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14May

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Report: Turkey threatens to leave UN Gaza flotilla inquiry panel over ‘Zionist-favored’ draft

NOVANEWS UN panel investigating IsraHell’s raid of the Mavi Marmara reportedly falls short of saying IsraHell violated international law. Haaretz Service Turkey threatened Friday to drop out of a United Nations panel investigating Israel’s deadly raid on the Gaza-bound aid flotilla in May last year, saying the wording of the draft report was in favor of Israel, Turkish daily Hürriyet reported. The report said that Ankara believed the panel was favoring the Israeli view, as its wording fell short of saying Israel violated international law when its naval commanders boarded the Mavi Marmara, the Turkish-sponsored Gaza-bound aid flotilla. The Mavi Marmara was one of several aid ships aiming to deliver supplies to Gaza in violation of an Israeli naval blockade. In efforts to preve...

TURKEY ZIO=NAZI RELATIONS

NOVANEWS Turkey Threatens Israel with cut-off of Diplomatic Relations July 6, 2010 by Michael Leon Flag Pins-Turkey-Israel By Juan Cole in Informed Comment As Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu flew to Washington, DC, on Monday, a further war of words has broken out between Turkey and Israel over comments made by Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to the press corps on an airplane returning from Kyrgyzstan. The Zaman correspondent heard him to say of Israel, “It will either apologize, or it will consent to a study by an international commission, or the relations will break off.” Avigdor Lieberman, the Israeli foreign minister whom Davutoglu apparently declines to deal with, shot back, “”We don’t have any intention to apologize. We think that the opposite is true.” Lieberman, a not...

TURKS PROTEST ZIONIST HOUSING PLANS

NOVANEWS Ynet http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3865183,00.html Hundreds of Turkish protesters torched Israeli flags in protest against plans to build new housing in east Jerusalem. After Friday prayers a large group in Istanbul began chanting anti-Israeli slogans in support of Palestinians. Some protesters were carrying a big balloon in the shape of the Al-Aqsa mosque. Dozens of others gathered outside the Israeli Embassy in Ankara. The protests have been fueled by the plans for more Jewish housing in east Jerusalem and unsubstantiated rumors that Jewish extremists are planning to seize the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, Islam's third-holiest shrine. Israel last week announced plans to build 1,600 apartments in east Jerusalem, drawing international criticism and sparking clashes i...