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Netanyahu apologizes to Turkey over 2010 Gaza flotilla
Jersualem Post ^ | March 22nd 2013 | Herb Keinon

Posted on 03/22/2013 11:07:17 AM PDT by AnAmericanAbroad

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To: AnAmericanAbroad
Sad, Netanyahu can look forward to Erdogan and Obama pulling the rug out from under Israel at the most damaging moment.
21 posted on 03/22/2013 12:11:39 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: AnAmericanAbroad

That apology cost nothing. If the same circumstances happened again, Israel would kill some more Turks.

In the meantime with Gaza still closed as a port and no one trying to get in the apology works well.


22 posted on 03/22/2013 12:12:45 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: AnAmericanAbroad

It is interesting that Bibi waited until obama was leaving. You KNOW obama would have loved to have been standing beside Bibi when he issued the apology.


23 posted on 03/22/2013 12:16:53 PM PDT by Terry Mross (This country will fail to exist in my lifetime. And I'm gettin' up there in age.)
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To: Terry Mross

The official media meme will be that “obammy brokered
some sort of deal”. He needs that way more that Bibi
could give a crap. There was some sort of deal and I have
to believe Netanyahu can outsmart purple-lips.

Check the NYT front page.


24 posted on 03/22/2013 12:44:09 PM PDT by americas.best.days... ( I think we can now say that they are behind us.)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

Yep. “I question the timing...”


25 posted on 03/22/2013 12:47:53 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Venturer

There was an attempt last year by another Gaza-bound flotilla, but this time the Turks didn’t allow it to even leave the dock.

Very likely, they didn’t wish to inflame matters further on their part.

Like you said, an apology costs nothing. It might help patch things over between Turkey and Israel as well. And it sends a message to the Iranians, with whom the Turks are growing increasingly wary of.


26 posted on 03/22/2013 1:02:46 PM PDT by AnAmericanAbroad (It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
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To: cll

That’s probably about right but also remember that the Israelis might have fudged a bit of Turk airspace when they took out the Syrian nuke project a few years back. Erdogan isn’t going to admit his guys missed the bell and Bibi isn’t going to yap about just how they got there but they both need to show a smidge of public happiness to keep the inside feathers reasonably smooth.


27 posted on 03/22/2013 1:12:05 PM PDT by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: dfwgator

>> I trust the Turks about as far as I can throw them.

But they were so helpful with the Iraq deployments... /s


28 posted on 03/22/2013 1:14:20 PM PDT by Gene Eric (The Palin Doctrine.)
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To: dfwgator

Well, NATO has trusted them for a long time ... :-)


29 posted on 03/22/2013 1:29:42 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Gator113

Israel had agreed to pay Turkey compensation “from the beginning”. That was never an issue with Israel. So, since that was offered immediately and from the beginning (from Israel), that doesn’t appear to be the case.


30 posted on 03/22/2013 1:33:24 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Terry Mross

It was reported that this was discussed with Netanyahu “as” Obama was leaving ... :-)


31 posted on 03/22/2013 1:34:48 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: AnAmericanAbroad

Turkey won’t be on Israel’s side no matter what.

There was no reason for Israel to apologize for defending itself. Turkey attacked them; they deliberately sent terrorists over on those boats.


32 posted on 03/22/2013 1:40:11 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Star Traveler

Thanks.....


33 posted on 03/22/2013 1:48:47 PM PDT by Gator113 ( ~just keep livin~)
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To: AnAmericanAbroad

This is big news. What’s Obama’s game? This is obviously a quid pro quo. Why?


34 posted on 03/22/2013 3:06:07 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Skylab

Your Bible doesn’t say “spread the other cheek.”

I suppose you would consider Yeshua to be an anti-semite for driving the Jewish banksters out of the temple?


35 posted on 03/22/2013 4:56:35 PM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood ("Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???")
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