Sunday, July 10, 2011

Flotilla; Flytilla: Flop

This wraps it up well:

The political context has shifted abruptly against the flotilla organizers: The Hamas role in organizing the flotillas has become harder to ignore -indeed, Hamas has ceased even to deny it.  Few European governments wish to act as Hamas’ powder monkey. Even Turkey -which last year looked the other way as violent men assembled aboard the Mavi Marmara en route to Israel - has redirected its policy. Turkey has accepted the UN report that confirms that Israel acted lawfully in stopping the 2010 flotilla attempt. The two countries are now jointly working to craft a statement that, according to one witty observer, “will sound like an apology in Turkish, but not in Hebrew.”

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