Obama, one suspects, supports this development.
Turkey is still Israel’s largest trading partner. That seems rather strange for a state that ‘hates’ Israel.
Well, it’s evident to me after looking around a bit, that Turkey’s new leader has gone off the deep end as it relates to Israel.
I’m sure he’s a Jew hating bastard just like so many in the Middle-East.
How anyone can fault a nation who trys to stop rockets from raining down it it’s citizens, even if it does cost lives to do it, is beyond me.
If Hamas wants peace, if can have it any day of the week it wants. Until then, it’s open season for Israeli hunters as far as I am concerned.
Turkey, pull your head out.
We don’t have a media. We have the propaganda arm of the State.
Have you watched the evening news lately? I did this week.
It’s an amalgam of crap for dummies.
If you are not on the net and actively looking at foreign news and alternative sites, you don’t know what is going on in the world.
The Alphabet news is damned.
Glick tends to exaggerate.
Turkey’s shift from ally to enemy became evident at the time Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq.
Not only did the Generals refuse to allow the Airborn Division to attack Saddam’s northern front through Turkey, they deliberately obfuscated and delayed, so this entire division, which had been counted on for the invasion, was still off the coast of Turkey when the invasion took place. And it took days to ship them around and into Iraq from the South.
That prolongued the war, and it allowed Saddam’s army in the north to disperse when military defeat was obvious, throw away their uniforms, and then cause months of trouble afterward as irregulars. In other words, the Turks didn’t just refuse us passage, they did their utmost to undermine and sabotage the invasion of Iraq.
Up till then, the Generals had followed the secular principles of Kemel Attaturk. But their actions then showed that they had thrown their hand over to the Islamists. And that’s basically been the case ever since, although they have sometimes tried to conceal it. Very unfortunate.
Formally ask that they remove themselves from NATO or remove them otherwise.
And to think they being sold F-35s.
Ezekiel 38: 1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.
Togarmah = Republic of Turkey
Persia = Iran
In a society of moderate Muslims, it is only a matter of time before some of them finally get around to reading "the book."
There is one problem. U.S. houses nuclear weapons at Incirlik Air Base
They have B-61 gravity nuclear weapons at Incirlik Air Base
Wonder how this is going to play vis-a-vis oil / natural gas pipelines?
Full Disclosure: My understanding of the geopolitical world of Turkey and environs is limited to the James Bond movies From Russia With Love and The World is Not Enough, a dim knowledge that Winston Churchill was somehow associated with Sevastapol, and vague memories of Hitler attacking the Caucasus to get the oil fields, and the Ploesti bombing raid by the Allies.
Oh, and I think Ephesus (of St. Paul's epistle to the Ephesians) is located there.
Cheers!
I could not believe, at the time, that they would let them into NATO if they were going allahallahakbarmuhammedjihad.