Don’t Chicken Out with Turkey

Emmanuel Navon
For the Sake of Zion
o3 June '10

At the height of the war between Israel and Hezbollah in July 2006, George W. Bush was caught telling Tony Blair in what was thought to be an off-the-record conversation during the G8 Summit in Saint Petersburg that the war would not have escalated had Syria put pressure on Hezbollah “to stop doing this sh*t.” Bush and Blair didn’t know they were being taped but they certainly knew that Hezbollah, acting as Iran’s proxy and with Syria’s support, was responsible for the war.

By contrast, Turkey has so far been off the hook despite its attempts to turn Gaza into another Southern Lebanon. Erdogan is personally responsible for the death of his co-citizens aboard the “Mavi Marmara.” He is the one who sent out his jihadist organization Insani Yardim Vakfi (or IHH) to militarize Gaza under Turkey’s aegis. Far from scolding him and from asking him to “stop doing this shit,” Western leaders have fallen in the trap of his “humanitarian” propaganda. Worse, they still treat Turkey as if it hadn’t become an Iranian surrogate.

For the past eight years, Erdogan has been provoking Israel. His strategy has consistently been the same: encouraging jihadist attacks against Israel, reacting hysterically to Israel’s responses, and “warning” the West that letting Israel get away with its “crimes” would have the effect of pushing Turkey into Iran’s arms.

In 2004, Erdogan called Israel a “terrorist state” after we eliminated Sheikh Yassin. In February 2006, he hosted Hamas leader Haled Mashal in Ankara. In January 2009, he staged a temper tantrum at the Davos Conference calling Shimon Peres an expert killer. In October 2009, the Turkish state television started airing fiction series showing Israeli soldiers intentionally murdering Palestinian children. In November 2009, Erdogan declared that he’d rather meet with Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir (accused of war crimes and genocide by the International Criminal Court) than with Benjamin Netanyahu. In March 2010, Erdogan claimed that the Temple Mount, Hebron and Rachel’s tomb were never Jewish sites. The list goes on.

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