Ankara – Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday continued his verbal assault on Israel, according to Saudi paper Al Wattan, which quoted him as saying that that al Aksa Mosque, the Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel’s Tomb “were not and never will be Jewish sites, but Islamic sites.”
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Erdogan was referring to Israel’s recent inclusion of the Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel’s Tomb on its national heritage list, but it was unclear why he mentioned the Aksa Mosque, since that site was not included.
Speaking to Palestinian journalists, Erdogan reportedly said, “Palestine [was] always at the top of Turkey’s priorities.” He expressed his support for the renewal of indirect talks between Israel and the Palestinians. Donning a cloak of pan-Islamic identity, Erdogan told Al Wattan that he “loves my brothers in Fatah and my brothers in Hamas to the same degree, because they are my Muslim brothers and I cannot distinguish between them.”
Turkey’s prime minister began criticizing Israel in the wake of Operation Cast Lead last year, and has been punctilious in voicing his opinion on Israel’s actions since. In the recent past, he sharply criticized Israel during press conferences with the Lebanese prime minister and with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Turkey also recently distanced itself from the United States, withdrawing the ambassador from Washington after a congressional committee decided to recognize the killing of Armenians during World War I as a genocide. In a sign of tensions between Israel and Turkey, Ankara did not seek the help of Jewish lobbies in Washington, and these groups, which have traditionally advocated on behalf of Turkey, refrained this time from pressing Congress not to accept the resolution.
we should boycott any Turkish product including pesachdige hazelnut oil.
What a jive turkey
we have proof that Avraham paid for the Machpela!!!
Mohamed was not born when these sites were Jewish and they are the religious sources stolen by Islam
The Greeks are right boycott Turkish figs and dates
What breathtaking stupidity.
Looks like Iran found a lackey. I don’t know what’s more sad, that Turkey is saying these things or that most of Europe will believe them.
why pay any attention to this idiot?
Boycott Terkishe taleisim.
Even Kmoi Terkish.
We’ll teach them a lesson!
The building at Machpela was built by King Herod at about the same time as he built the Temple. This guy’s just stupid. I say we start to claim that Istanbul is actually part of Finland.
So he is looking for diversions. In next election he will be thrown out by such an embarrasing magnitude.
BTW now is the time for the Kurds [who are Muslims too] to work on their independance from Turkey Iraq Iran seria & azarbeigan. They have a chopped up country. It is time to help them [not the so called Palistinians who were dumped on our land by the Turks] get independance. Now Turkey is weak & using Anti- Israel reterict to geain points, you could tell how bankrupt they really are.
Let us see a Kurdistan, Obama do something good for a segment of your suffering brothers, get Kurdistan established you will go down as a historic leasder.
Go Kurd Go.
Commenters are forgetting that Avraham is the forefather of the Arabs as well. According to ancient tradition, the property should have passed to Yishmael as the eldest son.
According to ancient tradition, the property should have passed to Yishmael as the eldest son.
Was every other person in the Middle East from that period exterminated that only Yishmael and Yitzchak had descendants? Just because the Arabs call themselves Yishmael”s descendant’s doesn’t mean we have to drink the Kool-Aid.
He was speaking to Palestinian journalists. What did you expect him to say? He’s just giving them red meat. How is this news?
Why didn’t the Torah begin with the first mitzvah? So when the goyim come and accuse us of stealing the land, we will respond that the earth belongs to Hashem, and just as he gave it, so too he took it from others and gave it to Yisroel. -Rashi. Its importance to yiddishkeit is obvious by this being the first Rashi. On…ce you know there is a G-d, the next thing is to know ALL of eretz yisroel belongs to yidden!
I will not buy any more Turkish olive oil or textiles until this sonei is out of office.
Perhaps he read about the Yisrael Beitenu bill to remove the right of geirim (like Rochel [Lavan and his wife were not Jewish], Sara and Avraham [who as the first Jews were obviously not born Jewish]) to become Israeli citizens
It belonged to Israel much before the turkish invaded the land.
Yes, and Turkey belongs to Greece.
al Aksa Mosque, the Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel’s Tomb were not and never will be Jewish sites, but Islamic sites ,,, its comments like this that should be the reason why we make sure history and the world documents that these sites were in fact jewish sites. arab media thives on sending out information, we have to do the same.
it belonged to the jews way before muhammad and christianity ever appeared on the scene
This is more ridiculous than someone saying the earth is flat! So utterly ridiculous – if ever there was a pure Jewish site and solely Jewish, it is Kever Rachel, the mother of the Jewish nation and of no other! The Cave of the Patriarchs are our fathers and mothers. The only one that is there that has to do with another people, is Avraham Avinu, as he was the father of Yishmael also. The other fathers and mothers are JEWISH only! Yishmael was the son of a concubine, a handmaiden to Avraham’s Wife, Sarah, who hasn’t the legal rights of a wife and the Torah (Bible) indicates very clearly, that HaShem tells Avraham, ‘your son, your only son, Yitzchak. The world is going into spasms of insanity and leaders of nations are going in circles. It is a war against the Creator, the G-D of Israel. Everyone,read the Bible!
Kurdistan, Cyprus….. and just about all the horrific world dominance under otteman rule…. these pm of turkey is a real turkey belongs in the zoo
The War with the Muslims goes back since the start of Mohammad (the fake prophet). The Muslims believe that Yishmael was the rightfull continuation of Avraham. This means the story when Avraham Was about to Shecht Yitzchak was really Yishmael. (According to all muzlims) The war Muslims have with us Jews is to deny our history, for it dissproves their religion.
President Erdogan, Don’t start up with the Jews. You ,and your country may suffer a catastrophic event.
PM Erdogan, The earthquake was just a reminder: Beware .
Rabbi Avi Weiss : Your silence is deafining. Are you too busy with narishkeiten, to draw attention to Turkey’s provocation .