Elder of Ziyon Daily Digest

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Amnesty seizes on Palmer's criticism of Israel, ignores rest of report Posted: 03 Sep 2011 08:42 PM PDT Amnesty International has come out with their comments on the Palmer Report. Curiously, they are only on video. What is not surprising is: They seize on the one relatively small part of the report critical of Israel and completely ignore the other parts of the report - including those critical of Turkey and the flotilla organizers. They do not address, at all, the parts of the report that completely contradict Amnesty's own legal reasonings. They continue to call the Turkel report a "whitewash" even though the Palmer report was much closer to the Turkel report in most important matters, and Turkel himself recommended that the testimony of soldiers be made public - the exact opposite of a "whitewash." They never responded to Turkel's not Palmer's, extensive legal arguments. Truth does not seem to be what Amnesty is interested in.

PA: Palmer report "violates international law" (updated) Posted: 03 Sep 2011 06:42 PM PDT From Ma'an: The Palestinian Authority on Saturday condemned a UN report into a deadly Israeli raid on a Turkish-led aid flotilla as a political document not based on international law. "This report is terrible and negative. It's a purely political report, it's not legal," Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat said of the report on the May 2010 raid which killed nine Turkish activists. "It's a political report that is not based on international law, but on the contrary, it violates international law, because the Gaza Strip is still under Israeli occupation," he told AFP. "Israel's actions against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip has reached the level of war crimes," he said. I have a feeling we will not see a scholarly repudiation of the Palmer report by Erekat, and that his criticisms will remain on the level of the political equivalent of schoolyard insults. UPDATE: Challah Hu Akbar notes that the PA criticized the report without even reading it!

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