Community | June 02, 2010 | 424 comments

Turkish Navy to Escort More Ships to Gaza

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Turkey has announced that they will send more ships to aid Gaza, and that this time they'll be accompanied by the Turkish Navy. This is a provocative and dangerous move, and one that is sure to raise tensions in the region.

The implications of Turkey's threat are unknown at this time. Avi Trengo, a columnist at an Israeli news site, implies (before Turkey's announcement) that in a showdown between the two countries, Israel is likely to cave first.

http://talkingskull.com/article/turkish-navy-to-escort-more-ships-to-gaza
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424 comments // Turkish Navy to Escort More Ships to Gaza

  • Colin_McCabe
  • Nephwrack
  • Nephwrack
  • Nephwrack
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      Nephwrack  
    • Colin_McCabe:

      but were there any substantial amount of knives or flash grenades? those are generally used in repelling boarding actions, like the piracy by the IDF. if so maybe your precious IDF should have wholesale slaughtered everyone on board and scuttled the ships.

    • 1 year ago
  • Colin_McCabe
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      Colin_McCabe  
    • Nephwrack:

      It's not piracy when they warned the ship of the blockade and told them they would not reach shore via there waters, yet the ship continued, their fault. There were more knives and bats and flash grenades than any "peaceful" aid ship needed

    • 1 year ago
  • freecrack
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      freecrack  
    • MrMxyzptlk:

      the fact they are an islamic nation bears acknowledgement as the region suffers from a brand of radicalism, that terrorism is based on.if you look at it from the perspective of muslums we are crusaders. a coallition force seems very reasonable to us, to them its all the christians working together, ergo crusade. it doesnt help that the radicals in the region have been preaching that the crusaders would come for thier children, as now those baseless claims seem (to them) a legitimate happening

    • 1 year ago
  • freecrack
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      freecrack  
    • Nephwrack:

      wow your devolving with every post.
      a crew of 600 were killed now, was 2 then 20, actualy ten, so we settle for 16 (like it matters dead is dead) and now we are working our way up to the idf slaughtered 600 people monday morn.

    • 1 year ago
  • saskia
  • crystalman
    • +2
      crystalman  
    • The real strategic significance of the violence off the northern coast of Israel lies in Turkey.

      It is in Ankara and Istanbul, and on the vast Anatolian plains, that we may be witnessing a profound reshaping of the Middle East strategic order, and therefore the global strategic order.

      In the melee of the Gaza ships, real violence occurred on only one ship, the Marmara. It was a Turkish vessel and its activists came from the Turkish Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH).

      The IHH is a pro-Hamas Islamist terror group implicated in numerous al-Qa'ida operations.

      They took clubs, steel bars, knives and perhaps guns on board. But their object was not to kill Israeli soldiers - though they would have been happy for that to happen. The aim was a kind of grotesque theatre, which is what all terrorism is really about, in this case to carry out enough violence to ensure a violent Israeli reaction.

      For weeks before the flotilla set off, the Israelis were constantly nagging the Turkish ambassador in Tel Aviv to help them manage the situation.

      We can do nothing, the Turkish government said, adding the matter was being carried out by non-government organisations.

      The flotilla never had any interest in getting aid to Gaza. The Israelis offered to route the aid through the Israeli port of Ashdod. Or the flotilla could have landed in Egypt and sent the aid in by road.

      No, the flotilla existed only to make political theatre and the IHH activists were determined to make deadly theatre, for the more deadly the performance is, the bigger the theatre becomes.

      The Turkish government seized on the incident to damn Israel in every way, to accuse it of piracy and banditry and murder.

      Recently it has hosted Hamas visits and its leaders make frequent visits themselves to Iran and Syria. Erdogan joined with Brazil in offering to reprocess Iran's nuclear fuel to avoid UN sanctions on Iran.

      Turkey is a member of NATO and it had traditionally been Israel's only Muslim ally.

      A decade ago, Turkey's agenda was liberalisation, European Union membership and close military co-operation with Israel. Now its agenda is hostility to the West, denunciation of Israel and creeping Islamisation.

      The way its government has used this incident to polarise its people against Israel is skilful and speaks of deep planning.

    • 1 year ago
  • remanns
  • dragon1984
  • freecrack
  • dragon1984
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      dragon1984  
    • freecrack:

      U.S. is to Israel as China is to North Korea.....look at how the roles have been reversed!

      When accusations started flying, Clinton went to China and asked them to support us in condemning them, well now the whole world is asking us to condemn Israel and we play it off like China did to NK. Why can't people just go off of common sense and morals, not who's a better ally? The only reason we're so strong allies with Israel seems to me to be because the U.S. as a "christian" nation wants some level of control over the "holy land" of Jerusalem.

    • 1 year ago
  • Colin_McCabe
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      Colin_McCabe  
    • dragon1984:

      North Korea committed another act of war, with a nation that is still at war, Israel backed up what it had already said, "you will not make it to Gaza shores". That's not an act of war, its continuing their blockade on Gaza. If terrorists were coming in through mexico to the united states like the terrorist controlled Gaza into Israel, I'm sure you'd side with Israel on the blockade.

    • 1 year ago
  • dragon1984
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      dragon1984  
    • Colin_McCabe:

      Funny thing is they are coming in through Mexico and I support (and would do this myself if I lived 200 miles more to the south) shoot-on-site tactics for border patrol, since government can't seem to figure out what the fuck it's doing.

      Maybe when this stops looking like a massacre of innocents I'll support Israel's decision.

    • 1 year ago
  • freecrack
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      freecrack  
    • dragon1984:

      and that all the superiority we enjoy has its roots in israel.imagine what we would be without drones,or the pentium chip.
      wed be russia
      israel is our best friend if we wish to ensure we survive

    • 1 year ago
  • freecrack
  • Haythem_Houissa
  • freecrack
  • Rene_Holder
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      Rene_Holder  
    • This is a bad idea and will not end well. Enough lives have been lost over the years, it time to return to the table and work this out diplomatically.

    • 1 year ago
  • freecrack
  • Nephwrack
  • freecrack
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