More hypocrisy from the Turks
Two weeks ago, I reported on the delicious irony that Turkey is worried about a 'humanitarian crisis' in Gaza while the standard measures of a population's well-being are actually better in Gaza than they are in Turkey.Daniel Pipes has a similarly rich comparison that pits Israel's 'occupation' of Gaza with Turkey's occupation of Cyprus.
This Turkish rage prompts a question: Is Israel in Gaza really worse than Turkey in Cyprus? A comparison finds this hardly to be so. Consider some contrasts:Keep pointing this stuff out - it's a great way to win the propaganda war.
- Turkey's invasion of July-August 1974 involved the use of napalm and "spread terror" among Cypriot Greek villagers, according to Minority Rights Group International. In contrast, Israel's "fierce battle" to take Gaza relied only on conventional weapons and entailed virtually no civilian casualties.
- The subsequent occupation of 37 percent of the island amounted to a "forced ethnic cleansing" according to William Mallinson in a just-published monograph from the University of Minnesota. In contrast, if one wishes to accuse the Israeli authorities of ethnic cleansing in Gaza, it was against their own people, the Jews, in 2005.
- The Turkish government has sponsored what Mallinson calls "a systematic policy of colonization" on formerly Greek lands in northern Cyprus. Turkish Cypriots in 1973 totaled about 120,000 persons; since then, more than 160,000 citizens of the Republic of Turkey have been settled in their lands. Not a single Israeli community remains in Gaza.
- Ankara runs its occupied zone so tightly that, in the words of Bülent Akarcalı, a senior Turkey politician, "Northern Cyprus is governed like a province of Turkey." An enemy of Israel, Hamas, rules in Gaza.
- The Turks set up a pretend-autonomous structure called the "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus." Gazans enjoy real autonomy.
- A wall through the island keeps peaceable Greeks out of northern Cyprus. Israel's wall excludes Palestinian terrorists.
Read the whole thing. This is getting richer by the minute.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 3:48 PM
4 Comments:
"Keep pointing this stuff out - it's a great way to win the propaganda war."
This stuff only makes us feel better. Not to say we should not put this information out in the public however to think we can win the propaganda war with it denies what fuels it.
The oldest living hatred on earth has survived modernity and you are telling me this is about a propaganda war?
If it were as easy as you make it out to be there would have been no Shoah. There would not have been quotas on JEWS in the U.S post Shoah. The worst antisemitism in America was after the SHOAH, Carl.
Hate to tell you but this is more then a propaganda war. The allies had the blueprints for the rail lines right freaking in the hands. The stench of burning bodies was everywhere.
If this was mere propaganda there would have been no push for a Palestinian state by friends and foes alike. Rather we would see the Kurds with statehood and Jerusalem would not only have an American Embassy but most importantly recognition and respect of what Jerusalem actually represents!!
ANTISEMITISM is about an inherent seed. If this were anything but true, Antisemitism would be dead in the water. IT WOULD BE A RELIC OF THE PAST.
Naivete is as dangerous as liberal thinking. Anyone who denies truth is a threat to Jews.
The best way for Israel to respond to Turkish hypocrisy every time they attack Israel for its non-existent occupation of Gaza is to change focus and relentlessly attack Turkey for its illegal occupation of Cyprus. Don't let them change the subject!
Heh
I agree with NormanF. What's good for the goose . . . pot calling kettle black, etc.
Remind the world about Armenian genocide and Cyprus as a matter of policy.
Sometimes not responding is the best policy.
Attacking Turkey for its occupation of Cyprus and disputed Armenian genocide (I confess after reading up about the Armenian genocide, I am comfortable in saying it was *like* a genocide but am not sure it was a genocide) ,will bring up the question of why were Jews so silent about it till now???
It will also offend non-Islamic Turks.
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