Wednesday, June 9, 2010
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American Jewish community ends support of Turkish interests on Hill - '..."In terms of the Jewish community and Israel, neither one of us wants to throw it away and hope it is not over," Mr. Foxman said. "But every day there is another provocation. Every day the Turkish government goes out of its way to be insulting to Israel and another link is broken." Morris Amitay, a former executive director of AIPAC who has also represented Turkey, was more blunt. "If someone asked me now if I would try to protect Turkey in Congress, my response would be, 'You've got to be kidding,'" he said...'
Of course Alex Pareene of Salon.com described it as "Turkey loses its genocide denying friends". In short, the left condemns Israel for both supporting and not supporting Turkey.
This is not a bad thing for Israel.
Turkish relations came at the expense of supporting Turkey on the Armenian and Cyprus issues, neither of which are supportable.
I appreciate the desire of Israel to have had a strategic alliance with Turkey over the years but it came at a price; too high a price in my opinion.
Turkey as a secular state was always going to crumble under the relentless population growth of the eastern rural areas. Anatolia wiped out all of its Armenians in the genocide and it, and other eastern parts of Turkey, breed the Islamists.
Secular Turkey was good.
Islamist Turkey must unfortunately be jettisoned until such time, if ever, it returns to civilized society.