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Sunday, 10 March 2013

Turkey, Israel and the United States

"Talking Turkey About Zionism"


Here's a very interesting article (thanks Ian) inspired by response to a recent speech by Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan. It's a very balanced view which I recommend to you. The writer is Philip Giraldi, and the article can be found on 'Antiwar.com':

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is in trouble again with Washington and Tel Aviv because he dared to equate Zionism with fascism and anti-Semitism as an ideology or political movement that has brought oppression. Erdogan was speaking at a United Nations sponsored Alliance of Civilizations conference in Vienna dealing with instilling tolerance. He spoke in Turkish, but his words as translated into English were, "It is necessary that we must consider – just like Zionism or anti-Semitism or fascism – Islamophobia is a crime against humanity." Erdogan was immediately pounced upon by the usual suspects and new American Secretary of State John Kerry was also quick to pull the trigger by saying, "We not only disagree with it. We found it objectionable." He also stated that the comments did not help the Israel-Palestine peace process. That there is no peace process due to Israel’s unwillingness to countenance an actual Palestinian state with genuine sovereignty is apparently irrelevant, but then again it has been irrelevant to American policymakers ever since 1967, when the Israelis first occupied the remaining land that they had not already taken in the aftermath of the 1947 partition of Palestine. Read more

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