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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a technology conference in Jerusalem, Tuesday, June 8, 2010. The Israeli military said Tuesday it has set up an internal team of experts to examine its deadly raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla, while the government sought a formula for a broader probe that would defuse mounting international calls for an impartial investigation. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected a proposal by U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon for an international commission to investigate Israel’s raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla.
Netanyahu said they will have their own military experts examine what caused the naval raid.
The Gaza-bound flotilla was carrying humanitarian supplies and hundreds of activists protesting the closure of the Hamas-ruled Palestinian territory when the attack occurred on May 30, 2010.
Israeli commandos rappelled onto the deck of one of the six ships in a flotilla trying to break Israel's three-year-old blockade of Gaza.
Israeli commandos rappelled onto the deck of one of the six ships in a flotilla trying to break Israel's three-year-old blockade of Gaza.
The soldiers were intercepted by a crowd of activists on the ships that set off a clash killing nine men, eight Turks and a Turkish American.
Israel says its soldiers began shooting only after a mob of pro-Palestinian activists attacked them.
It is a version backed up by video footage released by the army. But the activists and their supporters say Israeli commandos needlessly opened fire.
There have been strong international reactions to the Gaza flotilla raid. Thousands of demonstrations have been seen around the world in rally’s denouncing the raid.
Twenty-one European countries have officially condemned or protested Israeli actions: Albania, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
Twelve Latin American countries condemned Israeli actions: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela. Israel had developed significant bilateral relationships with seven of them.
Israel has fired back saying the blockade was needed to prevent the ruling Hamas militant group from importing weapons that would be used against them as Hamas has done before.
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Ever hear the saying "trying to polish a turd"?
That's what we have here.
And what we have here is a nation founded by Jewish supremacists pretending to be biblical "Jews". These zionists have stolen the name and identity of Judaism. (Helen Thomas knew what she was talking about)
Their blockade needs to be exposed for what it is. Jewish nazis in the Israeli government and media, building a Polish style ghetto in plain sight. At least as much as they can keep that out of plain sight.
Hence, the blockade.
Everybody with a seaworthy vessel needs to head for the shores of Gaza. Canoe to cruise ship. And take your cameras.
Bust this thing wide open. Jail the zionists for their crimes against humanity. Give them the same treatment their German counterparts had at Nuremberg.
And for God's sake, get the ones out of the executive branch of our federal government.
Easier said than done...
But it needs to be done.
Soon.
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