Istanbul – Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday Turkey would push for Israel to be tried at an international criminal court if it kept up its assault on Gaza and he accused the Jewish state of “spitting blood”.
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Turkey, a member of the U.S.-led NATO military alliance, was once Israel’s closest regional ally but has become one of its most vitriolic critics, with Erdogan last weekend accusing it of “surpassing Hitler in barbarism” with its Gaza offensive.
“If Israel continues with this attitude, it will definitely be tried at international courts,” Erdogan, who is campaigning for a presidential election on Aug. 10, told a rally of supporters in the southern port city of Mersin.
“We will see this happen and Turkey will struggle for this,” he told the cheering crowd.
Turkey was once considered by Washington as a credible broker in the Middle East peace process, particularly given its channels of communication with Islamist group Hamas, but that changed as Erdogan adopted an increasingly anti-Israel stance.
“At the moment, Hamas is prepared for everything in order to achieve a ceasefire… (Palestinian President Mahmoud) Abbas is prepared too,” Erdogan told CNN news channel in an interview.
“Israel is not even approaching such a thing and is spitting death, spitting blood,” he said, in comments translated by the broadcaster from Turkish and aired on Thursday.
He stood by his comments likening Israel’s actions to those of Hitler and said the Jewish state was committing genocide.
“It is beyond comprehension that Israel is still defended by the West and the world is silent about it. Therefore we cannot remain silent and we will not be silent,” Erdogan said.
You and your UN will be the judge, right?
Whatever we may think of him, crazy, silly, stupid or whatever… This is dangerous and he needs to be stopped.
It is time for true Torah Jews to proclaim to the non-Jewish world that True Torah Jews did not want the state of Israel to begin with and therefore what ever Israel does good or bad does not represent Torah Jews.
We cry on Tisha tisha b’av how we didn’t listen to hashem and we were therefore kicked out from the holy land Eretz Yisroel and sent into exile.
Jews to follow atheist Jews as Herzl and Ben Gurion etc with supporting their idea of a Jewish state before the coming of Moshiach is against the will of Hashem.
Nothing good for Jews can come out from people who are Mechalel Shabbos,eat triefs etc and follow nothing what the torah says.
At the same time we must pray for the well beings of all Jews in Israel including the IDF no one should get killed or injured.But we must not pray for the success of the IDF. Is it possible the IDF should not be successful and not be killed? the almighty can do everything.
Erdogan should his head seriously examined.
I can’t believe that any country would elect such an imbecile as a president (unless all of them are like that)
and for this we had to apologize and pay restitution to the families of terrorists killed on that boat!
Throw him in the trash
And these idiots want to know why their based “humanitarian efforts” are not allowed through Israeli blockaded waters.
Blah blah blah more Muslim hot air and threats. Mother of all battles, et al.
Reply to 3. You and your NK cohorts are welcome to visit Hamas for a few hours. You’ll get what you deserve
I sincerely hope a stray rocket from Gaza hits him in the head.
“I sincerely hope a stray rocket from Gaza hits him in the head.”
Darn if I know to whom you are referring! Do you hope for an errant rocket to knock some sense into Maven? Or is it to be Merapeh RaFool?