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Additionally, TV Land's Cleveland is planning an episode centered around the birthday of Betty's character, Elka Ostrovsky.
Keck's Exclusives: NBC to Fete Betty White's 90th Birthday 2011
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In any event, the episode has become a public relations debacle for Israel, Ostrovsky said.
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“The mistakes were on every level,” said Ostrovsky, “from the order to forcefully board outside the territorial waters to the actual attack.”
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"Mossad probably had more than one man on board" the ships, Ostrovsky said, secret agents who would have been giving Israeli mission planners an accurate picture of what was happening on the vessels.
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Ostrovsky spent six years in the Israeli navy, rising to the rank of lieutenant commander before Mossad recruited him in 1982.
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Responsibility for the raid, which has provoked widespread condemnation and a diplomatic uproar, should be laid at the feet of “the shoot-from-the-hip prime minister,” Ostrovsky said -- Binyamin Netanyahu, whom he blamed for two previous messy intelligence operations in Dubai and Jordan.
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Ostrovsky, the father of Russian national drama, has been overshadowed in modern times by Chekhov, but his smart, insightful works are relevant to current audiences.
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Everyday Rapture, The Forest, The Subject Was Roses 2010
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Ostrovsky said it was also inexplicable that the commandos were sent to land on the top decks in the middle of the ships, where they were vulnerable to resistance from terrified and angry passengers and crew.
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Ostrovsky, the father of Russian national drama, has been overshadowed in modern times by Chekhov, but his smart, insightful works are relevant to current audiences.
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Ostrovsky, who developed missile capabilities for Israeli gunboats, said there were several, far safer, alternatives to sending black-clad commandos rappelling onto the ship from frightfully noisy helicopters in the middle of the night.
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