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Sunday, September 4, 2011

Marmara: Netanyahu says he will not apologize to Turkey


 The Prime Israeli Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he would not apologize to Turkey on an Israeli raid that killed nine Turks on board a ship bound for Gaza bis position after Ankara that the reduced level of relations with Israel.
And Turkey on Friday froze all military agreements with Israel and expelling the Israeli ambassador and threatened legal penalties after the failure of a UN report on the raid that took place in May 2010 in pushing Israel to make an apology.
The report said that Israel had used excessive force in the raid on the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara, but added that the pro-Palestinian activists on board resisted the organized resistance and violent.
Turkey also wants to end the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip and to compensate the families of those killed in the raid.
Netanyahu said at the weekly meeting of the Council of Ministers bis statement issued by his office on Friday: "We do not need to apologize for the Marine Special Forces soldiers to defend themselves against militants who have exercised violence."
He added: "I hope I could find a way to overcome the dispute with Turkey. Israel has never responded to deteriorate its relations with Turkey, which is now also do not want the deterioration of relations."
The UN report, which was set by a committee composed of four members of the Israeli naval blockade of Gaza, a security project to prevent weapons into the Gaza Strip but the amount of force used by Israeli special forces had been "excessive and unreasonable."
The report called for the dissemination of the report of the Palmer repeatedly to give a chance for the proximity talks over several months between Israel and Turkey at a time of unrest and wide in the Middle East. They were strategic allies in the past.
Turkey has said it also will assess the criminal proceedings against those responsible for killing nine Turks on board the ship, its crew of Marmara, which he said it was on its way to deliver aid to Gaza

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