IDF clarifies: 'Go back to Auschwitz' recording edited, but authentic
According to IDF clarification, it is not clear who is speaking on recording that was originally publicized as recording of Mavi Marmara passengers.
Tags: IDF Gaza flotillaThe Israel Defense Force Spokesperson's Unit released a clarification on Saturday regarding an audio recording on which passengers of a Gaza aid flotilla ship can be heard telling IDF soldiers to "Go back to Auschwitz" and that they are "helping Arabs go against the U.S., don't forget 9/11."
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Israeli forces approaching one of six ships bound for Gaza in the Mediterranean Sea May 31, 2010 |
| Photo by: Reuters |
Questions have arisen regarding the authenticity of the recording, which was released by the IDF on Friday after clashes aboard the flotilla's largest ship, the Mavi Marmara, left 9 Turkish activists dead and dozens hurt last Monday.
In its clarification, the IDF explained that the audio recording was edited to reduce long periods of silence and to eliminate incomprehensible comments. The IDF further clarified that though the recording was originally attributed to passengers aboard the Mavi Marmara, due to "an open channel, the specific ship or ships in the Freedom Flotilla responding to the Israeli Navy could not be identified."
The IDF Spokesperson's Unit further announced that they have posted the full unedited 5 minute and 58 second recording online.
The release of the audio recording was another step taken by the IDF to solidify the claim that the passengers of the Mavi Marmara were determined to attack the soldiers who boarded the deck, and that the soldiers were acting in self defense.
According to early findings of a navy investigation, during Israel's takeover of the Turkish ship some passengers tried to take captive three navy commandos, who had lost consciousness as a result of the activists' blows.
After dozens of other commandos began searching the Mavi Marmara, the three soldiers regained consciousness and managed to join their comrades.
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What was all the fuss about this in the first place? The only thing of import on that radio transmission is what was said between 3:27 and 4:08. The rest can be totally edited out as far as the international community is concerned.
A couple of stupid immature provocative comments justify the deaths of nine people, some shot multiple times at close range even in the back of the head. Do me a favour!
IDF Spokeperson claims that clarification/correction video was published on the 5th June 2010. How is it possible that it was uploaded to YouTube on the 4th June 2010? 1) Travelling in time is possible. 2) Clarification/correction video was prepared at the same time as original video. It was ahead prepared misleading practice targeted against honour of Mavi Marmara passengers!
people are sick hearing Israel always blames Nazis and so on for its oprression of the palestinians... time has changed.. this is a clear attempt to gain the americans and International opinion for what they did to unarmed civilians .. but a lost one...
howmany days that take to make that fabrication..fake news dont work..the reality is so big that no fake news can make it invisible..The credibility ship of Israel is sinking..
...one hears vile anti-semitic comments, but not what preceded them, what provocation there was that may have been equally vile... in short, it's a great big retaliatory mess... if Barak & Bibi really believed that all this would just blow over, they are both totally out of touch with reality... symptomatic of israel in general at this crucial time...
Thats an Israelis voice. Its an open channel and anyone with a Maritime radio can hear or transmit.
You have takent the cameras, videos and all recordings of all people on the ship. If you care about the truth, why didn't you let the journalists and individuals onboard have their recordings of the events????? The only justification is that you want to give one edited side of the story. I don't buy whatever recording you release for a dime. Events are related to the context. If you kill my friend or relative then I would loose my temper and say all sort of things.
to believe that the 'unedited' version is any more honest or accurate than the previous versions. For too long, the IDF has lied, obfuscated and altered facts to suit their own purposes. It' a case of the boy who cried wolf. Is it any wonder they are not believed?
I believe that if Israel had taken one on the ship who had the slightest connection with the terror it had been turned up high. It could have been as thin as a shop owner had a client who might be linked to Al Qaeda. Israel has not made a single tangible thing. I believe Israel deliberately trick us and mislead us. It's pretty serious. We do not know what to think. But since we know that Israel do that, they have low credibility. I do not want Israel to be wiped from the map. I have deep respect and sympathy for the Jews' history. I also understand the paranoian I feel that the country has .Altso with good reasons. But not everything Israel does can be explained based on paranoia and security. Throw Palestinians out of their homes in Jerusalem. Settlements on the West Bank. Daily harassment of Palestinians. A blockade of Gaza can be explained with security. But not that Israel turn on and off the water, etc. Have a rigid and not very logical list of what is allowed to come inside. The civil population in Israel that the Gaza and West Bank deserves peace. They deserve protection and they deserve to choose their life, as in all free countries. Then it's crazy to hear this rhetoric that Israel and Israel so called friends makes. It will not be peace until humanism and human rights are in a central place. Think also of the rising generation. They have learned that it can never be peace. Think of the children in Gaza, where 60% of the population is under 18 years? What they learn about Israel. This policy is cruel and it is dangerous. Israel must wake up and understand that it is naive to believe that repression can give you peace in the long run.
Don't trust the Israeli's. This tape has been edited to create a forgery, the accents are not authentic and the woman's voice does not match anyone transmitting on the flotilla ships. Nor do the comments make any sense in the context. The IDF has admitted they cannot attribute any of the statements to anyone. In short, the Israeli's manufactured this.
Dino (Swiss) would like send us back to Auschwitz.