Turkey is demanding an international inquiry into Israel's fatal raid of a convoy carrying aid to Palestinians in Gaza last week, Israel's U.S. Ambassador is promising that his country will never apologize "for measures that were necessarily taken to defend the lives of our soldiers, and Senator Chuck Schumer is calling on the State Department to determine if the Turkish group bankrolling the flotilla has ties to Al Qaeda. And to top it off, the Pixies canceled their Wednesday concert in Tel Aviv to protest Israel's handling of the convoy.
Kim Deal could not be reached for comment, but Schumer has cited reports that the organization, Insani Yardim Vakfi, has "long-standing ties" to terror groups. Some say the group was connected to the 1999 "millennium plot" to bomb the Los Angeles airport. No military supplies were found aboard the ships. Yesterday activists on board the ships released a few photos to AP which the group insists shows activists "tending" to the injured soldiers. An Israel government spokesperson said the series of images "shows that our boarding party in fact did face deadly violence from the hardcore Islamist activists on the boat from the fundamentalist IHH movement."
