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Netanyahu to present Obama with details of new policy at White House; PM tells ministers focus will be initiating direct talks with PA.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu left for the US late Monday night for a meeting the next day with President Barack Obama, perhaps not carrying any dramatic new diplomatic initiative, but at least bringing a message of significant changes in what goods Israel will allow into the Gaza Strip.

Hours before Netanyahu was to board his plane for Washington, Foreign Ministry director-general Yossi Gal and Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories Maj.-Gen. Eitan Dangot unveiled the principles behind a detailed list of items Israel will not allow into the Gaza Strip. Everything not on that list will be let in.

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Israel said an attack on proposed global test to reject the UN aid to Gaza after its fleet to investigate an assassination attempt last week to launch itself.

When a notice on Monday, the Israeli army said was a "group of experts, interior" was assembled to examine the process and "the creation of educational opportunities.

Test that the attack, which killed nine workers more than a fourth of July, and 100 were injured, the left-hand report on the results.

The Israeli government to conduct its own investigative panel set is known, "said Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak Monday in the Assembly.

Barak such an investigation, Israeli media said, intelligence, which operates throughout the form did not give any details.

He is also optionally Israel of its blockade of Gaza and four were ways to improve, although he added that maintaining the ban Palestinians from entering the country as is necessary to prevent Iran's missiles to see.

Barak said the planned search unconnectedly military research goes, and it tries to show that the Gaza Strip, and his "raid commanded international standards, met with the Israeli blockade.

He said: "We are doing the level of political education, (Safety organization).

Israel's research came to the Turkish prime minister on the Israeli navy commando raid in Gaza immediately repeated international investigation.

Secure Asian summit in Istanbul on the first day of talks about Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the Israeli attack on "illegal and demanded the UN" transparent test was supported.

, Erdogan said: "We believe that an independent investigation and fair manner through a lot ... see ... it is illegal to begin research as soon as possible"

"We will later ask the United Nations would like to close the track."

Ottoman Turkey's population of eight people were killed in the attack, while the other had two U.S. citizen in Turkey.

Erdogan Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad met with a joint news has made your comment.

, Preacher Turkish Prime Minister said, "it is time to remove the embargo on Gaza.

"We complement one of the world does not want an open-air prison."

Al-Assad, Erdogan reiterated calls for exams and the Gaza Strip as Israel began to slow down at the end of 2007 were invited.

"Al-Assad said that in addition to the blockade, at least we should see the status of an independent research group."

"If the blood allows for a clear aim of all that we were given up to [achieve blockade] is difficult to break, and we should continue along this path."

Erdogan and al-Assad's two-day summit on security in Asia spoke to day crime.

Nine heads of state, including Iran's president, partnership and trust processes in Asia have been programmed to participate in the conference.

Turkey has said, Israel was also invited to a window, but it was not foreseeable is superior.

Anita McNaught, said Al Jazeera reporter in Istanbul, Erdogan is looking for partners in the region should act against Israel.

He said: "Turkey is about to find out what the district security meeting that the partners are trying to isolate the Israeli policy, their own military, on the other hand it can do.

Turkey is a strong alliance with Israel was a war in Gaza in early 2009.

After last week's attack, said Turkey would reduce its military and commercial relations with Israel and to eliminate the discussion of energy and natural gas and fresh water transfer.

It is also at risk when relationships break down Israel regrets the raid.

Istanbul, Ahmet Davutoglu, Turkish Foreign Minister, spoke to the edge of the hearing, said that his country "to assess everything."

He said: "It is Israel that our relationship will continue."

Israel to accept the consequences of their actions and accountable "organized.

Israeli forces took an Irish-owned ship bound for Gaza Saturday, boarding the Rachel Corrie, a 55 km (35 miles) in the Mediterranean, a spokeswoman for the campaign group supporting the ship said.

It was unclear whether there was any violence, even though the board had said beforehand that they would not oppose.

An Israeli military spokesman said she had no information. Israel had said it would not let the ship through.

The ship is named after an American pro-Palestinian activist killed in Gaza Strip in 2003, took five days after a convoy of six was stopped, including a Turkish ship, of which nine men were killed by Israeli commandos, who stormed aboard.

Among those on board of Rachel Corrie, said activists were Nobel Peace Prize winner Mairead Maguire of Northern Ireland and Denis Halliday, an Irish former high-ranking official in the UN.

Israel has started releasing some of the 700 activists it captured after it troops stormed a flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza.

Turkey has sent three planes, including two military ambulance aircraft, to bring its nationals home.

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Israel carries out domestic terrorism, "said Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the opening of an economic conference in Beersheba on Wednesday.

Abbas urged the UN Security Council to protect the Palestinians, and lifting the blockade of Gaza.

He also requested that the Security Council form an international investigation into Monday's flotilla and blockade raids.

According to Abbas, the Palestinian people face daily instances of Israeli terrorism.

"We're talking about murder, barricades, expulsion, occupation and blockades," he said.

Moreover, Israel Radio reported that Abbas said: "The innocent blood will not have been in vain."

Less than three years ago, Shimon Peres addressed the Turkish Grand National Assembly - Turkey's parliament - in Ankara.

It was the first time an Israeli president had addressed the legislators in a Muslim country, a gesture that spoke a lot about the extraordinary relationship between Israel and Turkey, a relationship that goes back to the beginning of Turkish recognition of the Jewish state in 1949.

Unique among Muslim countries in the region, Turkey has strong trade relations with Israel.
The Turkish military to buy weapons from Israel and train its armed forces, and in 2008 Turkey hosted more than half a million Israeli tourists, making it their preferred overseas destination.
What went wrong?

Over the past 18 months, the two countries reels from a diplomatic crisis to another, culminating in furious Turkish reaction to Israel's failed attempt to block the convoy from reaching Gaza.

All military cooperation has been frozen, and Israeli tourists to cancel planned trips to Turkey.

And now thousands of Turks are furious siege to the Israeli consulate in Istanbul with a chorus of "Allaahu Akhbar" and posters with poisonous messages of hate against Israel.

"We should cancel all our appointments," said a young man named Bünyamin told me. "Israel can never be our friend - this is our biggest enemy."
Events in Israel and the Palestinian territories is part of the explanation.

Pressure on Israel to lift barrier of Gaza has greater than before further last night when the UN Security Council prepared to command an end to the blockade in the wake of a deadly attack on civilian aid ship in international waters. A Turkish charity in Gaza said that 19 people were missing; Israel put the bereavement toll to 9

Holmes. UN under secretary general for caring affairs said in a statement here Monday afternoon that "As the Emergency Relief Coordinator, do I express disapproval of this terrible waste of life of a humanitarian cause."

"Whatever the truth about what happened, where the full examination called by the Secretary-General should establish quickly if such an incident never happened, or as needed to happen," the announcement said.

Just hours before the UN Security Council met behind closed doors to discuss the deadly attack at the request of Arab countries. The emergency meeting, called for the Arab countries after Israel carried out the attack, was to prepare a Council response. Lebanon is currently leading the 15-nation body.

Israeli Navy, backed by helicopters attacked early Monday morning, Gaza-bound aid flotilla in the Mediterranean in international waters with live bullets and gas bombs, which over 10 activists on board were killed and over 30 wounded.

A support flotilla en route to Gaza despite an Israeli obstruction was ready to sail on Saturday, after a delay caused by technical drawbacks and fear Israel possibly will take one of the ships, said organizers.

Hundreds of activists are to come in international waters off the coast of Cyprus was braced for the final leg of their attempt to bust Gaza embargo - an offer Israel has promised to stop.

But the organizers were still trying to negotiate with the Cypriot establishment before noon on Saturday to try to arrange the transfer to the flotilla of a group of 25 multi-national parliamentarians are waiting on the island.

"We are currently operating at the limits of Cypriot water to try and negotiate with the establishment," said Thomas Summer Houdeville, a French pro-Palestinian activist on board the vessels, said.

The Cypriot establishment "yesterday evening (Friday) will be the captains of the boats that tried to take the parliamentarians on board," he told AFP by telephone, adding that the sailors were on the loose shortly afterwards.

The organizers accused the Cyprus administration reneging on an earlier agreement to allow the flotilla to sail from Cyprus waters, after which the Israeli press that Nicosia has rejected.

Flotilla had originally been due to sail on Friday.

"We will not start before Saturday, but the boats are still under development," Audrey bum of the Free Gaza pressure group that organized the multi-national flotilla AFP Friday.

"We have changed the coordinates twice because Israel allegedly has in danger to capture the Turkish ship, so we decided to postpone getting all the boats together," she added.

"This has delayed it one day at a time, because changing coordinates takes time ... There were also technological tribulations with one of the boats, so we had to move passengers from the Turkish one," said the bum.

Thurs cargo and five small boats loaded with thousands of tons of supplies and hundreds of passengers planning blockade-busting run of the Palestinian country.

Organisers said an eighth ship was Rachel Corrie on its way from Ireland is lagging behind and required to go to Gaza separately.

Israel has said it "warrants issued, keeping out the entrance of the vessels to Gaza" and that the flotilla would be breaking the law.

It is intended to intercept the boats and keep them on board in port Ashdod before deport them.

Israel imposed a crippling blockade on Gaza in 2007 after Hamas - an Islamic movement committed to the destruction of Israel - the power of the poor and overcrowded Palestinian country.

Because of the blockade, was very limited manufacture possible in the wake of a overwhelming 22 days offensive Israel launched the 27 December 2008.

Activists has arrived in Gaza five times, with three attempts failed because their first trip in August 2008, all of them from Cyprus.

To date, support has been symbolic, but organizers said the flotilla is now happening, is loaded with 10,000 tons of support, from pre-fabricated homes for pencils.