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The panel's conclusion vindicated totally Israel's legal authority to stop the flotilla of six ships that sought to break the embargo in 2010. There were two rationales that bear clear statement:
First: The blockade was imposed to stop Hamas and other radical Palestinians from importing weaponry after raining thousands of rockets into Israel. Second: Preventing shipping into Gaza has a negligible impact on Palestinians' quality of life because the territory's ports cannot berth ships with substantial cargoes of humanitarian supplies.
Those truths make the Palmer Commission report a stunning rebuttal to the world chorus condemning Israeli military action that led to nine deaths on a vessel called the Mavi Marmara that refused to turn back. Chief among those rebuked was the government of Turkey, where the flotilla debarked and which served as its enabler.
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