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Turkey Expels Israeli Ambassador For Refusing Gaza Flotilla Apology

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey expelled Israel‘s ambassador and will cut military ties with the country over its refusal to apologize for last year’s deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, officials said Friday, further straining a relationship that had been a cornerstone of regional stability.

Turkey’s move came before the anticipated publication Friday of a U.N. report about the Israeli raid, which killed nine activists. The breakdown in ties also raised concerns that other countries, including Egypt and Jordan, may follow suit by recalling ambassadors and increase Israel’s alienation in the region.

“If this ends with Turkey, it will be a miracle,” said Alon Liel, a former Israeli ambassador to Turkey. “There is a lot of internal pressure in Egypt, and Turkey could use its clout in the Arab and Muslim world to pressure other nations to follow suit.”

Relations between Turkey and Israel were once close – Turkey had mediated several rounds of indirect negotiations between Israel and Syria in 2008, but the talks made no significant headway and were suspended following the Israeli military offensive in Gaza the following year.

Ties have soured further in recent years and deteriorated sharply after the flotilla bloodshed on May 31, 2010. The Israeli ambassador’s expulsion is the most significant downgrading in ties between the two countries.

The Turkish decision increases Israel’s isolation at a sensitive time. Israel faces turmoil in ties with another longtime regional ally, Egypt, where longtime leader Hosni Mubarak was deposed earlier this year and where there have been growing calls to revoke the three-decade-old Egypt-Israel peace agreement. Last month, Egypt briefly threatened to withdraw its ambassador from Israel after a shooting in southern Israel left five Egyptian soldiers dead.

It also comes as Israel seeks to muster international support against an attempt by the Palestinians to have their state recognized at the U.N. later this month.

The U.N. report on the flotilla raid, obtained by The New York Times and posted on its website, said Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza is a “legitimate security measure.” But it also said Israel’s use of force against the flotilla was “excessive and unreasonable.”

An Israeli official said the report showed Israel’s naval blockade was in keeping with international law. He spoke on condition of anonymity because the report had yet to be officially released. He said Israel expected it to be made public by the U.N. later Friday.

Turkey has made an Israeli apology a condition of improving diplomatic ties. Israeli officials say the report does not demand an Israeli apology, recommending instead that Israel should express regret and pay reparations.

Asked to comment on the U.N. report’s suggestions, Turkish President Abdullah Gul said: “To be frank, the report is null and void for us.”

Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said the government was downgrading diplomatic ties with Israel to the level of second secretary and that the ambassador and other high-level diplomats would leave the country by Wednesday.

He said all military agreements signed between the former allies were also being suspended. In other measures, Davutoglu said Turkey would back flotilla victims families’ court actions against Israel and take steps to ensure “free navigation” in the eastern Mediterranean. He did not elaborate but some analysts suggested Turkey could send navy vessels to escort aid ships in international waters in the future.

“The time has come for Israel to pay for its stance that sees it above international laws and disregard human conscience,” Davutoglu said. “The first and foremost result is that Israel is going to be devoid of Turkey’s friendship.”

Davutoglu said the report “displayed the violence committed by the Israeli soldiers,” but also criticized it for describing Israel’s naval blockade as a legitimate security measure and in line with international law.

“Turkey does not recognize Israel’s embargo on Gaza,” Davutoglu said, adding that Turkey would take steps to have the International Court of Justice and the United Nations to look into its legality.

Under Turkish-Israeli military agreements, Israel provided Turkey with drones which the country uses to gather intelligence on Kurdish rebels fighting Ankara for autonomy. Israel has also modernized Turkish tanks and warplanes while Israeli pilots used Turkey’s airspace to train. The countries’ militaries have also trained with each other in both countries, and were top defense trading partners, although no new defense contracts have been signed since 2008.

Israeli officials speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not permitted to be identified said that Israel accepts the conclusions of the U.N. report, with certain reservations. They said Israel would not apologize for a legitimate act of self-defense.

“As recommended in the report, Israel again expresses its regret for the loss of life, but it will never apologize for the self-defense acts of its soldiers. Israel, like any other country, has the legitimate right to defend its citizens and its soldiers,” the Israeli officials statement said.

In Gaza, Hamas applauded the Turkish move.

“This is a natural response to the Israeli crime against the freedom flotilla” and to the continuation of the naval blockade, spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said.

A senior Israeli government official who had seen the report told the AP earlier this week that Israel has come to believe that Turkey is intent on worsening ties with Israel in order to bolster its own position in the Arab and Islamic world. While Israel does not rule out quiet talks with Turkey on an expression of regret and reparations to families of the dead activists, the report does not ask for an Israeli apology and there will not be one, he said.

He spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.

Nine pro-Palestinian activists were killed aboard the Turkish-flagged ship Mavi Marmara, after passengers resisted a takeover by Israeli naval commandos. The flotilla was en route to Gaza in an attempt to bring international attention to Israel’s blockade of the Palestinian territory. Each side blamed the other, claiming self-defense.

The fatalities included eight Turkish nationals and one Turkish-American activist.

After the violence triggered an international outcry, Israel eased restrictions on goods moving into Gaza overland, but left the naval blockade in place.

The activists charge the blockade constitutes collective punishment and is illegal. Israel asserts that it is necessary to prevent weapons from reaching the militants who regularly bombard Israeli towns with rockets from Gaza, which is ruled by the Islamist Hamas.

The U.N. committee established in the aftermath of the incident was made up of two international diplomats – former leaders of New Zealand and Colombia – one representative from Israel and one from Turkey.

Participants in the flotilla, the committee wrote, “acted recklessly in attempting to breach the naval blockade.” Most passengers were peaceful, according to the report, but a small group was prepared for organized resistance. These passengers were “armed with iron bars, staves, chains, and slingshots, and there is some indication that they also used knives.”

After soldiers rappelled onto the deck from helicopters, according to the report, “three soldiers were captured, mistreated, and placed at risk by those passengers. Several others were wounded.”

“No satisfactory explanation has been provided to the Panel by Israel for any of the nine deaths,” according to the report as quoted by the paper.

The committee noted “forensic evidence showing that most of the deceased were shot multiple times, including in the back, or at close range.”

The senior Israeli government official said those hit in the back were attacking soldiers when they were shot from behind by other soldiers acting to save their comrades.

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  • Gypsy123
    Posted on September 2, 2011 at 8:10pm

    why should israel apologize for protecting its people and its country. Only our president can’t wait to kiss the rings of people who are our enemies.

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    • 4truth2all
      Posted on September 3, 2011 at 7:31pm

      I was told that our president threatened to vote against Israel in the upcomming vote in the UN if they did not apologize for this. He said he got this information form a Jewish website. He is a trustworthy man and friend. I was wondering why this was not put on the blaze??? But it sure sounds like our not so leader.

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    • Anamah
      Posted on March 2, 2012 at 2:57am

      Endorgan and Hillary should apologize not only to Turkish people but to the world for the lunatic idea about building a Global Caliphate as it we were living in the V Century… Stop crazy ideologies, stop the political manipulation of the world as it were a pizza doe. You mock the humane intelligence always with your Progressives tools to distort reality and always against freedom.

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  • mule creek ridge
    Posted on September 2, 2011 at 6:55pm

    APOLOGIZE ???????For What???????????
    Good for you Israel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • juddrusnak
    Posted on September 2, 2011 at 6:37pm

    I want to see articles showing the Armenian holocaust, Turkey war crimes against the Kurds, Turkey become the best of friend of Iran, Turkey and Syria relationship, etc. etc. etc.

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  • ChiefGeorge
    Posted on September 2, 2011 at 6:00pm

    Well in the end Gods nation of Israel will prevail and what will all the atheists say then? This nation will not be undone by human hands and it will prevail against its enemies far and wide. Many nations are being cut to pieces just from natural disasters, civil and social unrest, warfare and economics woes. They will not have any time or energy to fight a cause against this tiny nation for the people of hate….Why? Because it will no longer be something that they will have the stomach for. A major War is coming to the middleeast and the barbarians will fail mightily against Israel. They will regroup and in greater strength for another run but it will also fail. Just watch and see, but by that time you’ll be too busy just trying to find something to eat and care for your own needs in this country to even care.

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  • Ready2Rumble
    Posted on September 2, 2011 at 5:42pm

    Kemal Ataturk would roll over in his grave if he saw his modern, secular Turkey taking huge steps backwards.

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  • christos
    Posted on September 2, 2011 at 5:40pm

    ……The triad of Turkey-Iran-Russia these 3 are coming together are Gog and Magog exactly what the +HOLY PROPHETS+ Divinely transcribed from +GOD+ great prophetic teachers John Hagee Cornerstone Church,Les Feldick.org (Layman),they know the exact translation of Prophecy.

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    • Jamestownrd
      Posted on September 3, 2011 at 8:12am

      John haggee is a false teacher..read 2,Thessalonians ch 2,..without fatso once in your life..you too..another lazy Christian..fly away is a lie!

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  • thegreatcarnac
    Posted on September 2, 2011 at 5:09pm

    Look at the bright side. Now…Israel can Nuke Ankara without worrying about some Israelis staying there

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  • Elena2010
    Posted on September 2, 2011 at 5:05pm

    This looks a lot like the run-up to World War one.

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    • fcbs46
      Posted on September 2, 2011 at 6:39pm

      Your right on this, you should also look to the times before world war II. The whole world situation looks quite similar to these times . It does not look good for the future.

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  • sizzler2220
    Posted on September 2, 2011 at 4:27pm

    It is all coming together as the Bible predicts. Glen Beck reminded us all of the coming events.

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  • capecodsully
    Posted on September 2, 2011 at 3:58pm

    Turkey sends a ship to wage war on Israel. Israel is forced to defend herself and Turkey wants Israel to apologize? I did notice this year that Turkey was the first cowardly nation to chicken out of the flotilla. I guess that’s because you knew Israel would kick your a** again huh? You guys may be stupid but you do understand some things don’t you.

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    • bioengineer
      Posted on September 2, 2011 at 4:39pm

      That simply isn’t what happened. People need to get the facts before they sound off. Israel attacked aid ships that didn’t even have so much as a single sidearm onboard any of them. They also attacked these aid ships in international waters. They were also given notice in advance that the ships were coming. They killed a large number of people without provokation. And since then, Israeli has tacitly acknowledged the mistake by easing the blockade on Gaza. Israel brought this on themselves. The bottom line is that there are only three possible outcomes to the conflict over there. Israelis destroyed, Palestinians destroyed, or a two-state solution. That’s it, there is nothing else, unless you want to bring all the Israeli’s over to North Dakota or something?!? Put things in perspective. The only chance of a peaceful outcome is a two-state solution, and the only way that can work is if Israel stops bullying the Palestinians. They have to not only stop building new settlements, but tear down the ones already there. They have to stop keeping the Palestinians from getting stuff like water and basic medicine. Israel is picking a fight, so why shocked when that’s exactly what they get in response?

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    • searching for the Truth
      Posted on September 2, 2011 at 4:56pm

      Had someone come to our Church when I was a child that spoke on the ” 6 Day War.” He was Arab, and ,at that time, not friendly to Israel ; however , he changed. He met one of the attackers,who was a friend, running from the battle. He asked his friend , ” Why was he running away from the battle?” His Arab friend replied , ” Angels are waving fiery swords!” It stayed on my mind for decades. Turned on the television one day, and there was story about the ” 6 Day War.” The story told of men seeing Angels, of tanks breaking down, of guns inexplicably unable to fire, and failure of the Egyptian forces to get their planes off the ground. You explain it – I already know.

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    • searching for the Truth
      Posted on September 2, 2011 at 5:10pm

      It’s not the word, ” struggle.” Hamas employs the word , ” attack.”

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    • Elena2010
      Posted on September 2, 2011 at 5:18pm

      @Bioengineer — you get your facts straight first.

      The so-called Palestinians are Arabs fm Egypt and Syria imported by the Brits for cheap labor. Yasser Arafat was EGYPTIAN, not “Palestinian.” Jerusalem has been a Jewish majority city since the mid-19th century. Arabs were offered Israeli citizenship if they stayed. Those so-called refugees left on the advice of 4 Arab states who planned on shoving the Jews into the Med. The Jews won in ‘48, ‘67, and ‘73. BTW, in ‘48, the Arabs WERE offered a 2-state solution which they rejected by force of arms.

      It’s not about land; it’s about whose God is God and whose God is a fake. Allahu Akbar does not mean” Allah is great.“ It means ”Allah is greatER” as in greater than the God of the Jews and Christians. Allah is a very different god fm the God of the Bible even though in Arabic the word allah can mean god as well as the equally generic ilah. Before Mohammad selected this god out of the pantheon of Mecca, Allah was the chief moon god.

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    • Elena2010
      Posted on September 2, 2011 at 5:27pm

      @Bioengineer — Israel did not “attack” the ship. It boarded the ship to examine its cargo. Attacking would have meant the use of the Israeli ship’s deck gun.

      Had the ship stopped as ordered to do, been boarded in a “normal” way, been inspected in an Israeli port facility, nobody would have been injured, let alone killed.

      But noooooo — the “activists” decided to run the blockade and set Israel up when the boarding went south. The activists planned on the boarding going badly — they attacked the troops fast roping onto the deck. The Israelis initially started w/non-lethal means in response.

      What Israel should do next time is put two rounds in the next blockage runner — one on deck and one below the waterline. THEN the activists WILL have something to complain about.

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on September 2, 2011 at 5:53pm

      Bio,

      The Israelis also warned them they would be boarded and searched. USN searches ships in the Persian Gulf and in the South China sea. The commandos did not use lethal force until it was the last resort when they began beating them with rods. Israel haters are all the same, they always side with those who wish to destroy it.

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    • bioengineer
      Posted on September 2, 2011 at 6:02pm

      @searching for the Truth, so, are you saying you’re in favor of genocide against the Palestinians? BTW, I’d love to see a link with this first-hand report of Arabs saying they saw angels. That would be something.

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    • bioengineer
      Posted on September 2, 2011 at 6:12pm

      @Elena2010, you’re just wrong. As much as I’d like to, this isn’t the setting for a back-and-forth history lesson. And neither one of us was actually there in 1948 were we? You should also consider that to the victor goes the spoils. There are a zillion varied accounts of what happened pre- and post-1948. Just as there are wildly biased historical accounts against the south and state’s rights regarding our own civil war here in the USA. You are right that western powers created this problem though, along with all the other problems that stem from the various illegitimate monarchs and dictators that run the Middle East. I can assure you though, having been there, and knowing many people in that part of the world, they don’t give a hoot about Israel or Jews or spreading Islam. It is not a religious thing to them. Do they invoke religion? Sure, as did our own founders.

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    • bioengineer
      Posted on September 2, 2011 at 6:24pm

      @Elena2010, I can agree with you that the flotilla activists were expecting resistance, but this is sort of like Rosa Parks refusing to go to the back of the bus. Israeli never said they would allow passage after an inspection. In international waters they directed the boats to leave, period. When they refused they then boarded with intent to seize/arrest. Turkey had attempted to arrange for passage diplomatically before hand but this didn’t go anywhere. What did Israel achieve here? They ticked a bunch of people off, people who’s support they have depended on, and ultimately made their security situation more precarious. And then also caved into this pressure and eased the blockade. The whole thing was stupid, they should have just let the boats go along their merry way. Mubarak has since fallen and traffic is flowing freely between Gaza and Egypt now. They gained nothing.

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    • bioengineer
      Posted on September 2, 2011 at 6:37pm

      @ChiefGeorge, USN only boards ships which it has ties to contractually. What I mean by this is ships headed for the USA according to manifests or other ports we have security agreements with or ships flagged with nations we have diplomatic agreements with, allowing searches. The USA doesn’t forcibly board and search Iranian, Chinese, North Korean, Russian, or other ships from a long list of countries. Certainly not as a matter of common practice. Gaza has its own shoreline separate from the State of Israel. The flotillas never entered Israeli waters and had no intention of doing so. Obviously the rationale is that refarious material could have been transported to gaza and used to attack Israel. But the ships were for all practical purposes Turkish. Has Turkey ever engaged in state-sponsored terror or attacked Israel in any way? Maintaining a stranglehold over the Palestinians is not going to win Israel any friends. They claim they want a peaceful, two-state solution. Their actions suggest otherwise. That‘s all I’m saying. We berate the Palestinians for their misdeeds but what about Israel? As a people they can’t even make up their own mind. Some would drive the Palestinians into the sea, others would happly shut Israel down and move to manhattan. And we just keep funding this nonsense, and nuts like “searching for the Truth” talk about flaming swords and angels, happily making this a religiously-based war to the death.

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    • fatjack
      Posted on September 2, 2011 at 10:52pm

      bioengineer, every time I think you have said the stupidest thing ever, you post again.

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    • bioengineer
      Posted on September 2, 2011 at 11:27pm

      @fatjack, well I’m all ears. I‘m big enough to admit that I’m wrong if you can show something factually incorrect I’ve said. Or are you not man enough to do anything besides name call?

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    • 4truth2all
      Posted on September 3, 2011 at 7:47pm

      Yo Bioengineer:
      I stand with Israel … but I do agree with you in that they can certainly cause their own problems. I think we all have done this a time or two. At least I have. I disagree in that ultimately it is all about “religion”.

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  • Susie
    Posted on September 2, 2011 at 3:52pm

    Part 5
    So, let’s be clear. The flotilla participants, whether they acknowledge it or not, are handmaidens of a terrorist regime. That regime, not Israel, is responsible for the conditions in Gaza, which may not be enviable, but are a far cry from the dire picture of starvation and stunted growth painted by the hyperbolic spokesmen.
    Israel has only one concern, which is to ensure that Hamas, a declared enemy of Israel, does not get additional means to threaten its neighbor. That’s it, pure and simple.
    As has been said, if Hamas laid down its weapons, there would be peace. If Israel laid down its weapons, there would be no Israel.
    The flotilla participants claim their mission is nothing more than humanitarian, but, in reality, it serves the interests of a regime that espouses terrorism, peddles anti-Semitism, and praises the memory of Osama Bin Laden.
    To portray themselves as the new wave of Freedom Riders is to trample grotesquely on the legacy of America’s civil rights struggle and rewrite history. Orwell’s Ministry of Truth is back.

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  • Susie
    Posted on September 2, 2011 at 3:51pm

    Part 4
    Israel has no claim on Gaza. To the contrary, Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005. Soldiers and settlers alike were pulled out by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, giving local residents the first chance ever in their history to govern themselves.
    Indeed, with Israel’s encouragement, a number of Jewish donors purchased Israeli greenhouses in Gaza and left them behind to help jump-start the local economy. The first reaction was to ransack them, when they could have been sources of flowers and vegetables for the local economy.
    Israel has an interest in a stable, peaceful, and prospering Gaza, not a gun-toting, missile-firing, jihad-preaching entity. After all, you can change a lot of things in life, but not neighbors. Israel and Gaza are destined to be neighbors for a long time to come.
    The Quartet – the U.S., EU, Russia, and UN – set three conditions for engagement with Hamas. The group must forswear violence, recognize Israel’s right to exist, and accept previous Israeli-Palestinian agreements. To date, none of those conditions have been met. Apologists for Gaza would have you believe otherwise, but Hamas’s spokesmen always undercut them. When it serves their purposes, they might briefly curtail violence to regroup and rearm, but Hamas is adamant that it will never abandon its struggle against Israel.

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  • Susie
    Posted on September 2, 2011 at 3:44pm

    They cannot separate Hamas from the equation. Much as they might try, the central fact is that Hamas is key to understanding Gaza today.
    Hamas is a terrorist organization. Don’t take my word for it. Check with the United States and European Union, both of which have designated Hamas as a terrorist entity.
    Hamas preaches the elimination of Israel and a toxic brew of classical anti-Semitism. Again, don’t believe me. Read the Hamas Charter.
    While Hamas may have been elected to govern with the PA in 2006, the first and only national Palestinian elections, one election does not a democracy make. Hamas used the ballot box to gain a foothold, then employed anti-democratic means to impose its own suffocating vision on the land. Hamas violently ousted the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority from Gaza in 2007 and has ruled ever since. Because Hamas cannot reform, the much heralded “unity” agreement it signed with Fatah six weeks ago is headed for an uncertain future.
    Hamas celebrates violence. It joyously speaks of jihad, martyrdom, conflict, and the ultimate destruction of Israel. It has matched its fiery rhetoric with a sustained effort to import weapons, courtesy of Iran, smugglers in the Sinai, and tunnels from the Egyptian side of the border. In recent years, literally thousands of rockets and missiles have been fired from Gaza at Israel. Why?
    Israel has no claim on Gaza. To the contrary, Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005. Soldiers and settlers alike were pulled out by Pr

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  • Susie
    Posted on September 2, 2011 at 3:39pm

    SECOND PART :

    According to this narrative – a word particularly popular in Middle East discussions- the residents of Gaza face a neighboring oppressor, Israel, which, for diabolical reasons of its own, wants to inflict maximum harm on people whose only dream in life is to live and let live. For these spokesmen, the wealth of vocabulary in the Oxford English Dictionary fails to capture the true nature of Israel’s venality.
    Enter, then, the self-described, modern-day Freedom Riders. They’re boarding flotilla ships, they suggest, to bring aid, relief, and attention to those trapped in Birmingham, Alabama, circa 1963.
    George Orwell, where are you? You could have a field day with this story.
    Actually, you anticipated it when you wrote about the Ministry of Truth in your classic book, 1984. What were the ruling party’s slogans on the outside of the 1,000-foot-tall building housing the ministry? Weren’t they “War is Peace,” “Freedom is Slavery,” and “Ignorance is Strength”? And didn’t the ministry rewrite history at will to ensure it always served the party’s interests?
    The Gaza flotilla spokesmen are inverting the truth and rewriting history at will to serve their interests. And what are those interests? To prop up the Hamas regime in Gaza and delegitimize Israel.
    While they are entitled to their own opinions, however misguided, they are not entitled to their own facts.
    They cannot separate Hamas from the equation. Much as they might try, the cent

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  • I Stand With Israel
    Posted on September 2, 2011 at 3:38pm

    The writer says that this will increase Israel’s isolation. Israel is not isolated, they have God standing with them, so Turkey and the other middle eastern countries might want to look at the odds again.

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  • Susie
    Posted on September 2, 2011 at 3:25pm

    I think a little reminder of what actually transpired would be appropriate at this time.
    Posted Scott Johnson June 24, 2011 Entitle Too Hot For Huffpo
    Written by American Jewish Committee executive director David Harris:

    We’re on the verge of another “flotilla” to Gaza. Estimates of the number of ships and participants vary from day to day, tending downward, but the erstwhile organizers insist that the maritime operation will take place.
    Their spokesmen have been hyperactive in drawing attention to the event. After all, without coverage, they’d be denied their oxygen. And the kind of coverage they seek – idealistic humanists and peace activists determined to aid the poor, beleaguered residents of Gaza versus stone-hearted oppressors in military uniforms determined to block them at all costs – would, needless to say, portray Israel in the worst possible light.
    The International Solidarity Movement, Free Gaza Movement, U.S. Boat to Gaza, and kindred spirits want the world to believe there is a strip of land called Gaza that, left to its own devices, would create the Shangri-La of the Middle East.
    All its residents want are peace, harmony, coexistence, and tranquility. Some spokesmen acknowledge that Gaza has a governing authority. A very few even mention its name, Hamas, but hasten to add that it was elected democratically, so end of story. The rest don’t give it a name, as it might muddy the waters.
    According to this narrative – a word particularly po

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  • GETLIFE
    Posted on September 2, 2011 at 3:22pm

    “Asked to comment on the U.N. report’s suggestions, Turkish President Abdullah Gul said: “To be frank, the report is null and void for us.””

    =====

    “To be frank, we already knew how we were planning on accusing Israel. We’ll be back to respecting what the United Nations thinks come September.”

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  • Thatsitivehadenough
    Posted on September 2, 2011 at 3:19pm

    “And I will bless them that bless thee, and him that curseth thee will I curse; and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed.’

    And it is true. And as long as the Muslims curse Israel, they will suffer.

    Turkey, listen up.

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  • docvet
    Posted on September 2, 2011 at 3:08pm

    Any excuse to bust Israel’s chops will do. This is just the beginning. It will be an uphill battle, but maybe someday there will be a United States of Israel, you know, the State of Iran, The State of Egypt, the State of Syria, etc.

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  • oddball130
    Posted on September 2, 2011 at 2:57pm

    The Turks should first apologize for their genocide of the Armenians and Kurds.

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    • Servant Of YHVH
      Posted on September 2, 2011 at 3:12pm

      Among other atrocities! I would have to say that this part of obama’s plan to alienate and try to bring the destruction of Israel is working. Except that obama isn’t smart enough to realize that nothing will bring the destruction of Israel, no matter what he tries.

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    • ShyLow
      Posted on September 2, 2011 at 3:14pm

      I hope those of you that are wanting a war with Iran realize Turkey will just become stronger…and both will be armed and backed by Russia..You noe-cons will never learn…Ron Paul 2012…bring our troops home!!!

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    • capecodsully
      Posted on September 2, 2011 at 4:04pm

      SHYLOW – No one wants war, and no one wants to back down to terrorists. We are well aware of the countries lining up to take Israel out, certainly don’t need the likes of Paul supporters or any other kind of lib to tell us that.

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  • moreteaplease
    Posted on September 2, 2011 at 2:54pm

    Well Israel’s neighbors may abandon her but God never will and the world is going to see verification of that one of these days soon.

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  • nick e l
    Posted on September 2, 2011 at 2:51pm

    What a shock.. Turkey is no better than any of the rest. Push comes to shove.. It will be us against the rest of the world.. sooner the better before they become stronger and more powerful

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  • TH30PH1LUS
    Posted on September 2, 2011 at 2:36pm

    Turkey center of what was once the Ottoman Empire, flexing its muscles again. This will be the first of many power plays on their part. They are on the rise. The CEO of STRATFOR had quite a lot to say about this nation, and predicted that the U.S. would be at war with Turkey within the next 100 years.

    Let Shayetet 13 & Mossad rip them apart!

    I stand with Israel.

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    • Gary Fishaholic
      Posted on September 2, 2011 at 2:50pm

      Time to throw the UN out on there azz what a joke they are.

      I stand with Israel!!

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    • cemerius
      Posted on September 2, 2011 at 3:14pm

      We don’t need to go to war with them. Just supply the Kurds with all the weapons they can handle and let them have a Kurdistan that encompasses North Eastern Iraq and half of Turkey!

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  • Steve
    Posted on September 2, 2011 at 2:36pm

    How dare you not apologize for attacking people who entered your space against your wishes….Who do you people think you are……Shhhh hey….is that a Kurd over there in the corner. Quick Mohammad give me my gun………BANG BANG BANG… OK where was I ooo yes the dirty Jew. Who are you to tell someone they …………

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  • vires montesque vincimus
    Posted on September 2, 2011 at 2:30pm

    You have to admit the populace of the mooslimb nations all have a one track thought pattern. Kill Jews! If they woke up tomorrow and all the Jews had disappeared, what would they do? Kill each other most likely.

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on September 2, 2011 at 2:35pm

      Hitler taught them well

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    • nptden
      Posted on September 2, 2011 at 2:36pm

      They will have to start loving each other like they always do. You know it is a religion of peace. Here is a flick on Muslims loving Muslims. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=dd3_1310954791

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    • Steve
      Posted on September 2, 2011 at 2:41pm

      Nope. We’re next. Well actually the UK, France, Spain, and then Germany. But by that time America will be long gone anyway. Sucked up into the progressive liberal mindset. Appeasing to the devil as Adams did. Spiraling down to a 3rd world nation governed and powered by the bureaucracy of social justice and redistribution of wealth. .

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    • Vechorik
      Posted on September 2, 2011 at 3:27pm

      STEVE. you described accurately the horrible vision in my head, the vision of the US in a one world government. That’s why I cling so mightily to the hope that people will educate themselves and force the GOP to nominate Ron Paul as the Republican president. With a Republican President, house and senate — we can stop this spiral of insanity!

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