Israel’s “Dangerous” Game

Related: The Mavi Marmara Massacre Taking on Turkey Ramzy Baroud | September 16th, 2011 | Dissident Voice The UN Palmer Report, which largely exonerated Israel for murdering nine unarmed Turkish civilians in international waters on May 31, 2010, seemed in some ways like the last straw. Prior to its publication, the camel’s back had already […]

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Why the Palmer Report Deserves No Deference

Israel Given Two Bites of the Apple by AUDREY BOMSE | COUNTERPUNCH Almost all the factual findings, as well as the legal analysis and conclusions of the recently leaked UN Secretary General’s Panel of Inquiry into the “Flotilla Incident” on May 31, 2010 (Palmer/Uribe Panel) directly contradict those of an earlier UN report of the […]

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Give the Palmer report the contempt it deserves

[ 04/09/2011 – 09:52 PM ] By Khalid Amayreh in Israeli-occupied Jerusalem On Friday, 2 September, a pro-Israeli body at the United Nations released a brazenly unbalanced report concluding that Israel’s four-year blockade of some 1.7 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip was “legal” and “within the barometers of international law.” The scandalous report, dubbed […]

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Warped Flotilla “inquiry” invites mega-mischief

By Stuart Littlewood * | Sabbah Report | http://www.sabbah.biz | Sept 5, 2011 “Israel faces a real threat to its security from militant groups in Gaza. The naval blockade was imposed as a legitimate security measure in order to prevent weapons from entering Gaza by sea and its implementation complied with the requirements of international […]

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Palmer ‘Inquiry’ Whitewashes Blockade ~ by Stuart Littlewood

Palestine Chronicle | Sept 5, 2011 y Stuart Littlewood  ‘Israel faces a real threat to its security from militant groups in Gaza. The naval blockade was imposed as a legitimate security measure in order to prevent weapons from entering Gaza by sea and its implementation complied with the requirements of international law…  the flotilla acted […]

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UN report on Gaza blockade flawed ~ Interview with Medeia Benjamin – founder Code Pink

PressTV –  Mon Sep 5, 2011 5:20PM GMT Interview with Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Code Pink Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he will not apologize for a deadly attack on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla last year which killed nine Turkish nationals. Netanyahu said Israel expresses regret for the loss of life, but will not […]

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Hamas rejects UN Palmer Report and calls on Turkey to cut all relations with Israel

  Monday, 05 September 2011 14:30| MEMO The leader of Hamas in Gaza has made clear his movement’s rejection of the UN Palmer Report into Israel’s attack on the Freedom Flotilla in May 2010. According to Mahmoud Zahar, the report which calls Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza “legitimate”, flies in the face of international law […]

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Lawyers for Freedom Flotilla victims reject Palmer report

[ 05/09/2011 – 12:21 PM ] ISTANBUL, (PIC)– Lawyers for the victims of Freedom Flotilla massacre strongly denounced the UN report (Palmer report) about Israel’s deadly attack on an aid convoy of six ships on May 31, 2010 in international waters of the mediterranean sea. The lawyers expressed their condemnation in response to leaked documents […]

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Bahar: Taking Israel to the ICJ best response to Palmer report

[ 05/09/2011 – 11:43 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Deputy speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council Ahmed Bahar welcomed Turkey’s decision to take Israel to the International Court of Justice, saying it was the best response to the Palmer report which was biased to Israel. In a statement on Saturday evening, Bahar called on the ICJ […]

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Palmer Panel Needs Little Common Sense

The report condemned flotilla organizers. (Via PressTV) By Richard Lightbown The report of the UN Panel of Inquiry on the Gaza Flotilla Incident which was finally released on 2 September is an example of how dangerous thing ‘a little learning’ can be. Put into an ivory tower in New York far away from the scene […]

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Turkey and Israel: Turkey does the right thing ~ by Lawrence Davidson

By Lawrence Davidson | Redress | 4 September 2011 Lawrence Davidson lauds Turkey’s decision to downgrade its diplomatic relations with Israel and suspend military ties with the Zionist state and says that Tel Aviv’s refusal to do the decent thing and apologize for murdering unarmed civilians on the high seas has probably put an end […]

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Zahhar: UN flotilla report biased, justifies siege on Palestinians

[ 03/09/2011 – 05:15 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Senior Hamas official Mahmoud al-Zahhar accused Saturday the UN-commissioned Palmer report into Israel’s 2010 flotilla attack of not being neutral, as it deemed the Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip legal. He also called on Turkey to take further sanctions against Israel. “When the report says the […]

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Turkey vows legal action against Israel

Related: The Mavi Marmara Massacre PressTV –  Sat Sep 3, 2011 8:22AM GMT Israeli commandos during attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla (file photo) Turkey says it will seek legal action against the Israeli regime for its deadly raid on a Gaza-bound relief aid Flotilla last year after Ankara further downgraded its ties with Tel […]

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Foreign ministry: Palmer report not objective

[ 03/09/2011 – 08:07 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Palestinian foreign ministry in Gaza has criticized the Palmer report on the Israeli attack on the Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla, expressing surprise at its finding regarding the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip. It charged that the report lacked “objectivity and professionalism”, which made it default on […]

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U.N.’s Gaza flotilla report adrift at sea ~ By Sari Bashi (Gisha)

Sari Bashi (Gisha) | Friday, September 2, 2011 – 2:17 PM | Foreign Policy For months, since the contents of the report prepared by a UN panel charged with reviewing the May 2010 Gaza flotilla incident (the Palmer Report) began to appear in news media coverage, it has been clear that the report would not […]

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