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Title..Netanyahu rejects U.N.-proposed panel of inquiry

By JTA |
June 06, 2010

JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Israel has rejected a United Nations proposal to establish an international commission to probe the deaths of nine activists on a Gaza-bound flotilla.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Saturday night proposed a commission of inquiry headed by former New Zealand Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer and including representatives from the United States, Turkey and Israel, according to reports.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told members of his Cabinet Sunday that he had rejected Ban's proposal, Haaretz reported.

"I told the U.N. chief that establishing the facts must be conducted responsibly and objectively," Netanyahu said. "I am looking into other possibilities."

Netanyahu said he told Ban that any investigation also would need have a mandate to discover who organized, funded and equipped the members of extremist groups who boarded the Turkish ship Marmara. The groups' members carried no identification. 

Category: Freedom Flotilla

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2 Comments

  1. LG 06 Jun

    Netanyahu should be reminded that he too will be investigated, and that he has no rights as to his input regarding the parameters or scope of the investigation. Group members, as he calls the participants on the flotillas, should not have been searched or their ID and belongings confiscated, or attack by armed militia, or shot and killed, or kipnapped, beaten severely and then deported.
    There should be no further input whatsoever from Netanyahu and his armed thugs. They should be quarantined  - a prison will do, until the investigation is completed.

  2. Penumbra 06 Jun

    Only one extremist group ever boarded any of those ships, the IDF.
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