The change in Turkey’s policy burst into public view last week, after the deadly Israeli commando raid on a Turkish flotilla, which nearly severed relations with Israel, Turkey’s longtime ally. Just a month ago, Turkey infuriated the United States when it announced that along with Brazil, it had struck a deal with Iran to ease a nuclear standoff, and on Tuesday it warmly welcomed Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and the Russian prime minister, Vladimir V. Putin, at a regional security summit meeting in Istanbul.
Turkey’s shifting foreign policy is making its prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a hero to the Arab world, and is openly challenging the way the United States manages its two most pressing issues in the region, Iran’s nuclear program and the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
Turkey is seen increasingly in Washington as “running around the region doing things that are at cross-purposes to what the big powers in the region want,” said Steven A. Cook, a scholar with the Council on Foreign Relations. The question being asked, he said, is “How do we keep the Turks in their lane?”
How do we keep the Turks from pointing out that Israel might be part of the problem in the Middle East, you mean. The Village is rapidly turning Turkey into the next Al Qaeda stronghold with Putin's rearing head in its airspace as an added evil bonus.
Everyone seemed to be perfectly fine with Turkey as a valuable NATO ally, helping us out in Afghanistan with military bases and equipment. Hey, they've been in NATO for almost sixty years, folks. But they tried to run the blockade on Gaza, and now the character assassination of the country in the US press is going full speed.
As the US plans to drop more sanctions against Iran, Turkey's role as a mediator is seen as increasingly a problem for the US plan to come down on Iran too. It's almost like Turkey actually believed what Obama said in Cairo about the US wanting better relationships with Islamic countries in the Middle East.
Naive bastards, eh?
Actually it would seem that people are gunning for Israel..
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But they tried to run the blockade on Gaza
A blockade that HAS BEEN THERE? Are you honestly that clueless and unaware of what's going on? Maybe since it wasn't talked about in any of the other blogs you read you weren't exactly aware that a blockade even existed. Israel didn't just put the blockade up and surprise people. They also gave them alternative means to ship supplies. If you dont like it, sorry. Spewing out false garbage takes away from the already lacking credibility of your blog.
You admitted it yourself, the 2nd shit was to directly provoke Israel.
I'm starting you think you're an anti-semite...
I'm glad I'm not the only one who sees Zandar has a serious problem with Israel. I've warned you that your crticism smacked of anti-semitism and it's getting to the point now where you've demonstated a long series of anti-Israel talking points on this blog.
ReplyDeleteI would not suggest taking up this topic anymore, for your own sake...
I can understand taking issue with Israel breaking the pact they made via the Roadmap, settlement building has not been suspended at all. To continue making issue over the blockade can only be explained by extremely partisan politics (Obama only being that the Dems support Israel) or anti-semitism. I would certainly hope that someone who pulls the race card as often as you have in the past wouldn't be harboring feelings similar to that against the Jews...
ReplyDeleteKeep hoping. He's a bigot and apparently always has been.
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