A 19-year-old kid was killed on one of the Turkish ships the Israelis boarded. He was shot five times, four in the chest, one in the head. He is being described as an American, despite the fact that he has lived in Turkey for seventeen of his nineteen years.
Dogan was a high school student studying social sciences in the town of Kayseri in central Turkey. He was born in Troy, N.Y., and moved to Turkey at the age of 2. He will be buried in his hometown tomorrow.
His hometown? Does that mean Troy? No, it means Turkey:
Dogan’s body was returned to Turkey today along with eight others, all Turkish nationals, who were on board the Mavi Marmara.
Being born in America may make you a citizen of the country, but how do you classify someone who can’t even remember being in the country as an America? This kid was a Turk.
Regardless, why was there even gunfire on the ship he was on when other ships boarded at the same time had none? Because the passengers on his ship were trying to take the guns of the soldiers boarding. They were also beating them with iron rods, stabbing them and generally trying to kill them:
“They [Israeli commandos] were trying to land on the boat. So obviously there was this hand-to-hand combat and during that process the people on the boat were basically able to disarm some of the soldiers because they did have guns with them,” Burney told Reuters. “So they basically took the guns away from them and took the cartridges out and threw them away.”
Asked if anyone had used the guns against the Israeli commandos, Burney said, “No, not at all.”
“Yes, we took their guns. It would be self defence even if we fired their guns,” Bulent Yildirim, chairman of the IHH, said.
“We told our friends on board we will die, become martyrs, but never let us be shown… as the ones who used guns,” he said, adding that people shouted that the weapons should not be used.
“By this decision, our friends accepted death, and we threw all the guns we took from them into the sea,” Yildirim said.
You see the criminal thinking? It’s called “justification.” Allow me to paraphrase the above:
“Sure, we were taking their guns, but we didn’t shoot anyone. Just because we were trying to take a soldier’s primary means of self defense while simultaneously beating him with an iron rod is really no reason to open fire on us. He should have know that we weren’t taking his gun so we could shoot him. And even if we did shoot him, he had it coming. He was out of line.”
Sorry, but when you try to take someone’s gun, generally it gets used by one party or the other. They knew this.
If these folks were truly interested in helping the Palistinians with humanitarian aid, why wouldn’t they simply comply with the blockade? Israel isn’t forbidding the delivery of aid to Gaza. They simply want to inspect the cargo to ensure there are no missiles that will later be fired on Israel.
Why, when thousands of missiles land in Israel each year, is the world up in arms because Israel wants to try to prevent this?
Update:
Cassy Fiano writes:
Me frankly, I agree with Confederate Yankee. He was born to Turkish parents here and then left at the age of two. He allegedly never returned. This kid is an American on accident, someone who is technically a citizen but is not a legitimate part of our country. The media knows this, but now they have a brand new angle to spin. Not only did Israel murder innocent peace activists, but they murdered an American, too. To which I call BS.
