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Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 03, 2010 10 Comments
I have been sounding the warning over Turkey since January 2009. Now that Turkey has instigated a confrontation with Israel, it is important to keep Turkey’s greater game in mind. Caroline Glick (h/t Instapundit) explains it quite well. Glick makes another important point, which is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 01, 2010 17 Comments
Turkey has repressed its large Kurdish minority, which seeks a nation of its own, and has threatened to invade Iraqi Kurdistan if it gained too much autonomy. Turkey, in turn, has been subjected to attacks from Kurdish separatist groups, and has responded harshly. The attacks...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 31, 2010 58 Comments
The left-wing blogosphere is full of useful idiots, who pretend that the flotilla which just was stopped by Israel was a humanitarian mission. The flotilla was organized by the Islamist government in Turkey to aid Hamas with the goal of opening up shipping channels for...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 25, 2010 2 Comments
The perpetually anti-Israel British newspaper The Guardian ran an article suggesting that Shimon Peres of Israel offered to sell nuclear weapons to South Africa in the 1970s. The article was based upon minutes of a meeting recently uncovered, which, depending upon how you interpreted the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 18, 2010 11 Comments
Can’t say I didn’t warn you. The pressure tactics the Obama administration applied to Honduras — such as the refusal to meet with high government officials — now are being applied to Israel: [I]n Jerusalem, prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu called his inner cabinet into its...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 17, 2009 5 Comments
On January 31, 2009, I wrote that Turkey Looking Like The Next Iran: My prediction: Turkey is the next Iran, unless Obama stops blaming the U.S. for Islamist aggression and gives support to Turkey’s secular institutions, including the Turkish army. Jimmy Carter tried the blame...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 03, 2009 5 Comments
Barack Obama sent a letter to the Russians offering to halt the European missile shield in exchange for Russian help in stopping Iran’s nuclear development. The Russians said thank you for agreeing to halt the missile shield, but we don’t haggle, so you get nothing...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 05, 2009 0 Comments
On October 29, 2008, I wrote It’s 3 a.m. and the Prime Minister of Israel is Calling, which appeared at American Thinker. Considering how events in the Middle East are unfolding, and the likelihood that in two weeks the Obama administration will make decisions on...
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