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Titolo: Kerry: Turkish comments complicate Mideast process

ROTFL!  Da oltre 40 anni i "sionisti" usano come ostaggio il processo di 
pace con i palestinesi per rintuzzare ogni critica.  E da oltre 40 anni 
procedono imperterriti a colonizzare quei territori che dovrebbero 
essere oggetto della trattativa.  Addirittura è successo che a colloqui 
di pace in corso venissero annunciati ampliamenti delle colonie, e se 
qualcuno osava far notare la contraddizione tra l'una e l'altra cosa i 
"sionisti" si lagnavano che veniva messo in pericolo il processo di 
pace.  Se non fosse tragedia sarebbe una farsa.
 
Comunque stavolta Erdogan l'ha fatta davvero grossa, molto più grossa di 
quanto abbia fatto col tentativo di spezzare il criminale assedio di 
Gaza: ha pubblicamente infranto un tabù tra i più protetti dalla lobby, 
ha detto la verità sul "sionismo".
Un affronto che è costato la vita a Saddam, a Gheddafi, ad Assad 
probabilmente, e la rovina dei loro paesi.
Un affronto che probabilmente frutterà agli USA una guerra contro l'Iran 
che li porterà alla rovina, dopo aver ingrassato la terra con 
innumerevoli altri cadaveri ovviamente.
 
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Kerry: Turkish comments complicate Mideast process
March 01, 2013 08:53 PM (Last updated: March 01, 2013 08:56 PM)
By Matthew Lee
Associated Press
 
ANKARA, Turkey: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday waded into 
the controversy over comments by Turkey's prime minister equating 
Zionism to a crime against humanity, rebuking the leader of the NATO 
ally by saying such remarks complicate efforts to find peace in the 
Middle East.
 
Kerry said the Obama administration found the statements by Prime 
Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan "objectionable" and the stressed the 
"urgent need to promote a spirit of tolerance, and that includes all of 
the public statements made by all leaders" at a news conference in 
Ankara with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu.
 
"We not only disagree with it; we found it objectionable," Kerry said. 
He added that he had raised the issue with Davutoglu "very directly" and 
said he would do the same with Erdogan. The spat comes ahead of a trip 
to Israel and Jordan later this month by President Barack Obama, who 
wants to try to nudge the Israelis and Palestinians back to peace talks.
 
Davutoglu, however, gave no acknowledgement of the U.S. complaint and 
denied that any Turkish official had made hostile or offensive comments 
about Israel. Instead, he blamed Israel for acting in a hostile way 
toward Turkey. He repeatedly referred to the deaths of nine civilians at 
the hands of Israeli commandos aboard a Gaza-bound Turkish aid ship in 2010.
 
"If Israel wants to hear positive statements from Turkey, it needs to 
review its attitude," he said. "It needs to review its attitude toward 
us, and it needs to review its attitude toward the people in the region 
and especially the West Bank settlements issue."
 
Asked for his reaction to Davutoglu's remarks, Kerry replied that they 
demonstrated the difficulty of dealing with such a fraught and emotional 
situation.
 
"It underscores the importance of our efforts to try to find a way 
forward to make peace in this region and to resolve the kind of 
differences that excite the passions that the foreign minister has just 
articulated and the difference of opinions about words and about their 
impact," Kerry said.
 
Addressing the U.N. Alliance of Civilizations conference in Vienna this 
week, Erdogan complained of prejudices against Muslims. He said 
Islamophobia should be considered a crime against humanity "just like 
Zionism, like anti-Semitism and like fascism."
 
The White House rejected the comparison on Thursday, calling it 
"offensive and wrong." A senior State Department official traveling with 
Kerry said comments like Erdogan's are "corrosive" to U.S.-Turkey 
relations and damaging to regional and international stability.
 
Kerry said he believes there is a way to repair the damage, but he 
added: "It obviously gets more complicated in the aftermath of a speech 
such as the one we heard in Vienna."
 
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also sharply condemned the 
remark late Thursday, calling it a "dark and mendacious statement, the 
likes of which we thought had passed from the world." U.N. chief Ban 
ki-Moon joined the critics, saying it was "unfortunate that such hurtful 
and divisive comments were uttered at a meeting being held under the 
theme of responsible leadership."
 
Although he did not back down from the Erdogan remarks, Davutoglu did 
say that Turkey was a strong proponent of the two-state solution for 
Israel and the Palestinians and would do whatever it could to help 
achieve that.
 
Kerry said that despite the comments, he was hopeful Turkey and Israel 
could eventually find a way to restore their previously close relations.
 
The uproar has overshadowed Kerry's previously planned visit to the 
Turkish capital, where he had hoped to spend much of his time discussing 
the crisis in neighboring Syria and coordinating plans with the Turks to 
assist the Syrian opposition, which is fighting to oust President Bashar 
Assad.
 
The deterioration of Turkish-Israel relations has been a matter of deep 
worry for the U.S., which has unsuccessfully sought to push the two 
countries to get back on friendly terms.
 
Turkey and Israel were once important allies, but relations deteriorated 
sharply after the 2010 raid.
 
Turkey is a co-sponsor, along with Spain, of the U.N. initiative to 
promote tolerance and understanding between various religions.
 
Turkey's state-run news agency, Anadolu, reported Erdogan's remarks on 
Wednesday but removed the reference to "Zionism" in a correction sent 
out an hour later. It said the correction was "made by the source" but 
gave no other explanation.
 
Erdogan, whose ruling party has roots in Turkey's Islamic movement, 
frequently criticizes Israeli actions against Palestinians but rarely 
speaks out against Zionism. In November, he accused Israel of state 
terrorism and of an "attempt at ethnic cleansing," a euphemism that 
describes using violence to force a population to flee an area.
 
Kerry was in NATO ally Turkey on the fourth leg of a nine-nation dash 
through Europe and the Middle East that was his first official overseas 
trip as secretary of state. Kerry spent much of his time at his first 
three stops - Britain, Germany and Italy - focusing on the conflict in 
Syria.
 
Kerry's first stop in Ankara on Friday was the U.S. Embassy, where he 
spoke at a memorial service for a local Turkish security guard who was 
killed in a Feb. 1 suicide attack at the embassy gates. Kerry presented 
the man's family with an award for heroism.
 
  From Turkey, Kerry will travel to Egypt on Saturday, followed by Saudi 
Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar before returning to 
Washington in the middle of next week.
- See more at: 
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2013/Mar-01/208457-kerry-raised-erdogan-comments-with-fm-found-them-objectionable.ashx#axzz2MIzs3fYs
 
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 Middle East.
 
Erdy pensava di fare una bella scorreggiona sonora, invece si è riempito le
mutande di merda.
 
 
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