John Kerry provided a signed letter of support to an
extremely radical group of leftists and anti-Israel activists who were
organizing a march on Gaza in 2009, revealed Maariv's Ben-Dror Yemini. Members
of the group eventually wound up on the 2010 Gaza flotilla that included the
Mavi Marmara, on whose deck a bloody confrontation between Turkish terrorists
and the IDF ended with 9 dead terrorists.
Yemini says that the Gaza Freedom March organizers included
Ali Abunima and Omar Barghouti, leaders of the Israel boycott campaign,
musician Roger Waters, and members of Code Pink, which he describes as a
radical feminist anti-Israeli group. One of the Code Pink activists was Jody
Evans, who had worked as a fundraiser in Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign.
As they prepared to begin their journey to Gaza, members of
the radical group tried to get support from leading US officials. One official
who agreed to do this was then-Senator Kerry, who served as the chairman of the
Senate Foreign Affairs Committee at the time.
In the letter he provided, Kerry expresses his “strong
support” for the “humanitarian” delegation and asks that “every courtesy” be
given them. Yemini adds that Abunima and Evans showed the letter to Egyptian
officials, who decided to prevent them from going on to Gaza anyway. Evans and
fellow Code Pink activists eventually boarded the Free Gaza Flotilla.
Kerry should have known better, opines Yemini, after members
of Code Pink met with Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2008. He asks, “How is it
that a senior senator gave legitimacy to a group that was characterized by
support for Hamas, support for Ahmadinejad, and deep hostility toward Israel
and the US?”
No comments:
Post a Comment