'I take full responsibility,' Barak tells Gaza flotilla probe

Sorry to say Cipora I agreeonly a drop in the ocean)but knowing the said money will end up in the hands of Hassan.The whole arm are followers of Hizballah anyway. Meantime Israel gets bashed by all sides with no outlet to get FROM under the scrutiny every step of the way.. Enough with this unwarranted flotilla investigation that has benhashed and rehashed for over month plus. As far as Obama is concerned why did he decide to give monies to the leabanese army(not

Much do to do about perception. Only 15% of any speech is accurately comprehended...This is not a contradiction by Barack but a personal perception. consider, if the "humanitarian" aid was sent through regular channels there would not have been any conflict.... "Your Honor it all started when he hit me back"

What I like about Barak is that he publicly announced full responsibility of a war crime and unreasoned aggression without any regard to the world since I am confident he will definitely not be held accountable for that and sewed in the right way. And while the Gaza flotilla can be stopped in tens of "peaceful" ways Barak and his government decided to attack the ships and let their commandos jump to create tension which is reality that was imposed by the IDF and created tension and therefore killing people. Barak is now publicly announcing the responsibility of aggression, violence, and the death of people, but the question is what happens next? Is he going to be jailed? Or he said that to be proud of himself in front of the Israeli public since he would claim defending his country's security by doing that! In Israel, a war criminal like Barak is treated as a hero and even he uses his criminal adventures to be elected by the Israeli public, what a country! and what a fair world!

If Barak is THE expert on national defense, Israel is indeed in trouble. Let us take a look at Barak's most famous recent actions: 1. The 2007 bombing of alleged Syrian nuclear reactor. The IAF carries out a brilliant attack, except that it would have been much better not to destroy the facility but to inform IAEA, then see Syria under UN sanctions, as Iran is today. Syria got off scot free, and a nuclear facility there was never certified officially by IAEA. A major failure of Israeli statesmanship.// 2. Operation Cast lead in Gaza (2008/9). The IDF avoids contact with Hamas to reduce casualties. There are mostly IAF bombings, which is fine except that the operation lasts 22 days instead of 2-3 days. When all you want is to destroy, better stop when all targets are gone. Beyond this you simply accummulate war crimes.// 3. The "flotilla" incident. Passengers' reaction was not taken into account even though according to Netanyahu they were known to be "hostile". The Turks lost 9 people, and everybody in Israel considers this a failure, as it should be.// What is the sourse of Barak's failure? It is very obvious, Barak does not understand how normal civilized people react to his actions. This lack of understanding of human reaction is the root of Barak's failure as a politician but, strangely, it affects seriously his military actions as well. The man is a good strategist but with a faulty political head.

Confused? You will be!! In fact, this so called "internal probe" has MANY parallels with that show... Those that remember the show will know what I mean... The only thing we want to know however is, WHERE'S BENSON??

I think Israeli investigative committee does the things so right that Bibi and Barak will come out of this so called 'court' as national heros. Nice and clever move from Israel !

this man is dangerous he ducks and dives twists and turns at the expense of everyone why is he still in office in any other country for such a mess up he would have had to resign

"Barak's testimony apparently contradicts Monday's testimony before the committee by Netanyahu, who said that discussions before the raid focused largely on the likely impact on public relations, while the chance of violent confrontation was mentioned only in passing. : What "apparent' contradiction is somehow substantiated by the context of this article or Barak’s testimony versus that of Netanyahu? None what so ever! Despite scenarios of violence being discussed, that does not mean they took precedence in the dialogue between the leaders. Is these journalism or dramaticism?

The flotilla skillfully used international media, declaring day and night about their nonviolent intentions. This in order to cover up on their original plan: to use a group of violent peace activists in order to kidnap a few soldiers, whereby blackmailing their entrance to Gaza with hostages. They fooled us all. Nevertheless, their plan didn't work either. The effective investigation would be to question the activists themselves. However, these activists were immediately released under pressure form the good friend of Islam: BHO. With current probe, politicians and media moguls play their usual game of throwing dirt at each other.

any person could have predicted that the so-called international community would jump at israel's throat. israel has been the punching bag of the international community for decades. such considerations have led to many risk averse actions on the part of israel, in the hope of avoiding being punched by various international bodies. this political strategy has not succeeded. to the contrary, it has only emboldened israel's enemies while not satisfying israel's putative allies. under the new obama administration, this state of affairs will unfortunately continue.

In principal Israel had no choice but to stop the flotilla, sure it is easy to say let these ships land and stop the upcoming flotillas...but practiclally you either have a blockade or you don't.....There is enough weaponry and personnel being smuglled in that the best choice was to stop it....remeneber that the reson flr the blockade was the fact that EU perssonel fled the Gaza strip and abandoned the customs control at the border which was brojered by Codoleeza Rice, this left the Gaza border with Egypt under Egyptian control only with all manner of goods flowing this left the sea blockade the only alternative....organizations have abandoned their resonsibilties laying it to Israel to enforce its citizens safety. Ehich Israel has a responsibilty. The world has abandoned all manner of sensible thinking in regards the question of a solution to Israels disposition of its lands during the 67 war in which Israel was attacked by its neighbors for the fourth time.

Due to the criminal acts of the IDF and the responsabilíty of M. Barak, I advise him not to leave his country otherwise he will end in a prison outside Israel as other criminals, like Milosevic etc.

Nuremberg consequences.

Bibi : Its Barak's fault , but I take responsibility . Barak : No , I take the responsibility , but its the IDF's fault .

....that you are dancing with the wrong ensemble. That you under-estimate your own country .... the thumbs are telling that, too...

"...Barak's testimony apparently contradicts Monday's testimony before the committee by Netanyahu..." Not true at all. A big "apparently" for Haaretz, whose interest here is APPARENTLY not to report news but to incite and exacerbate divisiveness in Israel. A sham and a shame.

First Lebanon and now this? Why is he still the defence minister?

barak needed to take full responsibility. now let's see if anyone on the turkish side will take any responsibility at all for letting known terrorists to own and sail a ship from a turkish port.

It is interesting that Barak is able to wear a jacket in this heat.