Turkey has decided that Israel shooting back at Hamas is terrorism, yet they had no problem doing the same thing to Syria when Syrian artillery shells landed in Turkish territory just last month. They even enlisted international support in their “terrorist” action against Syria by convening a meeting of NATO ministers to tell Syria to stop. In fact, they’re asking for U.S. Patriot missile batteries to be placed on their border with Syria.
NATO should refuse this request if Turkey considers legitimate self defense “terrorism.” After all, we don’t want to be a sponsor of Turkish “terrorism.”
This is the kind of hypocrisy that Turkey, above all other nations, needs to avoid. If they’re not part of the solution, then they’re part of the problem.
I wonder how Egypt and Turkey would react if a faction opposed to their governments were firing rockets at their territory and killing their civilians? Would they be tolerating it, as Israel’s neighbors seem to be insisting on, or would they be going in with maximum military force to put an end to it?
Oh, wait. Egypt uses its army against its own people already. So does Turkey. So do most of the governments who are screaming about Israel defending itself against a terrorist organization. And knowing these countries, they’d have already sent their armies in, long before now.
Israel’s neighbors need to quit the rhetoric and put pressure on Hamas to stop firing. Or else Israel will bulldoze Gaza into the ground, and the Palestinian people will suffer for it, while what’s left of Hamas deserts them and flees to Egypt, like the cowards that they are.
And I’d be willing to bet that Egypt’s military will watch them go running by, instead of swiveling the tank turrets around and putting an end to Hamas before they get into Cairo.
This is going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
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