- As the racist regime of Israel moves toward greater international
isolation due to its aggressive, belligerent policies, Iran receives wider
support from the world's nations for its uncompromising resistance against
the bullying superpowers and annulling their mischievous plots. The world
is witness to the growth of Iran's popularity while hatred and disgust
against Israel builds up progressively. Iran is reaching out to the hearts
and souls around the world while Israel ignites denunciation and deprecation
in the four corners of the globe.
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- Since Israel raided the Gaza Freedom Flotilla on May
31, the flimsy existence of Tel Aviv began to splinter as the world nations
collectively and categorically reacted to the atrocious mass killing of
9 peace activists in the international waters by the Israel Defense Forces.
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- Israel's unlawful, brutal killing of the unarmed civilians
aboard the Freedom Flotilla sparked such a remarkable international condemnation
that even the most stalwart allies of Tel Aviv in the EU zone recalled
their ambassadors from Israel and called for a thorough, detailed investigation
of the incident which they described as offensive and violent. The international
condemnations were so extensive and intensive that even the most pessimistic
Israeli politicians couldn't envisage. Four countries downgraded their
diplomatic relations with Israel in addition to the four countries
that had cut their diplomatic ties with Israel during the 22-day Gaza war
of 2008-2009, Twelve Latin American countries condemned the Israeli actions,
Twenty-one European countries protested Israel and Twelve non-Arab Asian
countries officially disapproved Tel Aviv.
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- The precursor of global protests to Israel was Turkey
which had lost 9 of its citizens in the raid. In an insightful, thought-provoking
and appreciable statement before his country's parliament, the Turkish
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan strongly questioned Israel's impunity
from the international laws and called for a decisive end to the illegal
actions of this regime: "It is no longer possible to cover up or ignore
Israel's lawlessness. The international community must from now on say
'enough is enough'. Dry statements of condemnation are not enough ... There
should be results."
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- At the beginning and when the first news was released,
the extent of Israel's violence had not become clear to the public opinion;
however, as the international peace activists began retelling the stories
of their ordeal upon being deported by Tel Aviv to their respective countries,
the world realized that a great calamity had taken place.
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- Upon his extradition to Istanbul, the Irish historian
and activist Dr. Fintan Lane told the media about his terrible experience
on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla which was unjustifiably attacked by the Israeli
commandos on May 31: "when they boarded our boat, we resisted entirely
peacefully. I sat on the floor and tried to reason with them, but the Israeli
commandos physically attacked us. Fiachra (one of the Irish passengers
aboard the flotilla) was dragged around the ground and I had a gun pointed
in my face by a screaming commando. His mania was so intense that I genuinely
feared for my life. Others received beatings."
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- The American peace activist and anti-imperialist speaker
Kenneth O'Keefe was another passenger on board the Gaza aid convoy. He
witnessed the death of two of his Turkish colleagues in person and was
brutally harassed, tortured by the Israeli forces: "while in Israeli
custody I, along with everyone else was subjected to endless abuse and
flagrant acts of disrespect. Women and elderly were physically and mentally
assaulted in stress positions while hand cuffed to the point of losing
circulation of blood in our hands. We were lied to incessantly, in fact
I am awed at the routineness and comfort in their ability to lie, it is
remarkable really. We were abused in just about every way imaginable and
I myself was beaten and choked to the point of blacking out and I was beaten
again while in my cell."
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- Hassan Ghani, the 25-year-old Scottish journalist and
media correspondent of the Press TV was also among the flotilla travelers.
He was ruthlessly punished by the Israeli commandos in what he described
as the "brutal Israeli assault" on the flotilla: "we didn't
expect a ship with 32 different nationalities on board, with aid from 50
different countries on board, would be attacked in such a brutal manner
They began by throwing stun grenades on to the deck of the ship when people
were in the middle of morning prayers. Then they began using rubber bullets,
they tried to come aboard the ship from the side. People repelled the commandos
with water cannons they had set up on the side of the ship. Then the Israelis
used helicopters to drop people onto roof and there was scuffles on the
roof. The Israeli solders had already opened fire on the ship, so people
were grabbing anything they could to stop the attack in international waters."
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- Another painful account of the flotilla raid was retold
by the prominent Swedish author Henning Mankell who described the Israeli
actions as "committing murder": "they got very aggressive
and ordered us to come down. There was one older man who was a little slow,
so the Israelis attacked him with an electric stun gun. He was in a lot
of pain. So was another passenger who was covered in paint after being
hit with a paint ball missile. The commandos searched the ship thoroughly
and emerged waving a razor and a metal-box cutting tool, which they claimed
were "weapons" intended to be used against them. All the passengers
were then herded into a group, with armed guards standing watch as the
ship was taken to Israel When we got off... we were made to walk down a
corridor of armed commandos who filmed all of us with cameras. They stole
my mobile phone, my money, my clothes and my credit cards." Mankell
said that he was held in a cell for 24 hours along with a Swedish Member
of Parliament and then deported even "without his socks".
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- All of these accounts attest to the fact that Israel
is being reprimanded by people from the four corners of the world who object
to the inhuman policies and actions of Tel Aviv regardless of the nationality
they belong to and the political stance they champion.
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- Today, it's known to everyone that Israel is a political
entity which the United States supports in order to maintain its interests
in the Middle East and subject the region's nations. In the other words,
Israel plays the role of America's permanent representative in the Middle
East and is entitled to resort to every possible mean to intimidate and
bring under control the independent nations in the region. The fact is
that Israel is a fragile and unstable political regime and every day of
its shaky survival is hinged on the exertion of force and violating the
rights of other nations. As the Iranian journalist Mohieddin Sajedi once
noted, Israel cannot live without creating troubles. From mass killing
to occupation, from assassination to the construction of illegal settlements,
Israel continues to exist with illegal actions and this is what keeps them
alive.
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- The main adversary of Israel is Iran. Israel has repeatedly
warned Iran against the use of force and launch of a military strike on
its nuclear facilities. The reason is clear. Iran is turning into an inspiring
model for the independent nations around the world. Iran's 30-year-long
resistance against imperialism and its courageous confrontation with the
bullying superpowers has made it an example of victorious struggle with
political arrogance and many independent nations on the face of world see
Iran on the frontline of battle with the United States and its colonies
such as Israel.
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- Iran is winning international popularity because it has
demonstrated the effectiveness of self-sufficiency in nationalizing the
nuclear energy. While Israel possesses up to 200 nuclear warheads in flagrant
violation of the international law and Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty,
Iran has made striking advancements in taking over the nuclear power and
excelling in using it for peaceful purposes. The fact that Iran has succeeded
in nationalizing the nuclear energy without the assistance of Western superpowers
is indigestible for Israel which is the sole possessor of nuclear weapons
in the Middle East; that's why it has warned Iran against a preemptive
military strike; however, the reality is that a 70-million-strong army
stands by the resistance movement of Iran and a coalition of powerful troops
consisted of the independent nations around the world, stand by Iran against
the collapsing Israel forever.
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