Jun 2, 2010 -- 2:11AM, NahumS wrote:

I received this from a parent who has a son in the Israeli navy:

The information below comes from my son who serves in the Navy and has just arrived home from Ashdod.

We realized that the flotilla of ships trying to reach Gaza was a provocation.     No one realized how heavily they were armed.  

Five of the ships were boarded by the naval commando in the early hours of this morning and surrendered without resistance.    The ships were taken to Ashdod, and the food they were carrying will be sent to Gaza, which as we know receives daily supplies of food, electricity and other essentials from the “Zionist entity” it refuses to recognize.

When the commando boarded the sixth ship, the Marmara, they faced armed resistance.     The gunmen – many of whom were clearly prepared to be “shahidin” , martyrs – jumped on them in an organized lynch and started to stab them and beat them with clubs, knives and metal poles.    After they grabbed one of our soldiers and threw him overboard, and started shooting the other soldiers with his rifle, they had no alternative but to open fire to protect themselves.    In such a situation, it is surprising there were so few casualties.     About ten IDF soldiers were injured, some seriously.    My son will start his day tomorrow visiting one of them, a former schoolmate, at Tel Hashomer hospital , before returning to Ashdod.

If any proof were needed of the “peaceful” intentions of the passengers of the ships, or at least this one, we received a very clear picture.

Please pass this on to whoever might be willing to listen to the truth!

 

These parents must be very proud of their sons and daughters.  Many, many prayers are said for them continually.

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He Who blessed our forefathers Abraham, Isaac and  Jacob - may He         bless the fighters of the Israel Defense Force, who stand guard  over our land and the         cities of our God from the border of Lebanon to the desert  of Egypt, and from the         Great Sea unto the approach of the Aravah, on the land, in the  air, and on the sea.

May HASHEM cause the  enemies who rise up against us to be struck down before         them. May the Holy One, Blessed is He, preserve and rescue our  fighting men from every         trouble and distress and from every plague and illness, and may  He send blessing and         success in their every endeavor.

May He lead our enemies under their sway  and may He grant them         salvation and crown them with victory. And may there be  fulfilled for them the verse: For         it is Hashem, your God, Who goes with you to battle your enemies  for you to save you.

Now let us respond: Amen.

www.ou.org/yerushalayim/prayers2.htm

It is hypocrisy for members of radical Islam to pretend to enlist in humanitarian aid endeavors.  These martyr-wannabes were screaming Islamic chants and saying martyrdom would be even better than getting through the blockade.

The Palestinians themselves are being played like chess pieces in a game which will only end with the destruction of the Jewish State.  This religious hatred has engulfed the world -- and none are so blind as those who have eyes but refuse to see it.  These Palestinians will be sacrificed if and when convenient by Hamas and by the whole production company's puppeteer, Ahmadinejad. 

What is beyond comprehension is that many in the international community are willingly siding with those who don't respect human life at all.  Humanitarian aid is futile when death is just as welcomed.

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Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that change darkness into light, and light into darkness; that change bitter into sweet, and sweet into bitter! (Isaiah 5:20)