Flotilla Report: BBC Plumbs the Depths The Turkel Commisssion of inquiry into the events surrounding the May 31, 2010 Gaza flotilla has published its findings. Some of the main points include: The maritime blockade of Gaza complies with international law. Israel’s policies towards the Gaza Strip comply with international and humanitarian law. The takeover of […]
The Turkel Commission, which investigated last May’s incident on the Mavi Marmara, will submit on Sunday the first part of its report to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, following which the report will be presented to the public. The report is expected to clear the IDF of any wrongdoings in the flotilla incident. It will determine […]
Lebanese Prime Minister, Saad Hariri, vowed on Thursday that he will not buckle to Hizbullah and will stand for a new term in office, after foreign efforts to mediate the crisis in the country failed. AFP quoted Hariri’s televised address in which he said that “A constitutional process is under way and we will accept […]
Looks like Argentina’s President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has to pull her jet up to the “cash only” pump! Yesterday, Argentine thieves riding motorcycles stole $91,000 in dollars and euros that President Kirchner planned to take with her on a trip to the Middle East. Aides say the money was for presidential plane expenses for […]
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced Wednesday night that his nation “stands by Hamas,” which he called “a political group.” According to a report published on the Al Qassam website, Erdogan told the pan-Arab Al-Jazeera satellite television network that Hamas is not a terrorist movement. “We stand by Hamas when they are right, because […]
You bought from Turkey, you financed the next flotilla,” says a group that will launch a campaign on Thursday against buying fruits, especially figs, from Turkey for the upcoming Tu B’Shvat holiday. Almost all of the figs in Israel are imported, creating a problem for Jews who want to keep the holiday Zionist and also […]
A French special court in Paris considering the case of a group of eight Islamic suspects accused of using crime to aid Al Qaeda. The eight are suspected of carrying out on robberies in 2004 and 2005 to serve the cause of radical Islam primarily in Iraq. A symbiosis has always existed between criminality and terrorism. For the […]
Minister says country can’t take in anymore illegal immigrants; says barrier will be similar to wall built on US-Mexico border. Greece announced that it plans to build a wall along its border with Turkey to keep out illegal migrants, according to news reports Saturday. Citizen Protection Minister Christos Papoutsis said “Greek society has reached its […]
Thousands shouted “death to Israel” and greeted the Mavi Marmara flotilla ship Sunday as it docked in Istanbul, a day after Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told journalists that although Turkey would like to restore its formerly friendly ties with Israel, the Jewish State must first apologize for the deaths of nine terror activists who […]
A Turkish court has released a man accused of planning to murder Jewish and Christian leaders, according to Turkey’s Anatolia news agency. Suspect Ismet Recber was freed until the end of his trial. Prosecutors say Recber planned the murder of rabbis and of Patriarch Bartholomew I, the Istanbul leader of Orthodox Christians. He was arrested […]
