Erdogan opens his hate tour against Israel
martedì 13 settembre 2011 English 0 commenti
Il Giornale, September 13, 2011Tahrir Square, what a wonderful prey for Tayyip Erdogan and at such low price, the hatred against Israel: Turkey has not come to the stage as an international Islamic power since the time of the Ottoman Empire and now he chooses Egypt to start his tour to salute the Arab spring, moving then to Tunisia and Libya.
Erdogan has indeed already announced that his speech in Cairo will focus on secularism and democracy. But we know that this is a lie: the cement that has so far connected Erdogan to his friends and former friends Syria and Iran is the hate against Israel. It is also the instrument that Erdogan used to please the deepest Islamic soul of Turkey by saying publicly at Davos, in 2009, to President Shimon Peres: «You know well how to kill». He has allowed also a serial on the Turkish TV where Israeli soldiers willingly kill Palestinian children. Erdogan goes to Cairo just after having wiped off the Israeli embassy in Ankara, after having threatened to escort the next flotilla up to Gaza, after having severed the military relationship. All these last moves because a U.N. Commission has established that Israel has the right to defend its waters from infiltrations towards Gaza.
Erdogan has felt offended because Israel has not been condemned by the UN and so he decided to revenge personally. The twinning between the expulsion of the Israeli Embassies in Ankara and Cairo is an awful symbol, also because nobody has reacted properly. The ambassador of Israel, with which Egypt has been at peace since 1979, was forced to flee while a huge angry mob attacked the diplomatic representation from Jerusalem with fire and picks. The violence was not blocked by the law enforcement agencies and it was applauded by Iran which likened this attack to the occupation of the American embassy that triggered the Khomeini’s revolution.
Erdogan has the power, the military force and the ideological determination to build the new alliances where the Turkish must be the dominators. He left for this tour with hundreds of ministers and businessmen. But his business card is the angry, unstoppable, furious dislike for Israel, that piece of the West, that dhimmi, that inferior in the Islamic Umma who refuses to bow his head.
Turkey has already announced that it will prevent Israel from exploiting the gas fields found offshore and on which it has passed an agreement with Cyprus.
In the meantime, Erdogan passed to the Turkish agencies the copy of his interview to Al Jazeera, in which he stated that the flotilla incident did not cause a war only thanks to the great past of his country. War is a strong word, but thinking of the atmosphere and of the images of Tahrir square in the last few days, and of Erdogan’s speeches on the Ottoman Empire, it is easy to understand that the honor tour that starts from Tahrir square and continues to Tunisia and Libya lifts a menacing flag.