The decision to send back the four flotilla boats used by the Turkish IHH terrorist sponsors of Hamas, was Israel's fourth gesture of abject appeasement in a week to Ankara, despite its policy of undisguised hostility towards the Jewish state, DEBKAfile's military sources report.
Notwithstanding all the evidence to the contrary, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his ministers appear determined to keep their heads stuck in the sand and delude themselves that appeasement will restore the rosy ties of yore.
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Military tensions rise in Iraq as pro-Iranian Shiite militias appear to be planning attacks on American forces,DEBKAfile's exclusive sources report. Tehran is furious over Washington's decision to retain a number of US troops in Iraq, possibly as UN peacekeepers, after the pullout pledged by President Barak Obama to start on September 1.
US commander in Iraq Gen. Ray Odierno names three Shiite militias recently trained in Iran for a new collision course aside from the nuclear controversy.