Report: Kerry Supported Gaza Flotilla Members
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Maariv: in 2009, then-Senator Kerry gave letter of support to radicals who later took part in Marmara flotilla.
By Arutz Sheva staff
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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?”
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WarSclerotic 
November 13, 2013 at 2:00 PM
Declare Kerry as Persona Non Grata !
November 13, 2013 at 4:16 PM
John F…ing Kerry is a joke. The man (questionable) is pompous, an elitist, a legend in his own mind, and quite dangerous to our country and, now, the world. Clearly, it’s crap like him that rises to the top of bowl. Sorry to paint such a repulsive picture, but it doesn’t begin to describe how I feel about this creature.
November 13, 2013 at 4:49 PM
Bibi is busy releasing terrorists so as not to offend Obama. Nothing has changed. He talks about Iran but does absolutely nothing. Don’t forget. Iran will get the bomb. Because you have waited way too long…….