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Thu June 3, 2010 | Breaking News
Netanyahu: Foreign ships will not be allowed to reach Gaza The Rachel Corrie will be stopped if it tries to break through the blockade • Police break up stormy protest against PM Erdogan outside Turkish embassy in Tel Aviv • Four Qassam missiles fired from Gaza Thursday night caused no harm • Turkey gives nine pro-Hamas activists killed in clashes with Israeli raiders aboard the Marmara a state funeral as martyrs • Biden: Maybe Israel should be more flexible but it has the right know what arms Hamas is smuggling in to Gaza. So what's the big deal about the blockade? Netanyahu tells foreign correspondents that without the blockade there would be an Iranian port in Gaza - a threat to Israel and Europe • Israel tries diplomacy with Turkey, Ireland, to stop Rachel Corrie heading for Gaza • Iran's central bank reduces crude oil sales in euros, switches to dollars, starts converting euro reserves to US currency • Hundreds of British Jews rallied for Israel outside London embassy • They said Israel had to defend itself and was unfairly demonized over flotilla incident • Former French investigating judge Bruguiere confirms Turkish IHH had longstanding ties to terrorism networks including a 1999 al Qaeda plot to bomb LA airport • State Dept. spokesman: "We know IHH reps met senior Hamas officials in Turkey, Syria and Gaza in past three years. This is of great concern to us" • Visiting Czech Senate President Pemysl Sobotka calls for more balanced European expressions on flotilla incident • Europeans are not saying what they think, that it was a provocation and that Hamas are terrorists, because they don't dare speak out • Sgt. Magen-Havneh, 19, of the Givati Brigade, was killed in a live fire training accident Thursday • The exercise was discontinued after he was shot in the back by another soldier•
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