{Update1} See video of John Kerry press conference in Ankara.
Fits precisely the mold I put forward in my series of six diaries – US Will Be Ousted by Saudi King Abdullah in Middle-East. The US doesn’t understand the differences in strands of Islam. Where on the one hand, the French are fighting Islamist extremists in Mali coming from the Maghreb states plus Algeria, Tunisia and Libya. Recently there was an uproar in the Western world for anti-Semitic remarks by Egypt’s President Morsi. The news item had a life-span of a few days and has been forgotten. This week another ally in the overthrow of Assad’s regime in Syria has shown it’s blatant view of hate towards the state of Israel by the following remarks …
Erdogan at UN forum: Zionism is ‘crime against humanity’ [VIDEO]
(JTA) – Amid rampant hate speech against Jews published in newspapers in Turkey, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said at a United Nations meeting that anti-Semitism, Zionism and Islamophobia were all “crimes against humanity.”
Speaking Wednesday at the “Fifth Alliance of Civilizations Forum” [Start video at 8:00 min] in Vienna’s Hofburg Palace, Erdogan said: “Just like Zionism, anti-Semitism and fascism, it becomes unavoidable that Islamophobia must be regarded as a crime against humanity,” Anatolia News Agency and other Turkish media reported.
The event was a United Nations summit for tolerance.
Kerry to ‘express concerns’ to Turkish PM over Zionism remarks
ANKARA, Turkey (Hürriyet) – “We put out a statement from Washington making clear that the statement was both offensive and wrong and I am sure the secretary will be able to convey that to the prime minister directly this afternoon,” the official said.
Netanyahu slams Erdoğan’s comments on anti-Semitism as ‘dark and libelous’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s comments on Zionism and anti-Semitism on Feb. 28, describing them as a “crime against humanity.”
“I strongly condemn the comparison that the Turkish prime minister drew between Zionism and Nazism. I had thought that such dark and libelous comments were a thing of the past,” Netanyahu said in a statement issued by the Prime Minister’s Office, according to daily Jerusalem Post.
Iraq to Mali: The changing calculus of war
