Israel government officials comment on the flotilla incident, at a meeting where a committee, probing the flotilla raid was recently announced .
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman
"The more time goes by the picture gets clearer – our hands are clean."
Minister for Strategic Affairs Moshe Ya'alon
"All in all the decision to stop the flotilla and not allow it to reach Gaza was correct, it was self-defense on the national level. The decision to open fire on deck was also apparently correct, with courage, restraint, valor, and a lot of professionalism,"
Of course the findings aren't in yet.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the same cabinet meeting 6.14.10
"The flotilla to Gaza was not a one-time thing. We find ourselves in the midst of a difficult and continuous battle against the State of Israel. The flood of hate is being led by Israel's enemies all over the world,"
"Dark forces from the Middle Ages are raging against us. "
"They are trying to pinch us with the metal pinchers of missiles and terror, and revoke Israel's right to defend itself as well as the rights of IDF soldiers to protect their own lives."
June 14, 2009 speech at Bar-Ilan University
the simple truth is that the root of the conflict was, and remains, the refusal to recognize the right of the Jewish people to a state of their own, in their historic homeland.
Those who think that the continued enmity toward Israel is a product of our presence in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, is confusing cause and consequence.
Somehow in the mist of this turmoil, the question of the suffering of the People, under Israeli Occupation, doesn't seem to be on the screen of the people who bear so much responsibility , why is that? How could Israeli leaders have gotten Furkan Dogan's motives, so wrong? Furkan was caring ,intelligent person who wanted to help people ."self-defense on the national level " indeed.