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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyhu has announced that a special independent committee will be set up  to investigate the Gaza flotilla raid that will include an observer from  Canada and one from Northern Ireland.

The committee  will investigate the IDF raid on the Gaza-bound flotilla and give a “credible and convincing response” to the world.

He added that the investigation would prove that Israel’s conduct had been “lawful, responsible and transparent.”

The committee will be headed by retired Supreme Court judge Jacob Terkel, with the other Israeli members being international law expert Shabtai Rosen, and Maj.-Gen (res.) Amos Horev, who formerly served as president of the Technion.The international observers, who will participate both in the hearings and the consultations, are David Trimble, a politician from Northern Ireland who served as leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) and shared the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize with John Hume, and Canadian Ken Watkin, the former Judge Advocate General of the Armed Forces.

The committee will make decisions regarding whether the steps Israel took to prevent ships from reaching the Gaza coast, and “other matters tied up with this,” were in accordance with international law,the security circumstances that led to the naval blockade, the acts Israel took on May 31 to stop the flotilla from reaching Gaza, and whether these were  in accordance with international law.

The White House responded to the announcement, saying the proposed committee was an important step, that the administration had confidence in Israel’s ability to conduct an impartial, credible, and transparent investigation.

So why does the U.N.O. feel there is need for another     investigation? A completely international one?

Is the flotilla the reason for the new great rise in anti-Israel feeling and anti-semitism in the world?

For suddenly we are also being boycotted even by foreign artists. Different singers and singing groups have suddenly canceled their planned performances here, and Israeli singers who were to perform abroad, have also had their shows canceled.

Though Hamas who has taken over the Gaza Strip, runs a theocratic police state based on torture and terror, with no freedom of speech, no freedom for any religious expression outside of radical Islam, seeks to annihilate the Jewish state, and its state-controlled media depict Israelis and Jews as worthy of death, the world sees Israel, not Hamas, as the villain.

Why is Israel  the most censured country in United Nations history?

One Israeli leader said: “If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence.  If the Jews put  down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel .” And that is so true.

With these words I end today’s blog.

Shalom from Irene

Again violence in Jerusalem, this time it was Muslim Arabs on the Temple Mount where the El Aqsa mosque stands, in the place of the former destroyed Jewish Holy Temple.

It’s a known fact that in many areas of the world where churches and places of prayer by other religions were destroyed, the Muslims have built mosques on these sites.

This time they took their rioting further than usual, by throwing stones and rocks from the Mount above, at the people below, who were praying by the Western Wall, the only remnant left of the Temple and the holiest place for Jews.

The police were called in and manged to disperse the rioters - many were wounded on both sides. Now, until things quieten down, only people wishing to pray above the age of 40 are allowed to enter the Temple Mount on their way to the mosque. I hope everything will return to  normal soon

The massacre of Armenians by Turkey during World War I has come into the news again.

An American diplomatic source said that a resolution classifying the World War I killing of Armenians as genocide  passed a House committee in Washington on Thursday.

It is a well-known fact that this genocide happened but for political reasons it has been kept quiet for these many years by most countries in the world, even I must regretfully admit by Israel.

The passage of the resolution in the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee has triggered a crisis in Turkish-US ties. The resolution will now go to the House floor for a vote.

A similar resolution passed the House Committee in 2007, but then-President George W. Bush urged Congressional leaders not to table the vote because of concern for US-Turkish relations.

If any of my readers are interested in details of this act of genocide, I suggest they read the book,The Forty Days of Musa Dagh”  which is a historical novel depicting the heroic battle of Musa Dagh, which took place in 1915.

For months the ruthless Turks had waged a campaign of terror against the Armenians –  massacring ,hanging, looting and raping. This great novel was written in 1933 by the Austrian writer France Werfel.

An Israeli film called “Ajami” was amongst five films  nominated for the Oscar prize for foreign films this year.

Ajami depicts the brutal life involving drugs, violence and poverty in the Jewish-Arab neighborhood by this name in Jaffa and the film was directed by Scandar Copti, an Israeli Arab, and Yaron Shani, an Israeli Jew.

The movie used mainly nonprofessional actors, who were taught in special workshops before filming began.

Some of these actors are themselves residents of the Ajami district.

But this film is not typical  of all Muslim-Christian-Jewish relationships in Israel, which are usually normally good.

It depicts only one small poor and unhappy area. Anyway, the film didn’t get any prize, an Argentinian film got the Oscar.

With this I close today. Shalom from Irene