Proof emerges IDF audio of radio communication with Mavi Marmara is fabricated.
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By Ali Abunimah
Posterous
Saturday, Jun 5, 2010
Today, Israel released what it claimed to be the audio of a
conversation between Israeli naval vessels and the Turkish-owned ship
Mavi Marmara which occurred prior to the Israeli assault that killed at
least 9 passengers and injured dozens more in the early hours of 31 May
in international waters in the eastern Mediterranean. This audio clip,
which the Israelis titled "Radio Transmission from Mavi Marmara to
Israeli Navy" appears to be fabricated.
The following is a transcript of the audio:
ISRAELI SHIP "This is the Israeli Navy, you are approaching an area which is under a naval blockade"
MAN'S VOICE 1 "Shut up, go back to Auschwitz."
WOMAN'S VOICE "We have permission from the Gaza Port Authority to enter."
MAN'S VOICE 2 "We're helping Arabs go against the US, don't forget 9/11 guy"
On hearing the recording Adam Shapiro, co-founder of the
International Solidarity Movement, identified the woman's voice as that
of his wife Huwaida Arraf, chair of the Free Gaza Movement. However,
Arraf was not aboard the Mavi Marmara. She was aboard one of the small
passenger vessels in the six-boat flotilla, called Challenger 1. She
recounted what she experienced on Russia Today, among other major media
outlets (video below). It would appear that Israel has once more been
caught fabricating evidence in its desperate effort to justify its
violent assault on the Free Gaza Flotilla, a civilian convoy carrying
humanitarian aid to the blockaded Gaza Strip.
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Update 1
Thanks to Marian Houk (http://twitter.com/MarianHouk
), I have learned that the Israeli army originally uploaded a video
(below) in which the same naval officer in the video above has an
innocuous conversation with a ship in which the only reply from the
ship is "Negative, Negative, our destination is Gaza." There is no
"anti-Semitism" or anything that paints the Flotilla passengers as
raving bigots. The earlier video actually shows the officer moving,
whereas in the previous video in which a speaker allegedly says "Go
back to Auschwitz" we simply see a still picture of the same naval
officer while the audio plays. This is further evidence of complete
fabrication.
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