Turkey Demands Israel Apology: Israel Says Get Over it

Remember the terror flotilla filled with anti-Israel activists that Turkey tried to send to Gaza? As Turkey grows closer and closer to Iran and Syria, they were aware of Israel's legal blockade, but sent the hostile flotilla anyway. People aboard the Mavi Mamara died after video clearly shows the flotilla activists attacking Israeli forces. Now Turkey wants an apology. Israel says there will be none.

Tayyip Erdogan

Turkish prime minister, Erdogan, said his country will cut all ties to Israel if the apology isn't issued. Turkey is relying on another UN report sanctioning Israel, the most UN-sanctioned country in the history of the dictatorial, Muslim-dominated body. Sanctioning Israel is routine in the United Nations - certainly nothing new, and Israel has dug-in.

Israel and Turkey forged a "friendship" of sorts in past years, and shared military operations and intelligence. Turkey knows and must understand the life-saving blockade, so why test Israel with the terror flotilla? Maybe this is the reason:

Turkey has improved relations with neighbours such as Iran and Syria in recent years and Erdogan became a popular figure among Muslim countries for championing the Palestinian cause. 

Israel believes Turkey may vote against harsher sanctioning of Iran in the UN.

An interesting side-story is two well-known Muslim journalists, Magdi Khalil and Abdallah al-Hadlaq, taking Israel's side in the flotilla search, saying they had every right to do so, and the flotilla was intended to be hostile and was armed.  Read that story here.

Related and Background:
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Israel Protests Right to Search Ships Bound for Gaza - IDF video

The Intolerable Misery in Gaza - video

The Gaza You Didn't Think Existed - video


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Gaza Flotilla Terror Choir: We Con the World (Video)

Furkan Dogan American Dead on Gaza Flotilla

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Flotilla War Atmosphere before Israel Boarded - Martyrdom or Gaza Shores



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The Angst of Supporting Israel
Who and What are Palestinians?
Rupert Murdock: U.S., European Survival Without Israel
Without Support, What Happens to Israel?
Golda Meir: War and Wisdom
About that Two-State Solution
How the Gaza Tunnels into Egypt Work
Discovering Kryptonite, Disabling Superman
United Nations Condemns Hamas - Gotcha!
United Nations Seal Condemnation of Israel

Gaza Flotilla's Al Qaeda Members: Gaza Flotilla Infiltrated: Hamas Refuses Flotilla Aid

YNetNews reports the Gaza Flotilla had al-Qaeda and Muslim Brotherhood members on board. Were the "peace" activists secretly infiltrated? In addition to Turks, there were Yemenites and Indonesians that fit the description of "terrorists." In an odd twist, Hamas has refused the aid aboard the Flotilla until Israel releases the terrorists. See a video below.

Graphic: Ramirez at Investor's Business Daily

YNet:

Some among that group are believed to have ties with World Jihad groups, mainly al-Qaeda.

...it is clear that the majority were recruited by the same IHH handler who organized the flotilla.

IHH is a Turkish humanitarian relief fund with a radical Islamic anti-Western orientation.

Some of the suspects were found to be carrying large sums of money. Others had Kevlar vests and gas masks; and all were found to be carrying weapons such as knives, metal clubs and slingshots.

Ignoring all evidence, a HuffPo columnist, Robert Naiman had this headline: Gaza Freedom Flotilla Shows Awesome Power of Nonviolent Resistance.

Hamas is refusing to accept Flotilla aid, which included Kevlar vests, night vision goggles, and some claim $1 million was on board, until Israel releases all al-Qaeda and Muslim Brotherhood members.

The first video below shows boxes of plates thrown at Israeli IDF, a stun grenade was thrown in the boat, water cannons were used, and see the metal bars and heavy chain link used. (The graphic and video found at Muqata's). The second video shows live fire coming at the IDF. Hear the Israeli military calling for reinforcements. 




Flotilla Terrorists Attack IDF Before Boarding (video)



Terrorists Fire Live Ammo at IDF (video)
Thanks to GatewayPundit here.
Related and Background:
American Emily Henochowicz Loses Eye in Terror Flotilla Protest

Young Jewish Man Carries Israeli Flag in LA Muslim Street Protest (Video)

Gaza Flotilla Terror Choir: We Con the World (Video)

Furkan Dogan American Dead on Gaza Flotilla

Hamas Flotilla Aid Refused

Gaza Flotilla - al Qaeda Members Aboard

Susan Rice, American UN Ambassador Skips Terror Flotilla Discussions at UN

Flotilla War Atmosphere before Israel Boarded - Martyrdom or Gaza Shores


The Angst of Supporting Israel
Who and What are Palestinians?
Rupert Murdock: U.S., European Survival Without Israel

Without Support, What Happens to Israel?
Golda Meir: War and Wisdom
About that Two-State Solution
How the Gaza Tunnels into Egypt Work
Discovering Kryptonite, Disabling Superman
United Nations Condemns Hamas - Gotcha!
United Nations Seal Condemnation of Israel

In a class of its own:
Gaza Flotilla Terror Choir: We Con the World Video

Noahs Ark Found 13,000' on Mt. Ararat in Turkey? The Latest Noah's Ark Discovery

We've seen numerous reports in the past that the Bible's Noah's Ark was found in Turkey. There is a new report out that a site believed to be the famous Noah's Ark has been found 13,000' up Mt. Ararat in Turkey. This is the highest point reported for the Ark sighting.

Noah's Ark by Edward Hicks

Chinese and Turkish "evangelical" explorers claim they have found the wooden remains, according to this report.

...carbon dating proves the relics are 4,800 years old -- around the same time the ark was said to be afloat....Local Turkish officials will ask the central government in Ankara to apply for UNESCO World Heritage status so the site can be protected while a major archeological dig is conducted.

This from NewYork Daily News:

"It's not 100% that it is Noah's Ark, but we think it is 99l9% that this is it," Yeung Wing-cheung, a Hong Kong documentary filmmaker, told AFP.

Wing-Cheung, a member of the 15-member team from Noah's Ark Ministries International, said the structure in which they got the wood had several compartments that wer possibly used to store animals.

For information on Noah's Ark, read here and here. Visit art.com for a Noah's Ark print by Edwards Hicks.

Dump Truck Destroys Pedestrian Bridge

A dump truck in Turkey with his "dump" "up," hits a pedestrian bridge with several people walking. Watch the man on the left as he walks onto the bridge, stops in disbelief and than gets smacked to the ground. On the right you can see more pedestrians don't make it off. Everything plummets. Reports say two people were injured but every one survived.

Dump Truck Destroys Pedestrian Bridge (video)

Caspian Makan was Neda Agha Soltans Fiance: Caspian Makan was Nedas Boyfriend: Neda Movie Coming

Caspian Makan says he was Neda Agha Soltan's fiance when she was shot down in the streets of Tehran, Iran on June 20, 2009.

Neda Agha Soltan

Caspian Makan

While the West watched in horror, the beautiful young woman known as Neda Agha Soltan, died as bystanders videoed her blood draining into the streets. She took a bullet directly to the heart - and had told her fiance, Caspian Makan, 37, that she was willing to do just that - take a bullet to the heart, to bring democracy to her country.

On the day of her death, Neda was in a car stalled in heavy traffic with her friend, Hamid Panahi, and two others. They were making their way to a protest area. While the traffic went nowhere, the story is, Neda stepped into the street for fresh air and was immediately hit in the chest. Panahi is quoted saying "All she wanted was the proper vote of the people to be counted."

Makan and Neda met in Turkey only two months prior to her death, when Neda was traveling with a guided tour through Turkey, Dubai and Thailand.

He tells the GuardianUK that Neda was politically active and dedicated to overthrowing Achmadinejad. Makan refused to join the protests and was nervous about Neda taking part. She told him he should be documenting the violence.

Neda was present at the front line of the protests from the very first day. She was a natural leader and attracted many [protesters] to her side. I think that is why she was shot. ...they wanted to extinguish her.

It is worth noting that some friends say that Neda was not a long-time activist and had just begun speaking out about the elections, so the degree of her activism is unclear.

Caspian did not learn of Neda's death until the morning after she died. He was arrested three days later,"on the personal order of Khamenei," and was detained for 65 days in the notorious Evin prison. He was released after signing papers promising to never again talk about Neda, and never to leave the Iran. Using smugglers to get him out of the country, he made it out safely.

Makan has recently given two interviews and a documentary or a movie about Neda is in the works with director Angus Macqueen:

In both interviews she emerges as a markedly different figure to the young woman depicted at the time of her death. Her fiance describes her as politically active and assertive, convinced she was fighting for "democracy and freedom" for Iranians.

 Neda was 26. She was divorced, a graduate of Islamic Azad University. She was a musician and singer and had made a name for herself in

According to Makan, and contrary to most reports at the time of the protests, Neda Soltan did not support any of the candidates opposing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Two days after Neda was shot down, violent protests followed and a Iranian cleric opposed to Achmadinejad, called for three days of public mourning. Reports vary about her burial. Some say the Iranian government withheld her body for a time, some say she was buried by the government in a grave set aside for protesters.

Other reports say the family was denied a public funeral and only family was allowed to attend. Neda's family and friends tried to gather at their local mosque for a memorial and found a sign on the door saying "there is no commemoration here for Neda Agha Soltan.The Basij military arrived and broke-up the mourners. At the time, prayers for Neda in local mosques were banned. and neighbors said the family was forced from their home - although that report cannot be confirmed.






 Caspian Makan and Neda Agha Soltan (video)