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Thread #129840   Message #2937848
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
01-Jul-10 - 08:47 AM
Thread Name: BS: New Israeli atrocity: attack on Gaza aid
Subject: RE: BS: New Israeli atrocity: attack on Gaza aid
Emma, you clipped a sentence from your NY Times report.

I will add brackets to the missing bit for you.

Israel wanted to send in only materials that it was sure could not be used for weapons by Hamas. It also did not want the sponsor of the flotilla, a Turkish Islamic charity known by the initials I.H.H., to distribute the goods because of its close ties to Hamas. (Hamas, meanwhile, said it wanted either all the aid or nothing.)

In the end, the United Nations agreed