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Erdogan Rips Netanyahu at Paris Rally
by John M. Curtis
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January 12, 2015
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Letting 26-year-old Paris accomplice Hayat
Boummediene—girlfriend of deceased terrorist Amedy Coulibaly—flee France, cross
into Turkey from Madrid and escape to Syria, Turkish President Recep Tayyip
Erdogan ripped Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu for attending a Jan. 11
Paris rally. Erdogan says nothing
about Turkey as a conduit for jihadists fighting in Iraq and Syria, joining the
Sunni-backed fight against the Shiite regime of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad. Meeting with PLO Chairman Mahmoud
Abbas in Istanbul today, Erdogan accused Israel of state-sponsored terrorism
against Palestinians, especially the six-week Hamas-led Gaza War against Israel
[July 18, 2014 to Aug. 25, 2014.
While Palestinians sustained more casualties and property damage than Israel, no
one forced Hamas to start a full-blown rocket war against Israel.
Hamas’s Gaza leader 54-year-old Ismail Haniyeh had other plans when he
launched a rocket war against Israel before starting of hostilities between
Hamas and Israel. Haniyeh knew the
outcome of a war, mobilizing the Israeli Defense Forces to defend the Jewish
State against incoming rocket fire.
Erdogan likes to pander to Islamists in Turkey, now to Palestinians to bash
Israel. Erdogan wouldn’t have
tolerated for one-second rocket fire from a neighboring country without a
forceful military response. Calling
Netanyahu “daring” for attending a Paris peace march while he sponsors “state
terrorism,” Erdogan blamed Israel of the over 2,200 civilians killed during the
six-week-long Gaza conflict.
Erdogan mentions nothing about Hamas’s rocket attacks that invited the war with
Israel, resulting in lost Palestinian lives and billions in property damage.
When Haniyeh decided it was time for another war, he already told the
world that the Gaza government was bankrupt, unable to pay its civil servants. Starting a war with Israel was the
only way to convene a donors’ conference in Cairo, netting Palestinians $5.4
billion to restart the Gaza government.
Erdogan showed his true colors winning reelection Aug. 11, a decisive
Muslim majority by bashing Israel at every possible opportunity. Erdogan, who seeks membership into the European Union, met Abbas to show support after
Palestinians’ bid for statehood in
the U.N. Security failed Dec. 30, 2014.
Abbas and his new PLO-Hamas government, rejects any direct negotiations
with Israel, joining the International Criminal Court to pressure Israel into
leaving the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Erdogan doesn’t see Palestinian rocket fire, sniping or suicide bombing
as terrorism.
Erdogan can “hardly understand how he [Netanyahu] dared to go,” not
realizing that French Jews have been under siege from Islamic radicals. Peace marchers went to Paris to show solidarity with the rights of French citizens to
exercise freedom of speech, including the rights of journalists to express their
views. Erdogan can’t fathom how
Netanyahu, who’s been in the forefront of defending Jews against Islamic
extremism in Israel and abroad, would march against terrorism. “How can you see this individual,
who carries out state terrorism my massacring 2,500 people in Gaza, waving his
hand,” said Erdogan, saying nothing about how Turkey massacred Kurds or other
groups that don’t see eye-to-eye with Ankara.
Like Abbas, Erdogan wants to reduce the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to a
crusader war against Islam.
PLO-Hamas entity knew the consequences of a rocket war against Israel.
Seeking to join the EU, Erdogan doesn’t understand the EU’s value of
freedom of speech. Erdogan often
rails against the scoundrels in the media criticizing his government, routinely
repressing Turkish citizens’ rights to freedom of expression. Watching Erodgan stand with Abbas and rip Netanyahu shows you the Turksisj leader has no
regard for freedom of speech or individual liberty. Freedom of religion has been
eclipsed under Erdogan, where only Islam prevails in Turkey. “Turkey will continue to fight . . .
against Israel’s reckless actions that do not recognize law,” said Erdogan,
saying nothing about Palestinians costly rocket war with Israel. Had Hamas not fired rockets into
Israel, it could have spared 2,200 lives and billions in property damage in the
Gaza Strip. Erdogan said nothing
about French Prime Minister Manuel Walls insisting France would not be France
without Jews.
Marching against tyranny in Paris, 1.5 million Parisians and heads of
state from the world’s democracies marched against radical Islam’s assault on
French civil rights. Netanyahu
marched over French objections to let the world know that Israel leads the fight
against radical Islam. With
millions of Muslim immigrants living in France from the Middle East and North
Africa, it’s not unusual to see disenfranchised populations protesting, rioting
and eventually radicalized. Killing
13 journalists Jan. 7 at Charlie Hebdo’s satiric magazine was a low blow,
hitting the free world in heart of its democratic foundation. President Brack Obama echoed the
views of the French public that the free world won’t be silenced by mass murders
aimed at intimidation. Whether he
backs the Palestinian cause of not, Erdogan is the last person to lecture
Netanyahu on what’s it like to fight terrorism.
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