Analysis & Commentary
Return to Realism
Last Friday, Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, made a call to his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, resolving the dispute between the two countries following the 2010 Mavi Marmara incident.
Flotilla Follies
Anti-Israel activists are preparing to launch another flotilla aimed at breaching Israel’s naval blockade of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip three years after a similar endeavor led to a deadly encounter with Israeli soldiers.
Now Obama Needs to Pressure Turkey
In a surprise development on Friday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued an apology to Turkish Prime Minister Yayyip Erdoğan over the ill-fated May 2010 flotilla conflict on the high seas between Israeli...
Israel-Turkey Reconciliation Begins Following Netanyahu Apology
Israel and Turkey took steps to restore ties nearly three years after the deaths of nine Turks on an aid flotilla to the Gaza Strip as the U.S. sought to bolster an allied front in an increasingly unstable Middle East.
Israeli Leader Apologizes to Turkey for Fatal Ship Raid
Apologizing to Turkey should be seen as a concession by Prime Minister Netanyahu to President Obama because escalating tensions between Turkey, a NATO member, and Israel, America’s most reliable...
Canada’s Boat for Gaza Movement Still Lives in an Anti-Israel Svend Robinson-Era Time Warp
In 2010, militant activists on board a flotilla to Gaza provoked a violent confrontation with Israeli commandos. In the confusion, the Israelis shot and killed nine of the activists...
Law Games
Progressive activists are corrupting the laws of war and putting free nations at increased risk.
The Global March for Jerusalem
The first flotilla in 2010 ended in a bloodbath on the high seas, when the Israeli navy intercepted Islamists and activists seeking to challenge Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip.
Speaking of Apologies ...
Buried somewhere in the middle of the "Report of the Secretary-General's Panel of Inquiry on the 31 May 2010 Flotilla Incident" (the Palmer Report ) is a small detail that is bound to inconvenience Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
New Ottoman Empire?
In the complex geometry slowly taking shape in the new Middle East, the Palmer report must have felt like a godsend to Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
An Opportunity for an Apology
The United Nations issued a rare vindication for Israel this month, when it found that the naval blockade of Gaza does not violate international law.
Will Bundestag Now Retract Flotilla Decree?
Last year the German Bundestag and Vienna city council both voted unanimously to condemn Israel after it intercepted a flotilla that was in open violation of its naval blockade.
Even the UN Report Says That Israel Had No Need to Apologise
The Palmer Report was ready for release in July. However, it was delayed two months in a failed attempt to facilitate reconciliation between Jerusalem and Ankara. Since its release last Friday, Western commentators have, almost without exception, lamented Israel's refusal to apologise and...
Turkey’s Leaders Should Re-Read the Palmer Report
Turkey’s temper tantrum reached new heights with the harassment, Monday morning, of a group of 40 Israelis at Istanbul’s international airport, and the decision, Monday afternoon, to kick out every Israeli diplomat save the embassy spokesperson and consular services personnel by...
Pacifica Radio
The failed Gaza flotilla.
International Law and the Flotilla II
In the coming days, a major flotilla of pro-Palestinian activists is set to break Israel's naval blockade of the Gaza Strip in what many see as a publicity stunt wrapped in a humanitarian veneer.
BBC Exonerates Israel
A rare note of European journalistic optimism in the aftermath of Israel's naval interception in May of a flotilla headed for Hamas-ruled Gaza: BBC Panorama, an investigative TV program, aired several weeks ago a remarkably hard-hitting exposure (“Death in the Med”) of what unfolded on...
Do Gaza Flotillas Provide Material Support to Hamas?
Former federal prosecutor Andy McCarthy recently argued at National Review Online that the federal government has reason to investigate Rashid Khalidi, an activist Middle Eastern studies professor at Columbia University. What prompted this? Khalidi’s efforts to raise $370,000 for a new...
Khalidi’s Audacity of Hope
Earlier this month, hosting Benjamin Netanyahu — the Israeli prime minister he had humiliated back in March — President Obama was at pains to prove he is not hostile to the Jewish state. In fact, he took umbrage at a reporter’s suggestion that his administration is not committed to...
Complaint Against German ‘Mavi Marmara’ MPs
Thomas Schalski-Seehann, a local politician from the Free Democratic Party (FDP) in the city of Stade, outside of Hamburg, filed a legal suit against three members of the German Left Party last week.
