As part of the reconciliation package with Turkey, Israel today sent some $20 million in compensatory payments into the Turkish Justice Ministry, from which it will be distributed to the families of 10 slain Turkish citizens killed by Israeli troops on the Mavi Marmara.
The Mavi Marmara attack saw attacking and boarding the aid ship MV Mavi Marmara, which was bound for the Gaza Strip and carrying humanitarian aid. The Israeli military claimed the crew resisted, and ended up killing 10 of them, and while Israeli officials spent years spinning this as a great success, it did major harm to Israel-Turkey relations.
In 2013, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologized to Turkey over the attack, and this summer, the two nations reached a rapprochement deal, with the Israeli compensation payment a key part of the deal, along with an easing of the blockade of the Gaza Strip.
In return, Turkey has promised to return its ambassador to Israel, once one is named, and has also promised not to seek any criminal or civil action against individual Israeli nationals involved in the Mavi Marmara attack. Turkish officials say the ambassador will be announced “soon.”
They must have gotten the $20 mill from the $38 Bill US deal. Small change.
The aid money can be used only for purchase of US weapons.
OK, so the aid is just corporate welfare for American firms. That’s supposed to make it better somehow?
Yes. It helps the US economy. It puts Americans to work. Technology developed for the military sometimes has non-military applications.
How about you give me money and I use it to pay you to work for me—??
US is a war economy from your perspective…for every gun made, every bullet made…every tank..made..every jet made takes away programs for the American people…health care…education…needed infrastructure…we can get along without the war industry…most wasteful spending ever created by man. No pentagon audits…trillions wasted and unaccounted for. The space program to the moon did more for technology for civilians…
Some logic. They put it in the lft pocket and pay from the right pocket. Zionist logic.
Did they pay for Furkan Dogan, the ONE American killed on the Mavi Marmara?
Oh, who gives a flip about the American … it’s israel that’s important. Ask lindsey graham or john hagee about that … they’ll set ya straight. And while you’re at it, ask them about the israel’s cold blooded murder of American sailors in 1967: http://usslibertymovie.com/about/
“Thanks to Israel, we now have better warplanes.”
Thanks to Israel, we now NEED better warplanes.
keep drinking that Zionist Kool-aid!!!
Even if there were no Israel, we always need better weapons because other countries are always improving their weapons.
The whole world benefited from the technology of WWII era Germany—does that then exculpate them from their evil ? According to you it does. Hell, they invented aspirin!! Clearly that absolves them, No??
Now what about payments to the sailors when the USSLiberty was attacked by Israel.
According to Wikipedia, “In May 1968, the Israeli government paid US$3,323,500 (US$22.6 million 2016) in compensation to the families of the 34 men killed in the attack. In March 1969, Israel paid a further $3,566,457 to the men who had been wounded. On 18 December 1980, it agreed to pay $6 million as settlement for the final U.S. bill of $17,132,709 for material damage to Liberty herself plus 13 years’ interest.”
Israel did not make these payments…any monies paid were from US Taxpayers providing welfare money to Israel. Just because they offered money does not mean they paid it. The $40 million ship was sold for scrap for $200,000. Just what is the value for a human life. They attack our ship and we still pay them billions…total complete bs. http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/israellibertyrep.php
Israel is in the front line of terrorist states, a rogue state that ignores countless UN resolutions against it’s criminal behavior.