This may come to a surprise for many supporters of Fetullah Gulen and his movement around the world but I am not. He spoke out against those who organized the Gaza Flotilla that left at least 10 dead when Israeli soldiers stormed the ships that were to provide charity to Gaza.
Speaking in his first interview with a U.S. news organization, Mr. Gülen spoke of watching news coverage of Monday’s deadly confrontation between Israeli commandos and Turkish aid group members as its flotilla approached Israel’s sea blockade of Gaza. “What I saw was not pretty,” he said. “It was ugly.” (Source: Wall Street Journal)
I agree with Mr. Gulen, there are peaceful ways to get charity aid to the Palestinians. Though there is a tendency for Muslims to demonize all Israelis as Zionists, the fact is far from the truth. The Turkish charity group, IHH, involved in organizing the flotilla should have received permission from the Israeli government. Instead, they seemed more interested in garnering media attention for themselves which overshadowed the real purpose of this charity trip.
While the Israel insists the aid from the flotilla will make it to the Palestinians, IHH and the Turkish government seemed more occupied at pointing fingers and making accusations against Israel then trying to make sure that the aid WILL reach the Palestinians.
We all should really look at the true intentions for the Gaza flotilla before making any opinions such as Fetullah Gulen has clearly done for us.
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Well, I cannot say I believe the IDF. If they have meant to take over the ship peacefully, why get on board with guns when it’s 4:30, around the dawn prayers and when many passengers are still sleeping? And how can we make sure if they really deliver aid to Gaza, if they don’t let journalists confirm it, and even confiscate the cameras, laptop etc of people aboard the flotilla ships? And to me it is so shameful to fight civilians using make-shift weapons with live bullets – 9 dead bodies, 30 bullet holes (some in the head) must mean something. 2 Indonesians were too shot during the raid.
I don’t know, been diving into History much of my time, and I cannot see I can agree with Zionism. As far as I know, many Jews too are against Zionism.
I agree though that many Muslims – and many other non Muslims too – unfortunately, think that all Jews are Zionist and must be held responsible for all the crimes the state of Israel does. But then again one of the old trick of supporters of Israel government and the IDF is to claim anyone who doesn’t agree with them as ‘anti-Semitic’ – I myself have got shouted at as ‘anti-Semitic’ a couple of times just because I was posting tweets supporting the flotilla. I don’t know, playing victim, trying to make us feel guilty to support Palestine, Gaza, and flotilla. Doesn’t work anymore, and it just shows how desperate they are that they resort to ad hominem arguments, and just makes more and more people think bad of ALL Jews.
And I was stunned to read many Americans just went on saying that the American victim on Mavi Marvara was simply not an ‘American’ for joining a flotilla.
And really, it’s not about Jews vs Muslims. It’s about humanity. Dr Huwaida Harraf, one of the leaders of flotilla, is a Christian, and her husband is a Jew, Adam Shapiro.
I agree that we must try to deliver the aid to Palestinian as peaceful as we can. Remember the flotilla was peaceful before IDF tried to take over their ships. And so far IDF has no real proof that there are weapons on board – except for kitchen knives and other things that can normally be found on a big ship!
Data everywhere shows that Gazans are still living under poverty and lacking many things they need due to the collective punishment Israeli government imposed upon them. And how can this blockade, this injustice, this bloody raid stop hostility towards Israel? More and more people, more generations, more nations, will hate Israel. What Israel does is only making more enemies. Too bad.
I’m not anti Semitic. I don’t think all Israelis are evil. But there are some things really wrong that the state of Israel and IDF have done, and are doing, and I don’t think we can just sit back and let them get away scot-free.
Anyway, peace, salaam, shalom. I hope we all can soon see a a peaceful world where people, whatever their religion (or the lack of it) is, live together in harmony.
This will be one for the case studies in many of the different public policy research firms. Who was right, who was wrong? Just remember, the military follows orders from somebody higher up. Politics is definitely involved here.
For me, it is just not the way to do it. It was clearly a confrontation. I do not think Muslims, Jews, or the rest of the world is getting a clear picture of what is going on there. The media is so biased.
The world we live in…