Obama's fat little Israeli puppet meets with Turkish foreign minister
When the 5:00 am news came on in my shower on Thursday morning, the lead story was something that I didn't think would be of particular interest to readers of my blog. Israel's Minister of Industry and Trade Binyamin (Fouad) Ben Eliezer, a member of the Labor party, met in Switzerland on Wednesday with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu. As you might imagine, Israel's Foreign Minister - Avigdor Lieberman - the head of the Yisrael Beiteinu party - was livid because not only was he not invited; he was also not told until after the fact.The story was being played as a political fight within the coalition. Both Labor and Yisrael Beiteinu are coalition members, but Yisrael Beiteinu is closer to Likud ideologically than Labor is (or at least we Israelis hope and believe that's the case), and Lieberman is the third most senior minister in the government after Netanyahu and Ehud Barak. And Yisrael Beiteinu is a larger party.
So why am I blogging this story? Because later in the morning, it took a fascinating turn. It seems that the meeting in Switzerland was orchestrated under pressure from the Obama administration. What's unsaid here - but seems obvious to me - is that the Obama administration at Turkey's insistence likely demanded that neither Lieberman nor his deputy - Danny Ayalon - be present at the meeting. You will recall that Ayalon humiliated Turkey's ambassador to Israel on television several months ago in response to a libelous television series in Turkey.
A senior Israeli official's secret meeting with the Turkish foreign minister in Switzerland was apparently held due to pressure from the Obama administration, sources in Jerusalem said Thursday.So the meeting accomplished nothing. There will be no apology - if anything the Turks should apologize for sending a gang of terrorists to try to break our legal maritime 'blockade' of Gaza. But there will be a lot more hard feelings toward the Obama administration by Right-leaning Israelis. And once again the Obama administration proves that they're a group of idiots who cannot mind their own business.
The White House prompted and coordinated the meeting between Israeli Industry, Trade, and Labor Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, the source confirmed in response to a report in the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet.
The meeting was held Wednesday without permission from Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who reacted furiously to the news that such talks were held without his knowledge or consent.
Associates of Defense Minister Ehud Barak said he had opposed the meeting and told Prime Minister Netanyahu as much, though ultimately decided not to veto the matter.
The defense minister had declined advice to hold his own meeting with the Turkish envoy to the U.S. or even Davutoglu during his recent visit to Washington, the associates added.
Davutoglu took off for Zurich on a private plane to maintain the clandestine nature of the talks, Hurriyet reported on Thursday, and the conference room was booked under a fake name.
During their two-hour meeting, Davutoglu reportedly reiterated Turkey's demand that Israel apologize for its May 31 raid on the Gaza-bound flotilla that left nine Turkish activists dead.
Other than that, the weather here is fine.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:32 PM
1 Comments:
What you have combined along with the Turkish contractor tender, are useful idiots in the Israeli government, who like the Obama Administration, refuse to face the facts of life about Islamist Turkey.
National humiliation is a spectator sport in Israel. One would think after Israeli soldiers were nearly killed by Turkish terrorists, the Israeli government would have learned something from it.
As it turned out, it can't even say NO to Obama's arm-twisting,
What could go wrong indeed
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