Assad: Israel, Turkey made a pact against Syria

Jerusalem Post ^ | Sat, Apr 6, 2013 -- 26 Nisan, 5773 | Reuters

[SunkenCiv]

Israel's apology to Turkey over the 2010 Mavi Marmara incident was a result of a pact made between Jerusalem and Ankara against Syria, Syrian President President Bashar Assad said in an interview with Turkish Ulusal Kanal television channel that was aired on Friday...

"The question is why didn't [Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu] apologize in years passed. What has changed? It's the same Erdogan, it's the same Netanyahu. What has changed is the situation in Syria," Assad said...

The United Nations says at least 70,000 people have been killed in Syria's conflict. Daily death tolls of around 200 are not uncommon... Neighboring Lebanon and Jordan are both struggling to cope with the flood of refugees...

Assad said Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan was recruiting fighters with Qatari money to wage war in Syria, but warned his former friend that the bloodshed could not easily be contained. "The fire in Syria will burn Turkey. Unfortunately he does not see this reality," Assad said.

Erdogan, he said, "has not uttered a single truthful word since the crisis in Syria began."

...Assad also condemned the Arab League, which has suspended Syria's membership and last month invited opposition leaders Moaz Alkhatib and Ghassan Hitto to attend a summit meeting in his place.

"The Arab League itself lacks legitimacy," he said. "It is an organization which represents Arab states and not Arab people. It has lacked legitimacy for a long time because these Arab states themselves .... do not reflect the will of the Arab people."

... "France and Britain committed massacres in Libya with the support and cover of the United States. The Turkish government is knee-deep in Syrian blood. Are these states really concerned about Syrian blood?"

[SunkenCiv]

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in an interview with Turkish Ulusal TV, April 5, 2013. Photo: YouTube Screenshot

[Hardraade]

Not a fly alights on a muslim turd without it being a conspiracy.

And should the turd fail to attract flies, that is a conspiracy too.

[ConservativeMan55]

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[Berlin_Freeper]

'Syrian rebels seize army post on Jordan border'

Syria says Jordan 'playing with fire' over assistance to rebels

[BenLurkin]

Both Turkey and Israel border Syria. It is only makes sense for them to coordinate a response to the situation there.

[SunkenCiv]

Jordanians and Turks Are Focus of Syria’s Ire
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/05/world/middleeast/syria-lashes-out-at-jordan-and-turkey.html?_r=0

In Syria’s Civil War, Fighters From Iran, Hezbollah And Iraqi Shiites Respond To The Fatwa To Fight With Assad Against Rebels
http://www.ibtimes.com/syrias-civil-war-fighters-iran-hezbollah-iraqi-shiites-respond-fatwa-fight-assad-against-rebels

Air raid kills 15 in Kurd area of Syria’s Aleppo: NGO [Assad murders Kurds]
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gDKaFTJdD0fh0BGaEPiIe8TsePNA?docId=CNG.84e6d4497ba81db7e2a81fc4e40f8568.421
[snip] The UN says more than 70,000 people have been killed in Syria’s two-year conflict, which broke out after the army unleashed a brutal crackdown against dissent, turning the uprising into a bloody insurgency. [/snip]

Syria death toll: 72 on Friday
The Assad regime’s forces killed 72 people on Friday in Syria
http://www.worldbulletin.net/?aType=haber&ArticleID=106046

Syrian women who fled to Jordan tell of horrific rapes back home
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2013/04/06/syrian_women_who_fled_to_jordan_tell_of_horrific_rapes_back_home.html
[snip] Every day, for more than 60 days, Nour says she and the other prisoners were raped in one of Syria’s most notorious detention centres. Some of her attackers at the Palestine Branch of Military Intelligence in Damascus were in uniform, others in civilian clothes... Her so-called crime was to take photographs of protesters in Homs one afternoon in November 2011, naively indulging a hobby that the authorities said demonstrated support for the uprising. International human rights groups are alarmed at the consistent reports of rape from refugees flooding into Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. [/snip]

But we know the US and Europe are *really* to blame, because the Russia agitprop network sez so!

Western sanctions put squeeze on ordinary Syrians, regime unfazed
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2013/Apr-06/212766-western-sanctions-put-squeeze-on-ordinary-syrians-regime-unfazed.ashx

[SunkenCiv]

/bingo

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[SunkenCiv]

related:

• Syrian Jihadist Rebels Seize Jordan-Israeli Buffer Zone
• Debka: Al Qaeda brigade captures Syrian-Israeli-Jordanian border junction
• Officials: US training Syrians forces in Jordan
• U.S. training Syrian opposition forces at secret location in Jordan, officials say
• Syrian rebels 'seize' key town near Jordan

Kenyan-born Muzzie sidebars:

• Obama vows extra $200m to Jordan to help Syrian refugees
• Obama offers additional $200 million to aid Jordan
• Obama, Jordan's Abdullah show united front against Syria's Assad (gives Jordan extra $200M)
• [and the punchline] Palestinian Authority, Jordan Ink Deal to "Defend" Jerusalem Against "Judaization"

[SunkenCiv]

It might have come to that anyway, but Erdogan couldn't move on that, even if his palace was burning, Israel had to make the first move (it's a punish the innocent world). Turkey opposed Greek, Greek Cypriote, and Israeli gas drilling in the eastern Med; Russia backed the Greeks (and Israelis, but without saying so).

• Gas from Israel's Tamar field starts flowing

Russia and Turkey had been quietly cooperating vis a vis the various occupied minorities ruled by the Turks, or neighboring Turkey.

• Powerful Russian (ethnic Kurd) mob boss killed by sniper in Moscow
• Kurdish activists' murder in Paris casts shadow over peace process in Turkey
• Iraqi Kurdistan: A Safe Haven for Christians?
• Iraq's Northern Kurdish Region Stops Oil Exports
• The Genetic Bonds Between Kurds and Jews
• The Kurdish People: A Background and History

Erdogan repudiated Israel, and in so doing transformed himself and his regime into the next Assad -- but before Assad's dynasty started to crumble. Rapprochement now buys him some time, perhaps, but Turkish civil war is likely; Zero et al are mainly concerned with avoiding that for as long as possible, and luckily, they could scapegoat the Jews in the process:

• White House restraint in Syria could aid Iran nuclear talks
• Turkey to replace F-16s with local jets
• Turkey: Work Commences on 'Erdogan the Magnificent' Mosque
• Ship Seized by Egypt 'Carried 40 Tons of Weapons'
• As Iraq Becomes Iran-Like

Hamas is supporting one of the factions fighting Assad. Zero and Lurch went to Israel, Jordan, etc, and convinced Bibi that it was time to mend fences with the Turks.

• Turkish FM Satisfied with Israel's Apology
• After Israeli Apology, Erdogan Plans Gaza Visit
• Israel fires into Syria after Golan attack on troops
• Gunfire from Syria directed at soldiers; IDF returns fire
• Israel prepares for Assad's downfall, turns its attention to Lebanon
• Israeli general suggests creating buffer zone in a post-Assad Syria
• Israel sends more medics to border with Syria as more wounded Syrians cross, seek Israeli aid
• Israel Sets Up Field Hospital for Syrians

Putin was seriously thrown by this. Russia's prospects for extricating itself from the Syrian mess were not good before, now they are worse.

• Putin orders surprise Black Sea military exercises
• Israeli Rocks Spy at Russian Fleet near Syria's Tartous
• Syria government 'losing control' - Russian official
• Russia Lifts Nationals Out Of Syria: Moscow, Iran Arm Assad For Major Armored Push
• Assad Confirmed Dead, Iran Attempts To Control Syria Army
• 'Iran's Plan B is Alawite State If Syria's Assad Falls'
• Maliki resists Kerry's call to halt flow of Iranian arms to Syria [Iraq Tells Obama to Shove it]
• Syria conflict: warplanes 'strike Damascus' - as it happened

I don't think the full import of the recent developments will be understood, or at least discussed in public, for at least a few years.

• Has Benjamin Netanyahu's Apology Opened a Pandora's Box for Israel? [Nope]
• Shhhh, Don't Tell Anyone: Hamas Won [Nope]
• Kerry's Offer: Release Prisoners and They'll Renew Talks(Israel-Palestine)
• Obama in West Bank: Palestinians 'deserve a state of their own'
• Netanyahu Indicates Commitment to 'Two-State Solution'
• Arms Airlift to Syria Rebels Expands, With C.I.A. Aid
• Likud MK demands Turkish apology for Struma sinking

Syria's civil war has been going on for two years now, and appears to be viable for perhaps another year.

• Syria rebels capture northern Raqqa city
• Assad's Fellow Alawites Turn on Him
• Members of Assad's own sect call for rebellion in Syrian army
• Syria's Muslim Brotherhood: influential, organized, but mistrusted

[BenLurkin]

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