Hypocrisy: How many Muslims did Turkey kill in May?
By Ben-Dror Yemini
Maariv
June 18, 2010
In May, 73 Kurds were killed by the Turks (meanwhile, there are reports of about 100 killed). In Pakistan, 765 people were slaughtered. In Afghanistan, 249. In Kashmir, 50. The list is long. Muslims are slaughtering Muslims. It’s a routine thing. Relatively speaking, the confrontation with the smallest numbers of casualties is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. 2,255 people have been killed and murdered in the focal points of this type of conflict, according to a count by Dr. Yochai Sela of Bar-Ilan University. Of them, nine were from the flotilla and another three Hamas operatives who tried to infiltrate Israel. Twenty were killed in the Russian federations. The United States killed 85 people in targeted killings. Let’s go back and clarify: we’re talking about last month. It wasn’t an especially violent month.
But who’s heard about it? The world is silent. The world was inundated by news of the nine devotees of Islamic Jihad, who came on one of the hate ships of the Hamas solidarity trip. The organization that sent them, the IHH, was exposed in the past as having ties to terror. The terrorist ties of the senior operatives in the organization were exposed yet again following the voyage. But the world was not interested. Obama, whose soldiers also killed children in May – we’ll get back to them later – demanded an investigation of Israel, which is trying to prevent Gaza from turning into a frontline base for Iran or Al Qaida. Turkish flags were flown at the leftwing, petty-wing demonstration in Tel Aviv. This is the same Turkey, that even if we forgive its Armenian massacre, is these years slaughtering Kurds, just as Israel dares not slaughter Palestinians, and good thing, too. But flags of the Islamized Turkey were waved here and at other demonstrations in the West. The world will eventually wake up. Let’s pray it won’t be too late.
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The list of the 87 people taken out by the United States in May includes Mustafa al-Yazid, an al Qaida official. He wasn’t alone. His whole family was killed in the operation. His wife, his three daughters, his grandchildren, and other relatives. Widespread searches turned up not a word of criticism against the United States in the mainstream Western press. This is the same press that for many long days has been preoccupied with the nine shahids from the Turkish branch of international Jihad.
What would happen if Israel eliminated a Hamas official with all his family members? If it happened now, the world would blow a fuse. It already happened, when Salah Shehada was assassinated, and there was also a lot of noise against Israel. A petition was submitted to the Supreme Court, which did not rule against the assassinations, let it be said to its credit, but did try to set limits. Haaretz newspaper determined, based on documents leaked to it by Anat Kam, that the army is violating Supreme Court instructions. It was libel. The Chief of General Staff refused to authorize detainment of the wanted men if there were “two unidentified persons” on site. The American army, as we’ve revealed in the past, set an index that permits eliminating 29 innocents for the sake of taking out one wanted official. And yet, according to the industry of lies, the IDF is an army of criminals. The NATO and US soldiers are devoted to the nations of the world. They’re allowed anything.
We can’t lose the United States. We have no other friend like it. But specifically because it’s a friend, we’re allowed to clarify for the US some basic truths.