Opinion  Sever Plocker
Turkey reconciliation: It’s not the gas, stupid
Sever Plocker
Published: 07.07.16, 23:46
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1. Erdogan shud release all those Military personel he lockedup
Alan ,   SA   (07.08.16)
He imprisoned many many Military from previous administration.Release them ASAP
2. Very poor try at justifying a bad deal
Avi L.   (07.08.16)
Clumsy way to justify a bad deal and try and appease a scolded public opinion, disgusted, to say the least, by the lack of progress in relation to our dead citizens in Gaza.

What now? Are we planning to make technological and military exchanges with a megalomaniac little sultan who finance and supply the caliphate in Syria and Iraq?

"Allowing the Marmara to pass through would not have broken the blockade", like in half-open or in no exactly closed? What is it a joke?

It's a bad deal that lowers the status of the Country and did not address our deads.

It's another coup of our Dear Leader Bibi the First.

BTW if it's such an faraway and uncertain deal, how comes this rush to carve juicy slices of this gas business?
3. herzog party a bloody disgrace to israel
jerzy   (07.08.16)
one pundit described zionist union as a meretz party.the late rabin would have walkied out on it. it is the party of levy of haaretz, a self hating, dreamland party of misfits and cowards from top to bottom with imbelciles like peretz who now tout the hezbollah war gains with hezbollah holding 150000 missiles. this is in he facee of winograd who said that peretz was incompetent as defesne minister.this only confirms what a weakling herzog is who is taking his parrty to weak single digits in the next eletion.


4. More liberal pap. They don't stop.
JVC ,   LA, USA   (07.08.16)
5. turkey & israel together
Richard E Sherwin ,   Israel   (07.08.16)
the good old days of turkey's and israel's military closeness are gone. gas deal or no gas deal. all our ex buddies are in turkish jails and/or out of power. whatever we're buying with the deal is much smaller, perhaps even only overflight permission. which is better than nothing. and far better than having to go round turkey all the time. let's hope it also results in something more sensible than the writer's grand optimism of new flotillas entering peaceful gaza peacefully. but in our madhouse world...who knows... erdogan anti ISIS? santa claus turned moslem?
6. "Gateway to Europe"?!What the heck: is this the 7th Century?
(07.08.16)
The mules will have it easier carrying goods? "Radical Islam"....is there any other form of that ideology?! In short: yet another article from Mr. Plotzker....
7. It's not the gas deal! Really?
Avi L.   (07.08.16)
"The mending in relations with Israel raises the prospect of eventual cooperation to exploit natural gas reserves worth hundreds of billions of dollars under the eastern Mediterranean, officials have said."
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4820922,00.html

It's not the ca$$$h?

So it must be to boost little sultan's status among the islamist audience after the loss of face due to the progress of the Kurds, the iranian domination in Iraq and the end of business with ISIS who, by the way, expressed its disagreement bombing Istanbul airport, not to forget the US that don't look too favorably to his little deals with the likes of ISIS and al Qaida.

It looks more in line with "help the ones who want to harm you" politics.

Küçük sultan was in dire straits he wasn't much in condition to dictate his conditions, he had a couple of two, maybe we had a couple of four, but we knew what he had in his little hands and Bibi The First once more blew another opportunity, the way he did it in Gaza a couple of years ago.

Luckily IDF and Defense Ministry say the next time will be Hamas' last time, but who knows, maybe Bibi The Great promised the right to veto our defense operations in Gaza.
8. BEWARE! The treaty with Russia, Turkey, Isarel and Egypt
Rivkah   (07.10.16)
may be the Covenant with Daniel in Scriptures, a seven year treaty that ends in Armageddon. At the beginning of the Covenant with Death treaty for Israel is WWIII. Former NATO Commander and British General Alexander Shireff said WWIII with Russia will be in May of 2017. That would make this treaty the Covenant with Death if WWIII comes next year. 2/3 of the earth's population will die in WWIII and the aftermath including 2/3 of Israel and 2/3 of the USA. The good news is that haShem will save Joseph and Judah, Scriptures says. Joseph is the hammer of the whole earth which is the USA. Judah is Israel in the Middle East. That means the third of the USA and the third of Israel who survive will have haShem's protection but the rest of the world will not.
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