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The Mideast’s new hero?
Roee Nahmias
Published: 15.09.11, 11:05
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1. Little Tayyip reminds me of a barking Chihuahua.
Devorah   (09.15.11)
2. I'd call this "Ironic"...
Eli F. ,   SomeWhere, Israel   (09.15.11)
"Tens of Thousands of enthused Egyptians recieved the Turkish Prime Minister....as "Salah al Din"....Ironic, since Saladin was a Kurd. Wonder if the :"Masses" or Erdogan, see the Humour!!LOL!!
3. Turks are not stupid - but their president is mentally sick!
Who cares......   (09.15.11)
For their own wellbeing the turkish people must take the madman out of his office before the whole nation suffers from his madness ! ( Remember Germany in the 30es....)
4. And I thought our PM was an embarrassment!
Robert ,Brisbane ,   Australia   (09.15.11)
Erdogan is a dangerous moron.
5. #2 Where is Lieberman from?
teo ,   ankara   (09.15.11)
6. I agree
An Egyptian   (09.15.11)
As an Egyptian, I agree about any hero even not Arab one to help my country getting up and be powerful in the region and the world politically, technologically and economically
7. Erdogan will end like Nasser
Menachem ,   Israel   (09.15.11)
humiliated and defeated. The bigger the ego the bigger the fall.
8. Erdogan headed the same way as gadhaffi, S Hussein etc
colin   (09.15.11)
All unstable islamic eastern and middle eastern leaders to go the same way when they threaten world stability
9. LOL, Salah A-Din was Kurd! That's an insult in "Turkish" :-)
Michal   (09.15.11)
10. Islamists boarded Turkey, on course to sink her.
Jerry ,   The Netherlands   (09.15.11)
11. Only BIG ISRAEL can bring balance and freedom to ME.
Jerry ,   The Netherlands   (09.15.11)
12. erdogan, the hassan bey
alexi   (09.15.11)
that ottoman tyran hassan bey, the ottoman ruling over jaffa was particulary nasty to the native zionists, stealing anything from their houses(clocks0 that caught his fancy,e xpropriating their houses if he felt like it, using bastinado clubs to hurt them, or expellling them from the coutnry. This is how the current ruler erdogan behaves threatening even war to support his views. Meanwhile the cairo brotherhood tellshim to mind his own bloody business and go to hell. The problem that israel has is not so much erdogan because such rulers appear now and then. No the problem is the scared rabbits who are prepared to pay the tithe to him-ehud barak, tsipi livni, shimon peres, all of haaretz . Bibi sways while his security cabinet reviews the decisions. We all know that yaalon, Liberman, begin will uphold israeli honor and self respect.Yishai swings both ways, merridor, a bright well meaning lawyer is weak in his core and tends to concessions and bibi who goes both ways, weak and strong. It is vital that israel maintain a porcupine stance and not concede which will only bring more gazas and gas chambers. erdogan sooner or later has to be confronted or the harassment will never stop.Moreover, he was in cahoots withthe rogues on the marmora.
13. To # 5....
Eli F. ,   SomeWhere, Israel   (09.15.11)
Ill try to explain SLOWLY, just maybe, maybe, another dimwit from Ankara will comprehend....Since Erdogan, a TURK, is SLAUGHTERING KURDS and Saladin WAS a KURD, kinda "IRONIC" that hes being hailed as a "Hero"..Are you following this or is this lost on your feeble and limited mind? By the way, Lieberman is formerly from Russia. WHAT does that have to do with anything..??!!
14. erdogan a man that talks the talk and walks the walk like it
sohaib ,   Scotland   (09.15.11)
just a saying that i remembered after reading the idiosy in this forum 'Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own'
15. Eerily Like Nasser's Itching for War
Dallas ,   Canada   (09.15.11)
Put Israel in a pincers with the country on the other side of her, ramp up the irrational and needless hatred of Israel, expound on false bravado and rhetoric, build up the arms against Israel. And he expects Israel not to take him deadly seriously? I think Erdogan has a death wish. He's certainly projecting what's inside him and, like Nasser's experience, it will boomerang. Hatred is caustic. You would think that someone who can be a national leader might be wise enough to understand this.
16. #6 I understand
Apricot ,   USA   (09.15.11)
Can your hero be a Jew? Just kidding...
17. DICTATOR Erdogan
Rosie   (09.15.11)
He has the same motives like all the dictators of the Middle East. He wants to create the Ottoman Empire. He is stealing freedom and money from his people. I hope Obama and the world wakeup to this long standing anti-semite.
18. Is there an alternative to Turkey?
Fluffi ,   Germany   (09.15.11)
The Arab world is changing and many countries are standing at the crossroads of their political future. Turkey is the best role model I can image. Let them take the lead. US and Israel can't do the job, because the Arab people don't want that and the days of pro-Western dictators like Mubarak are thankfully over. Other regional powers like Saudi-Arabia or Iran would be much worse. Turkey is at least a stable democracy and this is probably already the maximum we (the West) can expect.
19. #5
Israel Israeli ,   Tel Aviv   (09.15.11)
Read the Koran for your answer. Lieberman is from Israel, like all Jews.
20. Smart & dangerous
Michael M. ,   Washington DC   (09.15.11)
This guy is smart and dangerous. He has used a setback at the UN to rally the Muslim world to him. Add ruthless to that list. There are no independent Turkish military leaders to stop him (he got rid of them), and he leads the world in locking up independent journalists. He is looking for a small conflict he can win, perhaps with Israel or perhaps with Cyprus over gas exploration. This could get ugly.
21. What hero?
Egyptian   (09.15.11)
Mr. Erdogan is trying to have a bargain chips with Europe. Turkey as a country was trying for a long time to join the EU but it seems it's not going to happen soon enough. Most of the Arab countries are in a power vacuum and everybody is trying to fill it. Iran lost it's chance with it's support to Syria so it turkey turn.
22. Tayyib-Suliman the magnefecent
Issy Hass ,   Ra'anana-Israel   (09.15.11)
Poor the palestinians-being used again Issy
23. #14 He squawks the squawk
Cynthia ,   USA   (09.15.11)
Dictators seeking the Pan-Arab crown rotate in and out. We saw what happened to Arafat and Saddam. Now it's Ahmadinejad and Erdogan. Their common bond; brutality toward other Arabs/Muslims and Israel as a scapegoat.
24. sohaib #14
yesjb ,   Canada   (09.15.11)
That's right you Muslim invader! He walks like a child, thinks like one and acts like one. But its not unusual for Muslim leaders to be like that. Their religion commits them to be perpetual children, irresponsible, blaming others for their faults, vain, excessively proud, ego-driven and full of their own BS, A great many Muslims are that way too. It will your ultimate doom!
25. Hero he is not!
Israeli 2   (09.15.11)
26. So is Turkey also going to be "Jew Free"
David ,   Karmiel, Israel   (09.15.11)
How long is it going to take NATO to realize that Turkey is no longer their ally and and that every word at NATO goes straight to Tehran?
27. as long as the Zionists feeling furious that means Erdogan
(09.15.11)
is doing the right thing !!!!
28. #4 - but he's against Israel...so you embrace him..
William ,   Israel   (09.15.11)
regardless of his moronic ways and blood on his hands, right?
29. #5 - point #2 was making is Turkey's policies against Kurds
William ,   Israel   (09.15.11)
Israel isn't at war with Russia nor do they discriminate against Russians.
30. #6 - Israel was doing that per 1979 peace accord
William ,   Israel   (09.15.11)
but your leaders kept promoting Israel and Jews as sub-human, and depicting them in racist ways. In our Declaration of Independence we announced to all our neighbors a desire to make the Middle East strong through cooperation - financially and technologically. We could have helped with all those things you mentioned but Arab racism got in the way. So we decided to help those African and Asian nations that appreciate our worth and desire to make a better world. If you feel more in line with a non-Arab nation, who once brutally ruled Egypt for 400 years, and has currently broken a dozen Intl laws, to lead the Arab world into the future, then fine. Good luck with that.
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