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The apology is not enough the families say. They want the end to the siege of Gaza.

 

(Reuters) - Israel's apology to Turkey over the 2010 killing of nine Turks aboard a Gaza-bound aid ship did not go far enough and Israeli soldiers will be pursued in court, survivors of the incident said on Monday.

 

 

Ahmet Varol, a journalist who was on the Mavi Marmara, said one "formula for a resolution" would be for Israel to provide a timetable for ending the blockade of Gaza, ruled by the Islamist Hamas movement, and make Turkey a monitor of that process.

 

"Our efforts are for the full lifting of the blockade. Nobody wants compensation, and while an apology may have diplomatic meaning, it means nothing to the victims," he said.

 

The apology nonetheless showed Israel had accepted its wrongdoing in the incident, Varol added.

 

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And I want a billion dollars.

 
 Generally speaking, when someone goes on a rant like this instead of answering the question, it's because they are pleading the fifth. I'm sure this is no exception. 
 
I would imagine your refusal to answer the question is because you didn't support the sanctions against Iraq - as you criticize Thatcher for not supporting the sanctions against South Africa, for the same reasons. Quite telling.

All these various 'pics with quips' remind me of posters from the USSR days.

It stimulated discussion...

I checked it out....

It isn't the world they don't want to know, it is their enemies who put them there.

Oh, please...OK...who is the puppet master now?

I agree. Again, I just didn't want to be critical of just the one side ... 

 

I think it's worth pointing out that Mandela and the president of South Africa at the time received the Nobel Peace Prize. 

 

The Nobel Peace Prize 1993 was awarded jointly to Nelson Mandela and Frederik Willem de Klerk "for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa"

And that's the joke.