Turkey Threatens To Send Warships Into Israeli Waters, Obama Responds By Telling Israel To “Cool It”…
Unreal but not unexpected.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration on Friday bluntly told U.S. allies Israel and Turkey to “cool it” as tensions between the two rose over aid flotillas to Gaza.
Amid concern over a possible naval confrontation in the Mediterranean, the State Department said both sides should exercise restraint and avoid any provocations.
“We are urging both sides to refrain from rhetoric or actions that could be provocative, that could contribute to tensions,” spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters. “Obviously, we would like to see both sides cool it and get back to a place where they can have a productive relationship.”
She said that message was being delivered to both Turkish and Israeli officials. In Washington, the top U.S. diplomat for Europe, Philip Gordon, met on Thursday with Turkey’s ambassador to the United States to discuss the situation, she said.
Tension spiked again after Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey would send warships to escort future aid boats leaving its territory for Gaza to prevent a repeat of the 2010 incident. His comments to Al-Jazeera television on Thursday were the first time Turkey has said its navy will use force to protect ships attempting to break Israel’s blockade of the coastal Palestinian territory.
From yesterday:
(JPost) — Turkish warships will escort any Turkish aid vessels to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said in remarks broadcast on Al Jazeera television on Thursday.
Erdogan also said that Turkey had taken steps to stop Israel from unilaterally exploiting natural resources from the eastern Mediterranean, according to Al Jazeera’s Arabic translation of excerpts of the interview, which was conducted in Turkish.
Erdogan, who has rattled the saber by promising to step up naval patrols in the eastern Mediterranean to ensure freedom of maritime traffic, and who has frozen all defense contracts with Israel, also used the opportunity to preach to Israel about business ethics.
He accused Israel of not providing maintenance for Heron unmanned aerial vehicles that Israel Aerospace Industries supplied to Turkey last year. In 2005, IAI and Elbit Systems won a $183m. contract to supply 10 Heron UAVs and associated systems to the Turkish Air Force. Deliveries were completed last year.
“Israel is not being loyal to bilateral agreements in the defense industry,” Turkish Today’s Zaman’s website quoted Erdogan as saying. “There could be difficulties, problems with another country, such things may happen, but there is an international code of ethics that needs to be upheld in business agreements.”
Posted by ZIP on Friday, September 9, 2011, at 6:15 pm | 
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Wow , what a leader !!!! He’ll never tell that Dick Trumka to cool it .
“Cool it”? This is what the anti-Israel regime has to offer? Turkey is threatening Israel with an act of war! Yeah, I know, Comrade Barry Hussein hates Israel.
As soon as we take the high ground again, we WILL destroy the left.
Most of their political donations start out as a tax on someone or some thing, and their entire network is designed to put money into the hands of their supporters. Their lust for ‘other people’s money’ funds their lust for ‘other people’s money’.
It’s money laundering. It’s morally bankrupt to give ‘public’ money only to the people who will give it back to your own campaign.
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Obummer’s such an ass.
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It’s so great to have a former catamite as a President, he get’s to rub elbows with all his old muslim pederastic friends. They have a lot in common. scum
The Israelis aren’t saying anything other than “no comment”. It’s the Turkish Towelhead that is making all the threats.
Ah yes, the Kings of the North ( Iran, Turkey) and the Kings of the South (Egypt, Saudi Arabia) get their due when they come against the Anti Christ during the Tribulation. And Israel will still be standing. God laughs. It’s all good.
Isn’t it an act of war if Turkish warship enter Israeli waters? Besides, it’s the Turkish Navy that needs to worry…
Mumra meets THE HOOD
Article One of the NATO charter reads as follows:
The Parties undertake, as set forth in the Charter of the United Nations, to settle any international dispute in which they may be involved by peaceful means in such a manner that international peace and security and justice are not endangered, and to refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force in any manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations.
Erdogan’s warlike threats obviously contradict the NATO charter!
If Obama wants to act with NATO than at least he should tell NATO members(Turkey) to act according to the Charter.
“Don’t bogart that missile, man.”
rbosque says:
September 9, 2011 at 6:37 pm
Isn’t it an act of war if Turkish warship enter Israeli waters? Besides, it’s the Turkish Navy that needs to worry…
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Yes, Turkey is threatening an act of war against Israel. This is what makes the Obama regime’s reaction so disturbing. Turkey is also breaking NATO rules of engagement, as MFS spelled out above.
Moral equivalence at its worst.
Once again… who the fuck is Obama to tell Israel to do anything?
Once called the OTTOMAN EMPIRE collapes after WW I
the turkish towelhead and the illegal towelhead in the whitehouse-they be going down.
Israel needs to cool it? The only thing they’ve done is refuse to apologize to Turkey and the UN, for once, actually vindicated Israeli actions.
This is a classic Muslim move. Erdogan knows Turkey will never see membership in the EU so they’ve turned to trying to reestablish Turkey as the leader of the Muslim world. And like any other filthy Muslim dictator, what better way to solidify your power and prove how much of a good Muslim you are than by going after Israel?
I hope Turkey steps in when Israel goes to war with Egypt just so we can watch Israel stomp two uppity douche bags at once.
I hope this country learns a powerful lesson. Do NOT vote D.
Of course, people are dumb as a box of rocks and still vote for them.
I hope Turkeys realizes they better send a fleet of salvage ships to follow up their flotilla. They’ll need them to get whats left of their Navy off the sea floor.
The window of opportunity for the countries of the “Arab Spring,” and their butt brothers in Turkey and Iran, to war with Israel, is quickly coming to an end, as it looks more and more like oBama will probably be a one and done POTUS.
Anyone with a triple digit IQ (which leaves out liberals in general, and Jews who voted for oBama in particular), knows that oBama will not come to the aid of Israel.
The corrupt UN and feckless NATO will also be of no help.
But the important thing these saber rattling Islamofacist camel humpers don’t grasp is that Israel will prevail, with or without help.
Things have never, ever turned out well for enemies of the Jewish people. We need to get this S.O.B. out of office before we find ourselves irrevocably on Israel’s sh!t list.
Wouldn’t mind in Israel took care of Obama for us along with the rest of the muslim scum.
Future Headlines…
Turkish navy fires on Israeli patrol boat…Turkish ship promptly sent to the deeps by Israeli Dolphin class submarine.
And it begins…
Sure thing JEF. Would our dear leader of the free world kindly dispense that wonderful wisdom to the airplane highjackers on September 11, 2001? Cool it? Or would he offer perhaps that the airplanes passengers “spoke stupidly” and offer their surviving friends and loved ones a “beer summit”?. These Islamic terrorists (and their supporters) are nothing better than a rat contaminated with the plague and should be dealt with as such. For the president of the greatest nation on G_ds green earth to issue a proclamation to Close Gitmo, and for his criminal Attorney General to want to try these vermin in civilian courts (in New York no less) is at the least insane, and bordering on criminal. For someone to even think like that portends them unfit for public office. That’s right. I said it. Public Office. You work For Us. The taxpayers. And as long as this Republic stands, you will be soon be dispatched to join the other millions of Legal American Citizens who are unemployed. 2012 cannot come soon enough.
Obama and the turkish leader both need to dissapear forever
Should the combined Muslim powers attack Israel in unison,tactical nukes will
be employed by Israel as a last ditch effort to survive The Mahdi will not be
able to salvage what is left of the umma to give to Allah.
“Cool it.” Wow. How presiduncial. How diplomatic. It’s almost like Hussein done grajiated sixth grade or something.
NUKE ISTANBUL