If Turkey starts a war with Israel, I have no doubt that obama will take the side of turkey. This country should have been kicked out of NATO the moment this jihadist erdogan took power.
It was inevitable that once gas reserves were discovered in Israeli territorial waters, that the islamic countries would falsely stake their claim to them and try to steal it from Israel. Being a major energy producer would increase Israel's power and prestige on the world stage, as well as decrease the power of the islamic world over the west. So Turkey is desperate to prevent Israel from becoming an energy power to the point of starting a war with Israel over it.
Erdogan drives toward armed clash with Israel. Oil and gas at stake
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report September 9, 2011,
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan this week coolly moved his country step by provocative step towards an armed clash with Israel – not just over the Palestinian issue, but because he covets the gas and oil resources of the eastern Mediterranean opposite Israel’s shores.
Thursday night, Sept. 8, he announced that Turkish warships will escort any Turkish aid vessels for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. In his remarks to Al Jazeera television, the Turkish prime minister also said he had taken steps “to stop Israel from unilaterally exploiting natural resources from the eastern Mediterranean.”
He did not say what steps he had taken. However, for some time now, he has moved mountains to isolate Israel by drawing a double diplomatic noose around it.
If Turkish ships breach the Israeli naval blockade of Gaza, which a UN report last week pronounced legitimate under international law, Erdogan will become the first Muslim leader to embark on military action in the Palestinian cause. The Arab nations which fought Israel time after time in the past will be made to look ineffectual and the Turkish leader the regional big shot. Even Iran would be put in the shade for never daring to provoke Israel the way Turkey has.
The Turkish prime minister clings to the belief that the foremost Arab powers, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, which have been watching his maneuvers with deep suspicion, will have no choice but to play ball with him now that he has confronted Israel. The first crack in the Arab ice came about Thursday, Sept. 8, in the form of Egyptian consent to join the Turkish Navy in sea maneuvers in the eastern Mediterranean.
Erdogan plans to send his warships into this water for two missions:
1. To split the Israel’s small Navy into two heads – one for sustaining the blockade against Gaza and one for safeguarding the gas and oil rigs opposite its shores.
2. To scare Israel into the full or partial stoppage of its offshore oil and gas operations, thereby robbing it of energy power status and substantial economic gains. Erdogan is determined never to let Israel overshadow Turkey in the regional stakes and will put a stop to the Jewish state’s progress – even if military aggression is called for.
debkafile’s military sources report that the Turkish prime minister is resolved to corner Israel into an inescapable military confrontation. It might not happen at once or even within a week, but it will happen a lot sooner than many Israeli politicians and military chiefs imagine because he is using Israel as his ticket to regional prestige.
Erdogan is driven to assert Turkey’s importance additionally by the way he was shouldered aside in Libya. Ankara invested heavily in its support for the Libyan rebels. But when British, French, Jordanian and Qatari special forces stormed Tripoli on Aug. 21 and overthrew the Qaddafi regime, Turkey was left behind and forgotten in the heat of the action.
From Ankara, the Turkish leader watches the sharing out of Libyan oil as the spoils of war among the Western powers and Qatar as an outsider.
Since he can’t pluck up courage to intervene in Syria, he has plumped for seizing eastern Mediterranean natural resources to elevate Turkey’s standing. Not only will he snatch the treasure out of Israel’s hands but no less important, he will challenge his country’s traditional rival Greece whose military ties with Israel are growing stronger.
As for Washington, Erdogan is counting on President Barack Obama’s backing in a military clash with Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak are less confident of US support. This gives Turkey an edge in a conflict – the cost of the passive military policy pursued consistently by Israeli leaders in the face of security threats.
The Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas will also suffer if Turkey and Israel come to blows by being overshadowed.
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Erdogan is filled with hatred of Israel after having made a fool of himself for losing the flotilla debacle. Most Turks are good people but their leaders are far from that. Erdogan, when are you going to accept that Turkey committed genocide against the Kurds and that they are entitled to their own homeland. You are a great perpetrator of Apartheid against the Kurds.
There was a time when Israel would have responded to Turkish aggression with decisive force. Unfortunately, the Israelis have been intimidated into passivity.
Israeli officials who have been quoted anonymously are saying that NATO or Obama will intervene on their behalf. This delusional approach will not serve Israel well.
If Israel wants to maintain its sovereignty, it must be willing to fight the Muslims who are determined to wreak destruction. The Turks will steal more than oil unless the Israelis are willing to alienate Obama and NATO by defending themselves.
My philosophy is that alienating people who already want you dead is better than being killed. Barak has always disagreed and Netanyahu no longer believes in Israeli self-defense, so Erdogan smells weakness which will result in bloodshed.
The only unresolved aspect of this matter is how much Israel allows itself to be bullied before it has no choice but to fight back. Erdogan will keep pushing until the cowards who currently run Israel finally reciprocate.
I would preempt Erdogan's jihad by recognizing Kurdistan and hold out the possibility of supplying the Kurds with some spiffy WMDs. Let the Turkish military know that this ain't 1937, and bullying Jews now carries with it an unbearably painful price.
Counting on Obama and NATO to save Israel! Whoever said Jews were smart? It often seems that we are collectively inebriated.
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:28:26 -0700
The Daily Beast -- in Newsweek magazine Sept. 11, 2011 11:00 AM
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/09/11/first-report.html
Is Israel Over? By Benny Morris
No longer the liberal, democratic, egalitarian society it once was, Israel is fighting the Arabs - and itself.
Israel is under assault. On Sept. 20 the Palestinian Authority plans to unilaterally declare statehood and go to the United Nations for recognition. This is a rejection of all efforts for a peaceful compromise. In its wake will come waves of Palestinian violence. And yet this is just the latest manifestation of an embattled Israel that is being threatened from the outside—by Muslim Arab states and societies, Egyptians storming the Israeli Embassy.
A nuclear-arming Iran (with its local sidekicks, Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Hizbullah in Lebanon), and a besieged President Bashar al-Assad in Syria—and from the inside by domestic upheaval that led to the largest mass protests
in the country’s history.
More than 50 years ago, Israel’s leaders, headed by David Ben-Gurion, believed and hoped that they were creating
a social democracy, with all the requisite egalitarian accoutrements (socialized national health care, progressive income tax, child benefits, subsidized cheap housing). Ben-Gurion, who owned almost nothing and retired to a primitive hut in the Negev Desert, typified the austere lifestyle, and greatness, of the state’s founders.
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