[ April 25, 2024 ]
Netanyahu wrote: “The most moral army in the world will not be lectured to by someone who for years has indiscriminately bombed civilian populations. Apparently, this is the way they mark April Fools’ Day in Ankara….I am not used to receiving lectures about morality from the leader who bombs Kurdish villagers in his native Turkey, who jails journalists, who helps Iran go around international sanctions, and who helps terrorists, including in Gaza, kill innocent people. That is not the man who is going to lecture us.”
He is right. Erdogan, like Muslim leaders the world over, always speaks as if he held the moral high ground, regardless of the blood that is on his own hands. The IDF takes more scrupulous care to avoid civilian casualties than any army on earth. Erdogan’s charges are part of the ongoing Islamic propaganda campaign to blacken Israel’s reputation and turn people of good will against it — a campaign that has had remarkable success among leftists in the West, including leftist Jewish leaders, to their shame.
“Erdogan: You are a terrorist, Netanyahu: You are a butcher,” by Herb Keinon, Jerusalem Post, April 1, 2018 (thanks to Van):
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu charged Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday with slaughter in the northern Syrian city of Afrin, taking off his gloves and responding in kind to Erdogan’s sharp criticism of Israel’s reaction to Friday’s march in Gaza.
“Erdogan is not used to people responding to him, but he should start getting used to it,” Netanyahu said. “Anyone who occupies northern Cyprus, invades the Kurdish strip and slaughters citizens in Afrin, should not lecture us about values and ethics.”
On January 20, Turkey began a cross-border military operation against the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) in Afrin, an operation for which Turkey has come under widespread international criticism.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that 289 civilians have been killed since Ankara began this military operation. Other estimates put that number as high as 510, amid allegations of indiscriminate Turkish artillery fire. There have also been reports of Turkish border guards shooting refugees fleeing the fighting and seeking shelter inside Turkey.
Netanyahu’s statement was the latest in an angry ping-pong with Erdogan, who on Saturday was withering in his criticism of Israel – as he has been for years.
“I strongly condemn the Israeli government over its inhumane attack,” Erdogan said of Friday’s incidents along the Gaza border. “Have you heard any noteworthy objections to the massacre by Israel that happened yesterday in Gaza from those who criticize the Afrin operation? This is the biggest proof of insincerity of those who fixate on us but say nothing about Israel using heavy weapons to attack people who are protesting on their own lands.”
Although for the most part Netanyahu has in the past ignored these types of statements from Erdogan, this time he opted to respond, saying on Sunday morning that Erdogan’s remarks were apparently an April Fools’ joke.
“The most moral army in the world,” Netanyahu tweeted about the IDF, “will not be lectured to by someone who for years has indiscriminately bombed civilian populations. Apparently, this is the way they mark April Fools’ Day in Ankara.”
Erdogan, who has made strident anti-Israel comments into one of the trademarks of his rule – and who hosts Hamas offices in Turkey – replied to Netanyahu’s tweet by calling Israel a “terrorist state and occupier,” and Netanyahu a “terrorist.”
According to Turkey’s English daily Sabah, Erdogan – speaking at a meeting of his ruling Justice and Development Party in the southern province of Adana – said, “I do not need to tell the world how cruel the Israeli army is. We can see what this terror state is doing by looking at the situation in Gaza and Jerusalem.”
Israel, he said, “has carried out a massacre in Gaza and Netanyahu is a terrorist.”
According to the Hurriyet Daily News, Erdogan said of Netanyahu, “He says our soldiers are oppressing people in Afrin. Netanyahu, you are very weak, very poor.”…
For example, after Erdogan led the chorus of those condemning the US for recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in December – and criticizing how Jerusalem handled Palestinian protests at the time – Netanyahu said: “I am not used to receiving lectures about morality from the leader who bombs Kurdish villagers in his native Turkey, who jails journalists, who helps Iran go around international sanctions, and who helps terrorists, including in Gaza, kill innocent people. That is not the man who is going to lecture us.”
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30 Comments
6 years ago
erdogan is a typical muslim, a liar, there are three circumstances when a muslim is expected to lie, in islam lies are categorized int six groups. It has been proven throughout history that muslims lie constantly, before electronic media, it was easy to suppress the culture of muslim liars, now, not so much as it is recorded and easy to retrieve. If muslim is speaking or writing, they are lying.
6 years ago
Erdogan is an Islamist Arab and really wants to be King of the Hil but he knows that he’ll never reach the top except in his own country where he is a tyrant.
Erdogan has innocent people, local and foreign journalists imprisoned in his jails that will never will see the light of day unless there is another attempt at unseating this maniac. He keeps forgetting what the Turks did to the Armenians and also how they stole property from northern Cyprus. He still has troops on the border and would like to invade Cyprus but the US and Greece would be there to protect Cyprus.
Erdogan is a TOTAL NUT JOB, but his own people are unable to unseat him.
Israel set up on its border a humanitarian hospital to treat Syrian fighters. If Israel is such a terrorist state, how is it that it treats in many cases Arab terrorists even though they wished to kill Israelis?
Not bad for a SOB who has been attacking the Kurds almost at every opportunity over many years. This arrogant dictator needs a lesson and in due course it will come. NATO nor the US can continue tolerating this aberrant schemer. All of this is part of his uncontrollable narcissism trying to become an Islamic caliph. His “coup” was a staged bit of drama to grab total power.
Furthermore, Erdogan is a dictator of a country that does not have the moral fibre nor guts to own up to the Armenian genocide.
6 years ago
Reply to
Erdogan is a Dictator
It’s not that Erdogan forgot about the armenian genocide. He believes its appropriate since anyone who is not muslim is considered lower than animals.
6 years ago
Reply to
Erdogan is a Dictator
On the Armenian genocide…anyone involved there is dead and the country engaging in it no longer exists. Now, on the present day, the West is in a quandary as geographically, Turkey is a buffer between Russia and Africa. Who checks Russia if not Turkey? Also, if one takes out Recep Tayyip Erdogan, one had better have a replacement immediately ready to assume power.
6 years ago
Reply to
aemoreira1981
Well after the Ottoman Caliphate fell … attaturk and his turkeys continued their genocide(s). Ask any Greek … now be a good little girl, aermoreria1981 … and have your mommy play Make-Believe, with you.
6 years ago
Reply to
aemoreira1981
Turkey checks Russia? Bwahahahahahahaha. I think Russia could roll up Turkey like an old Ottoman carpet.
6 years ago
remind me again where the isis oil went?
6 years ago
Netanyahu: ‘You are a butcher.’ 5:33(-40) and a ‘terror’ist 8:12(-17) https://www.instagram.com/p/BdIa4WkHOVE
6 years ago
Human Beings: Erdogan is the descendant of the cross-breeding of monkeys with pigs.
6 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohammedan
Oh, yeah, you’re a real man, insulting monkeys and pigs.
F- pisslam.
6 years ago
Reply to
Dagonet
It’s not monkeys being bad … or hogs being bad (I love smoking pork loin). It’s when they’re cross-bred … they create moslems .. that IS bad.
6 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohammedan
I don’t think Japanese macaques would appreciate being accused of cross-breeding w/pigs to create muslums.
6 years ago
Erdogan wants to bring back the “glory days” of the Ottoman empire, where Africans and Europeans were property of the Turks. Erdogan has his sights on being the Caliph of that empire.
6 years ago
During the coup attempt by the Turkish military in 2016, over 300 were killed and 2100 were wounded. They, too, were protesting on their own land. But Erdogan doesn’t see it that way. Anything an honorable Mohammedan does is ‘halal’. Anything a disgusting infidel does is ‘haram’. Even if it’s the same thing.
6 years ago
erdogan, you ignorant slut
6 years ago
I’m glad I did my growing up during the long peace {for Europe} of the cold war because now with mass unwanted muslim immigration we’re looking at the return of wars of religion, and as modern kids have never been taught the history of the last 2000 years, what’s coming over their horizon is going to hit them very hard.
6 years ago
The Left seems to ignore real terrorist/fascist leaders like Erdogan then if we try to topple them their heads explode. Leftists are the slowest (dumbest) kid in the class, forcing others to learn at their snail’s pace.
Had the world learnt its lesson from Hitler, Mao, Stalin, etc-we’d be very aggressively removing tin-pot dictators/fascist regimes around the world and proudly spreading capitalism/democracy everywhere.
Notice that democracies do not go to war with each other, they only compete in trade. Of all the socioeconomic systems, secular-democracies are the best, offer the most freedom and prosperity to people. We need democracy to spread to the Islamic and Communist worlds for real peace.
6 years ago
I heard this economist called Catherine Austin Fitts, a frequent guest on Coast-to-Coast, talking on the radio last night. I have always found her interesting and intelligent and more candid than the typical prognosticator of the dismal science.
But the caveat she made that cancels out all the previous props I had given her (in my mind) and makes me inasmuch swear her off for all future attention, influence or suspension of disbelief was this: “I’m no fan of Israel…”
Israel is a litmus test. You’re against us, Catherine Austin Fitts.
Here is a hint for you: Islamics have to solve their own problems and stop exporting them.
Stop blaming Israel. That’s tantamount to blaming the United States, which I assume you do, too.
6 years ago
Putin helped this POS build a nuclear reactor (power plant) in Turkey, close to the Syrian border providing them with uranium. (Gee, what would Syria do with enriched uranium?) Putin spared no expense, to Russia that is, did he, HILLARY? Putin is using ErDOG/Turk military as leverage in fighting against the US(/allies) in Syria. When Pooty gets what he wants, he’ll cut back on support to Turkey. He’ll then support them enough to keep his military base in open in Syria. He doesn’t have all the resources to control all of the Mediterranean, but with Crimea and Syria, he’s got some say, I suspect he wants more (perhaps an eventual naval blockade of Ukraine rendering her navy ineffective?). I expect ErDOG to back down in the future, especially if he F- with Israel. The IDF quickly retaliates when attacked, making people pay. ErDOG’s a dumbA-, Pooty won’t forever pay for his loudmouth.
F- pisslam.
6 years ago
NATO’s ally, Turkey, blecch (inn the finest tradition of Mad Magazine).
6 years ago
It needs to be 1204 AD again. Soon.
BTW; we want our airbase back. Paid for with interest.
6 years ago
Two indicators of Erdogan’s character, or lack thereof, are that phony coup attempt he engineered recently in a power grab and in which he blamed the entire “plot” on some obscure cleric living in the US and the manner in which he showed his tacit approval when his protection detail viciously attacked peaceful demonstrators on his state visit to the US.
What is that old saying about throwing stones while living in a glass house?
6 years ago
Turkey Pakistan Iran Russia no friend to the west. Israel has to stand up to them and the United states better.
6 years ago
I DO like Benjamin Netanyahu and I don’t believe he is a terrorist, Recep Tayyip Erdogan is and one of the world’s worst arrogant, ignorant and hypocrite president. Liar and taqiya is Erdogan’s “middle name”. P.S. I’m not Jew
6 years ago
Any kissing pal of Erdogan is a scumbag and i’m talking about Obama.
6 years ago
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Stephen Honig
Aren’t all Muslims liars, especially when they say Islam is a religion of peace?
6 years ago
Let us not forget the genocide of Armenians by Turkey at the beginning of the last century. Turks have no moral high ground at all.
