Marine Route Map of the Gaza Peace Flotilla
BibleSearchers Reflections – This article was written a few months before Gaza Peace Flotilla’s assault on virtually unarmed Orthodox Shayetet 13 Special Defense Forces that were sent on board in “Operation Sea Breeze”. As they landed on the Turkish Cruise Ship Mavi Marmara each with a paint guns and a pistol, they were preparing to assist in commandeering the boat and assist in docking it at the Port of Ashdod. They instead landed into a nest of terrorists beating them with clubs, slicing them open with knives, bludgeoning their heads with metal rods and then dragging them down into the holds of the ship as hostages
On May 31, 2010, a flotilla of ships headed by the Turkish Cruise Ship Mavi Marmara were heading to Gaza trying to break the Israeli Naval Blockade preventing weapons of mass destruction from entering into the Gaza Strip. Started in 2007, when the Hamas Chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood gained political control of the Gaza Strip and since that day have governed over a region committed to a reign of terror upon the coastal cities of Israel to their north.
Of the three ships in the flotilla, two were commandeered with no incidents and were sent to the Port of Ashdod to unload the supplies that were later shipped to Gaza by land. The third ship, the leader and the largest, a Turkish Cruise Ship called Mavi Marmara, resisted voice commands to halt and a Special Elite Commando Force called the Shayetet 13, specially trained Haredi Orthodox Jews that were on the special mission called “Operation Sea Breeze”, were let down upon the ship with ropes from helicopters to assist in commandeering the ship and direct the ship to the Port of Ashdod.
The world’s media, especially in Turkey, Greece and the Middle East became inflamed as charges and counter-charges swept through the international media. Whether there were distortions in the media, or doctoring of evidence is not known. Part of the Peace Activists on board with the Mavi Marmara who were engaged violently against the arriving Israeli Commandos were associated with one Islamic Organization, IHH (İnsani Yardım Vakfı) meaning “The Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief”. This Turkish Istanbul headquartered organization has been identified by Evan Kohlmann, former FBI agent now American terrorism consultant, who is also contributor to the Counterterrorism Blog, and a senior investigator with The Nine Eleven Finding Answers Foundation, and a terrorism analyst for NBC News, writing in a position paper for the Danish Institute for International Studies made the claims that the IHH has organizational ties with radical militant Islamic groups that include Hamas and the al-Qaeda and thereby aids and sponsors international terrorism.
Yet, there is the “Rest of the Story” as posted by a letter sent by one of the Israeli Orthodox Jewish Commandos that were lowered onto the Mavi Marmara that evening. His name is Amir and his letter was sent to his Uncle Erwin. It was a personal description of what happened to his Navy commander of the Special Defense Force that evening who was the first to land on the ship.
This letter was first received by Dina Moskowitz, report editor at the Hebrew University at Jerusalem. It was then sent to an Israeli Forum in which one of the recipients, the Jewish Orthodox director, OvadYah Avrahami, of Kol Ha Tor that is a Jewish Orthodox Organization whose dedicated mission is to become a “bridge” for the prophetic Return of the Lost Tribes of Israel and was sent to the Kol Ha Tor leadership team.
Peace Activists throwing Israeli Commando Commander overboard to Deck Below
Letter from Israel Commando on “Operation Sea Breeze”
"Hello Uncle Erwin,
This is Amir writing you after reading what you sent to my father, Eitan.
As you know, it was my unit and my friends who were on the ship. My commander was injured badly as a result of the "pacifists" violence. I want to tell you how he was injured so you could tell the story. It shows just how horrible and inhuman were the activists. My commander was the first soldier that rappelled down from the helicopter to the ship.
When he touched ground, he got hit in the head with a pole and stabbed in the stomach with a knife. When he drew out his secondary weapon-a handgun (his primary weapon was a regular paintball gun: "Tippman 98 custom") he was shot in the leg. He managed to fire a single shot before he was tossed from the balcony by 4 Arab activists, to the lower deck (a 12 feet fall).
He was then dragged by other activists to a room in the lower deck where he was stripped down by 2 activists. They took off his vest, helmet and shirt, leaving him with only his pants and shoes on. When they finished they took a knife and expanded the wound he already had in his stomach. They cut his ab(dominal) muscles horizontally and by hand spilled his guts out. When they finished they raised him up and walked him on the deck outside. He was conscious the whole time.
If you are asking yourself why they did all that, here comes the reason. They wanted to show the soldiers their commander's body so they will be demoralized and scared. Luckily, when they walked him on the deck a soldier saw him and managed to shoot the activist that was walking him down the outside corridor.
He shot him with a special non-lethal bullet that didn't kill him. My commander managed to jump from the deck to the water and swim to an army rescue boat (his guts still out of his body, and now in salty sea water). That was how he was saved. The activists that did this to him are alive, now in Turkey, and treated as heroes.
I'm sorry if I described this with too many details, but I thought it was necessary for the credibility. Please tell this story to anyone who will listen. I think that these days you are one of Israel's best spokesmen.
Thanks Uncle Erwin, Shabbat shalom!
Amir"
Credit Dina Moskowitz and OvadYah Avrahami – “Letter of Israeli Commando Amir” – Kol Ha Tor – June 8, 2010
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