Friday, July 8, 2011

Good Grief


Thank you Geoffrey Palmer:

More bad news for the dwindling number of flotilla activists hanging around the ports of Greece. The now completed UN Inquiry on last year’s Gaza flotilla incident aboard the Mavi Marmara found that Israel’s blockade of Hamas-ruled Gaza is legal and the Israeli government owes no apology or reparation to Turkey.

The UN investigative committee, headed by former Prime Minister of New Zealand and internationally renowned jurist, Geoffrey Palmer, actually criticizes Turkey for not doing enough to prevent the flotilla from setting sail and for also providing a somewhat anaemic and lacking investigation into the events of May 2010.

Read it all here.

5 comments:

  1. I'm feeling faint. Are you sure this story isn't from The Onion? Oh wait, I see from your label that it's not. Wow.

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  2. Astonishing innit lady red?

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  3. The Mayans must have been right about December 2012!

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  4. I think I'm going to faint.

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  5. lady red - yeah, I too am pleased that Fay chose to use the ThisIsNotTheOnion tag!

    'Cause the story needed it!

    Of course, it won't get much play outside the conservative press, but welcome news nonetheless.

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