Israel Tells Turkey To Eff Off If They're Looking For an Apology

I said it several times yesterday in lieu of the new Turkish stance of cutting off all diplomatic and economic ties with Israel over the Flotilla incident that every Western country should immediately cease any sort of economic trade with Turkey. At the same time, I wouldn't mind seeing some Western collaboration to see that Prime Minister Erdogan of Turkey ends up on the bottom of the Caspian Sea with a pair of really heavy boots on.

And now, the Israelis have come out and defiantly refused to apologize to Turkey and good for them. Turkey is sinking fast into the quagmire of Islamic theocracy and will soon become Iran 2...and with it, they will bring to their people the poverty and cultural collapse that has plagued Iran.

From the article at The Telegraph:

“Israel once again expresses its regret for the loss of human life but does not apologise for this operation,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said in a statement.

“Israel, like every other country, has the legitimate right to defend itself,” it added.

The boarding of the Gaza-bound ships by Israeli special forces which left nine Turkish activists dead and plunged ties with Ankara into a deep crisis, was criticised in a UN report leaked on Thursday.

The long-awaited report said Israel used excessive force during the raid, launched without warning in international waters, but endorsed the legality of the Jewish state’s naval blockade of the Gaza Strip.

Ankara had called on Israel to apologise for the deaths, compensate the families of victims and lift its blockade on Gaza, terms all rejected by the Jewish state.

Well, in my view, the Turks can go fuck themselves. They let some of their whack jobs get their hands dirty in the planning of the flotilla to Israel and now they think they'll play the tough guy. What is Turkey's response to a bunch of us sailing a flotilla to Cyprus? Would they just let us all in with whatever we brought?

It's my hope that the nation of Turkey will be shunned by the world at this point - let em flounder without Western trade and aid. Let em all end up in a wasteland like Iran and then watch the people rise up and grab the very lives of these jihadi leaders from them.

Israel refuses to apologise for Gaza flotilla raid


“Israel once again expresses its regret for the loss of human life but does not apologise for this operation,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said in a statement.

“Israel, like every other country, has the legitimate right to defend itself,” it added.

The boarding of the Gaza-bound ships by Israeli special forces which left nine Turkish activists dead and plunged ties with Ankara into a deep crisis, was criticised in a UN report leaked on Thursday.

The long-awaited report said Israel used excessive force during the raid, launched without warning in international waters, but endorsed the legality of the Jewish state’s naval blockade of the Gaza Strip.

The statement said that Israel accepted the report with “reservations”.

“Israel recognises the historic importance of relations with the Turkish people and has made attempts to maintain them and hopes that a way will be found to overcome the differences,” it added.

The long-awaited report was published on Friday after being leaked to The New York Times on Thursday after being delayed several times as Israel and Turkey sought a compromise that would allow them to repair once-warm ties.

But any possibility of healing the rift was dashed Friday when Turkey said it was expelling Israel’s ambassador to Ankara and suspending military agreements.

Ankara had called on Israel to apologise for the deaths, compensate the families of victims and lift its blockade on Gaza, terms all rejected by the Jewish state.

Israel had not ruled out compensation but flatly refused to apologise.

“The Israeli soldiers were attacked by dozens of violent militants ... who were armed with knives and iron bars. The soldiers were forced to defend themselves,” said the statement.

Turkish President Abdullah Gul said his nation rejected the UN report, regarding it as “null and void”, and Ankara warned that it intended to take its protest about the blockade to the International Court of Justice in The Hague, which settles disputes between states.

A senior Israeli official said earlier Friday that the report had declared legal Israel’s naval blockade of the Palestinian territory.

“The report demonstrates that the naval blockade and its implementation conforms with international law,” he said.

Israel’s reservations are believed to concern the criticism that its troops used excessive and unreasonable force when boarding the ferry Mavi Marmara on May 31, 2010.