Palestinian people should suffer, they voted for terrorist governments (Palestinian Authority AND HAMAS)... Bruce
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/735894.html Cold Turkey <http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/images/0.gif> By Ze'ev Schiff <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/images/0.gif> ANKARA - The city of Sderot, which has been hit with hundreds of Qassam rockets, is no longer mentioned in the international reports about the fighting in the Gaza Strip; the strike on Ashkelon is only mentioned indirectly. All is presented as if Israel has gone to war solely because of a soldier who was kidnapped during a guerrilla operation by Palestinians on an Israeli military target. Israel wants to save one soldier, and meanwhile about a million Palestinians are suffering. The fact that it's fighting a terror organization that supports violence against Israel and calls for its destruction is only mentioned occasionally. Television screens here keep showing images of the fire in the office of Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, a bridge in the Gaza Strip that was destroyed by the Israel Air Force, the fire at the Palestinian power station and Israeli tanks shooting. And no one asks - How is it that despite the heavy fire, there have been hardly any reports of Palestinians killed? To these are added shots of a faucet from which the last drops of water are dripping, and shots of a gas station accompanied by the explanation that the last gas tank is now being emptied. And the announcers always add that the international community must take action against the Palestinian humanitarian crisis created by Israel's attacks. <http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/images/0.gif> <http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/images/0.gif> Israel's representatives who appear on the television broadcasts are not making any headway in changing this trend. If the military situation deteriorates further, Israel will find itself in a grave situation as far as public relations are concerned. Turkey's attitude can serve as one example. Turkey's relations with Israel have improved to the point where the two countries hold regular strategic dialogues. No country suffers from outbreaks of serious terror like Turkey; the waves of violence against it come from radical Islamic factions, Al-Qaida, and mainly from the Kurdish PKK underground. One reason for the chill in Turkey's relations with the United States is Turkey's claim that Kurdish terror has been on the rise since the Americans occupied Iraq. The Turks say America speaks loftily about the need to fight international terror, while at the same time constraining Turkey in its efforts to act against the terrorists operating from northern Iraq. As it happens, the Turks have established some cooperation with Iran in combating PKK terror activists. It would have been natural to expect that Turkey would be understanding of Israel's conduct in response to Palestinian terror. But such is not the case. When the IDF action in the Gaza Strip began, Turkey reacted by offering some quiet advice, warning against mistakes that could throw international public opinion against Israel. Then there were two anti-Israel demonstrations in Istanbul and Ankara - one by leftists who denounced Israel as a "murderer of children," and one by radical Islamists. The first official statement from Turkey was balanced, but the second was very critical of Israel, and only of Israel. The main criticism was of the arrests of Hamas ministers and parliament members; Ankara called for the release of the Hamas detainees. In private conversations, the Turks were saying: You behaved just like Hamas - You took hostages. The official statement accuses Israel of resorting to disproportionate responses that could exacerbate the hardships of the Palestinian people. It also says there's a danger of destroying the achievements of the peace process and that the attacks (by Israel, of course) give rise to more hostility and the desire for revenge, which could harm the chances of future co-existence. To keep the present crisis from reaching the point of no return, says the statement, Israel must put an end to its military operations and allow for international efforts to secure the kidnapped soldier's release. In other words, in Turkey's view, Israel is the one holding up the abducted soldier's release. If a similar statement were ever made about Turkey (which in its war against Kurdish terror is taking similar measures to those currently used by Israel in its battle), the Turkish reaction would be that it was a one-sided distortion of the facts that ignores the effects of terror on the Turkish population. <http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/images/0.gif> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! 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