Israel amenable to UN probe of Gaza flotilla incident

israel should reject the invetigation.specily rejecting the represeation from turky .i thing we should have 2 UN to saperate the democratics countrys from dictaorship country or places.

some people want to be citizens of the world. yet they use dictatorships to achieve this goal.

As it shall be abundantly clear to all including delusional contibutors to this board that a tectonic irreversible shitf is taking place in terms of Israel's position relative to Turkey. With its unprovoked attack on a humanitarian supply vessel and the 'murder' by the Israeli Offense Force of ten unarmed activists Israel ineptly shot herself in the foot. As increasingly more policy makers admit openly that "Israel is America's greatest liability" aided by the bloody flotilla adventurism by Israeli 'Offense' Forces the US administration reprioritized its allies; Turkey and Israel in that order. After all the US needs Turkey far more than it needs tiny Israel inconsequential in the big picture which is considered by many to be "America's greatest liability". The US efforts to pull out of Iraq, the Afghan mission etc can only beexecuted with Ankara's collaboration and helping hand. Turkey's last request; the apology shall also be forthcoming in the not too distant future. Tiny Israel under its extremist administration ended up being the big loser!

Your writing is straight from the John Birch Society, talking about the US surrendering sovereignty and outsourcing US foreign policy. It is almost as if you are quoting from one of their newspapers? Is that where your ideas come from? They make mainstream Republicans (even by today's standards) look rational.

Israel is a suspect in a murder case. Israel has tampered with the crime scene. Israel has confiscated all evidence from victims ... video cameras, mobile phones etc ... What is there to investigate ?

..... the main objection I have is the imposition of such panel for, practically a skirmish, when compared with the huge genocidal wars going on all over the world. Another objection I have, is how come there are any doubts what happened when looking at the videos?? Saying the videos are not true, as many posters are claiming here? That sounds like the Arab opposition to Harriri investigation..... In short, denying the obvious, and the truth, has become the standard of UN's existence???

Ravid is roughing feathers, but deep down he is harmless porcupine.

accordong to haaretz, the most anti israeli paper in the workd, the UN and all of you... we are guilty.

the obama administration has outsourced united states national security interests to the corrupt un. now susan rice wants to pressure israel to do the same. the turkish flotilla fiasco could have been prevented had the administration taken the elementary precaution to call erdogan to discourage him from allowing the terror ship mavi marmara from setting sail from turkish port and under turkish flag. however, the impression one gets is that the us administration, at the highest levels, was unwilling to take such a step. it is doubtful that this administration is capable of fully realising the harm being done to its own interests. it is most definitely not in the interests of the united states that two allies such as turkey and israel become adversaries. this un sponsored "investigation" will only serve those who hope to diminish us sovereignty and, by extension, israel's ability to defend herself.

The likelihood of US abandoning Israel and Netanyahu accepting it is too low. what I see is a good chess move. I don't think that US would ever throw Israel into lion's den. I think something else was planned in the Obama Netanyahu meeting. Obama cannot risk angering Turkey more, cannot risk giving up on Israel. he had to push for the int'l probe so that Turkey felt like he was on their side. yet he probably assured Netanyahu during their meeting that the probe was necessary, but the outcome would not hurt Israel. I think US will ensure that the probe will find IHH guilty. Turkey will not be able to blame US since Obama seems to have forced Israel. and Israel will be free of guilt, knowing at the same time that the US actually helped them. That's the perfect outcome for the US. if they can affect the outcome of the probe undetected, that is.

"According to Ban's proposal, a review panel would examine the investigations that Israel and Turkey are carrying out. " That is what the UN is requesting. The idea you had, and which many others had first, is not going to happen. If you want to think your idea was original, have fun.

You have got to be kidding! This man should be in prison. He was part of the Medellin drug cartel. All of his opponents ended up 6 feet under. Susan Rice belongs there herself for her coddling of S.A. strong men. The world is upside down!

"Critical to US interests at the UN", is what Rice said. One would wonder the connection. But Turkey -- a crucial NATO ally and growing economy -- is working hard behind the scenes, let's put it that way. Of course, naive individuals who are matrixed in their little bubble don't know the influence Turkey has, thinking it's a kind of Iran or Syria. Stiff-necked and proud or not, when it comes to your donor, you've got to obey.

These headlines are of fleeting import. Why betcha tomorrow's will read Israel is not amenable to UN probe of Gaza flotilla incident.

However, nothing less than FULL access and co-operation from ALL involved, including the release of ALL videos (un-touched) would be acceptable... It is also good to see the US (eventually) realising that it cannot continue to "blindly" back Israel on everthing she does. As if the US's credibility isn't damaged enough. Anyway, we'll see...

This would set a precedent in international law. No other nation has had this kind of investigation forced upon it for such a minor incident. If Netanyahu agrees to this witch hunt Israel will be investigated for every time one of its soldiers fires a bullet.

I doubt if the international community would accept ANY government's demand that it judge on the correctness of its own actions with no international input. However, granting Israel's history of "It didn't happen", "Maybe an isolated instance", Well, yes , it did happen, but...", input becomes particularly important.

Israel cannot accept that an hostile foreign organization meddles into Israel affairs.

...and personally speaking--everything I ever got in life--came with "strings attached." (And the older I got, the more I came to believe--that it was "just how the world works"--whether I liked it or not.)

But there will be too many Israeli preconditions for it to work.

This is the right way to solve the problem. Abiding by international law strengthens Israel. Anyway If u want to handshake with someone u should clean ur hands first.

That way you get to put in your two cents from the beginning. Refusing to cooperate just makes you look guilty.

Here is an early suggestion of mine: It would have been best to have an international commission with an Israeli, a Turk, and two neutral/foreign members that Israel and Turkey would agree on. This should have been arranged in negotiations between Israel and Turkey. A majority vote would have meant 3:1, a convincing majority with the two neutrals probably agreeing. Such an arrangement would have improved the relationship between Turkey and Israel, while a strictly Israeli commission can only create more distrust. Unfortunately, Israeli paranoia precluded this from happening. I hope the UN Secretary General pushes for such an arrangement.