Posted on 07/18/2014 9:00:47 PM PDT by Star Traveler
Here’s a running account of news reports related to these recent events with Israel and Hamas. If you want to catch up on the news accounts ... they are here ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/stisraelhamas/index
It’s listed from newest to oldest, so go to the bottom to start.
Turkey used to be the model of a secularized, modernizing Muslim state. Now, it is slowly being taken over by Muslim extremists. Ataturk must be rolling in in his grave.
I thought Erdogen was in trouble at home due to corruption?..
I think he got past that ...
Too bad,
“All these demands were raised by the Hamas military wing two days after Israel began Operation Protective Edge, and repeated interminably ever since.”
Sounds like Hamas wants a “Comprehensive Peace Package” rather than a cease fire to allow people to get to safety (and for them to re-arm).
That was their call and Egypt was right to broker the way they did.
Typically you assume a homogenized religion that is not now or ever was uniform. That assumption is de rigor on Free Republic but is very incorrect.
To compound the assumption of a homogenized religion, you assume a homogenized ethnicity resulting from the common religion.
> “Is Sisi a party (to a ceasefire)? Sisi is a tyrant himself,” Erdogan was quoted by the AFP news agency as having told reporters.
Katz Hits Back at Erdogan: What About the Armenian Genocide?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3182320/posts
You assume way too much about my assumptions.
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