The IDF’s propaganda is increasingly unbelievable, yet the media is enthusiastically playing along. This audio, which purports to show flotilla passengers telling the IDF to “go back to Auschwitz,” appears to have been doctored by the IDF General Press Office or someone connected to it.
I was right. The IDF now has released the full audio (below). Here is the IDF's statement in response to the allegations by Blumenthal and others:
Yesterday evening on 4 June 2010, the IDF released an audio recording of a radio transmission between the Israeli Navy vessel and the Flotilla ships wherein unidentified flotilla passengers tell the Israeli Navy vessel to “shut up, go back to Auschwitz” and “we’re helping Arabs go against the US, don’t forget 9/11.” There have been questions regarding the authenticity of the recording as well as its attribution to a communication with the Mavi Marmara.Here's the audio (the original edited version was in my prior post); there are long periods of silence:
So to clarify: the audio was edited down to cut out periods of silence over the radio as well as incomprehensible comments so as to make it easier for people to listen to the exchange. We have now uploaded the entire segment of 5 minutes and 58 seconds in which the exchange took place and the comments were made.
This transmission had originally cited the Mavi Marmara ship as being the source of these remarks, however, due to an open channel, the specific ship or ships in the "Freedom Flotilla” responding to the Israeli Navy could not be identified.
During radio transmissions between Israeli Navy and the ships of the “Free Gaza” Flotilla on 31 May 2010, the Israeli Navy ship attempts to make contact with the ‘Defne Y’ on channel 1-6. Other ships from the flotilla respond on the channel, without identifying themselves. At some point during the radio exchange the Israeli Navy is told by one of the ships to “shut up, go back to Auschwitz” (2:05) and “don’t forget 9-11″ (5:42).
Max, this is your second strike, after your James O'Keefe fiasco.
One more, and you'll have to get a real job.
Update: STOP DIGGING!
And he's now added another post in which he claims the IDF full audio is "suspect" because one of the voices on the audio, a leader of the Free Gaza movement, denies making the statement. Oh, okay, that's proof positive:
The lesson of the debacle is that nothing the IDF says can be trusted by anyone. Not ever. (Of course, that should apply to any nation’s military, and not just “the most moral army in the world”).No, actually there's another lesson. Think about it between thrusts of the shovel.
Update 6-6-2010: It has absolutely nothing to do with anti-Semitism (more via Doug Ross):
Strike Three? The IDF just release a list of Specific Flotilla Passangers Linked to Al-Qaeda, Hamas and Other Terror Organizations, which guts Blumenthals prior widely cited claim that "[w]hen placed under journalistic scrutiny, the IDF is being forced to admit that its claims about the flotilla’s links to international terror are based on innuendo, not facts."
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who has a "real" job for Max?
ReplyDeleteUGH Max is so vile! And a nose picker to boot.
ReplyDeleteThank you for clearing this up. I saw people posting the edited version, but had seen the Blumenthal piece, and didn't want people falling for something if it was fake. Little did I realize, I was the one falling for the fake!
I'm glad they released the unedited version.
Salon, duh.
ReplyDeleteOh, come on.
ReplyDeleteIt was the Filipino Monkey:
http://www.navytimes.com/news/2008/01/navy_hormuz_iran_radio_080111/
"Max, you've got something on your nose there. No, not there, over... right there."
ReplyDeletehe has got to be kidding with that tweet!
ReplyDeletewhen will he correct himself!?
I'd say that was the third (300th) strike.
Didn't little Max learn anything after Andrew Breitbart demolished him the last time for his phony "journalism"?
ReplyDeleteIf no military should be believed than no militants should be believed either. Then no one in Hamass should be believed too. So Max's sources' denials should not be believed. I'm sure Max also believed ACORN and not O'Keefe. I'm sure Max believed that Obama never heard his pastor say one controversial word,nevah evah. But I'm also sure Max heard the tea partiers use the N word, against several members of the CBC on the eve of the congressional health care vote,even though no one else heard or saw it. I'm sure he knows that Bristol is Trig's mother, not Sarah. I'm sure he knows that 9'11 was an inside job and that Sadaam was robbed of the Nobel Peace Prize by neocons.
ReplyDeleteHmmm! I wasn't aware that Helen Thomas was on that flotilla! :-)
ReplyDeleteI get very weary of people like the Blumenthals père et fils who trash-talk the military -- it is clear that what little Max is thinking of, to the extent he's thinking at all, is our military -- without having, shall we say, tried it for themselves. I wonder what Sid's dodge was, to make sure some poor city or farm kid went to Vietnam in his place? You know it was something. Yet these guys spend a few years networking at college and think they should be running things.
ReplyDeleteThe US military runs at about 30% efficiency, and it's far and away the most efficient segment of the government. It's also the one least burdened with Ivy League wonderchildren at its apex. Now that's only correlation, but it's not hard to imagine how the causative arrow might point, eh?
It's also hilarious to see a kid whose daddy was a deputy designated dissembler for the Clinton White House, and who's functionally a PR droid himself, telling us that the military can't be trusted. Yeah, not like those models of probity, passive-aggressive Beltway flacks.
And we all need to remember Max's finest hour:
ReplyDeletehttp://bigjournalism.com/abreitbart/2010/02/24/max-blumenthal-youre-being-booger-boarded/
He types pretty fast for a guy who can only use nine fingers because one is perpetually busy.
Do you suppose it's genetic?
ReplyDeleteMay the Lord rebuke Max Blumenthal, show him his errors, and let him repent.
ReplyDeleteI got a job for Max. I need a Pooper Scooper to pick up after my St. Bernard. I'm sure he's qualified!
ReplyDeleteMax Blumenthal...this millennium's Walter Duranty.
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