Posted on 11/20/2012 6:55:47 AM PST by Qbert
When will the Obama administration stand up and defend Israel against these outrageous claims by Turkey? I think the death toll from the many air strikes is only around 100 and most of them are terrorists. How in the world is that ethnic cleansing? It’s a stupid claim on its face and it deserves a rebuke from Obama.
But I won’t hold my breath, especially considering his ‘leading from behind’ diplomacy.
AL-ARABIA – AFP reported Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday condemning Israel of “ethnic cleansing” towards Palestinians.“Israel is committing ethnic cleansing by ignoring peace in this region and violating international law,” Erdogan said. “It is occupying the Palestinian territory step by step.”
Erdogan said Israeli air raids against Gaza could not be deemed self-defense, accusing Western countries of aiding what it called a “terrorist state” by condoning its violence in the Middle East.
“Sooner or later, Israel will answer for the innocent blood it has shed so far,” he said.
Erdogan said the United Nations “turned a blind eye” on Israeli attacks against Palestinians, accusing the international body of double standards against Muslims.
Iran echoed its voice with Erdogan on Tuesday stressing the importance to provide Palestinians with arms to defend themselves.
“Neither Iran nor Hamas seek conflict or war, or aim to endanger the lives of innocent people,” foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said in his weekly briefing.
The guilty party is “the criminal Zionist (Israeli) regime, which should be tried for war crimes,” he said.
Big talk from a country that tried to wipe out the Armenians.
Ramin Mehmanparast is a Iranian, not Turkish.
Turkey’s stance is baffling, given that they are
facing cross-border terrorists themselves.
A lot of Muslims are foaming at mouth insane about Israel. I know some people personally who are pretty nice and appear level-headed. When the conversation turns to Israel, they go completely nuts and logic and common standards get tossed out the window. It’s basically a tribal thing - for a lot of Muslims, it’s “my religion, right or wrong”, except they don’t even admit to the wrongness of the deliberate atrocities committed by their co-religionists.
"Innocent" is an important code word. Under Islam, only Muslims can be innocent. Non-Muslims are guilty of rejecting Allah.
The Muslims have decided that they can invade and out populate an enemy, peacefully and take over from within. Israel sees this potential and is trying to avoid it. For this reason they are accused of ethnic cleansing. If the West similarly resist the demographic Muslim bomb. The same accusations will be leveled.
Really, Erdogan?
You, from a country that slaughtered Armenians in 1915 and to this day DENY it? You, whose country forbids the expression of any cultural reference to “Kurdish?”
Big talk from a country that tried to wipe out the Armenians.
Also known as the Armenian Holocaust...the total number of people killed as a result has been estimated at between 1 and 1.5 million.
Turkey is no different. Neither is Iraq, nor any of these other states. The political entities reflect Islamic society and Muslim thinking.
And what see going on there is what we will see going on here, if we continue to permit Muslim immigration colonization here and do not expel all those Muslims currently living here.
No, but that what the Israelis SHOULD be doing in Gaza.
And this was repearted in Muslim history EVERYWHERE Muslim have gone.
Check out what the Moghuls did in India to the Hindus.
The IDF is pretty efficient. If this were true, Gaza would be empty by now.
That's odd I distinctly remember the president of Iran ( I'm a dinner jacket) promising to annihilate Israel.
The Ottoman Turks were a little more humane than the Nazis at least, the genocide was implemented in two phases. /s
The first was the wholesale killing of the able-bodied male population through massacre and forced labor.
The second was the deportation of women, children, the elderly and the infirmed on death marches to the Syrian Desert.
....remember this regarding Turkey and the rest......
"I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."
Leni
How hypocritical.
Turkey, the country that slaughtered the Armenians, are going to complain about the people that suffered the Holocaust.
White is black.
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