The Israeli Foreign Ministry responded late Wednesday by saying the Human Rights Council had a biased, politicized and extremist approach.
Israel has maintained that its soldiers acted in self-defense when they shot and killed eight Turkish activists and one Turkish-American aboard the Mavi Marmara on May 31. Israel Defense Forces released footage showing its troops coming under attack as they tried to board the boat.
Did anyone expect a different reaction to the Human Rights Council’s report on the Flottila raid?
Israel refused to cooperate with the panel, preferring instead to work with a separate UN group under New Zealand’s former Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer and Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe that is also examining the incident but has yet to publish its findings
“Israel is a democratic and law abiding country that carefully observes international law and, when need be, knows how to investigate itself,” the Foreign Ministry statement said.
“That is how Israel has always acted, and that is the way in which investigations were conducted following Operation Cast Lead, launched to protect the inhabitants of southern Israel from rockets and terror attacks carried out by Hamas from Gaza,” said the statement.
Full text (unedited) of the UN Report can be found HERE
The paragraphs in parenthesis were taken from THIS AP Report
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Aneebaba 42p · 757 weeks ago
Since WHEN???
Sheesh - It's sad that this still goes on in a world that is so connected. I mean on one end, you have brave souls who did their utmost (not to mention give their lives) to help those in need, but then when things can be seen firsthand, just outright, shameless words - let's hope more of the world's eyes have been opened to such crime and arrogance. I've just watched (al Jazeera) the last of the 3-part film on Nablus and how people are trying to work under the occupation and how their livelihoods are being ruined just because of the all the restrictions and bureaucracy involved on the Israeli side - it brought tears to my eyes. The flotilla episode and the above - just a testament to the criminal, shameless, arrogant, unmerciful, dis-compassionate individuals that make up the machine that is Israel.
chuckyman 39p · 756 weeks ago
‘Do what you will shall be the whole of the law’ said the Satanist Crowley. Ye are of your father, the devil – John 8-44. I don’t often get religious but it sums them up so well.
The mask just keeps on slipping. Despite total control of the MSM reality keeps breaking out. Recently a flack called Rick Sanchez – who knows the business that paid him – let it slip. http://www.examiner.com/nonpartisan-in-los-angele...
They are starting to get desperate but the Kabbalistic spell they have woven since 1945 is failing and they can’t fix it. Evil will never prevail.
GenieLam 38p · 757 weeks ago
You know they laugh amongst themselves when they make statements like this.If they don't the devil has made them so insane they don't get their own jokes. ha ha ha!
Aneebaba 42p · 756 weeks ago