A Turkish court has issued an international arrest warrant for four former Israeli military leaders, asking Interpol to arrest them in connection with their ongoing trial for involvement in the 2010 Mavi Marmara killings.
The Mavi Marmara was an aid ship bound for the Gaza Strip, and contained wheelchairs and medicine. Israeli commandos attacked the ship in international waters, killing nine aid workers.
The trial targets Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, the former IDF chief of staff, along with the former Navy Chief Admiral Eliezer Marom, the former Military Intelligence cheif Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin, and Air Force intel chief Avishai Levi. The charges had previously been assumed to be about to be dropped, but reports of a deal between Turkey and Israel has yet to be finalized.
Israeli officials condemned the move as a “ridiculous provocation,” while Maj. Gen. Yadlin said he wasn’t going to visit Turkey any more than he’d visit Syria, Iran or North Korea.
Yet Turkey is an historical ally to Israel, ties which have been severed since the 2010 Mavi Marmara incident. Israel has been keen to restore those ties, and absent a deal, dismissing the trial is only going to make that harder.
Why the Turkish “Erdogan” government demands the impossible? Interpol has no jurisdiction into Israel defense force (IDF), just to play politics with Turkish people or fool the people saying that they are doing something?
while Maj. Gen. Yadlin said he wasn’t going to visit Turkey any more than he’d visit Syria, Iran or North Korea, like friends like self.
Erdogan, ask me if I care.
The Nazis paid with their life why not the Zionist.
Ridiculous or not it is a GOOD move by Turkey..
We can all hope that one day, soon we all hope Isreal will be called to account for countless attrocities against innocent civilians.. Bibi describes Isreal to The Pope as "an oasis of tolerence in the Middle East"" This man is such a baldfaced LIAR that I am sure soon his tongue will rot.
At last we are seeing some justice in this world from a NATO member.
Are you guys kidding me? The US will make sure those charges never see the light of day. Can’t recall the Israeli ever being brought before any court for crime against humanity…..and the list is very long.
Jtt, unfortunately, is right on. The U.S. has and will shield Israel against suffering any consequences for its criminal behavior. Israel has violated international law for decades with impunity because the U.S. vetoes any UN criticism and supports Israel financially, militarily, politically. The U.S. even betrays its own citizens in favor of Israel. The 1967 Israeli attack on the USS Liberty was, according to the survivors and factual evidence, a deliberate attack intended to sink the ship. The U.S. bent over backward to cover for the Israelis. A few years ago, Rachel Corry, a young American girl was run over and killed by an Israeli bulldozer which was there to demolish Palestinian houses. Rachel Corry was there to try to keep the Israeli army from destroying Palestinian houses. The U.S., in the most sickening display of cowardice, did not confront the Israelis and actually censored the story as much as possible. When the U.S. protects a foreign state, a pariah state at that, which deliberately murdered an American citizen, a young woman trying to protect Palestinian houses from destruction by the Israeli military, the cowardice and hypocrisy are monstrous. To repeat, the U.S. will abandon its own citizens in order to protect Israel.
The two greatest threats to international justice in the world today are those presented by Israel and its complicit sponsor, the United States. There's an old saw, "No justice, no peace", and the truth of it works itself out day-to-day in the myriad conflicts in the Middle East that cost American lives. And there will be no end to the ensuing blow-back until the filth that are in bed with one another running the economies and the politics of these countries are tried in peoples' tribunals. Good luck to Turkey!
Maj. Gen. Yadlin statement is disingenuous considering the longstanding desire of Israel to destroy and or control Iran and Syria.
And the irony of a “ridiculous provocation” is just too vile to respond to.