Israel Prepares to Halt Flotilla to Gaza

accord to Cheap Double Splash Slide member of the Labour Parti that Mr. Barak leads. The Israeli militari ha launch an aggress public-outreach effort. At an unusual,Israeli Defens Minist Ehud Barak name a team of public-rel expert and militari offic to come up with idea for how to blunt the public-rel blow from the aid fleet. last-minut new confer on Gaza' border Wednesdai morning, offic emphas that Israel wa alreadi allow gener quantiti of aid into Gaza and dismiss claim by organ of the aid flotilla that Gaza is face a humanitarian crisis.

but stop the last two. Individu ship have tri to run the naval blockad on at least five occas sinc 2008. Israel allow the first three in.

which call itself the "Freedom Flotilla,The latest effort." also carri the most high-profil passeng yet, includ European parliamentarians, former U.S. diplomat and Nobel peac laureat Mairead Maguire.

by forc if necessary,Israel sai it intend to prevent. the ship from reach port. It ha also said that if the ship dock at an Israeli port first, it will allow the full shipment of humanitarian cargo to reach Gaza, after undergo secur checks.

Organ of the aid fleet sai thei will ignor Israeli warn and steam full speed ahead for Gaza' shores.

" said Foreign Ministri spokesman Yigal Palmor says. "If we let them throw egg at us,Som Israeli offici see a lose-los public-rel situation. "We can't win on thi on in term of PR. we appear stupid with egg on our face. If we try to prevent them by force, we appear as brutes."

and the expuls of Israeli diplomat from Britain and Australia over Israel' alleg role in forg passport us by suspect in the kill of a Hama command in Dubai earlier thi year. Israel sai there is no evid of it involv in the slayingFriday' anticip confront follow a seri of diplomat setback in recent month for Israel. Those includ a strain relationship with the U.S...

the White Hous said Presid Barack Obama ha invit Israeli Prime Minist Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Presid Mahmoud Abba to the White Hous for separ meetings,On Wednesday. the first sinc the start of indirect peac talk that began last month.