Maan News Agency | May 8, 2013 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israel has officially apologized to Egypt after Israeli police officers attacked Egyptian diplomats and a Coptic clergyman at a church in Jerusalem, Israeli state media reported Thursday. Egypt’s Foreign Ministry summoned Israel’s ambassador in Cairo after the attack during Orthodox Easter celebrations at the Church […]
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After Bibi’s Apology, Reflect on the Idiocy of Attacking the Gaza Flotilla ~ by Uri Avnery
Antiwar.com | by Uri Avnery, March 30, 2013 So, finally our Prime Minister has apologized to Turkey for “operational mistakes” that “might have” led to the death of nine Turks during the attack on MV Mavi Marmara, the ship which tried to break the Israeli blockade on Gaza. It took him two years and ten […]
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Overview | Hamas slams Bulgaria for deporting its MPs, demands apology
[ PIC 16/02/2013 – 09:04 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Hamas Movement strongly denounced the Bulgarian security forces for raiding on Friday morning the residence of the Palestinian parliamentary delegation and deporting its members. It described such act as reprehensible and biased in favor of the Israeli occupation regime. “We express our strong condemnation and […]
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UK MP forced to apologize for Israel criticism
David Ward, MP for Bradford East PRESSTV | Sun Jan 27, 2013 5:5PM GMT A British Liberal Democrat MP facing axe from the party over criticisms about the Israeli regime’s violent treatment of Palestinians has apologized under pressure from the country’s Zionist lobby. In an item posted on his website last week, David Ward, the […]
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Craven Lib Dems dump human rights champion Jenny Tonge
PRESS TV Tue Mar 6, 2012 7:24PM GMT “Jenny’s motivation in speaking up for the rights of the oppressed is anger at injustice when others, who have the duty to speak out, pass by silently on the other side of the street. It is also an attempt to make Jenny the story, and to detract […]
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Israel Backs Out of Apology to Turkey
PNN – Palestine News Network 11.08.11 – 13:15 Jerusalem – PNN – Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman stated that an Israeli apology to Turkey for events that happened with the Gaza Flotilla will not improve relations between the two countries. Lieberman insisted on Israel Radio last Monday that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyep, “will not […]
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Israel not to apologize to Turkey
PressTV – Fri Jul 29, 2011 10:30AM GMT Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak (file photo) Israel has said it will not apologize for killing nine Turkish activists onboard the Gaza-bound aid flotilla in international waters last year. Israel’s cabinet minister Moshe Yaalon said he has recently held three rounds of talks with Turkey, and that […]
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Turkish PM says apology over flotilla a condition for restoring ties with Israel
[ 09/07/2011 – 04:14 PM ] ANKARA / JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has once again refused to normalize relations with Israel before it formally apologizes for the 2010 Gaza flotilla attack and lifts the siege on the Gaza Strip. The statement came as the Turkish premier presented the government’s new program […]
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Israel backed out of flotilla apology three times – report
Monday, June 27, 2011 ISTANBUL – Hürriyet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly accepted Turkey’s request for an apology for the killing of Turkish citizens on board the Mavi Marmara in May 2010, but backed out on three separate occasions due to fear his coalition government might fall. Daily Hürriyet revealed a report Monday about […]
Continue readingErdogan: Turkey still demands apology from Israel | Al Bawaba
Erdogan Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday said that there is no change in the Turkish position, demanding an apology from Israel following its deadly raid on the “freedom flotilla.” The Turkish leader noted that this message was conveyed to Israel during the recent talks held in Geneva recently between officials from both […]
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