• Published 23:28 04.06.10
  • Latest update 23:28 04.06.10

IDF video shows flotilla passengers tell Israel Navy to 'go back to Auschwitz'

Army releases audio recording of exchange between Israel Navy ships and passengers on the Mavi Marmara, the central ship of a Gaza aid flotilla raided by Israel on Monday.

By Haaretz Service Tags: Gaza flotilla IDF Gaza

The IDF Spokesperson released on Friday an audio recording of an exchange between Israel Navy ships and passengers on the Gaza-bound Turkish ship Mavi Marmara.

 

In the recording, an Israeli Navy radio operator warns of the ship's approach into Israel's naval blockade when a passenger says in response, "Shut up, go back to Auschwitz."

 

The release of the recording is another step taken by the Israel Defense Forces to solidify the claim that the passengers of the Mavi Marmara were determined to attack the soldiers who boarded the deck.

 

According to early findings of a navy investigation, during Israel's takeover of a Turkish ship in the Gaza-bound aid flotilla this week, some passengers tried to take captive three commandos who lost consciousness as a result of the activists' blows.

 

After dozens of other commandos began searching the ship, the Mavi Marmara, the three soldiers regained consciousness and managed to join their comrades.

 

 

Israeli forces approaching Gaza flotilla

Israel Navy forces approach one of six ships of an aid flotilla bound for Gaza on May 31, 2010.

Photo by: Reuters
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  • 29. 104 30
    SO WEIRD... EVERY DAY NEW VOICES IN THE RECORD
    • HILARIOUS!
    • 05.06.10
    • 01:55

    Hilarious, what's next? someone puting Godzilla's recorded voice threatening to kill every Israeli from the ship? That was in international waters, so it was illegal. Illegal like the Gaza blockade. Ask the UN. Yes, the same UN that gave you the right to have a State. I admire the brave people in Israel that is capable of looking the thing like it is...I don't think that the people in the ships were saints or something, it is just that Israeli government is being absolutely stupid, fighting against its own people. Making damage to Israel's image to an extent that most Israelis are not capable to see. I'm not an Arab, nor Jewish...I'm just a world citizen that used to admire Israel, its democracy and culture...do something about the people in power! they are taking you to a black black future. I hope you find peace along with your neighbours some day.

  • 28. 84 19
    release the films confiscated on board of the ship
    • lizbeth
    • 05.06.10
    • 01:53

    Why did the IDF confiscate the films and cameras of the journalists on board of the ship?? let us hear and sea what really happened instead of another pathetic fabricated story by the IDF

  • 27. 23 55
    Hmmm...
    • BTweenThLines
    • 05.06.10
    • 01:53

    ...no underlying hatred by the "humanitarians" there, eh? Just a bunch of peace-loving, no-agenda-supporting, Koombayah-singin' love-fest'ers on those ships, huh? Think twice, you who are plotting against Israel. You may think you are being crafty, but you have a much-overdue surprise waiting for you if you decide to persist...mark my words well.

  • 26. 20 42
    Ignorance is alive and well at sea
    • Daniel E. Levenson
    • 05.06.10
    • 01:52

    If this is true, then it just goes to show the mentality of the kinds of people who are behind these efforts to break the blockade. While some are no doubt genuinely interested in helping Palestinians who are in need of food, medicine and other basic supplies, I think it is delusional to say there is not a strong sentiment of anti-Israel hatred behind these efforts to get to Gaza by ship, and sadly, as this statement by an unknown passenger demonstrates, perhaps an undercurrent of anti-Antisemitism as well.

  • 25. 56 12
    Al Capone
    • Maggie
    • 05.06.10
    • 01:39

    Ha ha. Is this a joke? It's so fake and transparent it is laughable. This video was shown on Day 1 after the massacre, there were no such voices then. Do you really think the Israeli Navy would omit such a juicy tidbit until 5 days after the event? Either way, it sounds like something from a 1930's Al Capone movie.

  • 24. 54 16
    wow
    • mike posner
    • 05.06.10
    • 01:27

    This is definitely a concocted recording by the IDF.... the two voices from the Marma ship just sound so much like the recordings you get from the internet... this just shows how desperate Israel is becoming

  • 23. 71 20
    What selective PR!
    • r cummings
    • 05.06.10
    • 01:27

    Where is the camera footage shot by the peace people on the ships? Confiscated by the IDF and never to be seen again, as it would rather overwhelmingly undermine Israel's made-up narrative. Everything Israel does these days is dependent on artificial hasbara, even the IDF footage is clearly spliced in two places, the result of doctored film. If Israel is determined to treat Gaza like a virtual concentration camp, it deserves the comments it gets.

  • 22. 63 16
    propaganda:
    • KO
    • 05.06.10
    • 01:22

    I woun't waste a second mentioning how this is nothing but propaganda. I will mention that anyone who falls for this is a moron.

  • 21. 63 15
    This is fake
    • IronLion
    • 05.06.10
    • 01:18

    Clearly you can hear that this is fake, watch the first idf youtube clip about contacting the mavi marmara.. It seems israhell is losing the battle

  • 20. 13 54
    President Obama Thanks but no Thanks
    • The realist
    • 05.06.10
    • 01:17

    President Obama, thank you for your Cairo speech last year. It really resonated with all the anti-semites of the world. With friends like you who needs enemies. If you only understood how damaging your speech was for the well being of the Jewish people and Israel.

  • 19. 36 8
    Rge Raid
    • Oz Person
    • 05.06.10
    • 01:08

    Why has it taken this long to release the audio of those insults, surely Israel has top notch sound enginees to call on. 'the three soldiers regained consciousness and managed to join their comrades. ' Were they tied up with spaghetti ?

  • 18. 18 43
    It's obvious...
    • Roman
    • 05.06.10
    • 01:06

    ... these were not openminded peace demanding youth. These were harsh fighters hating Israel and Jews - fighters who have chosen the sort of weapon that seems to be more efficient. They are not going to help anybody in the world but only those who confront Israel. Help for Palestinians is the tool not the aim. In Nazi times people of that way of thinking blindly supported Hitler.

  • 17. 45 9
    Why won't the IDF release ALL the audio and video?
    • brian
    • 05.06.10
    • 01:04

    Until they do, not only hostile minds will find themselves wondering if the infamous Israeli propaganda machine is up to its usual tricks. Especially given the "'fancy menu' release" and other subterfuges that were engaged in ahead of the attack at sea.

  • 16. 10 40
    Amazing, not even one comment.
    • Gritty
    • 05.06.10
    • 01:03

    But you do know when to make noise, don't you? "Peace" lovers. NON ANTI-SEMITE PEOPLE. NON ANTI-ZIONISM PEOPLE. Whenever you can bash, you bash. Just because you can. Open your eyes.

  • 15. 57 12
    Sorry. I'd like to take Israel's side...
    • David
    • 05.06.10
    • 01:01

    ...but at this point, it's very easy to believe that we're hearing a doctored dub. Israel has taken so long to release any material, and cut it up so severely, that it's easy to imagine that much of what we're seeing has been faked.

  • 14. 18 47
    The next boat
    • Truth Hurts
    • 05.06.10
    • 00:53

    That tries entering Israeli land and is hostile needs to be blown right out of the water. The world don't care about Israel.Foolish and unfair, I'm ashamed of all those who say such horrible things against a great country as Israel,you should all be ashamed as well.May the God of Israel have mercy on your souls for there will be weeping and knashing of teeth for all those who hate Jerusalem as for all Israel.

  • 13. 24 11
    I know...
    • Daniel
    • 05.06.10
    • 00:40

    It must have been that one that ended with four bullets on the head.

  • 12. 44 8
    Top Inquiry
    • DD
    • 05.06.10
    • 00:37

    I see the formal, open and transparent investigation has begun. Way to go Israel, with every press release you convict yourself.

  • 11. 8 21
    They know how to make you crazy
    • ft
    • 05.06.10
    • 00:31

    This is hate and this hate is a reaction. I cant blame them for it.

  • 10. 46 7
    So That Justifies Killing Them?
    • Binyamin in Orangeburg
    • 05.06.10
    • 00:29

    And the three commandoes who were unconscious. If they were really terrorists, wouldn't they have killed the commandoes?

  • 9. 6 18
    PACIFISTS
    • Israeli citizen
    • 05.06.10
    • 00:26

  • 8. 27 66
    "shut up and go back to Auschwitz"
    • 05.06.10
    • 00:21

    Classy activists, eh? They should drop the Peace-Activist-mask and let us see their true colours: Anti-Semitic Activists.

  • 7. 49 8
    sketchy
    • mmm
    • 05.06.10
    • 00:21

    these are obviously edited clips...

  • 6. 57 9
    Radio conversation.
    • Laura,Glasgow,Scotland
    • 05.06.10
    • 00:20

    Give me a break, if ever there was a crudely compiled radio conversation THAT was it. No way is that for real. Just another futile attempt to justify the actions of the commandoes rapelling onto the Mavi Marmara.

  • 5. 15 59
    A Holocaust Flotilla
    • Eibik Schtern
    • 05.06.10
    • 00:19

    To all who doubt the IDF, you see?! this was a boat of hate filled with anti-jew Hamas-AKP al-qaeda supporters. They threaten to send back our troops to auschwitz for final extermination!!! what could israel do?! We try to be peace but they try to exterminate us with knives, sticks and crowbars taken from ship railings and wheelchairs. We will never let holocaust happen again, israel will defend against extermination from hamas and al-qaeda flotilla!

  • 4. 43 14
    quiet people
    • european
    • 05.06.10
    • 00:16

    Now i can understand why the IDF had to "defend " themselves. No other chance to stop them talking. Also 23 years old young U.S. lady seems to have been a similiar threat, so an bulldozer had also to make her quiet...

  • 3. 47 13
    hmm
    • sez / italy
    • 05.06.10
    • 00:14

    ..this sounds so fake! i don't who said something so stupid...but don't point on something like that, this will not help IDF to defend their brutal behavior on that vessel.

  • 2. 67 14
    it is a "REPRODUCTION"
    • such shame
    • 05.06.10
    • 00:12

    The IDF released on Friday an audio reproduction of the moments before Monday's raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla..... in other words, it's fake

  • 1. 70 14
    if true, strange we hear this only now
    • Becca
    • 04.06.10
    • 23:51

    how long does it take to fabricate