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Edition: U.S. Article Comments (14) Slideshow Video Save Email Print Reprints Most Popular Most Shared BP inches ahead in latest bid to control oil spill | Video 1:21am EDT Israel calls Gaza blockade critics "hypocrites" | Video 1:53am EDT China delays Gates trip in apparent snub for Taiwan 02 Jun 2010 Caffeine addicts get no real perk from morning cup 02 Jun 2010 WRAPUP 1-BP inches ahead in latest bid to control oil spill 1:19am EDT SCENARIOS-The future for BP after the oil spill 1:01am EDT Powerful Cyclone Phet barrels toward Oman 02 Jun 2010 Asian stock jump after U.S. data | Video 3:02am EDT AT&T to end unlimited use mobile data plan 02 Jun 2010 Hole opens in Guatemala neighborhood, 3 missing 23 Feb 2007 Costa Rica shuts stem cell clinic 02 Jun 2010 Caffeine addicts get no real perk from morning cup 02 Jun 2010 Iran to sell 45 bln euros, buy dollars, gold -Xinhua 02 Jun 2010 AT&T to end unlimited use mobile data plan 02 Jun 2010 Burger diet linked to higher childhood asthma risk 02 Jun 2010 Israel calls Gaza blockade critics "hypocrites" | Video 1:53am EDT 2010 hurricane season seen more active than feared 02 Jun 2010 Facebook CEO says no date in mind for IPO 02 Jun 2010 Obama extends benefits for gay federal employees 02 Jun 2010 Vitamin E linked to less of the skin disease eczema 28 May 2010 Israel calls Gaza blockade critics "hypocrites" Thu Jun 3, 2010 1:53am EDT Related News Israel tension boosts Turkey's popularity with Arabs 1:53am EDT U.N. rights body sets probe into flotilla raid 1:53am EDT Biden backs Israel's right to stop Gaza-bound ships 1:53am EDT Flotilla activists given hero's welcome in Turkey 1:53am EDT Related Video Netanyahu defends military's raid Wed, Jun 2 2010 Israel frees flotilla activists Tue, Jun 1 2010 Turkey wants Gaza blockade lifted Wed, Jun 2 2010 Egypt reopens Gaza border Tue, Jun 1 2010 Israel frees flotilla activists Turkey wants Gaza blockade lifted Egypt reopens Gaza border 1 / 30 Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a televised address at his office in Jerusalem, June 2, 2010. Credit: Reuters/Jim Hollander/Pool JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Defending Israel's enforcement of its blockade of Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday it was vital for security and would stay in place. World In a televised speech after world outrage erupted over nine deaths in Monday's seizure of a Turkish ship bound for Gaza, a defiant Netanyahu said easing controls would put Iranian missiles in the hands of the Palestinian enclave's Hamas rulers. This threatened not just Israel but Europe too, he said. Turkey, a Muslim country that had been Israel's strategic ally, accused it of "state terrorism" and has recalled its ambassador from Tel Aviv and demanded it lift its blockade. Those calls have been echoed by European leaders and the United Nations whose Human Rights Council voted to set up an independent fact-finding mission into the incident. Israel's key backer, the United States, is less outspoken. It has called for calm. Western powers agree with Israel that Iranian-backed Hamas is a threat but say the embargo should not punish the 1.5 million people trapped in the Gaza Strip. Netanyahu made no mention of launching any form of investigation, despite the growing calls inside Israel as well for a hard look at what critics say was a bungled raid. He lambasted world leaders for criticizing the ships' takeover, accusing some of holding Israel to what he called a double standard and questioning its right to defense. "Once again, Israel faces hypocrisy and a biased rush to judgment," Netanyahu said as he defended the actions of Israeli marines who, he said, fired in self-defense against Turks wielding sticks and knives on the cruise liner Mavi Marmara. "The international community cannot afford an Iranian port on the Mediterranean...The same countries that are criticizing us today, should know that they could be targeted tomorrow." British Foreign Secretary William Hague said leaders in London and Washington were discussing what might be done to ease the pain of the blockade on ordinary Gazans, telling parliament it had created an "unacceptable and unsustainable situation." TESTIMONY Israel said it was deporting all 682 activists from more than 35 countries detained after the assault in international waters on the six ships it commandeered. All but nine wounded prisoners were expected to be gone by the end of the day. The accounts of some released challenged Israeli versions that all of those shot, including two who grabbed pistols from the boarding party, were attacking the marines. Moroccan Islamist lawmaker Abdelkader Amara said: "I will never forget a Turkish companion. I had just left him to go down below and I thought he would follow me, and then I saw they had shot him in the chest and he died." Israel says it has not been able to identify all nine dead, but says most of them were Turks. It said the marines who rappelled onto the Mavi Marmara, fired in self-defense after activists attacked them with clubs, knives, as well as two pistols snatched from the commandos. Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai told parliament that two of the activists killed during the takeover were shot after they used the two handguns to wound two commandos. Turkey said three of the nine dead had been identified as Turks and a fourth had a Turkish credit card. Israel has not named publicly any of those killed. An opinion poll in Israel's Maariv newspaper showed that more than 60 percent of Israelis believed the interception was flawed operationally. But few question the Gaza blockade. TURKS SEIZED COMMANDOS Israeli military affairs experts have described the assault as a blunder because the strength of the resistance on board was underestimated. Andre Abu Khalil, a Lebanese television cameraman deported on Wednesday, said he saw Turks on the Mavi Marmara seize the first four commandos to land on the deck. Israel has said marines winched down from helicopters armed with riot-control paintball guns were beaten and about to be "lynched" before comrades opened fire with live ammunition. "The first attempt to descend failed. They detained four soldiers," Abu Khalil said. "They (Israelis) opened fire on three quarters of the men who were at the back of the ship." Tensions over the flotilla rippled through Israel's parliament on Wednesday where a Jewish lawmaker denounced as a traitor an Arab member, Hanin Zoabi, who had been aboard one of the ships. Another tried to grab Zoabi's microphone. A new attempt to bust the blockade loomed on the horizon: The MV Rachel Corrie, a converted merchant ship bought by pro-Palestinian activists and named after an American woman killed in the Gaza Strip in 2003, set off on Monday from Malta. It is carrying 15 activists, including a Northern Irish Nobel Peace laureate, and expects to be at the point of Monday's interception between Friday evening and Saturday morning, crew member Derek Graham told Irish state broadcaster RTE. Asked how Israel would treat any new attempt to steam into Gaza, Tzachi Hanegbi, head of parliament's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, said: "We cannot let them blur the red line Israel has set. Letting them in to help Hamas is not an option." Egypt, which has kept its own Gaza border largely closed since Hamas, an offshoot of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood, seized the territory in 2007, reopened the frontier. The move was widely seen as an attempt to deflect criticism of its blockade, and hundreds of Palestinians flocked to the frontier terminal at Rafah on Wednesday. It is the only Gaza crossing not controlled by Israel. (Additional reporting by Ari Rabinovitch in Jerusalem, Nidal al-Mughrabi in Rafah, Tom Perry in Ramallah, Marie-Louise Gumuchian in Dublin, Simon Cameron-Moore in Istanbul, Yara Bayoumy in Beirut, Zakia Abdennebi in Rabat and Lamine Chikh in Algiers; editing by Angus MacSwan) World Comments See All Comments (14) | Post Comment Jun 03, 2010 12:08am EDT lol, I’m not surprised to see in the picture that Netanyahu is doing something that looks like a Nazi salute. Very fitting for him, the photographer who took that picture, did a great job. alwaysright Report As Abusive Jun 03, 2010 12:17am EDT After what Israel has done, the world should be as concerned about them as anyone who commits terrorism! slsierz Report As Abusive Jun 03, 2010 12:37am EDT Israel, and the marines that repelled down showed AMAZING restraint. Had i been in command, and my soliders had come under that kind of savage attack, from a so called mission of peace, i would not have hesitated to target every club wielding man on that vessel, and not with paintballs. the armed activists on that ship were equipped with gas masks, weapons, and crude body armor. This was not a mission of peace, this was an attack on the Israeli military in the hopes of getting it on camera. Hamas, and The Palestinian org did not care how many of their own people died, only that they caused Israel a black eye. I can hardly wait, till Israel starts recognizing the Kurds, the way the Turks recognize Hamas. I wonder what kind of response that will draw. Hypocritical ones i imagine. JayWx Report As Abusive Jun 03, 2010 1:07am EDT I understand Israel’s reluctance to ease the blockade. However, I see the blockade as being forced on Israel as well, not just on Palestinians. Hamas, and others, are implacably determined to utterly annihilate Israel and will never be satisfied with anything less. Hamas and its supporters can afford any number of lost battles because Israel is not committed to their utter destruction. They can always regroup later. However the Israelis are always fighting for their very survival and can never afford to lose even one war. I’m not saying that everything Israel is doing is right, far from it, but they are not the fundamental problem here. Rather, it is the utter hatred Islamic extremists have for Jews which leaves Israelis little choice but to defend themselves at all costs or perish. Try really putting yourself in the place of ordinary Israelis knowing that Hamas won’t be satisfied until you’re dead and they are trying to import weapons into Gaza all the time to fire at you. The greatest enemies of peace for the Palestinian people are either Hamas or their own personal hatred for Israelis. RogerMaddrell Report As Abusive Jun 03, 2010 1:34am EDT Israelis are not fools to allow terrorists as peace workers….terrorists will be hiding some part of the peace ship! alphyn Report As Abusive Jun 03, 2010 1:51am EDT Israel is as dishonest as China. JaylikeBirdz Report As Abusive Jun 03, 2010 2:01am EDT A flotilla of activists arrived today at Polish port of Gdansk with supplies for half-million Jews hemmed into the Warsaw Ghetto. However, they were informed they were late as the Ghetto had already revolted and been liquidated with thousands of civilian casualties. Next they sought to help the Armenians whom they heard were being exterminated in Turkey, but found that the mere mention of this idea landed them in Turkish jails for a number of years, and that helping the Kurds was also just as problematic for the Turkish authorities. Next heading for South Africa to alleviate apartheid where relative newcomers were taking and settling land and water and keeping natives in bantustans under a state of military conquest and poverty, they found that there also they were too late, but a Jewish Judge there suggested they might find similar situations elsewhere, although he was roundly condemed by his community for this. Finally, with some doubt, they headed for Gaza City which they heard had become an outdoor prison with limited building and educational supplies and no exports allowed. However they were not able to reach there also. GodisRight Report As Abusive Jun 03, 2010 2:08am EDT The cost of Israel’s security is measured in human lives. I’m sure people are starving and hospitals, power plants and infrastructure haven’t been fixed since the last war on Gaza. Netanyahu doesn’t want peace, that would be a compromise. Israel can do whatever it wants, take it all and build cages around the animals. josh711 Report As Abusive Jun 03, 2010 2:34am EDT 1.5 million Palestinians blockaded and locked up in a modern ghetto just so Israelis can have their lebensraum. Those who don’t understand history are doomed to repeat it. sudpralad Report As Abusive See All Comments (14) Add a Comment *We welcome comments that advance the story directly or with relevant tangential information. We try to block comments that use offensive language or appear to be spam and review comments frequently to ensure they meet our standards. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. 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