According to officials familiar with the incident, the Israeli government is continuing to hold three of the aid ships involved with June’s failed attempt to deliver humanitarian goods to the Gaza Strip.
Turkey’s government has reportedly been pressing for the return of the vessels, which Israel would be obliged to do under international law, so far however Israel’s Foreign Ministry has refused to do so and is demanding that the Turkish government sign a formal pledge that the ships will not be used in future attempts to deliver aid to the strip.
During the flotilla in question, Israeli troops attacked the Mavi Marmara, one of the aid ships, and killed nine aid workers on board. The ship contained medication, toys, and electric wheelchairs.
Though the two nations are long-standing allies, the attack has seriously strained relations between Turkey and Israel, and Turkey is unlikely to agree to abandon all future aid deliveries for the sake of a face-saving effort by the Israeli Foreign Ministry.
Wow! In addition to murder on the high seas we have theft and threats.
theft is nothing new to them, they stole and are still stealing land from the rightful owners. The state of Israel was unrightfully founded on the basis of theft, murder and threats.
Wow! In addition to murder on the high seas we have theft and threats.
I wouldn't be surprised if Israel sends Turkey an invoice for the bullets they used to murder the 9 aids workers.
Israel as a rogue state is not to blame for its reckless behviour,rather, its those Western powers who would do everything needed to appease Israel who should be blamed.With America marching on Israel's tone,Europe will have no other option but to bless Israeli piracy
Turkey’s government has reportedly been pressing for the return of the vessels, which Israel would be obliged to do under international law,
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Might is right is the only law Israel and its Satraps respect.
Turkey’s government has reportedly been pressing for the return of the vessels, which Israel would be obliged to do under international law,
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Might is right is the only law Israel and its Satraps respect.
Bugsy or Meyer would have kept them.
WHAT COULD CIVILIZED WORLD EXPECT FROM PIRATES
No big surprise for this "state" of terrorists and thieves.
No big surprise for this "state" of terrorists and thieves.
So what does international law have to do with Israel?
Arrrh mateys, it's the booty.
Well the Iseaeli parasites gotta take their commission like they do on everything else.
or vice versa
It's about time that other countries slap down Israel and refuse any type of cooperation with them. Every news article you read about Israel is not positive in the least but rather whining and crying that they are being picked on. Consistently, throughout the years, they have attacked anyone that refuses to agree with them. They are subversive and dangerous. The US is a lap dog for Bibi and that has been well documented. Cry Israel and throw your tantrums, the US will beat up your bullies for you.
The only way that we, as human beings, can get at them is to continue to boycott their goods and services. Don't buy anything that comes from them and "try to" ignore their existence. hard to do with all the whining coming from there but when a child throws tantrums and you aren't getting through, close the door and ignore them.
They are still "holding" some peoples ORGANS….. Yaa, don't hold your breath… gettin those vessels back…… this bunch is gone loco………and they are consuming their OWN propaganda…
"Israel Harvested Organs Without Permission From Families of the …
Dec 21, 2009 … Israel Took Organs of Dead Without Permission. Israel Scientist Admits Organs Were Routinely Harvested Without Telling Families … http://bit.ly/922VcZ
Doctor admits Israeli pathologists harvested organs without consent
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* Ian Black, Middle East editor
* The Guardian, Monday 21 December 2009
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Israel has admitted pathologists harvested organs from dead Palestinians, and others,* [AND OTHERS???? WHAT OTHERS?????] without the consent of their families – a practice it said ended in the 1990s – it emerged at the weekend.
The admission, by the former head of the country's forensic institute, followed a furious row prompted by a Swedish newspaper reporting that Israel was killing Palestinians in order to use their organs – a charge that Israel denied and called "antisemitic".
The revelation, in a television documentary, is likely to generate anger in the Arab and Muslim world and reinforce sinister stereotypes of Israel and its attitude to Palestinians. Iran's state-run Press TV tonight reported the story, illustrated with photographs of dead or badly injured Palestinians.
Ahmed Tibi, an Israeli Arab MP, said the report incriminated the Israeli army.
The story emerged in an interview with Dr Yehuda Hiss, former head of the Abu Kabir forensic institute near Tel Aviv. The interview was conducted in 2000 by an American academic who released it because of the row between Israel and Sweden over a report in the Stockholm newspaper Aftonbladet.
This is the army that portrays itself as the most moral army in the world…. Do you want more..???
Barak: No doubt IDF is most moral army in the world 03.25.09, 21:11 / Israel News
Defense Minister Ehud Barak said in a Jerusalem speech that he would not rest until kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit was returned to Israel. "The ongoing effort to release him is always before our eyes, and the effort must continue today also," he said.
Regarding Israel's offensive in Gaza he said, "I have no doubt that what needs to be probed will be probed, but I also have no doubt in my heart that the IDF is the most moral army in the world." http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3692383…
But the admission of harvesting organs, including skin, at times from Palestinians, struck her, she said. "The symbolism of taking skin out of a population that is considered to be the enemy and using it for skin for the military, that's something that — just in terms of symbolic weight — has to be reconsidered," she told Channel 2. http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/12/21/israel….
The effected Palestinian families in the West Bank and Gaza was sure what had happened to their sons. Our sons are used as involuntary organ donors, relatives of Khaled from Nablus told me, as did the mother of Raed from Jenin and the uncles of Machmod and Nafes from Gaza, who had all disappeared for a number of days only to return at night, dead and autopsied.
– Why would they otherwise keep the bodies for up to five days before they let us bury them? What happened to the bodies during that time? Why are they performing an autopsy when the cause of death is obvious, and in all cases against our will? Why are the bodies returned at night? And why with a military escort? And why is the area closed off during the funeral? And why is the electricity interrupted? There where lots of upset questions from Nafes uncle.[26]
Boström also writes that unnamed UN staff members told him that "organ theft definitely occurred", but that they were "prevented from doing anything about it."[26] He also reports the response of the IDF spokesperson as being that the allegations of organ theft were lies, and that all Palestinian victims are subjected to autopsy on a routine basis. Boström notes that according to Palestinian statistics for 1992, Bilal Ghanem was one of 133 Palestinians killed, and one of 69 who went through postmortem examination. He concludes the article with his opinion that the questions surrounding what is happening remain unanswered and should be investigated.[26] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Aftonbladet_Isr…
This is what the )ewish homeland has become???… An organ theft and genocide shop…. All those high ideals they once pursued are gone… The abused have become the abusers… A sad revelation..
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Israel is now copying the Somali pirates! They spiral ever downwards but they haven't hit rock bottom yet.
When they nuke Iran you'll know that they have!
If it were '50 cent' or 'puff daddy' then I might agree it was for the booty.