{"id":1082,"date":"2010-06-05T22:39:11","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T21:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2011-05-18T16:04:46","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T15:04:46","slug":"official-hamas-is-not-a-terrorist-organisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/06\/05\/official-hamas-is-not-a-terrorist-organisation\/","title":{"rendered":"Official: Hamas is not a terrorist organisation*"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan says<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I have told this to US officials… I do not accept Hamas as a terrorist organisation..<\/em><\/p>\n

and:<\/p>\n

he [does] not view Hamas, which runs Gaza, as a terrorist organisation…<\/em><\/p>\n

They are:<\/p>\n

resistance fighters who are struggling to defend their land<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So ends Turkey’s relationship with Israel which has been one of co-operation for many years. As Turkey, \u00a0the first truly secular Islamic state, kisses goodbye to its founding principles and moves inexorably into the arms of Iran it is on a collision course, not with the Israeli navy but with Europe.<\/p>\n

Turkey should be suspended or kicked out of NATO for having close ties with Iran and Syria.<\/p>\n

Apart from Israel, both the US and the EU have declared Hamas as a terrorist organisation. The UN, of course, loaded as it is with Islamic countries, sees Hamas as Turkey does; an elected group to be treated like a legitimate state actor \u00a0on a par with the illegitimate Israel.<\/p>\n

Of course, Mr Erdogan is right. Hamas are struggling to defend their land, except the land in question is Israel which it does not recognise and seeks to destroy.<\/p>\n

Once Turkey dreamed of being a member of the EU; it just had to tidy up its human rights record – stop persecuting Kurds, and fess up to the Armenian genocide and sort out Cyprus. Now it’s more likely to be kissing Ahmadinejad’s backside.<\/p>\n

In fact the flotilla gave Turkey a great excuse to turn on its old friend, Israel. The relationship was becoming increasingly untenable as Erdogan got closer to Syria and Iran and as his people became increasingly radicalised.<\/p>\n

Michael Oren, Israeli ambassador to the US agrees with this analysis<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cTurkey has embraced the leaders of Iran and Hamas, all of whom called for Israel\u2019s destruction,\u201d…<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>\u201cOur policy has not changed but Turkey\u2019s policy has changed, very much, over the last few years,…<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cUnder a different government with an Islamic orientation, Turkey has turned away from the West.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What a tragedy for Turkey. They always did pick the wrong side in a conflict.<\/p>\n

*For those of you who aren’t too good on irony, the headline is ironic (RC)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan says: I have told this to US officials… I do not accept Hamas as a terrorist organisation.. and: he [does] not view Hamas, which runs Gaza, as a terrorist organisation… They are: resistance fighters who are struggling to defend their land So ends Turkey’s relationship with Israel which has been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[492,1137,12,4,411,322,321,493],"class_list":["post-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-erdogan","tag-gaza","tag-hamas","tag-israel","tag-michael-oren","tag-nato","tag-terrorist","tag-turkey","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1093,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions\/1093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}