of it by condemning the government of Sudan who is paying for these Arab headhunters? No. Of course not. It is my own fault.

You play with fire and you get burned. Ron Paul has stated that the U.S. government should be non-interventionist, but that U.S. citizens can do whatever they want to do (and he used going over to fight WWI as an example). However, Ron Paul said that if a U.S. citizen chooses intervention (like the hypothetical soldier going to fight against Germany in WWI, or the real case scenario of Corrie), and they get into trouble, it is not the job of the U.S. government to bail them out. You suffer the consequences of your own mistake.

That said, I believe that the U.S. government should do something because this was done in international waters. Had it been done in Israel's waters, well, Israel can do whatever the heck it wants in its own waters. But because this was in international waters I believe the U.S. should raise a stink about it.

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Media/american-killed-gaza-aid-flotilla/story?id=10814848

 

[puppetmaster]

non issue...I heard this yesterday....somethingnlike 25% of political donations come from the jewsish and they are 2% of population.....this math says this story will not be news

 

[John Taylor]

Expect no response from the US other than fake regret.
Remember when they ran over a female US citizen with a bull dozer a few years back while they were destroying Palestinian housing? I don't think we even gave them a reprimand.

eb

The crazed socialist walked in front of a bulldozer and expected it to stop. Suicide by bulldozer---her decision.

 

[John Taylor]

I don't think that the U.S. government should have done anything over the Corrie death. Give me a break. If I decide to pack my bags tomorrow and head to Sudan to help save the black Christians from being attacked by the Arab Muslims, and I get killed in the process, should the U.S. government make a deal out of it by condemning the government of Sudan who is paying for these Arab headhunters? No. Of course not. It is my own fault.

You play with fire and you get burned. Ron Paul has stated that the U.S. government should be non-interventionist, but that U.S. citizens can do whatever they want to do (and he used going over to fight WWI as an example). However, Ron Paul said that if a U.S. citizen chooses intervention (like the hypothetical soldier going to fight against Germany in WWI, or the real case scenario of Corrie), and they get into trouble, it is not the job of the U.S. government to bail them out. You suffer the consequences of your own mistake.

That said, I believe that the U.S. government should do something because this was done in international waters. Had it been done in Israel's waters, well, Israel can do whatever the heck it wants in its own waters. But because this was in international waters I believe the U.S. should raise a stink about it.

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Media/american-killed-gaza-aid-flotilla/story?id=10814848

+1776. These people chose to try to break a lawful blockade imposed by Egypt and Israel, and then chose to participate in an attack on commandos enforcing the blockade. They brought this on themselves.

 

[sratiug]

+1776. These people chose to try to break a lawful blockade imposed by Egypt and Israel, and then chose to participate in an attack on commandos enforcing the blockade. They brought this on themselves.

Illegal aliens (Israelis) in Palestine cannot legally blockade Palestine. That's like saying illegal immigrants in the US can decide who comes and goes here. Or the US government can decide who is admitted to the Lakota Nation just because we stole the rest of the land.

 

[tpreitzel]

lawful blockade ?

ALL blockades are an act of war ... and should be dealt with accordingly.

 

[ibaghdadi]

The crazed socialist walked in front of a bulldozer and expected it to stop. Suicide by bulldozer---her decision.

Now that's totally unfair. Sorry -- I agree that it was her choice to put her life at risk, and I also agree that the US government should do nothing about it, but to say that she was crazy or she caused her own death...? Everyone who witnessed the incident insists that the bulldozer operator knew she was there and deliberately ran her over.

YouTube - Rachel Corrie - American Hero!

She may have been a socialist (I'm not sure), but she was only 23, so give us a break.

This is Rachel Corrie when she was in 5th grade. She had a heart of gold even then. Tell me you're not moved by this.

YouTube - Rachel Corrie 5th Grade Speech I'm here because I care

 

[ibaghdadi]

illegal aliens (israelis) in palestine cannot legally blockade palestine. That's like saying illegal immigrants in the us can decide who comes and goes here. Or the us government can decide who is admitted to the lakota nation just because we stole the rest of the land.

+1776

 

[John Taylor]

Illegal aliens (Israelis) in Palestine cannot legally blockade Palestine. That's like saying illegal immigrants in the US can decide who comes and goes here. Or the US government can decide who is admitted to the Lakota Nation just because we stole the rest of the land.

Israelis are not illegal aliens, and they are lawfully conducting a blockade of a hostile province with the assistance of the enighboring country, Egypt.

Lakota? What kind of drivel are you spouting. I didn't steal anyone's land. Get out of here with your "collective guilt".

 

[John Taylor]

Now that's totally unfair. Sorry -- I agree that it was her choice to put her life at risk, and I also agree that the US government should do nothing about it, but to say that she was crazy or she caused her own death...? Everyone who witnessed the incident insists that the bulldozer operator knew she was there and deliberately ran her over.

YouTube - Rachel Corrie - American Hero!

She may have been a socialist (I'm not sure), but she was only 23, so give us a break.

This is Rachel Corrie when she was in 5th grade. She had a heart of gold even then. Tell me you're not moved by this.

YouTube - Rachel Corrie 5th Grade Speech I'm here because I care

Sure, she should have gotten out of the way. She was attempting to prevent the enforcement of the law in Israel, and she took the risks of standing in front of a bulldozer on her own shoulders... She bears the responsibility for her little "death by bulldozer" protest.

 

[John Taylor]

lawful blockade ?

ALL blockades are an act of war ... and should be dealt with accordingly.

Yeah, now you're starting to catch on. Israel and Egypt are AT WAR with GAZA!!!!

Got it, that's WHY Egypt and Israel have a blockade in place.