documentWhat have we been doing for the past 20 years? What have we been doing since [President George H.W.] Bush told us that if we recognize IsraelHouse Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)1 pp.
accept the two-state solution and renounce violence
documentWhy? I don't see any contradiction between an effort to revive peace talks and our going to the U.N. AlsoHouse Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)1 pp.
[for all practical purposes] we are already at the U.N. It's there.... And all those who support the 1967 lines [the border before Israel seized the West Bank during that year's Middle East War] with mutually agreed swap [of land] should su...
documentPalestinian leaders say they have enough votes for such a move. But with two weeks before the General Assembly convenesHouse Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)1 pp.
documentSignificantlyHouse Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)1 pp.
it appears that Turkey’s tactics shifted considerably in the intervening year since the original crisis. Ankara thinks that it is in the driver’s seat not just with respect to Israel
documentOn the Israeli sideHouse Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)1 pp.
hard-line foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman at every turn tried to prevent a negotiated outcome from being finalized. Turks did not make it easier either by taking inflexible positions that made it hard for the Israelis to apologize. As I....
documentAs Turkey insisted on an apology and compensationHouse Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)1 pp.
it became clear that Israel had lost the public-opinion contest and may even be forced to relax the embargo on Gaza. Having found that it had done nothing wrong
documentThe Justice and Development Party government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan had begun to sour on Israel following Israel’s incursion into Gaza in late 2008. Erdogan was miffed that the then Israeli prime minister Ehud OlmertHouse Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)1 pp.
who had visited him in Ankara only four days before the impending hostilities in Gaza
documentThis diplomatic crisis between Israel and Turkey had been simmering for more than a year. Ever since Israeli forces attempting to prevent a Turkish-led flotilla from breaking through the Israeli blockade of Gaza killed nine Turkish participantsHouse Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)1 pp.
the two countries have been exchanging accusations. The current impasse
documentFrom Turkey's perspectiveHouse Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)1 pp.
it could be said that the report undermines its foreign policy attitude with regard to this specific incident. The report could have provided legitimate grounds for Turkey to explain and justify its stance towards Israel. Now Turkey will ha...
documentThe decision to seek adjudication on the Gaza blockade from the ICJ is also newHouse Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)1 pp.
documentTherefore the report as a whole makes recommendations contrary to Turkey's demands and supports Israel's position. The statements in the report that justify Israel's blockade of Gaza especially please Israel. SadlyHouse Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)1 pp.
Turkey's legal objections to the blockade no longer bear any political significance.
documentSources also say that shortly before the official deadlineHouse Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)1 pp.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asked Turkey to agree to the postponement of the announcement of the report to late September. But the report was leaked
document07 September 2011 -- The long-awaited UN report on the Mavi Marmara incident has been finally published. The reportHouse Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)1 pp.
the release of which was postponed for a while at Israel's request
