Monday, June 6, 2011

So far 23 organizations are expected to participate in the upcoming flotilla to the Gaza Strip


Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center
The Meir Amit
Intelligence and Terrorism
Information Center 
May 31, 2011
 
 

The renovated Mavi Marmara
The renovated Mavi Marmara, which will again be the IHH flagship (IHH website, May 22, 2011). Five hundred passengers, from Turkey and other countries, are expected to participate.
Overview
1. The IHH website recently posted a provisional list of 23 organizations which have signed up for Freedom Flotilla 2. An examination indicates a considerable similarity between these organizations and those participated in the Mavi Marmara flotilla.1
2. Like the previous flotilla, its preparations are being led by three organizations and umbrella networks with organizational capabilities and financial resources, and in one instance (IHH) with governmental capabilities. So far the core organizations have demonstrated persistence and determination to launch the flotilla (preparations have been ongoing for a year), despite logistic and political difficulties.2
Freedom Flotilla 2 logo (derryfriendsofpalestine.org website)
Freedom Flotilla 2 logo (derryfriendsofpalestine.org website)
3. The most prominent organization and the one leading the preparations for the upcoming flotilla is IHH, an anti-Israeli, anti-West, Islamist Turkish organization. Its strategic partners are two umbrella networkstheEuropean Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza (ECESG, a European network based in Britain whose organizations and activists have ideological ties to the Muslim Brotherhood), and the Free Gaza Movement(FGM, a network based within the extreme leftist camp in the United States).

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