Some of the week's events recalled in quotes
[Israeli forces] were attacked violently with live ammunition and knives. They felt their lives were in danger and they felt that they had to protect themselves. They responded and as a result, tragically, a few were killed. – Israel's ambassador to Ireland, Zion Evrony, gives his version of what happened when Israeli commandos boarded an aid ship trying to break the blockade of Gaza, killed at least nine people and arrested everyone else.
These people did not enter Israel illegally. They were essentially kidnapped from international waters, taken to Israel, asked to sign documents confirming that they entered Israel illegally. That is unacceptable. – Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin gives his opinion.
... a clear act of self-defence. – Israel's cabinet rows is behind its military.
I've been a huge, overtrusting, idiotic, stupid woman that went to look for the perfect situation and that's all I can really say. – Sarah Ferguson on herself.
There is no corroboration at all of either man's allegation of assault, one or the other, save for the word of the participants. – Judge Joseph Matthews dismissing complementary actions against each other by Alan Holmes and Martin Curtis who got involved in a punch up in the men's toilet of Lucan Golf Club in Dublin.
This kind of thing doesn't happen in Whitehaven. It doesn't. – Cumbria man Darren Williamsom mystified at the action of local taxi-driver Derrick Bird who shot dead 12 people and then took his own life on Wednesday.