Who is Behind the Peace Flotilla to Gaza? from Planck's Constant

Fake Humanitarian Aid Foundation - Insani yardim Vakfi

Photo Credit: IHH

The owner and operator of three of the six flotilla ships involved in the recent Israeli blockade running incident, including the MV Mavi Marmara, is a Turkish Islamist NGO called IHH İNSANİ YARDIM VAKFI.

According to its English language Facebook page it touts itself as a humanitarian relief foundation established in 1994. [Not to nitpick, but actually it started in 1992]

IHH spent $1.8 million to acquire the Mavi Marmara; in addition , another $10 million was spent on the so-called aid material aboard ship. This is in addition to tens of millions of dollars the organization has already spent in helping Hamas and Hezbollah.

Yesterday, the former French investigating judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere told The Associated Press in a telephone interview that IHH had "clear, long-standing ties to terrorism and Jihad." ¹

But this is something Israel already knows - she has banned its activities on its soil, saying the organization was linked to Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Al Qaeda ².

We all know that this was never about aiding the people in Gaza, whose supermarkets are so filled with food ³ that merchants are worried about a drop in prices, but to aid Hamas militarily. Consider:

Counterterrorism Blog, The Gaza Flotilla Decoy for Iranian Missiles to Hezbollah?
According to the organizers of the "Free Gaza" network which enjoys the support of Hamas and its backers in Damascus and Tehran but also of governments considered in the West as "mainstream" such as the AKP of Turkey and the oil rich Qatar, this vast coalition of regimes and organizations assert that the aim of the 700 militants and activists was to pierce the encirclement of Gaza and lift the naval blockade of the enclave. Hence the actual goal of the humanitarian effort is to relieve Hamas, not just to ensure aid to the civilians trapped in the strip. For if aid and comfort was the sole objective of the operation, the material would have been calmly handed to the United Nations' agencies which would have forwarded it to the network of humanitarian associations and NGOs inside the afflicted zone. Either Egypt or Israel would have checked it and would have, under international obligation, sent it across the cease fire lines.

So why didn't it do that? And why shouldn't Israel just let the aid ships go directly to Gaza? Perhaps because past "Humanitarian" aid turned out to be an attempt to smuggle weapons to terrorists as can be seen in this video of a container bound for Hezbollah more than a year ago but diverted to Ashdod Port for inspection where RPGs, ammunition, and other contraband were found behind stacks of flour.

Humanitarian Aid; Human Rights and Freedoms Advocates. Yeah right. More Muslim lies.

Then we have those morons here and abroad that cry for those poor souls who were shot and killed by Israel. Let me say here, that they all deserved to die (and by all - I mean everyone on that ship): Here for your information is the story behind those "martyrs" of Mavi Marmara:

Newsblaze, Three Turks Killed on Ship Sought Martyr's Death and Destruction To Israel
Four of the nine militants killed in Israeli raid were Turks. The Turkish media have identified Wednesday as being all actively engaged in movements or Islamist NGOs. Three of them, as their friends and relatives who speak in the press, wanted to die a "martyr". Quoted by the newspaper Vatan, the wife of one of them, Ali Haydar Bengi, 39, said: "He helped the poor and oppressed. For years, he wanted to go to Palestine. He prayed constantly to become martyr. The same term is used in the case of another victim of the assault, Ali Ekber Yaratilmis, 55, a volunteer with the HHI: "He always wanted to become a martyr," said one of his friends, Mehmet Faruk Cevher, the daily Sabah. As for Ibrahim Bilgen, 61, "Becoming a martyr suited him well. Allah has given him the death he wanted," said his brother Nuri Mergen, quoted by Anatolia. The fourth victim is Muharrem Kocak, another volunteer of HHI.

Peace Activists? You decide.

Notes

(1):

MSNBC, Turkish aid group had terror ties
The Turkish Islamic charity behind a flotilla of aid ships that was raided by Israeli forces on its way to Gaza had ties to terrorism networks, including a 1999 al-Qaida plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport, France's former top anti-terrorism judge said Wednesday.
The Istanbul-based Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief, known by its Turkish acronym IHH, had "clear, long-standing ties to terrorism and Jihad," former investigating judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.

Bruguiere, who led the French judiciary's counterterrorism unit for nearly two decades before retiring in 2007, didn't indicate whether IHH now has terror ties, but said it did when he investigated it in the late 1990s.

"They were basically helping al-Qaida when (Osama) bin Laden started to want to target U.S. soil," he said.

(2):

The Washington Institute for Near East Policy,
Fallout from the Gaza Flotilla Tragedy
a 1996 CIA report on terrorist abuse of charities, declassified after the September 11 attacks, documented IHH as a charity with ties to "Iran and Algerian groups." According to the report, the director of the IHH office in Sarajevo "has been linked to Iranian operatives." The report described "the terrorist-related activities and linkages" of fifteen selected "Islamic NGOs," noting that "individuals connected to some of these NGOs have plotted to kidnap or kill U.S. personnel." And according to French court documents, IHH was the subject of a Turkish criminal investigation in late 1997 when sources revealed that leaders of the group were purchasing automatic weapons from other regional Islamist militant groups. Based on an analysis of seized IHH documents, Turkish authorities concluded that "detained members of IHH were going to fight in Afghanistan, Bosnia, and Chechnya."

(3):

Pajamas Media, Tony Blair’s Sister-in-Law’s Gaza Media Circus
A few days before the Ynet interview was published, Ms. Booth was photographed by an AFP photographer while purchasing Snickers bars and bottled soft drinks at an apparently well-stocked Gaza supermarket.