Israel Threatens War if Turkish PM Tries to Deliver Gaza Aid

[Studeo]

Source: http://news.antiwar.com/2010/06/09/israel-threatens-war-if-turkish-pm-tries-to-deliver-gaza-aid/



Israel Threatens War if Turkish PM Tries to Deliver Gaza Aid
Israeli Official Warns of Casus Belli on Israeli Army Radio
by Jason Ditz, June 09, 2010
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Israeli Army commander and top Likud member Uzi Dayan today warned on Israeli Army Radio that Israel would consider any attempt by the Turkish military to protect future aid ships from attack an “act of war.”
Dayan then added that if Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan attempted to accompany the aid ships personally, as he has reportedly considered “we would not try to take over the ship he was on, but would sink it.” He added that Erdogan’s presence on a future aid ship would also be a casus belli for an Israeli war against Turkey.
Turkey has expressed outrage at last week’s Israeli attack on a Turkish aid ship bound for Gaza, an attack in which Israeli troops killed at least nine civilian aid workers. Israel has insisted that the aid ship was secretly in league with al-Qaeda and has since tried to spin Turkey as the villain for even allowing a ship to try to deliver aid to the besieged strip.
The Israeli killings have only increased the number of groups planning attempts to deliver aid, and Israeli officials have promised to stop all these attempts militarily as well.
The explicit threat of war against Turkey is something new, however. While Israel starts wars with a casualness rarely seen in other nations, an attack on Turkey, a key NATO member with an enormous military, would be something quite different from a monthlong attack on the Gaza Strip or blowing up metro Beirut with air strikes.

[Hiram]

If we imagine for a moment...that we are all friends and colleagues in the greater reality beyond this little one we call life, in the grand energetic reality from which we all came.....If we imagine that to be true, we can view all this blustering and anger and threats as quite theatrical..and dare I say it, even funny?

We are all co-creating this reality, and for some reason this particular conflict that we have co-created has served us for quite a while now. I wonder how much longer this little conflict, between two little groups of people, living right next to eachother, on a tiny blue little planet tucked into a small little corner of one out of billions of galaxies will last? When will we un-create this?

I wonder, I wonder.

[Humble Janitor]

This foolishness on Israel's part has got to stop. When people need help because of your foolishness, you don't attack/kill them.

[ExHaLaTiON]

Israel is bluffing, the Turks would crush them.

[Rocky_Shorz]

Well Israel understands 2 things about Erdogan

1st - he answers to the Grand Ayasolla of Iran
2nd - the majority of Turkey would prefer to see him disappear from the political scene so it could get back to a secular government and stop the swing into an Islamic state.

so the truth is if he did attempt to ride an aid ship in that was sunk by Israel and he was killed...

The Turkish Military would say "thank you"


Published: 24 February 2010
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Turkish police detained former heads of the air force and navy among 40 people held in an investigation into an alleged plot to undermine the Islamist-rooted government and trigger a military coup, the authorities announced yesterday (23 February).

The swoop, one of the largest against the secularist armed forces, added to a growing sense of foreboding in the Muslim nation, where a clash between the government and the judiciary had already raised fears of a political crisis.

Armed forces chief General Ilker Basbug postponed a trip to Egypt as a result of the detentions, state-run Anatolian news agency said.

Among those held, according to broadcasters, were former Air Force Commander Ibrahim Firtina, former Naval Commander Ozden Ornek and ex-Deputy Chief of the General Staff General Ergin Saygun.

Speaking in Madrid at the start of an official visit, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said more than 40 people were detained in the raids.

News channel CNN-Turk put the number at 49, including 17 retired generals, four serving admirals, 27 officers and one enlisted man.

Story (http://www.euractiv.com/en/enlargement/turkey-detains-top-generals-conspiracy-probe-news-282242)

hey Erdogan, do the world a favor and hop on the boat...

Iran will cry, but the Turks will celebrate along with Isreal...

[Midnight Oil]

No..no...no....This latest Mavi Marmara incident was I believe a setup,i pre-planned event by Turkey and Israel.....why????.....easy Erdogans party, AKP, is loosing serious blood and they need support from the people, elections are coming....there is a bigger picture, but I unfortunately do not have time yet to write all my knowledge...but will do soon enough ;)

[Rocky_Shorz]

I'm looking forward to what you have to share.

Turkey's population has watched Erdogan moving them closer with every move to Islamic rule and have watched him move the country closer to Iran and isolation from most first world countries.

The next election will involve corruption to make sure he stays in power just like they did recently in Iran to keep the little chimp in place...