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Turns out William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn of the sixties terror group Weather Underground, along with Code Pink founder Jodie Evans, helped to organize the Free Gaza Movement. The Free Gaza Movement is the group that launched the six-ship flotilla from Turkey to Israel that ended in a violent clash with Israeli Defense Forces. Evidence found aboard the Mavi Marmara suggest this group of peaceniks were armed and may have had plans to take hostages:
Guns May Have Been Thrown Overboard – Jerusalem Post
Gun-sights, cartridges and coded plans found on ‘Marmara.’
They Came for War – Jerusalem Post
“They came for war,” was how one Israel Navy commando described the activists aboard the Mavi Marmara Turkish passenger ship, where clashes erupted early Monday morning and ended with a reported 10 activists dead and dozens of others, including eight IDF soldiers, wounded. ** A top Navy officer said that in the future, the Navy will be more aggressive and treat such ships like they were coming for “war.” ** “Operation Sea Breeze,” as it was called by the IDF, actually began several hours earlier, at about 11 p.m. Sunday, as the navy made initial contact with the Mavi Marmara and the other five ships that were part of an international aid flotilla on its way to try and break the Israel-imposed sea blockade of Gaza. ** After several hours of radio communications and warnings that the Mavi Marmara would be boarded if the captain did not change course, OC Navy V.-Adm. Eliezer “Chiney” Marom – who had set up a command post on the INS Victory – gave the order to Flotilla 13 naval commandos at 4 a.m. on Monday to board the ship. ** The three Israel Air Force Blackhawk helicopters hovering nearby made their approach above the Mavi Marmara’s upper deck. Sitting on board, the naval commandos could just make out the few dozen activists gathered below. Carrying non-lethal weapons as well as pistols, the last thing the soldiers thought they would walk into was a well-planned lynch. ** In a search of the ship the Navy discovered – in addition to the bats, metal pipes and knives – Molotov cocktails that had been prepared in advance by the so called “activists.”
Irreverent response to “humanitarian flotilla activists”: