What’s in an apology? Apparently not the word “regret.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is attempting to come to some sort of deal with the Turkish government over the May killings of nine aid workers aboard the Mavi Marmara.
The offer right now would involve Israel paying some $100,000 to the families of each of the nine victims of their raid, and to express “regret” for the killings, but not an actual apology for them. The difference between apology and regret is apparently significant, diplomatically.
But Netanyahu’s efforts are noteworthy because he’s trying to salvage relations with traditional ally Turkey with the considerable handicap of having his own foreign office openly condemning the notion.
In the wake of the killings Israel’s government was quite effective in managing the official story domestically, to the point that there were celebratory rallies in front of the Turkish embassy to cheer the killings of the aid workers. The spin hasn’t held much weight internationally, but the foreign ministry is still sticking by it, and demanding that Turkey instead compensate Israel for making them go to the trouble of killing the aid workers.
Clearly a Turkish apology is not in the offing, but the effort is perhaps underscoring just how hamstrung Israel is diplomatically by having given the foreign ministry to Avigdor Lieberman, one of the least diplomatic officials in Israel’s far-right coalition. If Israel can rescue its Turkish ties, it will be in spite of, and not because of, the foreign ministry.
We must not stand for the appeasers of terrorism cut all of israel funding for their endangering us all by funding terrorist groups
(hmmm can't figure out if i meant that sarcastically or not….)
Look at the mugshot on that ugly f@ck! I wonder if that's the one taken by the KGB when he was arrested for child abuse.
But I digress. Gawd that's ugly!
So, Israel puts a price of $100,000 on a human life. Well, a non-goyim human life that is which is – to them – equivalent to a donkey. Now, here's my question, how's Israel extorting from Germany to this day per head as a result of the Holocaust™? The Turkish government should take it upon itself to find out – it's probably in the WikiLeaks – and demand that Israel pays for each of those victims, exactly the same amount that Germany is paying to them. Now, that would be fair compromise I'd say.
Jesus Effing Christ, that guy is ugly. His own mother couldn't love that fat freak!
And then again they may not. Even if Uncle stupid provided them with the money to pay a modest sum to the relatives of Israel's victims of wanton murder, they would make it conditional on the release of Jonathon Pollard or maybe even Bernie Madoff. In other words, they would just pocket the geld and tell their prison bride to pound sand. Oh yes they would be outraged..