All Aboard — Muslim Brotherhood, Salafists, Hezbollah Journalist
MEMRI has published a must-read who’s who list of participants in this week’s flotilla hailing from Egypt, Yemen, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, and beyond — senior members of the Muslim Brotherhood, a former employee of Hezbollah’s Al Manar network (deemed a terror entity by the United States and banned in several European countries), Kuwaiti Salafists who support “armed resistance” in Iraq, and more.
It also identified the “cutting edge humanitarian activist“, pictured below, as Sheikh Muhammad Al-Hazmi, a Yemeni MP from the Al-Islah party, which is close to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Many of these flotilla participants prepared wills ahead of their departure, with full expectations of violent confrontation and anticipation of martyrdom.
The truth behind the ship’s manifest is a far cry from the claims of pacifism voiced by an IHH official yesterday in the New York Times and today in the International Herald Tribune that:
“Our volunteers were not trained military personnel,” said Yavuv Dede, deputy director of the organization. “They were civilians trying to get aid to Gaza. There were artists, intellectuals and journalists among them. Such an offensive cannot be explained by any terms.”
Journalists including Jordanian Muhammad Abu Ghanima, “a former head of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan’s information bureau and a member of the movement’s political bureau,” and Lebanese Abbas Nasser, who worked for Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV from 1997 through 2003.
Instead of selectively mentioning the participation of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Corrigan-Maguire, will the mainstream media now call out the not-so-peaceful participants, including Dr. Hani Suleiman, the pro bono attorney for Japanese terrorist Kozo Okamoto, responsible for the massacre of 25 people in Israel’s international airport?
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