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Only two words describe this week’s pub­lic scape­goat­ing of Israel fol­low­ing the Gaza flotilla inci­dent. Sad­ness and anti­semitism. Mainly, because all the other words besides the abbre­vi­a­tion, BS, are too vile to put in my blog. First, Israel, like any other pro­gres­sive, demo­c­ra­tic coun­try, did not inspect the Mavi Mar­mara with intent to inflict casu­al­ties. But aggres­sive peace activists left them no choice. Since then, myr­i­ads of orga­ni­za­tions like Stand With Us have been scram­bling to get the facts out.

Under inter­na­tional law, Israel has every right to inspect cargo for con­tra­band, weapons and other atroc­i­ties that other coun­tries might ille­gally smug­gle to ter­ror­ist groups like Hamas. And guess what? The IDF has seized hun­dreds of weapons from pre­vi­ous ships attempt­ing to reach Gaza. In fact, the Israeli Naval Spe­cial Forces seized a civil­ian cargo ship smug­gling weapons and rock­ets near Cypress ear­marked for Hezbol­lah just last November.

Now, a stock­pile of evi­dence gath­ered by the IDF fol­low­ing the inci­dent proves the IHH’s pro­pa­ganda back­fired. Let’s review: A video of peace activists chant­ing death to all Jews, fir­ing live ammu­ni­tion at IDF offi­cers, a video of “activists” stab­bing an IDF offi­cer. Does this sound like any peace activists you know? Hardly. Do “activists” usu­ally carry firearms, fire­bombs, metal clubs, sling­shots and large chunks of cash and make pre-incident videos about their desire to become mar­tyrs? None that I know. Unless of course, you’re talk­ing about ter­ror­ists. Bingo. The IHH has links to ter­ror­ists groups includ­ing Al Qaeda and Hamas. Fox news also reported that fed­eral doc­u­ments describe the IHH as play­ing a role in the Mil­len­nium ter­ror­ist plot to bomb Los Ange­les Inter­na­tional air­port. Oth­ers know the IHH as a rad­i­cal Islamic orga­ni­za­tion with an anti-Western bent. The fact that the UN has granted the IHH as part of their NGO branch is even more brow rais­ing, though know­ing the anti­se­mitic his­tory of UN, not surprising.

We all know that nut cases like Ahmadine­jad and ter­ror­ist groups like Hamas, Hezbol­lah and Al Qaeda have vowed to wipe Israel off the map. And the UN has made it clear by its con­tin­ued efforts to lynch Israel at every turn (e.g. Gold­stone Report and the over­whelm­ing spe­cials ses­sions that focus on Israel while over­look­ing coun­tries with appalling human rights records that com­mit geno­cide ). So what gives? Plain and sim­ple: Jew hatred.

Until we address the Jew hatred that con­tin­ues to demo­nize and dis­credit Israel, our only Jew­ish coun­try, we will have a hard time chang­ing future out­comes of Gaza. Remem­ber, 22 Arab states sur­round Israel. I haven’t heard any­one voic­ing the desire to wipe those Islamic states off the map. And I haven’t heard of those states com­ing up with a real plan to solve issues between Israel and Gaza. Why? It’s not to their advan­tage when coun­tries like Iran, Syria, Lebanon and Libya are sup­ply­ing Gaza with weapons to con­tinue the rift.

It’s not hard to see the anti­semitsm when you review the top 50 Islamic coun­tries. Why would one Jew­ish, demo­c­ra­tic state bother ALL these Arab nations? After all, Israel gives rights to over 1 mil­lion Arabs. Is it because Israel is demo­c­ra­tic or Jew­ish? You decide. As, I already know the answer to that. It’s the same answer that has put Jews in peril since the begin­ning of time. Walk around any Holo­caust museum in any major city and you too will know. Until we open our eyes and see what’s behind this sick game of cha­rades that tries to sanc­tion Israel while over­look­ing jihadists, we can never really help Gazans gain inde­pen­dence.

Would pub­lic opin­ion dif­fer if “peace activists” from Mex­ico shipped weapons to the Port of Hous­ton for Hamas? Cer­tainly. Don’t you think a US coast guard along with cus­tom offi­cials and naval offi­cers would inspect the ship? Indeed. Or what if the same ship from Mex­ico sailed into Long Beach, CA? Wouldn’t you assume under inter­na­tional law that all states and nations have a right to inspect mate­ri­als com­ing into their ports? Obvi­ously. We know that coun­tries like Iran and North Korea put peo­ple in prison that acci­dently cross their bor­ders. But we’re not talk­ing about bor­der cross­ings we’re talk­ing about orga­ni­za­tions affil­i­ated with ter­ror­ists that use their own peo­ple as pawns in order to dis­credit Israel and win pub­lic opin­ion. Well it’s not going to work. While the IHH set a death trap for IDF sol­diers, the evi­dence found proves it was a pre­med­i­tated set-up. In fact, the week was end­ing on a sour note until this video began cir­cu­lat­ing the truth in one song and helped lift our heavy hearts.

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