cierre de embajadas?¿ nose....

Hereje escribió:....(creo que no hay que explayarse mucho sobre todo lo que le ha caido encima)....
Turkey's Erdogan bears responsibility in flotilla fiasco
Saturday, June 5, 2010
WESTERN GOVERNMENTS have been right to be concerned about Israel's poor judgment and botched execution in the raid against the Free Gaza flotilla. But they ought to be at least as worried about the Turkish government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, which since Monday has shown a sympathy toward Islamic militants and a penchant for grotesque demagoguery toward Israel that ought to be unacceptable for a member of NATO.
On the opposite page today, Turkey's ambassador to the United States makes the argument that Israel had no cause to clash with the "European lawmakers, journalists, business leaders and an 86-year-old Holocaust survivor" who were aboard the flotilla. But there was no fighting with those people, or with five of the six boats in the fleet. All of the violence occurred aboard the Turkish ferry Mavi Marmara, and all of those who were killed were members or volunteers for the Islamic "charity" that owned the ship, the Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH).
The relationship between Mr. Erdogan's government and the IHH ought to be one focus of any international investigation into the incident. The foundation is a member of the "Union of Good," a coalition that was formed to provide material support to Hamas and that was named as a terrorist entity by the United States in 2008. In discussions before the flotilla departed, Turkish officials turned down offers from both Israel and Egypt to deliver the "humanitarian" supplies on the boats to Gaza and insisted Ankara could not control what it described as a nongovernmental organization.
Yet the IHH has certainly done its best to promote Mr. Erdogan. "All the peoples of the Islamic world would want a leader like Recep Tayyip Erdogan," IHH chief Bulent Yildirim proclaimed at a Hamas rally in Gaza last year. And Mr. Erdogan seems to share that notion: In the days since an incident that the IHH admits it provoked, the Turkish prime minister has done his best to compete with Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hezbollah's Hasan Nasrallah in attacking the Jewish state.
"The heart of humanity has taken one of her heaviest wounds in history," Mr. Erdogan claimed this week. He has had next to nothing to say about the slaughter of Iranians protesting last year's fraudulent elections, but he called Israel's actions "state terrorism" and a "bloody massacre" and described Israel itself as an "adolescent, rootless state." His foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, said in Washington on Tuesday that "this attack is like 9/11 for Turkey" -- an obscene comparison to events in which more than 2,900 genuinely innocent people were killed.
Mr. Erdogan's crude attempt to exploit the incident comes only a couple of weeks after he joined Brazil's president in linking arms with Mr. Ahmadinejad, whom he is assisting in an effort to block new U.N. sanctions. What's remarkable about his turn toward extremism is that it comes after more than a year of assiduous courting by the Obama administration, which, among other things, has overlooked his antidemocratic behavior at home, helped him combat the Kurdish PKK and catered to Turkish sensitivities about the Armenian genocide. Israel is suffering the consequences of its misjudgments and disregard of U.S. interests. Will Mr. Erdogan's behavior be without cost?
chechitar_1985 escribió:es un tema bastante complejo, ya que la flotilla iba a violar el bloqueo impuesto por Israel a la franja de gaza.
pienso que lo que se debe hacer es una investigación 100% independiente, en la que no intervenga personal militar israelí, ni turco, para que haya probabilidades de resultados.
'Israel may have ordered Kurdish terror attack'
One of most important newspapers in Turkey says intelligence services looking into suspicions that bombing on same day of deadly Navy raid was 'message to Ankara'
Ynet Published: 06.06.10, 14:25 / Israel News
Turkish authorities are accusing Israel of "ordering" a terror attack carried out by Kurdish rebels on the same day the Israeli Navy raided a Turkish-owned Gaza-bound ship last week in revenge for Ankara's involvement in the incident, Turkish newspaper Zaman reported Sunday.
Seven Turkish soldiers were killed in Monday's attack, which took place at a Turkish navy base in the southern city of Iskenderun. It occurred several hours after the Israel Defense Forces' raid on the Marmara vessel left nine activists killed.
tayun escribió:Hereje escribió:....(creo que no hay que explayarse mucho sobre todo lo que le ha caido encima)....
¿Y qué les ha caido, además de los comentarios de siempre, por los de siempre?.
La OTAN apoya investigación independiente del asalto israelí a la "Flotilla de la Libertad"
Bruselas, 1 de junio, RIA Novosti. El secretario general de la OTAN, Anders Vogh Rasmussen, condenó hoy el asalto militar israelí a la "Flotilla de la Libertad" y apoyó la investigación independiente del incidente.
"Comparto la propuesta de la ONU y de la Unión Europea de realizar una investigación imparcial e independiente del asalto israelí a la flotilla humanitaria", declaró Rasmussen a través de un comunicado.
La madrugada del lunes, 31 de mayo, las Fuerzas Navales de Israel asaltaron en aguas neutrales del Mediterráneo a una flotilla integrada por seis barcos que transportaban cargamento humanitario a la Franja de Gaza.
El cargamento iba acompañado por unos 600 activistas de derechos humanos, en su mayoría ciudadanos turcos. En los barcos también se encontraban representantes de muchos países occidentales.
Según informaron los medios de prensa, el asalto israelí costó la vida a 19 personas. Israel confirma la muerte de nueve personas.
Rasmussen comentó que durante la reunión extraordinaria del Consejo de la OTAN celebrada hoy en el nivel de embajadores por petición de Turquía, hubo un amplio intercambio de opiniones sobre el trágico incidente en el Mediterráneo.
Norway calls for boycott on arms to Israel
"Everyone should follow the Norwegian position which excludes trading arms with Israel," said Kristin Halvorsen, education minister and head of the Socialist Left party, according to the Dagbladet tabloid.
"It doesn't have much of an effect if we do it alone, but the current situation is unbearable," she added.
Norway on Monday summoned the Israeli ambassador in Oslo and condemned the raid as "unacceptable".
Norwegian foreign ministry spokesman Bjørn Jahnsen meanwhile told AFP that the three Norwegians who had been onboard one of the flotilla's six boats were unharmed and detained in the south of Israel.
Nine of the flotilla's passengers were killed when Israeli commandoes attacked it early Monday.
The ships, carrying more than 700 passengers, were on the last leg of a high-profile mission to deliver some 10,000 tonnes of supplies to Hamas-run Gaza as part of a protest against the blockade.
Kristin Halvorsen, education minister and head of the Socialist Left party
I would like to express my deep regret over the loss of lives and the other casualties resulting from the use of force during the incident involving the convoy sailing to Gaza. I offer sincere condolences to the families of all victims and condemn the acts which have led to this tragedy. I add my voice to the calls by the United Nations and the European Union for a prompt, impartial, credible and transparent investigation into the incident.
As a matter of urgency, I also request the immediate release of the detained civilians and ships held by Israel.
Isocrates escribió:Pero Israel anunció la imposición de un bloqueo en una zona concreta y para cambiar las circunstancias del bloqueo debe anunciarlo del mismo modo.
Actuar fuera de la zona de bloqueo rompiendo la norma de conducta que había seguido -y que es indicativa de la forma en la que el propio Israel interpretaba las reglas del bloqueo- fue un error.
Section II : Precautions in attack
46. With respect to attacks, the following precautions shall be taken:
(a) those who plan, decide upon or execute an attack must take all feasible measures to gather information which will assist in determining whether or not objects which are not military objectives are present in an area of attack;
(b) in the light of the information available to them, those who plan, decide upon or execute an attack shall do everything feasible to ensure that attacks are limited to military objectives;
(c) they shall furthermore take all feasible precautions in the choice of methods and means in order to avoid or minimize collateral casualties or damage; and
(d) an attack shall not be launched if it may be expected to cause collateral casualties or damage which world be excessive in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated from the attack as a whole; an attack shall be cancelled or suspended as soon as it becomes apparent that the collateral casualties or damage would be excessive.
102. The declaration or establishment of a blockade is prohibited if:
(a) it has the sole purpose of starving the civilian population or denying it other objects essential for its survival; or
(b) the damage to the civilian population is, or may be expected to be, excessive in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated from the blockade.
Adiutrix escribió:Isocrates escribió:Pero Israel anunció la imposición de un bloqueo en una zona concreta y para cambiar las circunstancias del bloqueo debe anunciarlo del mismo modo.
Pero es que no deben anunciarlo. No hay documento legal que los obliga a hacerlo. Las leyes y reglamentos que se refieren a los bloqueos facultan a estos señores actuar donde les dé la gana (excepto aguas neutrales) contra un buque que se sabe navega hacia la zona del bloqueo con la intención de forzarlo.
Actuar fuera de la zona de bloqueo rompiendo la norma de conducta que había seguido -y que es indicativa de la forma en la que el propio Israel interpretaba las reglas del bloqueo- fue un error.
¿Qué tipo de error? Un crimen de guerra? Ese error tiene que especificarse de alguna manera.
Isocrates escribió:Las leyes internacionales no facultan a nadie ha actuar donde le de la gana.
Section IV : Areas of naval warfare
10. Subject to other applicable rules of the law of armed conflict at sea contained in this document or elsewhere, hostile actions by naval forces may be conducted in, on or over:
...
(b) the high seas...
Section II : Visit and search of merchant vessels
Basic rules
118. In exercising their legal rights in an international armed conflict at sea, belligerent warships and military aircraft have a right to visit and search merchant vessels outside neutral waters where there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that they are subject to capture.
Adiutrix escribió:Isocrates escribió:Las leyes internacionales no facultan a nadie ha actuar donde le de la gana.
Y sin embargo, sí lo hacen.Section IV : Areas of naval warfare
10. Subject to other applicable rules of the law of armed conflict at sea contained in this document or elsewhere, hostile actions by naval forces may be conducted in, on or over:
...
(b) the high seas...Section II : Visit and search of merchant vessels
(...)
SECCIÓN IV - ZONAS DE GUERRA NAVAL
10. A reserva de otras normas aplicables del derecho de los conflictos armados en el mar contenidas en este o en otros documentos, las fuerzas navales pueden llevar a cabo acciones hostiles en o sobre:
a) el mar territorial y las aguas interiores, los territorios terrestres, la zona económica exclusiva y la plataforma continental y, en caso dado, las aguas archipelágicas de los Estados beligerantes;
b) la alta mar; y
c) la zona económica exclusiva y la plataforma continental de los Estados neutrales, a reserva de lo dispuesto en los párrafos 34 y 35.
[b]
11. Se insta a las partes en conflicto a convenir no llevar a cabo acciones hostiles en zonas marítimas que contengan:
a) ecosistemas raros o frágiles, o
b) el hábitat de especies u otras formas de vida marina diezmadas, amenazadas o en peligro de extinción.
12. Cuando realicen operaciones en zonas sobre las cuales haya Estados neutrales que tengan derechos soberanos, jurisdicción u otros derechos de acuerdo con el derecho internacional general, los beligerantes deberán tener debidamente en cuenta los legítimos derechos y obligaciones de esos Estados neutrales.
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