Reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is close to making a deal to normalize relations with long-standing ally Turkey, and that such a deal might involve officially apologizing for the Israeli attack on the Mavi Marmara aid ship and the killing of nine aid workers have riled Israel’s Foreign Ministry.
Top aides to Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who has repeatedly clashed with Netanyahu over his lack of involvement in overseas diplomacy, warned that apologizing to Turkey for the killings was a de facto surrend to “terror.”
The Mavi Marmara was carrying wheelchairs and medication to the Gaza Strip, despite an Israeli blockade barring such aid arriving by sea. Israeli commandos attacked the ship, and at the time Israeli officials insisted the ship was secretly full of al-Qaeda members.
But even though all the claims of heavily armed terrorists hiding on the ship have given way to the lack of arrests, Israel’s Foreign Ministry still insists not only that the attack was justified, but that Turkey owes Israel “compensation” for making them go to the trouble of killing the aid workers.
Israel is the first country I know when the foreign minister bosses the prime minister. Lieberman is going to destroy Israel. Most nations would have refused immigration to a person like lieberman. Down fall of the right to return law. You have to accept thsoe that should be return to sender.
The cleverness of the Jews surfaces again. Why should the country whose citizens were killed by an invading force operating in international waters have to reimburse the agressor? When takiing out facilities in neighbouring countries is called self defence and allowed to be called that by world powers, you can be sure that Israel will continue to use the English language to confuse every situation. That may be Kosher is Hebrew but please don't distort the English language, the language of world diplomacy. Maybe whtie is black and birds are cats and we just don't know it.
JDonald – you're welcome to criticize Israeli foreign policy here. However, you're not welcome to denigrate Jews.