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by Ron Ben-Yishai
A close review of the full Palmer Report leaves Israeli readers with an uncomfortable feeling. As opposed to the impression created by leaks to the media, the United Nations did not absolve Israel of guilt. The UN indeed justified the Gaza blockade, legally and morally, yet the report’s authors rather explicitly assigned Israel the main blame for the death of nine Turkish nationals and the wounding of others. Another charge is the improper treatment of flotilla activists after they were detained and brought to Israel.
The report does not ignore the deliberately violent abandon of members of Islamist Turkish group IHH and the abuse of Navy commandoes aboard the Marmara. The flotilla members are described in harsh terms, yet in the same breath the authors make claims implying that Navy commandoes were trigger-happy and caused needless deaths.
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Full text of Palmer Report
