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Turkey’s Glass House
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Winston Mid East Analysis & Commentary January 30, 2009
Turkey’s Glass House by Emanuel A. Winston, Mid East analyst &
commentator
The old homily of not throwing stones if you live in a glass house was
certainly appropo for Turkey January 29th. Turkey’s Prime Minister
Recep Tayyip Erdogan stormed out of the World Economic Forum in Davos,
Switzerland.
Erdogan literally screamed at Israel’s President Shimon Peres for
Israel finally retaliating against the Hamas in Gaza. He said: `When
it comes to killing, you know well how to kill.’ and he stormed off
the stage. (1) President Shimon Peres responded in an apologetic way,
saying: `What would you do if your people were subjected to Rockets
daily?’ Therein lies the crux of the problem. (2)
Turkey (under the Ottoman Empire) has an indelible history of planning
and implementing a Genocide (before the word, Genocide, was coined to
describe Hitler’s Holocaust). Turkey used its army to massacre over a
million to 1,500,000 Armenian citizens of Turkey. Men, women and
children were slaughtered in every way possible – not unlike Hitler’s
Genocide against the Jews.
`The Armenian Genocide of 1915 carried out by the Ottoman Empire is a
historical fact attested to by eyewitness survivors, journalists,
foreign ministers, telegrams, and photos. Despite Turkish denials, it
is unanimously verified by the International Association of Genocide
Scholars and accepted by nations that uphold moral responsibility
above political gain.’ (3)
Erdogan accused Israel of killing Hamas Palestinians but neglected to
state how or why.
‘Erdogan’s remarks aid anti-Semitism’ by Haviv Rettig Gur, THE
JERUSALEM POST Jan. 29, 2009
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is encouraging expressions
of anti-Semitism in his country by espousing biased views and
wholeheartedly accepting the Hamas narrative of the recent Gaza
fighting, a senior Israeli official told The Jerusalem Post on
Wednesday.
Erdogan blasted Israel throughout the fighting, called on it to be
barred from the UN, accused it of using white phosphorus against Gaza
civilians and charged it with other "inhuman actions which would bring
it to self-destruction. Allah will sooner or later punish those who
transgress the rights of innocents."
Yet during the fighting, Erdogan "did not utter one word that placed
even one percent of the responsibility for the conflict on Hamas,"
said the Israeli official. "He has utterly adopted the Hamas
narrative." (4)
Erdogan ignored the more recent Turkish atrocities against the Kurds
where Turkish aircraft attacked both in Turkey and across the border
into Iraq. Villages were bombed. Turkey attacked civilians in villages
on the off chance Kurdish fighters were mixed in with the civilians.
Human Rights Watch has documented many instances where the Turkish
military forcibly evacuated villages, destroying houses and equipment
to prevent the return of the inhabitants. An estimated 3,000 Kurdish
villages in Turkey were virtually wiped from the map, representing the
displacement of more than 378,000 people. (5)
The Kurds did attack Turkish troops in cross-border raids. The Kurds
did provoke the Turks who responded with attacks. These Turkish
attacks were not surgical strikes aimed at Kurdish fighters. They
attacked villages to wipe out the entire population. (You may recall
the Soviets did the same in Afghanistan.)
Israel suffered 8 years of Hamas bombing the civilian population in
Southern Israel with Rockets, Missiles and Mortars. The Israeli
response was either none at all or some surgical strikes at Hamas
terrorist leaders. There was no comparison to Turkey’s strikes against
the general Kurdish population.
Turkey, under Erdogan, has been drifting closer and closer to typical
radical Muslim Islamo-Fascism, not unlike Iran and Syria. When Israel
defends herself against Muslim attacks, Islamists in unison rise up in
rage, in effect, saying: `You can’t kill our killers.’
Israel has had an excellent relationship with Turkey, mostly as a
supplier of High Tech Military equipment and the refurbishing of older
model Russian tanks. It is a beneficial relationship of mutual needs
and accommodation.
[Israel once had a similar relationship with Iran under the Persian
Shah. That all changed radically from 1977 when then President Jimmy
Carter withdrew American support from Iran’s Prime Minister Shapour
Bakhtiar. On February 11, 1979 the Shah’s government fell as did civil
order. At the Defense Ministry in Teheran, the military fled – leaving
secure intelligence unguarded. For certain, Soviet agents entered and
captured that information vital to America’s own defense.
The U.S. Navy was compromised the most. They lost:
*The F-14 fighter, keystone of long-range fleet defense, especially
the electronics and missiles; *The AN/AWG-9 radar and weapons control
system.
*The AIM-54APh9oenix long-range air-to-air missile.
*The ASG-18 fire-control radar.
*The ALR-45 radar warning set.
*The ALQ-100/126 electronics counter-measures suite, designed to jam &
deceive Soviet radars.
The U.S. Army (and thus NATO’s infantry and armor) also suffered
security losses in Iran to the Soviets:
*The Improved HAWK surface-to-air missile, the Army’s basic element of
ground defense.
*The AN/TSQ-73 command system, which directs the Improved HAWK.
*The BGM-71 TOW anti-tank missile, which NATO regards as a primary
means of neutralizing the 4-to-1 Soviet advantage in tanks in
Europe.] (6)
Remember that it was Jimmy Carter’s actions that brought back the
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini from exile in France February 1979. The
Ayatollah immediately imposed typical Muslim Islamic hostility against
Israel and America – leading to his invasion of the American Embassy
November 4, 1979 and his taking some 70 Americans hostage for 444
days.
Remember the example of Iran and the loss of a vital American ally as
well as American military and intelligence data and technology as
Turkey moves further toward Islamization.
Erdogan returned to Turkey to a hero’s welcome for his defamation
against Israel. Arabs, Muslim, Turks, Islamists have a convenient loss
of memory for what they have done to others. Every embarrassing loss
or massacre of others is either forgotten or turned into a justifiable
revenge – even when there is no justification.
Peres whose previous blithe ignorance of the Genocidal Jihad and Jew
Hatred in Hamas
foundational Covenant actually read extracts from this odious document
to the audience (Erdogan and the equally vile Amr Moussa of the Arab
League, prominent among those attending), including (in part) the
Genocidal hadith in Article 7,
`¦the Islamic Resistance Movement aspires to realize the promise of
Allah, no matter how long it takes. The Prophet, Allah’s prayer and
peace be upon him, says: `The hour of judgment shall not come until
the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them, so that the Jews hide behind
trees and stones, and each tree and stone will say: `Oh Muslim, oh
servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him,’ except
for the Gharqad tree, for it is the tree of the Jews.’ ([6] Sahih
Muslim, Book 41, Number 6985),’
and the clear statement in article 13 that Hamas’ jihadism is
completely incompatible with any meaningful Middle East peace
settlement:
`Initiatives, and so-called peaceful solutions and international
conferences, are in contradiction to the principles of the Islamic
Resistance Movement. Abusing any part of Palestine is abuse against
part of religion. Nationalism of the Islamic Resistance Movement is
part of its religion. Its members have been fed on that¦There is no
solution to the Palestinian question except by Jihad. All initiatives,
proposals, and International Conferences are a waste of time and vain
endeavors.’ (7)
Turkey, as a nation with a history of Genocide, would be better off NOT to throw stones from their own Glass House.
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1. `A Gaza Talk Sets Off Tempers In Davos’ by Katrin Bennhold NEW YORK
TIMES 1/30/09
2. `Turkish Premier Storms Out Of Davos After Run-In with Israeli
President’ DEBKAfile 1/30/09
3. `Armenian Genocide 1915 Recognition Struggle’
4. `Erdogan’s remarks aid anti-Semitism’ by Haviv Rettig Gur JERUSALEM
POST 1/29/09
5. Human Rights Watch
6. `Selling AWACS To Saudis Risks Our Own Security: It Puts Vital
Defense Secrets Where the Russians Can Get At Them’ by Aaron
D. Rosenbaum & Emanuel A. Winston WASHINGTON POST Outlook Sunday,
August 30, 1981
Turkish premier storms out of Davos after run-in with Israeli
president DEBKAfile January 30, 2009, 1:13 AM (GMT+02:00)
7. Davos Epiphany? Simple Shimon Reads Hamas Charter to Mas-Kom-Ya
Erdogan, Et Al Posted By Andrew Bostom 1/30/09
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If you can, please send this to the Turkish Ambassador in Washington
and/or any of its consulates.
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Turkish premier berates Israel at Davos DEBKAfile 1/30/09
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Turkish prime minister Recep
Tayyip Erdogan Thursday, Jan. 29, reproached Israeli president Shimon
Peres over the Gaza offensive, saying "You kill people," continuing
the abuse he has leveled against Israel in recent weeks.
Israeli president Shimon Peres said, raising his voice, Israel’s
22-day offensive was launched in reaction to eight years of rocket
fire. Turning to Erdogan, who had said Israel had made Gaza an "open
air prison," Peres asked: "Why did they fire rockets? There was no
siege against Gaza. There was never a day of starvation in Gaza."
The former Norwegian prime minister, Khell Magne Bondevik, said he had
never seen Shimon Peres so passionate. I think he felt Israel was
being attacked by so many in the international community. He felt
isolated."
The Turkish premier stalked out of the forum when the moderator,
Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, cut him short when he tried
to reply. He complained Peres had spoken for 25 minutes while he had
been allotted only 12 and shouted: "I remember two former prime
ministers in your country who said they felt very happy when they were
able to enter Palestine on tanks." He went on to protest the applause
Peres had won: "You are applauding killing and war!"
Arab League secretary Amr Mussa said Erdogan’s action in leaving the
hall was understandable. Of Israel, he said: "They don’t listen."
Peres read out passages from the Hamas charter which call for Israel’s
destruction. "I want to see what you would do if rockets landed on
Istanbul every night. What would you say to the mothers?" he asked the
Turkish prime minister. `Since 2000, more than a thousand Israelis
have been killed in terrorist attacks and more than 5,500 rockets have
been dropped on Israel." [Including Missiles and Mortars the total for
8 years is more than 10,000. Winston Note]
He again raised his voice when he said: "You talk about a non-existent
reality and I am telling the truth. Can you understand a million
people living in shelters? Are you mad? I cannot accept lies. Mubarak
accused Hamas and he knows the situation as well as you,
Mr. Erdogan. Hamas fired out of kindergartens and schools. How could
we not respond?"
"All Peres said was a lie. It was unacceptable," said Erdogan as he
left. He warned there would be repercussions on relations between
Turkey and Israel. "I am a prime minister and no one shouts at me," he
said.
The Israeli leader later called the Turkish premier and they agreed
the incident would not affect relations between their countries.
Emanuel or Gail Winston
Analyst and Commentator
Winston Mid East Analysis and Commentary
Chicago Area, IL
Phone : 847-432-1735
Fax : 847-433-3981
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