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2010-06-01 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Israel flotilla action criticized by friends and foes

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Posted by Fred 2010-06-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
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#1 A peace flotilla, with guns, knives and clubs.

Posted by bigjim-CA 2010-06-01 00:27|| 2010-06-01 00:27|| Front Page Top

#2 Don't forget the baseball bats.

Posted by gorb 2010-06-01 03:18|| 2010-06-01 03:18|| Front Page Top

#3 The crazy Turks cited that they searches the vessel before it left Turkey and it did not contain weapons: 1) I double it was searched 2) clubs and small arms are not hard to hide 3) Gee, aren't there several hundred miles between Israel and Turkey where weapons could have made it on?

Posted by HammerHead 2010-06-01 08:27|| 2010-06-01 08:27|| Front Page Top

#4 weapons found aboard the Mavi Marmara:

Posted by Frank G 2010-06-01 08:34|| 2010-06-01 08:34|| Front Page Top

#5 that would make Turkey...f*cking liars

Posted by Frank G 2010-06-01 08:35|| 2010-06-01 08:35|| Front Page Top

#6 With regard to the weapons that Turkey didn't find, I imagine AK-47s, morters, small nuclear devices... that kind of thing.

Question for Rantburg's sailors: could a legitimate argument be made that the weapons seen in the video are the kind of thing normally found on a ship of that size? If yes, would they normally be found in that quantity?

Posted by trailing wife 2010-06-01 10:53|| 2010-06-01 10:53|| Front Page Top

#7 It would seem to me that with a passeger ship capable of holding 600 or so passengers that this would be normal, but I am just guessing. People need to cook and fix things. What are bothersome to me are that scimitar knife and the muslim terrorist banner looking thingy. Who knows, since I don't read arabic it could just be a blood drive sign, but I doubt it. I'd like to know what the excuse is for all the wooden dowels. They don't look like closet rods to me.

Now if all those items were found up on the main deck at the same time, I'd call foul.

Posted by gorb 2010-06-01 11:21|| 2010-06-01 11:21|| Front Page Top

#8 With regard to the weapons that Turkey didn't find, I imagine AK-47s, morters, small nuclear devices... that kind of thing.

I imagine Turkey meant they didn't find AK-47s, mortars...

I'm sorry -- the original doesn't make much sense. PIMF!!

Posted by trailing wife 2010-06-01 11:43|| 2010-06-01 11:43|| Front Page Top

#9 Didn't realize slingshot had overcome shuffleboard for boating activities.

The knives, except for the 2 black handles in foreground, are all different designs. Usually a production kitchen has all the same type/manufacturer of knife et al utinsils.

Quite a few axe handles. Nevermind the banner, can anyone make out the engraving at 0:35 black pipe?

Posted by swksvolFF 2010-06-01 12:36|| 2010-06-01 12:36|| Front Page Top

#10 Question for Rantburg's sailors: could a legitimate argument be made that the weapons seen in the video are the kind of thing normally found on a ship of that size? If yes, would they normally be found in that quantity?

Knives maybe, Dagger possibly, Baseball bats Never.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-06-01 14:59|| 2010-06-01 14:59|| Front Page Top

#11 Knives maybe, Dagger possibly, Baseball bats Never.

The ship's captain could say they had played nine innings of baseball on the main deck every Sunday night and the Arabs will believe it because they want to in this case.

Posted by gorb 2010-06-01 15:05|| 2010-06-01 15:05|| Front Page Top

#12 Ok, the new entry link to the IDF has a better picture, and there are some similar looking knives like in a set - also lot of pocket and/or concealable.

That engraving, I cannot make it out, but it looks to me like someone found a metal rod and designed it meaning not something just grabbed in the heat of the moment.

Posted by swksvolFF 2010-06-01 20:59|| 2010-06-01 20:59|| Front Page Top

#13 The thing that looks like a metal rod with a knife style handle is called a "Butchers Steel" it's a very hard grooved metal rod used to sharpen the cook's knives as he works.

Knives that hit a bone dull instantly, it's similar to a whetstone, but instead of removing the knive's metal instead smooths it back into a razor's edge.
no butcher worth his salt would be without one.

While it's properly not a weapon, it would naturaly be with the Knives, you could stab with it, I think someone didn't know what it was and put it with the weapons to be photographed.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-06-01 22:14|| 2010-06-01 22:14|| Front Page Top

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