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Senator wants U.S. Navy to help block flotillas to Gaza

By Alex Kane | June 16, 2011

Senator Mark Kirk of Illinois sure is earning the hundreds of thousands of dollars the Israel lobby dumps into his coffers.  In a report based on a recent “fact-finding” trip to the Middle East, Kirk calls for U.S. naval and special operations forces to support Israel in combating the upcoming flotilla to Gaza.

Kirk’s report reads:

The IHH plans to send a second flotilla to breach Israel’s coastal security later this month. To prevent further violence, the United States should:

1) immediately designate the IHH as a terrorist entity under Executive Order 13224, which targets “terrorists, terrorist organizations, and those providing financial, technological, or material support to terrorists, terrorist organizations, or acts of terrorism”;

2) make available all necessary special operations and naval support to the Israeli Navy to effectively disable flotilla vessels before they can pose a threat to Israeli coastal security or put Israeli lives at risk; and

3) make it clear to Turkish President Erdogan that Turkey will be held accountable for any actions that support or enable the IHH to launch its flotilla.

The flotilla, set to sail to Gaza at the end of this month, aims to nonviolently challenge the Israeli blockade that has suffocated the Gaza Strip.  Kirk’s call for the U.S. Navy to provide “special operations and naval support to the Israeli Navy” to stop the flotilla is particularly alarming because a contingent of American citizens will be a part of the flotilla.  Kirk would have no problem, it seems, with the U.S. Navy being deployed against U.S. citizens aiming to break the blockade, which has been termed “collective punishment” by the International Committee of the Red Cross.

June 16, 2011 - Posted by | Illegal Occupation, Solidarity and Activism, Timeless or most popular, Wars for Israel

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  1. Senator Mark Kirk is a traitor and must be removed from the Senate since he cares more about the Apartheid State than the hand that feeds him.

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    B.Benhamid's avatar Comment by B.Benhamid | June 16, 2011 | Reply

  2. zionists obviously own this pile of putrid shit.

    it’s time that citizens of the U.S. started to take action to remove them from office, because the ballot box is rigged and it doesn’t work, and we have precious little time left.

    these guys need to be gone. … removed.

    in a real world they’d be hanged for TREASON. but we live in a zionist operated police state now.

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    ZIONISTS IN GOVERNMENT MUST BE PHYSICALLY REMOVED FROM OFFICE's avatar Comment by ZIONISTS IN GOVERNMENT MUST BE PHYSICALLY REMOVED FROM OFFICE | June 16, 2011 | Reply

  3. Senator Mark Kirk,
    Shame on you for thinking that a humanitarian flotilla with civilians on it, is a threat to Israel, and further, wanting the U.S. Navy to block it.
    I would think that someone who has been elected to public office would have more sense than this. Are you aware of the brutality, violations of human rights, abuse that the government of Israel is meting out to the Palestinians? Are you aware that the Palestinians have NO army? Are you aware that it is MY tax dollars that are supporting this inhumanity, and YOUR unthinking short-sightedness that is supporting the worst occupation in recent history? The money you get from Israel to support you is putting us all in jeopardy.
    SENATOR MARK KIRK – THINK!!

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    Huda Giddens's avatar Comment by Huda Giddens | June 16, 2011 | Reply

  4. There is no getting through to people like Mark Kirk. People like this are so removed from justice, that they can no longer think straight. Mammon and the like are the only things that register in the minds of the wicked and debased. Let him continue in the error of his ways, a fool at the end of the day, will get his just dues.

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    Anthony's avatar Comment by Anthony | June 17, 2011 | Reply


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