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June 14th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The latest inquiry by an Israeli watchdog highlights the poor assessment made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who oversaw the onslaught at the time.
Netanyahu failed to “internalize that the forcible stopping of the flotilla was liable to spark a violent confrontation on the decks of the Mavi Marmara,” the report added, referring to the Turkish ship where the nine deaths occurred.
The findings come in contrast with the stance adopted by Israel’s hawkish premier, who defended his handling of the affair and praised the performance of his troops.
Press TV has conducted an interview with Dr. Paul Larudee, co-founder of Free Palestine Movement, to further discuss the issue. The following is a rough transcription of the interview.
Press TV: Netanyahu stood by his actions on the day the flotilla was attacked. Even now his office’s response to the Israel report is that the Israeli’s appreciate their prime minister keeping them safe. How do you think this will play out in Israelis’ minds, that Netanyahu ignored his own official sentiments, went at it alone, all supposedly for their safety?
Larudee: I’m not entirely certain that you have the right person to be speaking about the Israeli mind. However, my interpretation of the report is that the Israeli state controller is criticizing Netanyahu for not following the proper procedure. It’s not about ethnic cleansing or murder or an attack on a humanitarian flotilla or about denying the people of Gaza their rights to access to the sea and to humanitarian supplies. It’s not about any of that.
It’s about following proper procedure. They just want to make sure that when ethnic cleansing is performed, and murder, that they abide by the procedure for such things.
Press TV: Turkey has said that even with the publication of this report that an apology is still necessary for relations to normalize. With so many voice both internal and external criticizing Israel’s actions, should we expect a change of heart maybe on the part of the Israeli leadership?
Larudee: Maybe not a change of heart but maybe a change of mind because if it’s in their…to do business with Turkey, and if it’s in their mutual interests, then I’m sure that it will happen, but I don’t think that indicates a change of heart. It’s merely a change of strategy or change of mind.
Press TV: Looking at the Israeli strategy through all these years, it’s always been a strategy of violence. Do you believe that at some point the Israeli leadership will realize that this strategy of violence simply does not work?
Larudee: Until now I have to say that from their viewpoint it actually does work. Now the criticism that had taken place within Israel and is not limited just to the controller’s report has been largely on the basis that, ‘well, we want to be criminal but we don’t want to look criminals and, therefore, please, when you perform your criminal act, do it in such a way that we can find a way to justify it.’
In the West, this is known as putting lipstick on a pig. A pig is a disgusting animal and putting lipstick on it is not going to fool anyone.
Groups like the … [Israeli] institute [preparing the report] have, as I said shortly after the attack in an article that was published on Counterpunch, I said this institute is asking the Israeli government, ‘please, please give us the opportunity to perform cosmetic surgery on this pig so that people won’t recognize that it’s a disgusting animal quite so soon’.
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