Please, dude—hold your breath: The Turkish FM is waiting for Israel to say that the flotilla raid was “unjust.” If not, Turkey will break off relations with Israel. Well, Turkey has already lost $400 million in tourism so far, apparently, it wants to reach the $1 billion mark. And let’s see, the odds on Israel issuing an apology for the raid… I give it a zero.
The PCUSA can go suck eggs: PCUSA has released the near-definitive version of its anti-Israel report that was years in the making. It calls for an end to the Gaza blockade (but no corresponding solution on what to do after the weapons flow to Hamas), a boycott of Israeli products and, of course, any company that does business with Israel (e.g., Caterpillar). A former friend of mine, who is also not a friend of Israel, used to explain to me how everyone in the church votes on this, so it’s not a select few manipulating the church for its own ends (and of course I mean you, Sabeel, and your “one-state solution“). The fact that the PCUSA had to put out a statement insisting they weren’t anti-Jewish, just anti-Israel, oops, I mean, anti- some of Israel’s practices, gives you more than enough information on what’s going on with the PCUSA. The fact that I can no longer find that document on the PCUSA site tells you even more. But I did find this one, where the author states a) Some of his best friends are Jewish, b) His father fought the Nazis in WWII and c) Whoa! His dad was officially declared a Holocaust survivor because he was a POW in Buchenwald, so he totally gets the Jewish experience now.
Yeah, you can go suck eggs, too, bud.
Just to be sure of the PCUSA anti-Israel criticism we’re talking about, here’s an excerpt from the document:
2.3 The 1967 War
In June 1967, Israel attacked Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. At the end of six days, Israel had taken the Gaza strip and the Sinai from Egypt, East Jerusalem and the West Bank from Jordan, and the Golan from Syria. The United Nations Security Council passed resolution 24224 that requested the withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in the 1967 war and emphasized the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war and the need to work for a just and lasting peace in which every State in the area could live in security. By 1979, the Sinai was returned to Egypt and a peace treaty was signed between Egypt and Israel. In 1994 Israel and Jordan signed a peace treaty. At this time, the Golan Heights, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Gaza strip are under total Israeli control.
Wow. What an absolutely, completely, totally accurate depiction of the events behind the Six-Day War. That’s not at all anti-Israel.
I think I’ll be reading the full report and excerpting it, possibly for years to come.
Turkey will “break off relations?” I read they would just stop allowing commercial planes to fly into or over Turkey, i.e. they would break off tourist relations.
It seems to me Erdogan saw his ratings leap up and wants to squeeze as much as he can out of the flotilla escapade. Meanwhile, Israel’s dear friend in Iran is seething with jealousy.
Author forgot that Egypt closed Suez Channel for Israelis, which is the actual act of war. Besides, the armies of these three countries were set on borders to attack Israelis. Israel is not guilty for outsmarting his enemies.