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<p><strong>GAZA AID SHIP HAD ALQAEDA CREW</strong>: Israeli intelligence revealed during a recent security cabinet meeting that most of those who attacked the Israeli boarding party on the Miva Marmara aid ship last Monday were Al Qaeda mercenaries. Israeli officials said a group of 40 of the more violent passengers were found to have no identification papers. Nearly all members of that particular group were equipped with bullet-proof vests and various weapons. Each carried the exact amount of money as the others in his pockets. Intelligence officials were able to determine that the 40-man group was either aligned with or was an active part of Osama bin Laden's global terrorist network. It had already been discovered that one of the organizations behind the so-called "aid" flotilla was the Turkish IHH, a movement that for years has supported anti-Western and anti-Israel terrorist organizations. (Israel Today)</p>
<p align="left"><strong>IRAN OFFERS MILITARY ESCORT TO SHIPS BREAKING GAZA BLOCKADE:</strong> Iran's Revolutionary Guards are willing to provide a military escort to cargo ships trying to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza, a spokesman for Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Sunday. "Iran's navy forces are ready to escort the peace flotilla to Gaza with all their powers and capabilities," announced Ali Shirazi, Khamenei's representative inside the Revolutionary Guards. The report came just a day after Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was considering personally joining a flotilla to Gaza and offering the support of the Turkish Navy to protect such flotillas from Israeli inspections.  A naval force from either country heading toward Gaza would be tantamount to a declaration of war on Israel, which is a very small country that is surrounded by hostile Muslim entities. (Reuters) <em><strong>“Be on guard! Be alert!” Mark 13:33</strong></em></p>
<p align="left"><strong>ANKARA THREATENS TO BREAK RELATIONS UNLESS ISRAEL APOLOGIES:</strong> Turkey threatened on Friday to break off relations unless Israel apologizes for the commando raid on its flotilla as prime minister Recep Erdogan hurled more abuse on Jerusalem and declared: "I do not think Hamas is a terrorist organization."  Earlier, Israel offered to allow pro-Hamas activists aboard the Rachel Corrie to monitor its civilian freight's entry to the Gaza Strip - to no avail.  A tape just released recorded Turkish activists on the flotilla as saying before attacking Israeli commandos: "Remember September 11." The “peace activists” aboard one of the pro-Hamas flotilla ships told a Navy dispatcher: “Shut up, Go Back to Auschwitz. We're helping Arabs go against the US, don't forget 9/11." (INN/Debka)  <strong>Continue to pray for Israel’s backbone to be strengthened against all terrorist organizations, their associates and their malicious intentions against the Jewish state.</strong>  <strong>No apologies are necessary for fighting terrorism!</strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>TURKEY HALTS ALL STATE ENERGY AND WATER PROJECTS WITH ISRAEL:</strong> Turkey's minister of energy and natural resources, Taner Yildiz, announced this week there will be no new energy or water projects with Israel.  Yildiz told reporters in Istanbul that Turkey has no intention of starting the planning process for transporting water or natural gas to Israel after the Gaza flotilla incident at the beginning of last week. (Ha’aretz)</p>
<p align="left"><strong>ARAB FMs THREATEN: NO MORE NORMALIZATION OR PEACE TALKS: </strong>Arab foreign ministers met in Cairo this week to discuss the clash between Israeli troops and terrorist activists on board a Turkish ship headed for Gaza in defiance of the Israeli blockade. The ministers decided to “break the Israeli siege imposed on Gaza.” The blockade should be ended “in any legitimate way,” including “resistance,” the ministers said. “Resistance” is often used as a code word for violence or terrorism. Israel has imposed a maritime blockade on Gaza since Operation Cast Lead 18 months ago, and allows only humanitarian goods into the area. <strong>Israeli leaders have repeatedly said that they are willing to lift the blockade as soon as Hamas renounces terrorism and recognizes Israel.</strong>  Syria's Arab League ambassador, Yussef Ahmed, urged league members to cancel normalization with Israel, and to close Israeli embassies in their countries. (INN)</p>
<p align="left"><strong>TURKEY, IHH ON THE DEFENSE:</strong> Leading US newspapers have pinned most of the blame on the radical IHH organization and on Turkey for last week’s flotilla clash that killed nine Muslim terror activists and which was blamed on Israel by most of the international community. The American media reaction represents a sharp reversal in last week's universal tidal wave of condemnation, led by the UN, after the IHH-led flotilla refused to alter course from the embargoed Gaza coast. Meanwhile, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has declared that Hamas is not a terrorist group, rejecting the description that has been adopted by the US.  The Washington Post noted that Erdogan and the IHH seemed to be working in tandem, “In the days since an incident in which the IHH admits it provoked Israel, the Turkish prime minister has done his best to compete with Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah in attacking the Jewish State...” (INN)</p>
<p align="left"><strong>PRO-ISRAEL RALLIES WORLDWIDE:</strong> Jews and other supporters of Israel around the world gathered together Sunday to back the Jewish state. Rallies took place in Germany and Belgium, and rallies were planned in Miami Beach and Los Angeles as well. (INN)</p>
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