The more we scratch the surface, the more the true nature of the so-called ‘aid flotilla’ is revealed.:

The array of equipment found on board the ships that made up the Gaza aid flotilla was as divergent as the flotilla’s stated aims.

On the one hand there was medical equipment aimed to help ease the suffering of Gaza’s sick and handicapped, and on the other there were knives, slingshots and night vision goggles, which indicate hostile goals.

Israeli military officials have said that the amount of goods found on the ships are a drop in the sea compared to the amount of goods that regularly pass into Gaza, and extrapolated that it indicates that transfer of humanitarian assistance was not the top priority of the flotilla’s organisers.

According to the military, the 25-odd truckloads of equipment offloaded from the ships is roughly a quarter of the amount Israel transported into the Gaza strip every day.

According to the Gaza Coordination and Liaison Administration, 100 truckloads of assorted goods are transferred into Gaza daily, and since the beginning of the year, nearly 11,000 trucks full of equipment have been transferred into Gaza.

Regarding the types of goods found in the ships’ cargo holds – wheelchairs, stretchers, hospital beds, electric wheelchairs, crutches, bandages, cotton swabs as well as food, clothing and toys – sources in the Gaza CLA say they are regularly allowed into Gaza and are not in shortage.

Aid organizations in Gaza say that the amount of truckloads imported since the end of Operation Cast Lead in January 2009 is approximately one-fifth the number registered during the first five months of 2007, and that much of the equipment transported by the Israelis does not constitute humanitarian assistance as it goes to commercial merchants, who then sell goods to the poverty-stricken population.

What is needed, they say, are things like CT scanners, x-rays, fluoroscopes, infusion pumps, medical sterilization gasses, laboratory equipment, UPS (uninterrupted power supply) batteries, and spare parts for support systems like elevators, none of which appeared to be on the ships.

Also found on the ships were materials specifically banned by the Israeli authorities, such as cement and metal rods, which Israel fears may be used by Hamas and other terrorist organizations to build bunkers and weapons.

While the rest of the material was promptly transferred to the Kerem Shalom crossing, where it still awaits pickup on the Palestinian side, the construction material will be kept in Ashdod Port pending decisions on what to do with it.

Other items that won’t be transferred to Gaza are the weapons and military equipment found aboard the Mavi Marmara. These include knives, clubs, slingshots, bulletproof vests, gas masks and night vision goggles. The military says that the presence of these items on board the ship proves that the passengers had hostile intentions from the start.

The fact that all the weapons and military supplies that the army uncovered were found on a single ship, the Mavi Marmara, indicates that perhaps just a few of the flotilla’s participants were in on the plans to violently attack boarding soldiers, while the rest of the participants were sincere in their desire to send aid to Gaza.

With the Rachel Corrie already on its way to Israel’s territorial waters and the IDF vowing to prevent it from reaching Gaza, it will be interesting to find out what she’s carrying.

It’s little wonder that the Captain of the Mavi Marmara refused the legitimate request made to her by an Israeli Navy vessel to divert to Ashdod so her ‘aid’ cargo could be inspected for forbidden items and transferred to Gaza.

The contents of this so-called ‘humanitarian aid’ were more like the inventory required to conduct an insurgency. Even the medical equipment on board consisted of casualty-oriented items, such as those that might be needed after a skirmish. But is anyone in the West taking any notice?

We are frankly exasperated with the international mainstream media, as the terror-supporting flotilla’s agenda goes unquestioned and is still – despite all the concrete evidence – being presented as an innocent jolly trip by well-meaning humanitarians; when in fact its central objective is precisely that of the Hamas gangsters running the Gaza strip – Jihad and the destruction of Israel.

Once more, it is being left the blogosphere and the Israeli media to go behind the Islamist’s dissimulation, lies and the appalling blood libel being committed against Israel.

[Source: Jerusalem Post]


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