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Turkey: Israel's Response To Hamas's War Crimes Was The Real Ceasefire Violation

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Because why not? The international community spent six months referring to Hamas's constant shelling as a "shaky ceasefire." This is just the logical conclusion:

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday that Hamas made a mistake by firing at Israel, but he also blasted Israel for "failing to abide" by the Gaza cease-fire prior to Operation Cast Lead. "Hamas, without a doubt, erred by firing rockets at Israel, but we must consider that Hamas fully abided by the truce agreement with Israel for six months, even though Israel did not," Erdogan said in an interview with Al-Hayat. "Israel didn't do anything to lift the blockade and open the crossings despite the agreement, and provoked Hamas and Gazans," Erdogan told the London-based newspaper.

In this reality, of course, Israel repeatedly tried to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza while Hamas shelled the crossings because they wanted aid and weapons. None of that stopped Israel from keeping Gaza supplied with enough aid to successfully stave off a Hamas-created humanitarian disaster. So those can't be the "provocations" that Erdogan is talking about. Maybe he's talking about the time that Israeli civilians Oleg Lipson and Lev Charniak were working to supply Gaza with fuel. If their attempts to deliver humanitarian suppliers were a provocation, that would certainly explain why the Palestinian terrorists murdered them.

Erdogan's been on quite the roll recently, hasn't he? I'm not sure why Hamas won't let Turkish troops monitor the crossings. It would be so perfect.

References:
* Hamas Continues Long Tradition Of "Shaking" And "Threatening" And "Endangering" Ceasefire By Firing Dozens Of Rockets At Israeli Schools And Hospitals [MR]
* Erdogan: Israel broke 6-month truce [JPost]
* Hamas Blocks Israeli Food Shipments, Intentionally Starves Gaza Civilians To Create A Humanitarian Disaster - Again! [MR]
* Breathless HuffPo Headline About Gazans Eating Grass Contradicted By Rest Of Headline, Linked Picture, Reality (Plus: Anti-Semitic Comments Ensue Anyway) [MR]
* Breaking: Two Israelis Murdered By Fatah, IJ Terrorists - While Supplying Fuel To Gaza (UPDATE: Israeli Towns Shelled For Hours Before And After Attack) [MR]
* Erdogan publicly slams Israel - again [JPost]
* Turkey: Israel Should Be Kicked Out Of The UN (Plus: Turkey Kills 700 Kurds In 2008) [MR]
* Hamas Considering Maybe Letting Israel-Hating Turkish Forces Monitor Gaza Border [MR]

Previously:
* Turkish Officials Working To Reinterpret Holy Books, Trigger Muslim Reformation (Plus: Uh Oh)
* Hey Gals, Check This Out - If You're In Lebanon You Have To Ignore Sexist Muslim Atrocities And Hysterically Call For Anti-Jewish Genocide Instead
* Turkey: Allah Will Personally Wipe Out Israel

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