The UN Human Rights Council: We just love Human Rights (as far away from us as possible)..

“Daphne Y. Captain: [the M.V. Mavi Marmara's registered name] By ignoring this order, you are putting your crew members – and your motor vessel – at risk. Captain, you alone are responsible for the consequences of your actions” - IDF Naval Officer to Mavi Marmara Captain

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“Shut up, go back to Auschwitz” - Unidentified Mavi Marmara crew member

25th May 2010
Aware of the upcoming “Free Gaza” flotilla, Israel advises Turkey and other governments, whose nationals were planning to participate, that it will not allow the self‐styled humanitarian mission to breach its defensive naval blockade of Gaza. Instead, Israel offers to offload all humanitarian goods in the port of Ashdod and have United Nations personnel deliver the items to Gaza. Turkey rejects the offer; other European governments try to dissuade their nationals from participating to no avail.

28th May 2010
600 pro‐Palestinian passengers, including radicals with ties to terrorist groups and dozens of women and children—boarded the Mavi Marmara ship in Antalya, Turkey—the lead vessel in the “Free Gaza” flotilla. Organized by the Islamist ‘Turkish Humanitarian Relief Foundation’ (IHH) — which has links to terrorist groups including Hamas and al‐Qaeda—the stated goal of the mission was to provide “humanitarian aid” to Palestinians in Gaza. Many though, saw the flotilla as something entirely different.

“This mission is not about delivering humanitarian supplies, it’s about breaking Israel’s siege on 1.5 million Palestinians,” said a flotilla participant.

Violent celebratory rallies, where crowds yelled chants invoking death to Jews, sent off flotilla leader and IHH President Bulent Yildirim and his supporters on their way to international waters, where they would meet up with five other ships departing from Turkey, Greece and Ireland. [Before departure and] en‐route, Arab news‐channel Al‐Jazeera broadcasts interviews with passengers exalting jihadist martyrdom and singing Palestinian intifada songs:

30th May 2010
Despite repeated warning from the Israel Defense Forces, all six vessels making up the “Free Gaza” flotilla continue their voyage toward Israel’s maritime security zone. Aboard the Mavi Marmara, Yildirim tells Turkish television, “We will definitely resist and we will not allow the Israelis to enter here.”

He continues, “The Israelis think that the more soldiers they send, the less casualties there will be among the activists. On this ship there are also women and children. The whole world knows this. We’ll show them what it means to board the ship. If Israel wants to board this ship, it will meet strong resistance.”

31st May 2010
Israeli Navy personnel warn all six flotilla ships that they are about to enter restricted waters. Israel again offers to collect humanitarian aid and have it delivered to the Gaza Strip by the United Nations. The ships, again, refuse to comply (and throw some disgusting antisemitic racism into the conversation at 2:06, for good measure):

The Israeli Navy begins boarding the flotilla vessels—equipped with paint‐ball rifles to ensure minimum casualties. Their hand guns were to be used as a means of last resort.
Passengers aboard five of the six ships cooperate with Israeli forces—the Mavi Marmara does not.

Aboard the Mavi Marmara, Yildirim announces, “We are going to resist and resistance will win.” Militants on the ship begin yelling, “Intifada! Intifada!”

As the first Israeli soldier is lowered by helicopter onto the Mavi Marmara, militants onboard tried connecting the steel cables from the overhead helicopters to the boat’s antenna, in order to cause the helicopters to crash.

As Israeli soldiers continue boarding the ship, Mavi Marmara passengers begin severely beating the soldiers with iron rods and chairs, stabbing them with knives and trying to lynch them. One soldier is thrown off the deck:

While Israeli soldiers tried to gain control of the situation, militant mobs continued to beat them. Two Israeli soldiers had their pistols stolen and groups of passengers started shooting live fire at the Israelis (In this footage you can hear the radio exchange between soldiers on their way to the bridge and the IDF ship. The soldiers report encountering live fire and serious violence):

Video was captured of a Mavi Marmara passenger stabbing an Israeli soldier in the back:

Video testimony from an Israeli soldier who was attacked by the militants:

At 1:14 in the video above, you will hear the soldier state that they were armed with anti-riot paintball guns (although they are also equipped with mall side arms for self-defence). However, you will see from the photographs below that he is undoubtedly telling the truth:

IDF boarding personnel were armed only with paintball-firing crowd-dispersal guns and small holstered side-arms for self defence

Riot-control paintball gun as used by the IDF in the Mavi Marmara incident - and other forces around the world

After reporting back to their commanders, Israeli soldiers on board the ship were given the order to defend themselves using live ammunition. According to official reports, nine flotilla passengers, including radicals with ties to terrorist groups aboard the Mavi Marmara, were killed during Israel’s defensive operation; seven Israeli commandoes were injured:

IDF Soldiers from the Mavi Marmara boarding party were brutally beaten by the Islamists onboard

Eventually, all six flotilla ships were escorted to the Israeli port of Ashdod where a number of participants were detained. Those with injuries were taken by the Israel Navy to hospitals in Israel for medical treatment; several other participants were deported and sent home.

1st June 2010
Despite the violent attack on Israeli soldiers by militant passengers aboard the Mavi Marmara, Israel (who even prior to the Flotilla events send over 100 truckloads of goods into Gaza every day), made the decision to coordinate the transport of all humanitarian goods from each of the six ships (although the IDF were perhaps being a little too diplomatic labelling it as ‘aid’, as much of it was later discovered to be worthless expired medicines and obsolete medial equipment), to the Gaza Strip.

As regular readers will know from our many previous articles (simply type ‘UNHRC’ into our search box), the preposterously-named UN Human Rights Council is dominated by some of the worst human rights abusers on the planet.

It is a gross perversion of the original (and admirable) founding principles of the United Nations – a group that has been criticised even by the leader of the UN, Ban Ki Moon himself, for bias against Israel.

How could anyone expect an organisation – essentially controlled by the Organisation of the Islamic Conference and the Non-Aligned Movement, both vehemently anti-West and anti-Israel themselves – to be remotely objective?

We challenge them directly to disprove our allegations above (all of which are corroborated and can be proved).

But no doubt, because of the utterly useless UN establishment, the credulous, lazy and biased mainstream media (Reuters, who faked photographs to bias stories against Israel in the Lebanon crisis of 2006 were caught red handed doing it again here) and the political classes – who let the UNHRC get away with it time after time – the response will assuredly be the same:

An overwhelming chorus of media disapproval will ensue.. but just not in this case.

[Sources: APAIC, IDF MEMRI, Al-Jazeera - and our own research]

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