Sunday, June 6, 2010

Should Jews Apologize to Turkey or Go Back to Poland and Germany?


Richard Davis Hanson
pajamasmedia.com
05 June '10

Memo to Ambassador Tan

The Turkish ambassador to the United States has a long op-ed in the Washington Post asking for Israel to apologize to Turkey for the Gaza flotilla incident, and urging the U.S. to pressure Israel to act accordingly. It is an important document since Amb. Tan couches his argument in moral terms — Israel illegally detained a ship on the high seas of civilian peace activists and human rights workers, killed Turkish citizens, and violated international law.

There is, of course, no mention by Tan of the origins and nature of the Turkish “peace” group that organized the gambit. Only in passing does the ambassador mention the rallying cries of the protestors (e.g., “Whatever the aid carriers may have chanted in opposition to Israel, this was a humanitarian initiative.”), after failing to note the chants, in fact, included both calls for a new holocaust (“Shut up, go back to Auschwitz” ) and glee about Americans killed on 9/11 (“Don’t forget 9/11″).

If anyone might be offering apologies, it should be Ambassador Tan, or at least an explanation for why a ship left a Turkish port headed for a planned confrontation. A ship, it should be added, staffed in large part by the Insani Yardim Vakfi organization, which according to American and European intelligence chiefs is a terrorist organization with ties to al-Qaeda — an apparent conclusion that formerly a Turkish government used to share when it periodically raided the IHH’s compounds.

But on a larger point, the sanctimonious tone of Tan’s piece is depressing. Turkey currently quite illegally and against world opinion sponsors the occupation of Cyprus. Nicosia is a far more divided city than Jerusalem. The Turkish government has killed far more Turkish Kurds than the Israeli government has Palestinians; it has zero tolerance for foreign human rights organizations that have wished to investigate the treatment of Kurds in Turkish prisons. Turkish fighter aircraft are not always so careful to stay on their side of the Aegean.

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1 comment:

  1. I think there is something even more sinister then this....
    When someone wants to join a "gang" they have an initiation process! So if the initiated person is to do some heinous act and then they prove to the gang that they qualify!
    Turkey wants to join the EU so badly it can "taste it"... so who’s to say that this is not their initiation process! Join the "GANG" the EU/USA.. (Scramble the letters and you get ESUA with an extra U!)
    This must have a much deeper level to it. I think we are all looking at the surface and not the actual underlying purpose.
    Another point... I've found this over the years. When the news is pushing one issue no matter what it is, something else is really happening elsewhere that we are not watching. So we need to scan the news to find out if there is something else brewing that is going to be even worse then this or the oil slick. These are "Smoke and mirrors-Glass windows"... nothing more then a magician's act. Dig deeper everyone.. There is a rat out there to uncover.
    Call it a dog and pony act - bottom line, the USA government is trying to incite Israel by using its "Gang" to push Israel. This would enable the 70 nations to do their thing and call it Israel's fault. Israel must stay with resolve and must also stay strong. We know that Adonia Hashem/Elohim is at the helm. Let G-d do what G-d needs to do. (Measure for measure against those who go up against Israel).

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