Obama anti-Israel Turkish/Israeli Relations

ISRAELI PAPER STATES OBAMA READY TO THROW ISRAEL UNDER THE BUS COME SEPT. IF THE JEWS FAIL TO APOLOGIZE TO THE TURKS…….

 

How much more proof is needed that Obama is not a friend of Israel? KGS

Obama to Israel: Apologize to Turkey, or else

Israel Today Magazine: Israel’s largest daily newspaper, Yediot Ahronot, reported on Wednesday that the Obama Administration is threatening Israel to either apologize to Turkey over its bloody interception of a Gaza aid flotilla last year, or risk strained ties with Washington.

Israeli diplomats in Washington told the newspaper that they had received a communique from US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton insisting that the rift between Israel and Turkey was harming American interests in the region, such as affecting regime change in neighboring Syria.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan demands that Israel publicly apologize for intercepting a May 2010 “humanitarian aid” flotilla that tried to break Israel’s maritime blockade of the Gaza Strip. The flotilla had set sail from Turkey, and nine Turkish nationals were killed when they and others aboard the largest ship, the Mavi Marmara, attacked the Israeli boarding party.

Erdogan called the operation an act of piracy. And even though Washington and other Western powers agree with Israel that the Gaza blockade is legal and legitimate, the Obama Administration has decided that it is more politically expedient to simply have Israel meet Erdogan’s unreasonable demands (as if that won’t have any long-term negative consequences).

A year ago, Obama actually pressured Erdogan to either make up with Israel, or risk his ability to purchase American weapons. But, like other Middle East powers embroiled in conflict with Israel, Erdogan had learned that Western threats are fleeting and toothless. Obama never followed through on that ultimatum, and all Erdogan had to do was wait one year for Washington to decide to start pressuring Israel, instead.

What’s worse, the Obama Administration’s pressure on Israel – the party it agrees is in the right – has also reportedly come in the form of a threat.

According to the Israeli diplomats cited in the Yediot report, they were told that if Israel does not comply with Clinton’s request to apologize to Turkey, the White House may suddenly find itself unable to continue building opposition to a unilateral Palestinian declaration of statehood at the UN next month.

“God forbid we apologize,” declared Israeli Vice Prime Minister Moshe Ya’alon at a conference of Likud activists on Tuesday.

IHH Jihadis waiting for apologetic Israeli commandos on board the Mavi Marmara. The Turks want to continue in the same vein.

Via Weasel Zippers

3 Responses

  1. I’ve just read the first paragraph, but really and truly would not the best policy consist in just ignoring Obama as his whole platform unravels before our eyes?

    The man is finished and is desparate to look tough and uncompromising.

  2. It’s getting crowded down there, with all the folks who have been thrown under obama’s big black bus… My money is on Bibi.

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