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| Uzi Dayan: Israel must announce Turkish warships casus beli |
| 2010-06-07 |
| Israel must send Turkey a clear message that if Turkish warships are sent to accompany the next flotilla trying to break the embargo on Gaza, these will be considered acts of war by Israel , Uzi Dayan, former deputy Chief of General Staff, told Army Radio Monday morning. "If the Turkish Prime Minister joins such a flotilla," Dayan said, "we should make clear beforehand this would be an act of war, and we would not try to take over the ship he was on, but would sink it." "If Israel doesn't make this clear beforehand, the Turks will grow increasingly self-assured, and we may indeed find ourselves facing such a scenario, which could have been averted." Erdogan is deliberately manufacturing a crisis. Maybe to buy time for Iranian nukes, maybe to give Obama a pretext to implement the Samantha Powers plan. Its going to be a hot summer, perhaps hot enough for a two million sunblock... |
| Posted by:Flerert Phinenter5654 |
| #5 I posted this yesterday that links to a very interesting article about Turkey and Brazil. We are going to see more of these challenges for reasons that have less to do with us than with the changing world in which the other party lives. Lex has the correct question, what price will Erdogan pay, and Barry has not yet pondered the issue sufficiently. He needs to start thinking about Erdogan as if he were a Republican. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2010-06-07 16:06 |
| #4 What price is Erdogan likely to play for his ploy? Barry will kick him out of NATO? The Russians will send warships through the Dardanelles? Not likely. Erdogna calculates, correctly, that he and Turkey have everything to gain and nothing to lose by stepping into the breach created by a) Saddam's ouster b) Barry's weakness and confusion c) Russian and European weakness Turkey's rise to prominence-- at our expense-- in the eastern Med. will prob'y be viewed by future historians as the most significant of the many f-ups on Barry's watch. |
| Posted by: lex 2010-06-07 15:49 |
| #3 You can quit wondering, Steve - he does. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-06-07 15:11 |
| #2 I'm beginning to wonder if Erdogan sees himself as the next caliph ... |
| Posted by: Steve White 2010-06-07 10:43 |
| #1 A clear and concise message. However, at this point, Israel should begin covert, but direct, informal discussions with the Turkish military. N.B. Turkey has 3 Type-209, 1960s era German make submarines, 19 frigates, 7 corvettes, and 33 fast attack and torpedo boats. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-06-07 09:31 |