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Mideast Media Sampler – 05/19/2013 – The Kurdish Gambit

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Posted by    Sunday, May 19, 2013 at 5:00pm

Erdogan ♥s Ocalan?

Last week Soner Cagaptay and James Jeffers asked Can Obama Save Turkey From a Syrian Quagmire? in the New York Times:

The Syrian war has also awakened Turkey’s once dormant Marxist militant groups. These groups vehemently oppose any government policies they see as serving American imperialist interests and have already...

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Mideast Media Sampler – 04/23/2013 – Arms, Kerry and Mahnaimi

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Posted by    Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at 10:15am

1) Middle East arms deal

The United States is concluding an arms deal with the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Israel.

The New York Times reports U.S. Arms Deal With...

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Mideast Media Sampler – 04/22/2013 – The Syrian red line and Israeli innovation

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Posted by    Monday, April 22, 2013 at 9:45am

1) The red line?

Back in December, NBC News reported that Syria had loaded chemical weapons onto planes and was prepared to use them against civilians.

Late last week the...

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Mideast Media Sampler – 04/11/2013 – The cartoon is mightier than the editorial

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Posted by    Thursday, April 11, 2013 at 9:29am

1) The Cartoonish Mr. Netanyahu

In the space of two days the New York Times featured four articles last September mocking PM Netanyahu’s bomb cartoon.
Nod to Obama by Netanyahu in Warning to Iran on Bomb – Rick Gladstone and David Sanger – September 27, 2012

In his speech at the annual General Assembly,...

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Mideast Media Sampler – 04/08/2013 – Diplomacy is more than words

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Posted by    Monday, April 8, 2013 at 10:24am

1) The language of concessions

The Washington Post reports Kerry presses Israel and Palestinians for concessions to pave way for peace talks:

Kerry first visited Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who has resisted new talks for most of the past four years. His government had sought to file a complaint against Israel with the...

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Bibi didn’t jump high enough for the Turks

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Posted by    Sunday, April 7, 2013 at 10:01am

John Kerry tagged team with Obama to extract a humiliating apology from Israel over the deaths of Turks who violently attacked Israeli soldiers lawfully boarding a ship breaking the lawful Gaza military blockade.

The Turks and others in the Muslim world took the apology as a sign of Israeli we...

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Turkish PM: Thanks for the apology Bibi, but not good enough

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Posted by    Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 2:45pm

Obama’s only diplomatic achievement in the Middle East has been to make Bibi Netanyahu bow down apologize to the anti-Israeli Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, as reported here yesterday, How do you say “Apologize For What?!” in Hebrew?

Knowing the insane anti-Israeli venom we have seen from Erdogan in the past, it...

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How do you say “Apologize For What?!” in Hebrew?

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Posted by    Friday, March 22, 2013 at 3:52pm

What he said, Liberman calls Turkey apology a ‘serious mistake’:

Former foreign minister Avigdor Liberman slammed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday for his decision to apologize to his Turkish counterpart for the “operational errors” made by Israel during the 2010 raid on the Turkish Gaza-bound ship Mavi Marmara.

“Israel’s apology for the...

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Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a Crime Against Sanity

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Posted by    Thursday, February 28, 2013 at 7:24pm

I have been sounding the warning siren about Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan for years.

His mask of moderation has been slipping steadily, if it ever was there.

He has engaged in repeated rants against Israel, and now he has gone the full distance reviving the vile and rebuked Zionism is Racism...

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Turkish Prime Minister drops what little is left of his moderate mask

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Posted by    Sunday, February 3, 2013 at 4:30pm

Just yesterday I pointed out that the Turkish gov’t again proves how far it has slipped, after its Foreign Minister again lashed out at Israel in overtly religious terms

Don’t blame the Foreign Minister, the anti-Israel rhetoric emanates from the top, Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, someone we have covered many times here:

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Turkish gov’t again proves how far it has slipped

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Posted by    Saturday, February 2, 2013 at 12:26pm

We don’t know what or why Israel carried out a secretive bombing mission in Syria earlier this week.

Speculation runs from hitting advanced anti-aircraft missiles on their way to Hezbollah, to a biological or chemicals weapons institute, to other unnamed but sufficiently important targets.

One thing we do know is that Turkey is...

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Turkish Foreign Minister salutes “all those martyrs who were killed for the holy territories”

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Posted by    Friday, November 30, 2012 at 9:07am

Yesterday was other-worldly, watching the sick march of hypocrisy on display at the U.N. for the vote in the General Assembly to grant “Palestine” nonmember state status.

Of course, “Palestine” already declared independence in 1988 and that declaration was recognized by almost all of the 138 countries that voted “yes” yesterday.

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Something seems to have changed in Syria

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Posted by    Wednesday, June 27, 2012 at 1:30pm

There seems to be a change in Syria, a worsening of the situation for Assad. I can’t tell if this is the turning point, a turning point, or just a bump in Assad’s road to staying in power with the military help of Iran, Hezbollah and Russia.

But there seems to be...

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More tick tock in Syria

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Posted by    Sunday, November 27, 2011 at 5:09pm

Like I said Friday, the fuse has been lit.  I think it’s too late for Assad to put it out without a major blow up.

Now the Arab League, in an unprecedented move, has imposed economic sanctions on Syria, including travel bans on senior officials and other measures which will make it...

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More Turkish threats

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Posted by    Wednesday, September 21, 2011 at 9:24am

It’s all about the natural gas and Erdogan’s ego:

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan described offshore gas drilling by estranged ally Israel and Cyprus as “madness” on Wednesday, raising the stakes in a confrontation over potentially huge deposits in the eastern Mediterranean….

“The Greek Cypriot administration and Israel are engaging in oil  exploration...

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