Posted on 12/24/2018 8:14:02 AM PST by Nextrush
"I just had a long and productive call with President @RT_Erdogan of Turkey. We discussed ISIS, our mutual involvement in Syria & the slow & highly coordinated pullout of US troops from the area. After many years they are coming home. We also discussed heavily expanded Trade."
President Donald J. Trump Twitter December 23, 2018
"I was just exposed to the daily trolling of the anti-Semitic dictator Erdogan".....
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu December 23, 2018....
"Forced to choose between Turkey, with 80 million people and the second-largest army in NATO, which sits aside the Dardanelles and Bosphorus entrance to the Black Sea, and the stateless Kurds with their Syrian Democratic Forces, or YPG, Trump chose Recep Tayyip Erdogan."
Pat Buchanan Column December 20, 2018.....
Turkey's elected but authoritarian Muslim Brotherhood aligned President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is wishing Christians in general and Turkey's Christians a "happy Christmas", but it is he who receiving the presents from the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.
Trump offers him a withdrawal of US troops from Syria (a good idea IMHO), Patriot missiles, more trade and consideration of extraditing the most wanted man in Turkey, Islamic cleric Fetullah Gullen.
Gullen is the man seen behind the July 2016 coup attempt against Erdogan. The Turkish media quotes its Foreign Minister as saying an FBI investigation of Gullen's movement already underway in 15 states with arrests already made in New Jersey.
It is what it is, likely linked to the need to keep Turkey in the orbit of the US and NATO as things seem to be ratcheting up against Russia and perhaps to get Turkey away from Iran, also a clear target of ratcheting up pressure comparable to that imposed on Germany and Japan in the 1940-41 period.
Then there's this other thing in the picture, the notion of broader Middle East settlement of the Israeli Palestinian question.
Donald J. Trump and his point man son-in-law Jared Kushner are dead serious about the "Deal of the Century". Kushner was discussing it with relish and generalities with Sean Hannity recently and outgoing US UN Ambassador Nikki Haley gave it a generalized plug in a speech she made earlier this month.
Trump and his partner in Riyadh, Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, are into this deal and no doubt Benjamin Netanyahu, also a big promoter of Bin Salman as a force for stability in the region, are somehow involved in the cooking up of this scheme.
But Erdogan has some dirt on the Crown Prince, incriminating dirt about the murder of Saudi opposition journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The brutal murder on October 2nd in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul has enraged Erdogan and he needs to be mollified.
I sense Donald Trump is trying to clear the deck for that important move, his "Deal of the Century", but conservative and nationalistic Zionists in Israel sense danger coming.
Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked of the Jewish Home party in Israel stated last month that.....the "Deal of the Century" is not wanted in Israel because the sides are too far apart and she recommended Trump not waste time with the notion.
And more recently, Jewish Home party leader and Education Minister Naftali Bennett has said the deal includes a separate Palestinian state 'under certain conditions' in Judaea and Samaria (aka "The West Bank") and he will oppose the notion....
And now maybe as a stalling tactic and response to recent events including the report last week that prosecutors in Israel would like to indict him in corruption cases, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made the early election call for April 9th.
Net doesn’t seem to have a problem with us leaving. He said Israel will up their forces.
The Israelis can take care of themselves.
The Turks cannot be trusted.
The Kurds get screwed, again.
Trump and his partners in Riyadh and Tehran ...
Erdogan is a radical-talking Muzzie extremist. I wouldn’t trust him to take out my garbage to the curb. I think he is dancing through the halls of his palace in anticipation of the U.S. pullout. That vacuum will certainly be filled, most likely with entities we really wouldn’t want there.
The problem for Israel is this “Deal of the Century” that lurks in the shadows creating a Palestinian terror state inside Jewish territory.
I suspect Jews will be displaced from their homes in the ‘West Bank” and it would be painful for Israel for this to happen.
PM Yitzak Rabin made his concessions to the Palestinians and got assassinated for it.
A part of me sees him as Satan with a coat and tie....
Thank You for the input.
God forbid a ME country take care of their own problems when America can send their kids to die.
CONGRATULATIONS!!! It’s rare for you to post your entire blog. Hope you didn’t hurt yourself too badly.
I’m not working my two jobs on Christmas Eve.
All this over a tiny 2,200 U.S. force? The Chicago police force is over 12,000. Do they have effective control of all of Chicago?
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