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No Passaran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-06-10 05:19 PM
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Israel Navy reserves officers: Allow external Gaza flotilla probe
Source: HAARETZ

A group of top Israel Navy reserves officers on Sunday publicly called on Israel to allow an external probe into its commando raid of a Gaza-bound humanitarian aid flotilla last week, which left nine people dead and several more wounded.

Read more: http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-navy-reserves-officers-allow-external-gaza-flotilla-probe-1.294536
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LakeSamish706 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-06-10 05:28 PM
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1. Wow, now thats splitting with your own Government! I wonder what
Netanyahu will think about this?
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Chulanowa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-06-10 05:59 PM
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2. Happens all the time
The Israeli government regularly ignores rulings of the Israeli supreme court.

However, that this is military does make things a little more attention-getting.
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madchick44 Donating Member (61 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-06-10 06:50 PM
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3. They have plenty "refuseniks" but you will not hear much about them
Israel is an iron-fist democracy. A democray only because people can vote. Otherwise, it is an apartheid state.
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yava Donating Member (384 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-06-10 08:19 PM
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4. There they are, the brave good men in Israel
I am thankful they spoke.
Lets follow their advice and make Israel relevant again.
It takes balls to call a cat a cat.
And this message is not from the settlements' consituency of younger IDF members.
Listen to the older guys.
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subsuelo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-06-10 09:23 PM
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6. This will be spun as Israel's tolerance for a broad range of views. n/t
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Barack_America Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-06-10 08:23 PM
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5. A reasonable request by reasonable men.
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