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Salem-News.Com
http://www.salem-news.com/articles/june072010/erdoan-wording-bf.php
June 7 2010
Oregon
The Turkish PM is the subject of Israeli attack for standing tall
against attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla
(ISTANBUL) - Following the May 31 massacre by the Israel Defense
Forces (IDF) of 9 Turkish humanitarian activists--one also an American
citizen--on board the Mavi Marmara en route to Gaza, the Turkish daily
Taraf sent reporter Tugba Tekerek to Tel Aviv to assess the mood on
the street. In the paper's Saturday edition, Tekerek reports on her
interactions with Israelis, which are alternately characterized by
insistence that the aid boat was in fact a terrorist boat, threats
to boycott Turkey as a holiday destination, and suggestions for a
military coup against Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Tekerek also reports excessive exposure to the number 12,500, which her
interlocutors claim is the quantity of rockets fired at Israel from
Gaza in the past 3 years. As for other figures invoked to justify
Israeli behavior toward its neighbors, these are advertised by a
protester across from the Turkish embassy in Tel Aviv who translates
his poster for Tekerek, accusing the Turks of the following fatalities:
"1.5 million Armenians, 37,000 Kurds, and North Cyprus."
Adolf Hitler might have engaged in a similar sort of auto-exoneration
by directing international attention to the victims of the
trans-Atlantic slave trade.
One of Tekerek's interviewees, a grocer identified as Aaron, provides
an expanded analogy regarding the second group of Turkish victims in
order to absolve the IDF of the murder of 9 humanitarian aid activists:
Let's say we Israelis decide, based on the bad conditions in which
the Kurds in [the southeastern Turkish city of] Diyarbakır live,
to send them aid. And let's say that we're going to send this aid in
trucks which will pass through the Turkish border without submitting
to customs inspection. What would you do in this case?"
Tekerek refrains from pointing out potential inconsistencies in this
comparison, such as that:
Kurdish citizens of Diyarbakır are often permitted to emerge
from their city and to move freely around Turkey's 780,000 square
kilometers.
Kurdish citizens of Diyarbakır are permitted to import tahini,
pencils, diapers, and laundry detergent as needed.
Israel has already provided aid to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK),
in addition to selling Heron drones to the Turkish military in order
to aid in the PKK's demise.
Another inconsistency in the analogy is thus that the activists
on board the Mavi Marmara were not simultaneously selling weapons
to Israel and bringing aid to Gaza. As for Aaron's suggestion about
Israeli trucks crossing the Turkish border, both the Israeli government
and the IDF immediately acknowledged that Monday's attack on the ship
had occurred in international waters.
When Tekerek asks Aaron if he killed anyone while performing
his military service on behalf of the state of Israel, he replies
affirmatively but explains that as a sailor "you kill from afar, you
don't see the people you kill." Sailor myopia apparently does not
apply to IDF commandos who have merely landed on boats by dropping
from helicopters, as autopsy reports have revealed that the Mavi
Marmara victims were shot at close range; Aaron's excuse that "in my
book it's better to kill than be killed" meanwhile stands in stark
contrast to the conclusion reached by Erdogan, who recently invoked
other relevant books in order to remind the Israelis in Hebrew of
the Sixth Commandment.
Belén is a feature writer at Pulse Media. Her articles also have
appeared in CounterPunch, Narco News, Palestine Chronicle, Palestine
Think Tank, Rebelión, Tlaxcala, The Electronic Intifada, Upside Down
World, and Venezuelanalysis.com. Her book "Coffee with Hezbollah,"
a humorous political travelogue chronicling her hitchhiking trip
through Lebanon in the aftermath of the 2006 Israeli assault, is
available at Amazon, Amazon UK, and Barnes and Noble.
Born in Washington, DC, in 1982, Belén earned her bachelor's degree
with a concentration in political science from Columbia University
in New York City. Her diverse background of worldwide experiences,
created a fantastic writer; one whose work we are extremely happy to
share with Salem-News.com viewers.
From: A. Papazian
Salem-News.Com
http://www.salem-news.com/articles/june072010/erdoan-wording-bf.php
June 7 2010
Oregon
The Turkish PM is the subject of Israeli attack for standing tall
against attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla
(ISTANBUL) - Following the May 31 massacre by the Israel Defense
Forces (IDF) of 9 Turkish humanitarian activists--one also an American
citizen--on board the Mavi Marmara en route to Gaza, the Turkish daily
Taraf sent reporter Tugba Tekerek to Tel Aviv to assess the mood on
the street. In the paper's Saturday edition, Tekerek reports on her
interactions with Israelis, which are alternately characterized by
insistence that the aid boat was in fact a terrorist boat, threats
to boycott Turkey as a holiday destination, and suggestions for a
military coup against Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Tekerek also reports excessive exposure to the number 12,500, which her
interlocutors claim is the quantity of rockets fired at Israel from
Gaza in the past 3 years. As for other figures invoked to justify
Israeli behavior toward its neighbors, these are advertised by a
protester across from the Turkish embassy in Tel Aviv who translates
his poster for Tekerek, accusing the Turks of the following fatalities:
"1.5 million Armenians, 37,000 Kurds, and North Cyprus."
Adolf Hitler might have engaged in a similar sort of auto-exoneration
by directing international attention to the victims of the
trans-Atlantic slave trade.
One of Tekerek's interviewees, a grocer identified as Aaron, provides
an expanded analogy regarding the second group of Turkish victims in
order to absolve the IDF of the murder of 9 humanitarian aid activists:
Let's say we Israelis decide, based on the bad conditions in which
the Kurds in [the southeastern Turkish city of] Diyarbakır live,
to send them aid. And let's say that we're going to send this aid in
trucks which will pass through the Turkish border without submitting
to customs inspection. What would you do in this case?"
Tekerek refrains from pointing out potential inconsistencies in this
comparison, such as that:
Kurdish citizens of Diyarbakır are often permitted to emerge
from their city and to move freely around Turkey's 780,000 square
kilometers.
Kurdish citizens of Diyarbakır are permitted to import tahini,
pencils, diapers, and laundry detergent as needed.
Israel has already provided aid to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK),
in addition to selling Heron drones to the Turkish military in order
to aid in the PKK's demise.
Another inconsistency in the analogy is thus that the activists
on board the Mavi Marmara were not simultaneously selling weapons
to Israel and bringing aid to Gaza. As for Aaron's suggestion about
Israeli trucks crossing the Turkish border, both the Israeli government
and the IDF immediately acknowledged that Monday's attack on the ship
had occurred in international waters.
When Tekerek asks Aaron if he killed anyone while performing
his military service on behalf of the state of Israel, he replies
affirmatively but explains that as a sailor "you kill from afar, you
don't see the people you kill." Sailor myopia apparently does not
apply to IDF commandos who have merely landed on boats by dropping
from helicopters, as autopsy reports have revealed that the Mavi
Marmara victims were shot at close range; Aaron's excuse that "in my
book it's better to kill than be killed" meanwhile stands in stark
contrast to the conclusion reached by Erdogan, who recently invoked
other relevant books in order to remind the Israelis in Hebrew of
the Sixth Commandment.
Belén is a feature writer at Pulse Media. Her articles also have
appeared in CounterPunch, Narco News, Palestine Chronicle, Palestine
Think Tank, Rebelión, Tlaxcala, The Electronic Intifada, Upside Down
World, and Venezuelanalysis.com. Her book "Coffee with Hezbollah,"
a humorous political travelogue chronicling her hitchhiking trip
through Lebanon in the aftermath of the 2006 Israeli assault, is
available at Amazon, Amazon UK, and Barnes and Noble.
Born in Washington, DC, in 1982, Belén earned her bachelor's degree
with a concentration in political science from Columbia University
in New York City. Her diverse background of worldwide experiences,
created a fantastic writer; one whose work we are extremely happy to
share with Salem-News.com viewers.
From: A. Papazian