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...
1) Middle East arms deal
The United States is concluding an arms deal with the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Israel.
Hoagland: arms deal “weaken the only containment strategy Obama consistently practiced – the containment of Israel” wapo.st/12D0xtp
— Shmuel Rosner (@rosnersdomain) April 23, 2013
The New York Times reports U.S. Arms Deal With...
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.
Syria prepared to use chemical weapons against own people; military awaits final orders, US officials tell @nbcnews nbcnews.to/RCH3Cz
— Breaking News (@BreakingNews) December 5, 2012
Late last week the...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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:
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...
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.
What was...
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...
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...
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...
