Turkish PM leaves stage during debate with Peres over Gaza
JPost, Jan 29 2009
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan stalked off the stage at the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland red-faced, after verbally sparring with President Shimon Peres over the fighting in Gaza. Erdogan was flustered after he tried to speak as the scheduled session was ending, asking the moderator, WaPo columnist David Ignatius, to let him speak once more. Ignatius replied:
Only a minute.
Erdogan said, in Turkish:
I remember two former prime ministers in your country who said they felt very happy when they were able to enter Palestine on tanks. I find it very sad that people applaud what you said. There have been many people killed. And I think that it is very wrong and it is not humanitarian.
Ignatius said:
We can’t start the debate again. We just don’t have time.
Erdogan said:
Please let me finish.
Ignatius responded:
We really do need to get people to dinner.
The Turkish premier then said:
Thank you very much. I don’t think I will come back to Davos after this.
The confrontation saw Ergodan and Peres raise their voices, shouting – highly unusual at the elite gathering of corporate and world leaders, which is usually marked by learned consensus-seeking and polite dialogue. The packed audience at the Ergodan and Peres session, which included close Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett, appeared stunned. Afterwards, forum founder Klaus Schwab huddled with Erdogan in a corner of the Congress Center. A press conference with both men was scheduled for 8:30 p.m. Amr Moussa, the former Egyptian foreign minister who now leads the Arab League, said Ergodan’s action was understandable:
Mr. Ergodan said what he wanted to say, and then he left. That’s all. He was right. They don’t listen.
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OT:
Rowan, the idea that YHWH is the Jewish demiurge and creator of all evil is part of the gnostic lore, is it not?
absolutely — but surely the thread for that is here:
https://niqnaq.wordpress.com/2009/01/29/what-abrahamowicz-actually-said/
if I have correctly highlighted his most important statement, the common factor, in all cases, is ontological dualism, that is to say, the belief that the universe is composed of two substances, one ‘good’ and one ‘evil’. Even the erudite Evola is thoroughly guilty of this, and proud of it. Among other things, he thinks of them as respectively ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’, ‘spirit’ and ‘matter’, ‘light’ and ‘dark’, etcetera, all in the absolutely classical Pythagorean way.
We remember having a good feeling about Erdogan when we first read about him. It sure was uncharacteristically nice of Ignatius to give him any time whatsoever. NPR — a radio service so solidly, bucolicly, limited to Jews and Jewish interests that their recent stories about how Americans are dealing with the economy are either about super wealthy Manhattanite Jews or somewhat less super wealthy Jews celebrating Jewish rituals with somewhat less fanfare, as though this was you know representative of this country or something — characterized Erdogan’s remarks as pure anti-Semitic populist politrix, something that would play well for the home base.
He may have been a little off topic, but another attempt to gag the debate nevertheless.
The subject of Israel’s behaviour is successfully excluded, using a variety of ruses, from the majority of international forums
Perhaps Erdogan should arrange for his own one-eyed stooge to be the moderator next time he wishes to debate the issue with Peres.
The Chicago Tribune portrayed the Perez-Erdogan exchange at Davos as a ‘tiff’.
It wasn’t a tiff, it was a rift. Betcha the West’s brainless ideologues wake up about 3 months too late to prevent the rift from becoming a chasm. The pitifully cowardly deeds justified in the name of Israel’s War on Islam are finally producing blowback for the Parasite State. Occupied Palestine’s forthcoming imaginary attack on Iran’s imaginary nuclear weapons facilities has now been bumped from the 12th of Never to the 13th of Never Ever.
LOL.