Is It Possible to Be Both Pro-Turkey and Anti-Hamas?

[ShahdagMountains]

Today, Turkey, not Iran, is the chief cheerleader, if not a sponsor, of Hamas. Turkey smuggles weaponry to the Gaza Strip and allows senior Hamas operatives to launder money in Turkish banks and plot terrorism from Turkish soil. It is not just sympathy for the Palestinians but rather Erdoğan’s support for their Islamist fringe. The same holds true with Erdoğan’s material and logistical support for the Islamic State. In Libya and Syria, he has supported the Islamist fringe. Just as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps deployed its proxy groups around the Middle East, so too does Turkey, airlifting Libyan and Syrian Islamists and Islamic State alum to Azerbaijan to participate in the ethnic cleansing of Armenians.

Antisemitism and a deep-seated hatred for the Jewish state also color Erdoğan’s policy. How else to explain the interception of $2.5 million meant to jumpstart Hezbollah’s recovery at Beirut’s international airport late last month? Or the signs on storefronts in Istanbul that say, “No Jews allowed?”

Is It Possible to Be Both Pro-Turkey and Anti-Hamas?

Is Turkey a partner for peace in the region or a terrorist sponsor that will set it alight?

www.meforum.org

 

[Kruska]

Today, Turkey, not Iran, is the chief cheerleader, if not a sponsor, of Hamas. Turkey smuggles weaponry to the Gaza Strip and allows senior Hamas operatives to launder money in Turkish banks and plot terrorism from Turkish soil. It is not just sympathy for the Palestinians but rather Erdoğan’s support for their Islamist fringe. The same holds true with Erdoğan’s material and logistical support for the Islamic State. In Libya and Syria, he has supported the Islamist fringe. Just as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps deployed its proxy groups around the Middle East, so too does Turkey, airlifting Libyan and Syrian Islamists and Islamic State alum to Azerbaijan to participate in the ethnic cleansing of Armenians.

Antisemitism and a deep-seated hatred for the Jewish state also color Erdoğan’s policy. How else to explain the interception of $2.5 million meant to jumpstart Hezbollah’s recovery at Beirut’s international airport late last month? Or the signs on storefronts in Istanbul that say, “No Jews allowed?”

Is it possible to be pro Israel and anti-Zionist? YES

 

[JoeB131]

Today, Turkey, not Iran, is the chief cheerleader, if not a sponsor, of Hamas. Turkey smuggles weaponry to the Gaza Strip and allows senior Hamas operatives to launder money in Turkish banks and plot terrorism from Turkish soil. It is not just sympathy for the Palestinians but rather Erdoğan’s support for their Islamist fringe. The same holds true with Erdoğan’s material and logistical support for the Islamic State. In Libya and Syria, he has supported the Islamist fringe. Just as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps deployed its proxy groups around the Middle East, so too does Turkey, airlifting Libyan and Syrian Islamists and Islamic State alum to Azerbaijan to participate in the ethnic cleansing of Armenians.

Antisemitism and a deep-seated hatred for the Jewish state also color Erdoğan’s policy. How else to explain the interception of $2.5 million meant to jumpstart Hezbollah’s recovery at Beirut’s international airport late last month? Or the signs on storefronts in Istanbul that say, “No Jews allowed?”

The whole world is on the side of the Palestinians, not just Turkey, that's your problem.

 

[ekrem]

What's your problem?
Palestinian freedom-fighters do legal official business in Turkish jursidiction. Simple as that.

 

[Meathead]

What's your problem?
Palestinian freedom-fighters do legal official business in Turkish jursidiction. Simple as that.

You'll have to forgive us if we don't take the side second biggest genocidal country in the 20th century, and certainly the biggest of Christians.

 

[LuckyDuck01!]

Today, Turkey, not Iran, is the chief cheerleader, if not a sponsor, of Hamas. Turkey smuggles weaponry to the Gaza Strip and allows senior Hamas operatives to launder money in Turkish banks and plot terrorism from Turkish soil. It is not just sympathy for the Palestinians but rather Erdoğan’s support for their Islamist fringe. The same holds true with Erdoğan’s material and logistical support for the Islamic State. In Libya and Syria, he has supported the Islamist fringe. Just as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps deployed its proxy groups around the Middle East, so too does Turkey, airlifting Libyan and Syrian Islamists and Islamic State alum to Azerbaijan to participate in the ethnic cleansing of Armenians.

Antisemitism and a deep-seated hatred for the Jewish state also color Erdoğan’s policy. How else to explain the interception of $2.5 million meant to jumpstart Hezbollah’s recovery at Beirut’s international airport late last month? Or the signs on storefronts in Istanbul that say, “No Jews allowed?”

Is It Possible to Be Both Pro-Turkey and Anti-Hamas?

Is Turkey a partner for peace in the region or a terrorist sponsor that will set it alight?

www.meforum.org

Most Turkish citizens would prefer to have a more Democratic-Secular government. When Erdogan's primary political opponent that advocated for a more Democratic-Secular government, Erdogan had him arrested.
Erdogan hasn't hid that he in favor of a more religious government and his opposition would like to see someone like Atatürk back in power.
Since Erdogan is more on the side with Iran, he is no doubt pro-Houthi and Hamas.

 

[JoeB131]

Most Turkish citizens would prefer to have a more Democratic-Secular government. When Erdogan's primary political opponent that advocated for a more Democratic-Secular government, Erdogan had him arrested.
Erdogan hasn't hid that he in favor of a more religious government and his opposition would like to see someone like Atatürk back in power.
Since Erdogan is more on the side with Iran, he is no doubt pro-Houthi and Hamas.

Or he just doesn't like to see Western Imperialism against the Islamic World.

Which is an understandable position.

 

[ShahdagMountains]

Or he just doesn't like to see Western Imperialism against the Islamic World.

Which is an understandable position.

You don’t think the Ottoman Empire was imperialistic?

 

[JoeB131]

You don’t think the Ottoman Empire was imperialistic?

Not in the way the European Powers were, no.

 

[ShahdagMountains]

Not in the way the European Powers were, no.

Could you be more specific?

 

[JoeB131]

Could you be more specific?

They conquered other lands, but mostly left the provinces alone as long as they paid their taxes, as opposed to the Europeans, who looted their colonies for everything that wasn't nailed down.