Gul said Israel's deadly raid on the flotilla attempting to breach the Gaza blockade would be best handled under international law, but also suggested that Israel still needs to take public responsibility."It is not possible to act as though this incident did not take place," he said. "In the old world, in the old times, if such an incident were to take place, wars would follow. But in our world today, it is international law that has to be taken into consideration."It is up to Israel. They have to do what is necessary since they are the ones that created the incident," he said.'Meeting with Peres was never scheduled'Earlier news reports had said that Gul and President Shimon Peres planned to meet in New York this week.Gul told the AP that no such meeting had ever been scheduled. Peres said Monday that the planned meeting was scrapped because Turkey had set unacceptable conditions.Turkey has repeatedly demanded that Israel apologize for the flotilla raid, and senior Israeli officials on Monday confirmed that Gul had made such an apology a condition for the meeting."I got some conditions which made this meeting in my judgment not a positive one," Peres told reporters at the UN on Monday.
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Gul said Israel's deadly raid on the flotilla attempting to breach the Gaza blockade would be best handled under international law, but also suggested that Israel still needs to take public responsibility."It is not possible to act as though this incident did not take place," he said. "In the old world, in the old times, if such an incident were to take place, wars would follow. But in our world today, it is international law that has to be taken into consideration."It is up to Israel. They have to do what is necessary since they are the ones that created the incident," he said.'Meeting with Peres was never scheduled'Earlier news reports had said that Gul and President Shimon Peres planned to meet in New York this week.Gul told the AP that no such meeting had ever been scheduled. Peres said Monday that the planned meeting was scrapped because Turkey had set unacceptable conditions.Turkey has repeatedly demanded that Israel apologize for the flotilla raid, and senior Israeli officials on Monday confirmed that Gul had made such an apology a condition for the meeting."I got some conditions which made this meeting in my judgment not a positive one," Peres told reporters at the UN on Monday.