Israel offers $20 million to Turkey flotilla victims

[Jefferson23]

JERUSALEM (AFP) --


Israel has offered Turkey $20 million in compensation to the families of those killed and wounded in its botched 2010 raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla, Haaretz newspaper reported on Monday.

Citing unnamed Western diplomats briefed on the ongoing negotiations with Ankara, the daily said Turkey had yet to respond to the Israeli offer.

Once-close relations between the two nations fell apart after Israeli commandos killed nine Turkish nationals during a botched pre-dawn raid on a six-ship flotilla seeking to break Israel's naval blockade on Gaza in May 2010.

The assault provoked a major diplomatic crisis between the former regional allies, with Ankara demanding a formal apology and compensation for the families of the victims.

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[bemildred]

1. My my my. Not so arrogant, are we?

I love that description: "Once-close relations between the two nations fell apart after Israeli commandos killed nine Turkish nationals during a botched pre-dawn raid on a six-ship flotilla seeking to break Israel's naval blockade on Gaza in May 2010."

Finally someone gets it's right.

[Jefferson23]

2. yea, quite conciliatory of them...the " botched "...nice ommission, all considered. n/t

[no_hypocrisy]

3. How much of that $20 million comes from our tax dollars given to Israel

for "aid"?

[Jefferson23]

4. In this case, probably none..what is 20 million today, to a country like Israel?

I have not read anything that we are financing it.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

5. $3.4 billion will go to Israel this year.

[Jefferson23]

6. I know, but we don't know if they will use 20 million from that pot..so to speak.

They could, I suppose but does it really matter? To me that is a small amount
of money and will be used for a better purpose than what generally that money
is spent on.