Friday’s belated Israeli apology for killing nine aid workers aboard the Turkish aid ship Mavi Marmara was being spun as the ticket to normalization of relations between Israel and Turkey, and Israeli officials have suggested they considered this a goal, with an eye on Syria.
Yet the indications are that it isn’t so simple, with comments from both sides suggesting that the status of the Gaza Strip is going to continue to strain the relationship of the two nations going forward.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan suggested that the full normalization of relations with Israel would require not only compensation for victims of the Mavi Marmara attack, but a commitment to continue easing the blockade of the Gaza Strip, something Israel promised already after the November war.
That seems unlikely, as Israeli officials not only insisted that there was no commitment to any further relaxation of the Gaza blockade, adding that there was a possibility of a further crackdown on the strip.
That already seems to be happening, with Israel severely restricting fishing over the past few days. As for compensation, Israeli officials say they will support a deal if Turkey promises not to prosecute any Israeli soldiers for the killings.
What a friendship.., needs to be reestablished by an psychological expert.., I suggest Siegfried Freud….., or Ordegon fraud….?
WTF…!!!!! Is it possible that someone ACTUALLY knows how to say NO to Washington and Israel…..??????????
After Iraq america has no say in the middle east they all want the GREAT SATAN out for wherever she goes chaos ensues murder,carnage, destruction,genocide is the order of the day.South America got rid of her through Hugo Chavez.
Moral of this story: When you wind up what you think is a "deal" with Israel, check your wallet before leaving the negotiating room.
These people comitted murder on the high seas and the "lies lies and more lies to cover it up no one is above the law not even the zionist and they shoul be tried and sentenced for far too long they have been getting away with murder.
Of course plenty of people are above the law. Torturers, banksters (as AG Holder recently bragged), neocons of every stripe, all walk away scot-free from their particular crimes, their records, resumes and reputations untarnished. It is profoundly ironic, that this president, the greatest beneficiary of a great movement in behalf of the principle of "equality before the law" has been the one to preside over the wholesale abandonment of that principle in American public life.
Tell Erdugan, the liar and a war criminal shut pu. These cheap slogans can not save you anymore. Even the gullible Arabs know that you are a behind licker and a servant of zionism and imperialism. Turks are against you who is a zionist spy. shut up
Turkey should reject the deal. It isn't worth it.
It's not even a deal, when you look at all the conditions it's obviously nothing more than "hush money".
apology??? a man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still