Posted on 09/20/2011 7:35:51 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Sorry, Israel, you’re on your own until we toss Obama from the White House.
(CNS News) — As Turkey’s leaders intensify efforts to isolate Israel internationally, the cordial treatment they are receiving from the Obama administration this week will add to concerns some Americans have about the strength of its support for Israel.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described as “excellent” her talks in New York City on Monday with her Turkish counterpart, Ahmet Davutoglu. President Obama is scheduled to meet with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan there on Tuesday. All are in the city for this week’s U.N. General Assembly sessions.
The Clinton-Davutoglu meeting came a day after the Turkish foreign minister announced that his government had blocked an Israeli attempt to open a liaison office at NATO headquarters in Brussels — the latest in a string of moves aimed at punishing Israel over a deadly commando raid on a Turkish ship carrying pro-Palestinian activists to the Gaza Strip in May 2010.
Erdogan’s Islamist-leaning government earlier this month angrily rejected a U.N. report on the incident that called the Israeli raid “excessive and unreasonable” but also described the attempt to breach Israel’s blockade of the Hamas-ruled territory as “reckless” and concluded that the blockade was a “legitimate security measure.”
Following Monday’s almost hour-long Clinton-Davutoglu meeting, a senior State Department official said on condition of anonymity that the secretary had “encouraged Turkey to keep the door open” on improving the strained relationship with Israel.
But asked whether Clinton had offered any specific ideas in that regard, the official said, “This is something they have to sort out between the two.”
The official rejected suggestions that Washington should make it clear to Turkey that the U.S. would side with Israel in the event of a confrontation.
Worse is the fact that people are still supporting him. I call it Michael Jackson syndrome.
The list, ping
Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list
Certainly you’re not suggesting that he’s a boy-raper.
Oh wait...maybe...
Didn’t we tell Sadam something like that back in the 80’s before he invaded Kuwait?
Micheal Jackson at least Loved America. And Micheal was smarter then this boob in the White Hut!
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