The Israeli 'apology' the background story.(HD). By MURAT YETKİN .According to high-ranking sources, the diplomacy that resulted in an Israeli apology to Turkey over the Turks killed by Israeli soldiers in 2010 started some two weeks ago. American diplomats told their Turkish counterparts that U.S. President Barack Obama wanted to have an end to the Turkish-Israeli rift and wanted to open the subject up to Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu during his visit to Israel, if Turkey wanted an agreement, too.
In the background of the latest U.S. moves there were many two incident on the same day. On Feb. 28 Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan, speaking at an international conference in Vienna said that Zionism was a “crime against humanity” like fascism, which triggered reaction in Israel and among the Israeli lobby in the U.S. and Europe. The same day U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said during a joint press conference with his Turkish host Ahmet Davutoğlu that the U.S. and Turkey do not share the same views on Israel.
On March 12, 89 members of the U.S. Congress wrote a letter to Erdoğan and asked him to retract his words on Zionism, which he did not; he said he stood behind what he said but he had been misunderstood.
It seems that letter triggered the U.S. move, since the White House wanted to see its two main allies in the region work together once again as they did until the “one minute” incident in Davos in 2009.
As Ankara said they could accept the good offices of the U.S. to have an agreement with Israel, based on an apology, the diplomacy started. Before the start of Obama’s visit on March 20, diplomatic drafts about the terms of a possible agreement started to go back and forth between Ankara and Jerusalem under the auspices of U.S. diplomacy.
At around 4 p.m. on March 22, Obama in Jerusalem in his last hours there called up Erdoğan. Following niceties, he passed the phone to Netanyahu. The two prime ministers agreed to issue the same statement in their capitals that would clarify an Israeli apology and compensation for the families of the Turks who were killed. Turkey softened its attitude on the third condition for an agreement, which was an end to the Israeli blockade on Gaza. Netanyahu, who takes the issue as its right of sovereignty, said Israel had already softened the embargo on Gaza since the revolution in Egypt and would take further steps depending on the situation in Gaza. The final text says anyway that Israel would take Turkish assistance in dealings with the Palestinians.
Following the conversation of around half an hour, Obama took the phone back, told Erdoğan that he was glad to see this happening and said “See you soon,” which was actually a sign that Erdoğan would get a White House appointment soon. Hmmmmm.........I think Netanyahu will have a lot of explaining to do in the Knesset.Read the full story here.
If this situation would have been reversed, I could never imagine Turkey apologizing for anything. The people involved in the Mavi-Mara incident were nothing other than trouble makers who baced all terrorism attacks against the Jewish State. or Erdogan to state that Zionism is a crime against humanity is in character with his extreme Islamism. The meaning of Zionism is the national movement of the Jewish People for their return to their historical homeland and re-establish themselves once again as free people in their own land. Zion or Har-Tzion (in Hebrew) (Mt. Zion) or Jabel-Sahyoun (in Arabic)is a hill just outside the walls o Jerusalem. Zion is mentioned countless times in the Bible. (When the Jews wee exiled to babylon in 597 BC) There we sat down by the rivers of babylon and wept when we remembered Tzion. I I forget thee O Jerusalem let my right hand wither. However the Arabs have now re-written history and said that the jews have no connexion to jerusalem whatsoever, there was no temple there. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, were all Muslims. They deny the Holocaust o the jewish people, inact not only Jews from europe were murdered by the Nazis, but Jews m Aleria and Libya were also taken and killed. While the 2nd world war was raging, many jews in baghdad wer murdered by their Arab countrymen in the 1941 Jewish massacre known as the farhud and instigated by none other than the Grand Muti o Jerusalem one Haj al-Amin al-Husseini the uncle of the late Yasser Arafat. He escaped twice rom the British authorities, and ended up as personal guest to Adolf Hitler In Berlin Nazi Germany till the conclusion o the war in May 1945, he then led to Egypt.
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