Western diplomats have confirmed to a Turkish newspaper that the Turkish government—led by Islamist Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan—has vetoed Israel’s participation in next month’s NATO summit in May. The move has not gone over well within NATO:
Turkey’s blockage against Israel was brought to the table during the NATO foreign ministers’ meeting in Brussels on April 18, the Daily News learned. Some ministers of the allied countries including the United States, France and Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen indirectly criticized Turkey for bringing its bilateral problems with Israel to the NATO platform. Some ministers went so far as to vow to veto the participation of Egypt, Mauritania, Algeria, Morocco and other partner countries in the activities of the Mediterranean Dialogue if Turkey continues to do so against Israel, something they called “a violation of NATO’s values.”
While President Obama has identified the virulently anti-Semitic Erdogan as one of his closest friends, the Turkish prime minister’s obsessions increasingly threaten U.S. national security interests. And while congressmen cultivated by Turkey point out that Turkey participates with NATO in Afghanistan, they neglect to mention that many Turks also fight for the enemy. Surrounded by sycophants and giddy with the success of his midnight raids on past and present opposition, Erdogan may believe he is riding high. What he is actually doing, however, is forcing Western states to question Turkey’s role in the treaty alliance.
Turkey buddies up to Iran, carpet bombs the Kurds, sponsors terrorists attempting to break Israel's legal naval blockade of Gaza, provides comfort to Hamas and tramples on traditional Western liberal values in their own country (freedom of the press/ women's rights..). Yet, we are still treaty bound to protect them if attacked?
It's odd that Europe thinks Turkey will save them if the time comes for NATO to actually execute on their charter. Years and years of build-down has left Europe reliant for its defense on the US, which it hates, and Turkey, which it fears. If I were the EU I'd adopt Sweden's Machiavellian Nihilistic Neutrality scrap all their armed forces, end NATO and hope for the best. If Russia or anyone else decides they'd like to invade, Europeans would be happier under any random tyranny than weakly fighting for what they clearly no longer believe in anyhow. Just someone remember to remind them to decommission their French and British nuclear weapons and remove all the American nuclear weapons stored there before adopting the Sword of Allah or the New Red Star.
Always interesting to hear a Jew speak of carpet bombing of civlians (Israel's speciallty). What next? Genocide in Rawanda?
Please provide any evidence of Israel indiscriminately bombing civilian targets without dropping leaflets to warn the residents to evacuate first. Israel's combatant to civilian fatality ratio in the Gaza war was by far the highest of any military facing a Guerrilla force in history. This is not by accident. As you obviously realize it's much easier to shout a big lie, in your case with anti-semitic undertones, than it is to speak with facts. As a Jew who was taught to be rigorous with my facts, I was also taught to be precise with my spelling. Please let me know if you'd like any pointers.
Turkey has also been blockading Armenia for about 20 years. Let's not forget that. Why was this forgotten when Turkey & Erdogan himself were pretending to be humane in trying to break the Israeli blockade of Hamas-run Gaza??
Jewish scum, you lock the Goyim out of this site because you don't like inturruptions (with the facts) when the critics arrive to confront you murderous parasites and your racist thoughts and feelings, huh?
Turkey was an important ally during the Cold War. Now that the USSR is no more, and Russia is no longer a major threat, and given Turkey's tilt to Islamism away from secular Western values, it's time to jettison them from the alliance. They've become a liability.
Turkey does not miss one opportunity to show that it does not belong to the Western world. Only idiots want Islam to invade Europe. Even Obama does not understand that Muslims will use him since he is an apostate. He has however kept a sensitivity for Islam!!!!He has made a big mess all over!
It’s amazing how dumb so many Americans can be that they have forgotten, that’s if they even noticed, how NATO ally Turkey messed up the US attack on Iraq by refusing American troops passage into the north of the country in 1993 and forced a major rethink in strategy.
If Soros’ fanboys find Erdogan so nice to have as an ally imagine what they really think of America.