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TURKEY'S Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has branded Israel as a "threat" to its region, accusing it of owning nuclear weapons.
TURKEY'S Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has branded Israel as a "threat" to its region, accusing it of owning nuclear weapons.
"I right now see Israel as a threat for its region, because it has the atomic bomb," Mr Erdogan said in a foreign policy speech during an official visit to South Africa.
Israel has never officially admitting to possessing nuclear weapons, but is widely believed to be the only Middle East country to have them.
Others including Iran, Iraq, Syria and Libya are suspected of trying, or having tried in the past, to follow suit.
Turkey downgraded relations with one-time ally Israel after the latter refused to apologise for its raid on a Gaza-bound Turkish aid flotilla, in which nine Turkish activists died on May 31, 2010.
Last month, Turkey expelled the Israeli ambassador and froze military ties and defence trade deals. Ankara has also threatened to send warships to escort any Turkish vessels trying to reach Hamas-ruled Gaza.
Mr Erdogan's remarks came in response to comments from an Israeli embassy diplomat in South Africa, who blamed radical Islamic organisation Hamas for launching rocket attacks into Israeli territory.
"I have asked many Israeli officials, how many Israelis, have been killed by rockets launched from Gaza and Palestine. I could not get an answer," Mr Erdogan said.
"Yet tens of thousands of Palestinians have been killed from bombs that have rained down on them from Israel."
"You sleep at night peacefully and secure," he told the diplomat, to applause by South African foreign affairs officials and members of the diplomatic corps.
"Yet Palestinians can't find a single trace of peace in Palestine."
Mr Erdogan also accused Israel of committing "state terrorism", saying Israel had attacked the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip as well as the UN buildings in Gaza with phosphorus bombs.
Mr Erdogan in the past has accused the West of "double standards" in the way that it has tried to ban Iran from building nuclear weapons without taking similar measures against Israel.
He echoed those remarks yesterday at a press conference, where he said the United Nations had failed to implement its resolutions against Israel.
"Here I am talking about 89 resolutions of the UN Security Council and 247 resolutions of the General Assembly, none of which are implemented," he said.
"On the other hand you have resolutions for example about Iran, the Sudan and Palestine which are implemented."
But Mr Erdogan said the Security Council should have approved a European-sponsored resolution condemning Syria's deadly crackdown on protests, which Russia and China blocked yesterday.
"The Syrian administration should have received a warning," he said.
"The people of that country do not need to endure a merciless, shameless, tyrannical regime that bombs its own country from the sea."
He declined to criticise his host South Africa for abstaining from the vote, but said: "My heart remains with those struggling for freedom. South Africans have been in that position."
"But this does not constitute an obstacle," he said, adding that "Turkey like some other European Union countries will take steps on this issue."
"We will inevitably impose right now a package of sanctions," he said.
In recent months, the United States has been alarmed at the estrangement between Turkey and its closest Middle East ally Israel.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is expected to urge Turkey to defuse tension and repair strategic ties with Israel when she visits Istanbul to attend a conference on Afghanistan next month.
Mrs Clinton will visit Turkey on November 2, Marc Grossman, US special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, was quoted as saying in the Turkish media.
Israeli Professor: 'We Could Destroy All European Capitals'
(IAP News) -- An Israeli professor and military historian hinted that Israel could avenge the holocaust by annihilating millions of Germans and other Europeans.
Speaking during an interview which was published in Jerusalem Friday, Professor Martin Van Crevel said Israel had the capability of hitting most European capitals with nuclear weapons.
"We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals are targets of our air force."
Creveld, a professor of military history at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, pointed out that "collective deportation" was Israel's only meaningful strategy towards the Palestinian people.
"The Palestinians should all be deported. The people who strive for this (the Israeli government) are waiting only for the right man and the right time. Two years ago, only 7 or 8 per cent of Israelis were of the opinion that this would be the best solution, two months ago it was 33 per cent, and now, according to a Gallup poll, the figure is 44 percent."
Creveld said he was sure that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon wanted to deport the Palestinians.
"I think it's quite possible that he wants to do that. He wants to escalate the conflict. He knows that nothing else we do will succeed."
Asked if he was worried about Israel becoming a rogue state if it carried out a genocidal deportation against Palestinians, Creveld quoted former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan who said "Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother."
Creveld argued that Israel wouldn't care much about becoming a rogue state.
"Our armed forces are not the thirtieth strongest in the world, but rather the second or third. We have the capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that this will happen before Israel goes under."
"The Jews I find are very, very selfish. They care not how many Estonians, Latvians, Finns, Poles, Yugoslavs or Greeks get murdered or mistreated as Displaced Persons as long as the Jews get special treatment. Yet when they have power, physical, financial or political neither Hitler or Stalin has anything on them for cruelty or mistreatment to the under dog".
Diary of US President Harry S.Truman - entry for July 21, 1947.
Israel Cohen, taken from "A Racial Program for the Twentieth Century", and entered into the US Congressional Record, 1957, page 8559:
"We must realize that our Party's most powerful weapon is racial tension. By propounding into the consciousness of the dark races that for centuries they have been oppressed by the whites, we can mold them to the program of the communist party. In America, we will aim for subtle victory. While inflaming the Negro minority against the whites, we will instill into the whites a guilt complex for their exploitation of the Negroes. We will aid the Negroes to rise in prominence in every walk of life, in the professions and in the world of sports and entertainment. With this prestige, the Negroe will be able to intermarry with the whites, and begin a process which will deliver America into our hands."
10-15-2011, 09:25 pm
Israeli nukes pose 'threat'
