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Barak: Flotilla organizers to blame
Jerusalem Post ^ | 05/31/2010 | Tovah Lazaroff, Yaakov Lappin, and JPost staff

Posted on 06/01/2010 6:42:58 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

Defense Minister Ehud Barak said in a press conference on Monday that while he was sorry for lives lost, the organizers of the Gaza-bound protest flotilla were solely responsible for the outcome of the fatal IDF raid earlier in the day. Fifteen activists were killed and dozens wounded in the violent clashes.

Barak said that the soldiers tried to disperse the activists aboard the ship peacefully but were forced to open fire to protect themselves.

He called the flotilla a provocation, specifically called the IHH, an Islamic aid organization, "extremist supporters of terror."

The defense minister also called on Arab and Palestinian leaders not to let this "provocation by irresponsible people" ruin the progress made in proximity peace talks.

(Excerpt) Read more at jpost.com ...


TOPICS: Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: israel; turkey; waronterror
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To: ilgipper
The fact that we elected a man of his background and origin to this position is frightening, to say the least.

Please help me out here. What background and origin? Are you privy to info that the rest of the world is not privy to?

21 posted on 06/01/2010 8:14:02 PM PDT by houeto (Get drinking water from your ditch - http://www.junglebucket.com/Jungle-Bucket-1.htm)
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To: SunkenCiv

Israel needs to step up the pressure on Hamas and other terrorists who want to destroy her. If that means maintaining a blockade, so be it. And if they try to break the blockade, let them face the consequences. And believe you me, the IDF won’t mess around next time.


22 posted on 06/01/2010 8:22:37 PM PDT by borg5575
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To: houeto

Like when Golda Mier said, “when Arabs love their children more than they love war there will be peace”.


23 posted on 06/01/2010 8:55:15 PM PDT by 23 Everest (Stop the drama, Dump 0bama!)
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To: skr

Wrong Barak. That caught me too.


24 posted on 06/01/2010 9:02:33 PM PDT by tang-soo (Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks - Read Daniel Chapter 9)
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To: 23 Everest
EXACTLY.

Thank you 23 Everest

Lord, please bless that woman.

25 posted on 06/01/2010 9:28:28 PM PDT by houeto (Get drinking water from your ditch - http://www.junglebucket.com/Jungle-Bucket-1.htm)
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To: Irish Eyes

:’) Yeah, that’ll happen...


26 posted on 06/02/2010 4:49:29 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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To: borg5575

It’s going to get ugly, fast. When Iran starts the next war, Zero is going to have to move assets to reopen the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea shipping routes, meanwhile Israel will have to make do for days or weeks until the Kenyan Muzzie gets pressured into sending a couple of skids of rubber bullets.


27 posted on 06/02/2010 4:52:03 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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