Israel made the only honorable choice
The Wall Street Journal approves of Israel's refusal to apologize to Turkey. Simply put, the flotilla's organizers were spoiling for the fight they later would claim as evidence of Israeli criminality. That's a fight Israel went out of its way to avoid, both through high-level diplomatic representations to Ankara and repeated warnings to the flotilla to turn away from the blockade. Too bad, then, that the report makes a weak stab at balance by chiding the conduct of Israeli soldiers in the heat of a battle against dozens of thugs armed with iron bars, chains, knives and—given that two of the Israeli commandos were shot—probably firearms as well.Heh.
All of this might have provoked a bit of soul-searching within the Turkish government, just as its once-warm embrace of Syria's Bashar Assad has. Instead, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has doubled down on his anti-Israel bets, insisting that Jerusalem apologize to Turkey, compensate the victims and lift its blockade of Gaza as the price for his forgiveness. The Palmer report is a fresh reminder—from the least likely of sources—of why Israel has no honorable choice but to spurn those demands. The Turks will learn in their own time that being Hamas's patron is a loser's game.
The picture at the top is Geoffrey Palmer, the chairman of the Palmer Commission. We Israelis ought to thank him for his rare, relatively fair treatment of our country.
Labels: Geoffrey Palmer, Palmer Commission, Turkish obsession with Israel
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 4:59 AM
3 Comments:
Carl, that's all I ever asked for: for Israel to be judged as any other country.
Not to be judged too light, not to be judged with venom, not to be judged with malice, not to be judged for ethnicity, not to be judged with hatred, but to be judged with fairness.
Now and then, a fair judge like Geoffrey Palmer calls it likes it is. That Israel is not perfect, that each action she commits is not perfect, but the boycott of Gaza is legal and Turkish actions provoked the action.
not a boycott...maritime blockade
and when the critics say that hamas can get all the arms they want through the tunnels...why do they keep trying to get arms through the sea
maybe the answer lies in the vessels that were stopped and that were bearing arms...much larger, and more deadly than those smuggled in
maritime blockade states that israel cannot pick and choose which vessels get through...and israel follows the rules....the vessels also must allow themselves to be boarded...the marmarah did not
end of story
biorabbi, a fair standard of judgement requires a standard of right and wrong, better and worse, best practices... the secularization of the West, which has mutated from curtailing public compulsion to eliminating personal ethics, has removed these standards. The marxist influence institutes a dictatorship, where benefits, including the right to live, are meted out according to who you know and who you "pay". The marxists team up with the shariah people and are stunned repeatedly when the shariah people kill them once power is wrested from the Western society. The Palmer Report has applied a gentleman's traditional expectation to an attack perpetrated by people close to his own govt. I would say Turkey was punked by the Obama posse, which may be why their military commanders quit and why Erdogan is having a temper tantrum.
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