Unmovable Force Meets an Unstoppable Force
So One will be moved
or One will be Stopped
Or all the ships involved will be Submerged
Or one force will chicken out before Event
Or maybe it was just a lot of saber Rattle
And UN Compromise will be Accepted!
Or a boatload of women will break It!
So only God knows what will Occur!
June 20, 2010
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
IF YOU WANT TO GET A GOOD UNDERSTANDING OF THE CHAOS GOING ON IN THE INTERNATIONAL MAIZE OF CONFUSION, CREATED BY THE FLOTILLA EPISODE IN THE MIDDLE EAST, THEN TAKE TIME TO READ THE FOLLOWING FIVE EXCERPTS.
Begin Excerpt 1 from Jerusalem Post Staff
‘Next flotilla will be stopped’
By JPOST.COM STAFF
06/19/2010 01:32
A letter declaring Israel’s intent to stop a new flotilla of ships being organized in Lebanon to break the naval blockade of Gaza was sent to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday by the Israeli ambassador to the UN, Gabriela Shalev.
“We will stop the Lebanese flotilla with all means,” Shalev wrote.
Shalev also called the the new flotilla an unnecessary provocation and reiterated that Israel continued to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza at the land crossings from Israel into the Strip.
Begin Excerpt 2 from Jerusalem Post Staff
‘We will throw them into the sea’
By JPOST.COM STAFF
06/18/2010 18:15
IHH head calls for violence, “martyrdom” in new ‘Marmara’ footage.
New footage from the Mavi Marmara was released by the Foreign Ministry on Friday afternoon, th is
time showing IHH head Bülent Yildirim inciting to violence against Israeli commandos hours before the encounter that claimed the lives of nine Turkish passengers.
“We follow in the footsteps of the martyrs,” Yildirim could be seen declaring to a large crowd of activists.
“You shall see, we will definitely claim one or two victories.”
Yildirim went on to urge the ship’s passengers not to turn back as other flotillas had done, but rather to resist the attempt to divert the ship. “We don’t want to be recorded in Allah’s book as cowards,” he said in Turkish and Arabic.
An Egyptian parliamentarian who was also present led the activists in the room in a chant, “Martyrs marching into Gaza by the millions.”
Yildirim then threatened, “If you send the commandos, we will throw you down from here and you will be humiliated in front of the whole world.” He added, “If they board our ship, we will throw them into the sea, Allah willing!”
He later called Israel “weak,” saying it resorted to propaganda to combat the activists’ determination to reach Gaza. “We thought [Israel] considered itself a state,” he could be heard saying. “It’s not a state.”
Begin Excerpt 3 from Jerusalem Post
Israel to ease Gaza restrictions
By HERB KEINON
06/17/2010 11:18
World welcomes move; Barak warns Lebanon: Don’t send ships
Government spokesmen struggled Thursday to keep the security cabinet’s decision to ease up on the land blockade of Gaza from looking like an Israeli capitulation, saying the process of relaxing restrictions on Gaza had started months ago. World leaders from the US and the EU welcomed the move.
But even as the security cabinet eased up on what would be allowed into Gaza through the land crossings, it reiterated that the naval blockade would remain in place, with Defense Minister Ehud Barak warning Beirut about boats that will reportedly set sail for Gaza from Lebanon.
“I am saying clearly to the Lebanese government,” Barak said in a statement, “you are responsible for vessels leaving your ports with the clear intention of trying to block the naval blockade of Gaza.”
Barak, reflecting serious concern about the boats that Israel has linked to Hizbullah activists, said Lebanon had a responsibility to prevent the boats from being loaded with arms and ammunition, “which could lead to a violent and dangerous confrontation in the event that the boat refuses to come to Ashdod.”
The security cabinet, which met Thursday for the second time in two days to discuss relaxing the restrictions on Gaza, issued a statement saying it agreed to “liberalize the system by which civilian goods enter Gaza; expand the inflow of materials for civilian projects that are under international supervision; [and] continue existing security procedures to prevent the inflow of weapons and war materiel.”
A statement issued after the meeting said the cabinet would decide in the “coming days on additional steps to implement this policy.”
Among the steps expected to be enacted are drawing up a list of goods that are prohibited because of security concerns – rather than the current situation in which only goods on a permitted list are allowed in – and developing a mechanism to ensure that dual-use material is allowed into Gaza only for earmarked projects under the auspices of the UN, the Quartet or recognized international organization.
According to Barak, the intention of the decision is to allow more goods into Gaza, but always only after an Israeli search of the cargo to ensure that it does not include “weapons, ammunition or materiel that can aid in fighting.”
Begin Excerpt 4 from Jerusalem Post
Women are the ‘secret weapon’
By HERB KEINON AND TOVAH LAZAROFF
06/20/2010 02:34
Organizer of flotilla: “thieving enemy” won’t use arms against women.
Samar Alhaj, the woman leading the Hizbullah-linked Lebanese boat that is scheduled to try to block the naval blockade on Gaza, said in an interview with a regional Israeli Arabic- language radio station in Nazareth that women were “the new secret weapon” in use against the “thieving enemy.”
Asked on Radio A-Shams by Zohair Bahloul why the ship, Mariam, would only be carrying women, she said, “We are women in order not to give the thieving enemy an excuse to use arms against the ship.” She said the ship would be carrying cancer medication for children, and women suffering from breast cancer and cancer of the uterus due to “chemical bombs” dropped on Gaza by Israel.
Alhaj is the wife of an officer in the Lebanese security service who was jailed for four years for alleged involvement in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Alhaj and her husband met with Hizbullah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah on May 22.
Speaking of Israel, she said, “the entity that was not defeated will be defeated by women that will come on the boat. Our weapon is cancer medication.
We don’t have scud missiles or any other missiles, and you will see what they will do to us.”
Alhaj said that the boat will have some 50 women, “more Christians than Muslims,” and will be coming from Lebanon, the US, France, Britain, Japan, Kuwait and Egypt.
Bahloul, who said it was a great honor to talk to such an “impressive woman,” ended the interview by saying “Allah should watch over you and grant you success.”
Meanwhile, Yasser Kashlak, a Syrian businessman of Palestinian descent who heads the “Free Palestine Organization” and is funding this boat, as well as another that is to carry journalists and parliamentarians, said over the weekend on Hizbullah’s al-Manar television station that he was more and more optimistic that one day these same boats would take “Europe’s refuse [the Jews] that came to my homeland back to their homelands.
“Gilad Schalit should go back to Paris and those murderers go back to Poland, and after that we will chase them until the ends of the earth to bring them to justice for their acts of slaughter from Deir Yassin until today.” Kashlak, a fervent Hizbullah supporter, called Israel a “rabid dog sent to the region to frighten the Arabs. He said he had a message for Israelis: ‘Get on the ships we are sending you and go back to your lands.
Don’t let the moderate Arab leaders delude you, [you] cannot make peace with us.
Our children will return to Palestine, you have no reason for coexistence.
Even if our leaders will sign a peace agreement, we will not sign.’” He said the boat carrying journalists and parliamentarians will carry 12 former American diplomats as well..
Begin Excerpt 5 from Ynet News
Israel, meanwhile, has threatened to use all means necessary to stop the boats from Lebanon from breaking Gaza’s naval
Hezbollah says Israel ‘terrified’ of women’s flotilla
‘Zionists fear boat carrying women who want to deliver aid to Gaza, so how will they be able to face rockets in next war?’ top Shiite group figure Hashem Safieddine says.
Report: Hezbollah banned Lebanese singer Haifa Wehbe’s request to join flotilla on grounds that her ‘nudity, degradation and immodest dress’ would shame passengers
Roee Nahmias, AFP
June 19, 2010
“Israeli threats against women activists and journalists who are organizing new flotillas serve as proof of the immense fear the Zionists are living in,” Hezbollah’s Executive Council Chief Hashem Safieddine said Saturday.
Speaking at an event marking the opening of Hezbollah summer camps in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, Safieddine said Israel “is terrified by a boat carrying women who want to deliver aid to Gaza. How will this Israel be able to face the rockets and the resistance bloc in the next confrontation? This is the Zionist entity in its current state and its deteriorating ability.
“On the other hand, the military strength of the resistance is growing, while Israel’s is decreasing,” said the Hezbollah figure.
Israel’s UN envoy has warned the world body that the Jewish state is entitled to use “all necessary force” to prevent the activists from reaching Gaza.
In a letter to Secretary General Ban Ki-moon quoted by Israeli radio stations and Internet news sites on Saturday, Ambassador Gabriela Shalev said Israel suspected that organizers might be linked to Lebanon’s Hezbollah.
“Israel reserves its right under international law to use all necessary means to prevent these ships from violating the existing naval blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip,” she said in the letter.
“It appears that a small number of ships plan to depart from Lebanon and sail to the Gaza Strip which is under the control of the Hamas terrorist regime,” she added.
“While those who organize this action claim that they wish to break the blockade on Gaza and to bring humanitarian assistance to the people of Gaza, the true nature of the actions remains dubious.”
A group of dozens of Lebanese women activists is planning to set sail for Gaza on a ship loaded with medical supplies in a new bid to break Israel’s four-year blockade of the Palestinian territory.
The women have not yet announced a departure date but on Thursday they gathered near a shrine to the Virgin Mary in south Lebanon to pray she bless their vessel, christened “Mariam” in her honor.
“The participants are committed to making progress and our only weapons are faith in the Virgin Mary and in humanity,” spokeswoman Rima Farah told AFP.
The women deny Hezbollah involvement in their planned trip and
the terror group itself said on Friday that it was not backing the voyage of the Mariam, because it did not want to give Israel a pretext to attack the activists.
However, Kuwaiti daily al-Siyassah reported that famous Lebanese singer Haifa Wehbe’s request to join the vessel has been vetoed by Hezbollah on the grounds that her “nudity, degradation and immodest dress” would damage the reputations of all the Arab and European women on board.
Preparations are also underway by other pro-Palestinian activists to send an aid ship carrying educational supplies and journalists from Lebanon to Gaza. Isr ael fought
a deadly war with Hezbollah in the summer of 2006. The battles destroyed much of Lebanon’s infrastructure and killed more than 1,200 Lebanese and 160 Israelis, mainly soldiers.
Pro-Palestinian activists in Jordan have announced their decision to purchase a boat and take part in one of the planned sails to Gaza.
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