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Ayalon denies saying flotilla raid was mistake

By GIL STERN STERN HOFFMAN

JUNE 8, 2010 15:58

Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon vigorously denied a report in the German newspaper Der Spiegel on Tuesday in which he was quoted as saying that the IDF's raid on the Gaza flotilla last week was a mistake.

The report said that Ayalon was beginning to realize that Israel had walked into a trapset by the organizers of the flotilla. It suggested that German Prime Minister AngelaMerkel's criticism had made him reconsider the raid.

"It played into Hamas's hands," he said in an interview at Tel Aviv's Dan Hotel, accordingto the report. "Perhaps it was a mistake to storm the ships."

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