China is not the only country to see its manufactured goods as a weapon. Cut Turkey off, too.
[IsraelTimes] The gear was purchased by Israelis, but not by the government, with
Before the equipment was loaded onto planes for transport to Israel, Erdogan’s office halted the move, demanding that
...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor...
be allowed to transfer a similar amount of gear directly to the Paleostinians.
Israeli officials were angered by the demand, calling it propaganda and saying that anyone who wants to directly transfer equipment to the Paleostinians was already permitted to do so.
The crates are being held in an Istanbul warehouse and contain gear, including personal protective equipment, which was produced in Turkey, one of the world’s leading suppliers of medical equipment.
On Thursday, Bloomberg reported that Turkey was supplying personal protective equipment to Israel, including surgical masks, overalls and sterile gloves.
The report quoted an unnamed senior
However,
alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk...
Israeli sources told the Hebrew-language Ynet news site that the report was inaccurate ‐ that the deal was commercial, not humanitarian, in nature and that there was no connection to aid to the Paleostinians.
According to Bloomberg, the
Relations between Israel and Turkey soured after Erdogan took power in 2003 and hit a nadir in 2010 after the Mavi Marmara incident, in which Israeli commandos boarded a ship trying to break the maritime blockade of Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
and killed 10 Turks after coming under attack with clubs and iron bars.
Despite the souring of ties, trade ‐ with the exception of military sales ‐ between the two former strategic allies has remained robust. Turkey was Israel’s No.7 export destination in 2019.
Turkey has provided protective equipment to over a dozen nations hard hit by the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...crisis, including to five Balkan countries, Spain, Italia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Turkey’s own COVID-19 corpse count has continued to rise. The country recorded 96 deaths on April 9, taking the total toll to 908, with the number of confirmed cases increasing by 4,056 to 42,282, according to figures released by the health ministry in Ankara.