The article is mostly a recapitulation the paragraphs below contain the new information:President Obama added to the pressure on Israel in an interview with Larry King that was broadcast Thursday night. While declining to condemn the raid, he said, "What's important right now is that we break out of the current impasse, use this tragedy as an opportunity so that we figure out how we meet Israel's security concerns, but at the same time start opening up opportunity for Palestinians."
Israel's Channel 2 television news reported on Thursday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had proposed to Tony Blair, the international envoy of the so-called quartet of Middle East peacemakers, that an international naval force inspect future aid ships bound for Gaza.
So Israel is going to entrust its very survival to an "international force"?
After the experience of Southern Lebanon this seems to be madness, especially in light of a soon to be nuclear Iran.
Are we going to witness the implementation of the Samantha Powers Peace Plan after all?