This is from this site:
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/6081458-about-the-two-foreign-observers-on-the-israeli-flotilla-attack-probe
Israel recently announced that there will be two foreign observers as part of
the Israeli probe into the attack on the aid flotilla . Nine people were killed
on board the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara. Netanyahu has already announced that
the probe will clear Israel of any wrongdoing. As if this were not enough to
color the probe as a whitewash the two foreign observers are also hardly
impartial especially David Trimble. He recently helped form a group which has
this to say about why it was formed: (Firedoglake.com)
The initiative is being launched now, its sponsors said in a statement,
because of their outrage and concern about the “unprecedented delegitimation
campaign against Israel, driven by the enemies of the Jewish state and
perversely assumed by numerous international authorities.”...
the sponsors of this Initiative believe, there is no West without Israel.”
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Trimble also belongs to another group that had this obviously balanced and
impartial view of the raid on the flotilla:
""
The whole controversy and furore surrounding Israel’s convoy raid is an utter
farce and highlights some disturbing ironies and double standards.
This was undeniably, unequivocally and inexorably a political ploy and by no
means a humanitarian mission to alleviate the suffering of the people of Gaza.
This was a political ploy with the purpose of provoking Israel into unwarranted
aggression, provoking international outcry, further isolating the country,
breaking the siege and causing Israel unparalleled humilation." David Trimble
is obviously eminently qualified to be the pre-eminent big name applauding
foreigner on the probe. But just to be absolutely safe Israel has not given
either foreigner a vote.
The other foreign observer is less well known. He is Ken Watkins. Watkins is a
Canadian and military judge advocate general. Perhaps Watkins was chosen
because he is great at cover ups. Recently a Canadian diplomat Richard Colvin
blew the whistle on the practice of Canadian troops transferring captured
suspected militants to Afghan custody knowing that they might be tortured.
Colvin wrote several reports on the issue to his superiors warning them this
could be a war crime. Among those to whom he reported was Ken Watkins. Here is
a short bit from an inquiry into the issue: (CTV
-Gen. Ken Watkins, the military judge advocate general, claimed
solicitor-client privilege about whether he'd seen warnings from a diplomat in
Kandahar and whether he'd received direction from the prime minister's office.
"Obviously the coverup continues," said Liberal defence critic Ujjal Dosanjh.
"It is not part of solicitor-client privilege to hide who instructs you or who
your client is. If the (Prime Minister's Office or Privy Council Office)
instructed these individuals, we ought to know."........
Watkins refused to say whether he -- or anyone else in his office -- saw
Colvin's reports...................
So there you have it the two prize contestant winners of the help
whitewash the Israelis probe. Perhaps our Prime Minister Stephen Harper also a
great defender of Israel commended Watkins to Netanyahu.
Coincidentally the U.S. is very pleased with the new probe having
replaced the UN's dastardly unfair international probe. Blog:
http://kenthink7.blogspot.com/index.html
Blog: http://kencan7.blogspot.com/index.html
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