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The “Free Gaza” flotilla was far more than a collection of innocent “peace activists” trying to provide humanitarian aid to Gaza. Most passengers may have been nonviolent — but a significant minority were anything but.

The passengers reportedly included 100-plus members of various Muslim Brotherhood chapters, at least 20 of whom taped al Qaeda-style “martyr” videos before embarking.

And the chief organizers clearly had more than “peaceful” intentions for the flotilla.

The Middle East Media Research Institute reports that a Gaza-based Hamas leader declared last Friday — three days before the voyage started — that the head of the Turkish ship had told him: “We will not allow the Zionists to come near us, and we will wage resistance against them.”

The morning before the Israelis attempted to board, a Turkish passenger on the lead boat posted on Facebook, “The Turks are prepared with water canons [sic] and slingshots tonight I think all hell will break loose.”

The radical Islamic Turkish “charity” Insani Yardim Vakfi (IHH) was the chief financier of the fleet. At an April press conference, its chairman, Bulent Yildirim, admitted the real goal: “We are embarking on our journey together with over 1,000 people to break the embargo.”

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