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Israel ignoring Davutoglu

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In a bid to stay out of the Turkish elections, Israel is ignoring the constant badgering from Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu.

For instance, the Hurriyet newspaper quoted him on Sunday as saying in an interview with the Radikal daily that “there cannot be peace in the Middle East if Israel is seen as a ‘privileged country that is above international law.’ Israel needs to accept being subject to international law as an ordinary nation-state.”

According to Davutoglu, “The crime against humanity committed last year [by Israel against the Mavi Marmara protest ship] still has not been accounted for. Israel must be warned about this.”

Davutoglu also compared Israel’s military steps in the Gaza Strip with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s actions in Libya, according to Hurriyet.

“Israel is killing civilians,” Davutoglu said. “It killed civilians in Gaza. What sanctions were imposed on it? Libya is [Gaddafi’s] own country.

Killings cannot be legitimized, but it’s something happening in his own country. Israel is killing people in another country, in the Palestinian territories. For me, this is the main psychological threshold.”

The assessments in Israel, meanwhile, are that everything being said right now by Turkish politicians must be seen through the prism of the upcoming elections, which Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Islam-based Justice and Development party are expected to win handily.

According to these assessments, much of what is being said about Israel is meant for domestic political consumption, and by reacting Israel would be playing into the hands of those making the statements.

I suppose that if Israel reacted it would just make more people vote for the AKP. What could go wrong?

Labels: Ahmet Davutoglu, flotilla of fools, Turkish obsession with Israel

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 4:15 PM