Dont Confuse the "US-Israel relationship" with the "Obama-Israel" relationship

The people of the United States and Congress are firmly behind Israel. When Bibi swung by a few months ago, political rivals John Boehner and Nancy Pelosi got together, side by side, with Netanyahu, for the cameras. As far as US citizens are concerned, its only a matter of nearly inconsequential degree concerning strong support for the Jewish State, and every time Al Queda or other assorted Islamic fascist mass-murderers strike, that support for the Jewish State only deepens in the US.

Dont Confuse the "US-Israel relationship" with the "Obama-Israel" relationship. Presidents come and go, and between the way Obama has been handling BP and unemployment,

support for Obama is eroding, even among strong Obama supporters such as James Carville and Ed Koch. Israel should throw caution to the wind

in appeasing the Obama administration. US Support will never waver, the Islamists wont have it any other way.

 

What if Israel sent a flotilla to Turkey?

"What if Israel sent a flotilla to Turkey?"

OR

"The Kurds: Turkey's Palestinians"

What if Israel sent aid shipments to the Kurdish separatist groups in Turkey? How would Turkey respond to an attack on her sovereignty like that?

There is no way to know 100%, but Turkey is not exactly known for empathizing with its enemies. Despite facing a much smaller threat

from Kurdish separatists than Israel does from Hamas, Turkey fights these Kurds with a unique fierceness. From 1984 to 2008,

over 35,000 Kurds were killed by the Turkish military. In fact, one of the main reasons that Turkey is friends with Israel and 

WILL CONTINUE to be friends with Israel is because Israel supplies the secular, Turkish Army with invaluable high-tech

weapons with which to fight their own terrorists.

For those unfamiliar with Kurds:

Kurds are a distinct ethnic group of the Middle East (Do not call them Arabs.) They are overwhelmingly Sunni Muslims. They live in a state they call "Kurdistan" which is actually part of four other

border sharing Middle East states: Iraq, Iran, Turkey, and Syria. The only reason the Kurds in Iraq have a de-facto state is because the US

invaded Iraq in 2003 and liberated the Kurds. The Kurds in Iraq gained the most from the US war. However, the Kurds in Iran, Turkey, and Syria have not only

NOT been given a state by their Arab bretheren, they are routinly attacked and captured in military operations by Iran and Turkey.

Turkey and Iran love to whine about the Palestinian state, but dont you DARE ever mention "Freeing Kurdistan" the way the "Free Gaza"

flotilla did.

If there is one thing the Middle East is all about, its hypocrisy. Turkey and Iran whine about Israel not giving the Palestinians a state,

and keep Suppressing the Kurds. Syria whines about Israels military operation in Gaza, where maybe 1,200 were killed, when in 1982 Syria killed 40,000 of its own people

with cyanide gas to suppress a terrorist uprising by the Muslim brotherhood. One must look past the words of these Arab countries

and look to their actions.

We may never know how Turkey would react to Israel sending aid shipments to Kurds of Turkey, because Israel wouldnt infringe on

an ally's sovereignty like that. However, Turkey can not even come to grips with the Armenian genocide they presided over.

If you mention the Armenian Genocide in Turkey you can be killed, and many who have spoke out have been killed. Not a nation

that values tolerance. The only reason Turkey probably wouldnt cut off relations with Israel if they sent a flotilla to Kurdistan is

because as said, Turkey needs Israel's high tech military gadgets to fight their own bloodier war with terrorists than Israel conducts.

It would be funny if it wasnt the truth that Israel needs to deal with every day. Israel needs to stand strong and not accept any threats

to their sovereignty, especially in the realm of fighting terror. No one asked Turkey too.

The Flotilla Fiasco

The video says it all. Israeli naval commandoes boarding the flotilla, and as each commando was lowered from the boat, an onslaught of metal poles, knives, and beatings were meeting them. Some of the Israeli commandoes were thrown from the top to bottom deck by the activists. A journalist on CNN pointed out that if a US naval raid was met with that kind of violence, the activists would be very lucky if everyone on the flotilla was not killed. But somehow Israel loses the PR battle.

A little background on PR:

We learned that the founding fathers of the USA were the first innovators of Public Relations. A bunch of middle class merchants in colonies were not ready to fight a bloody battle with the British. So our founding fathers kicked it into high gear. The Boston Massacre took place, where colonists claimed a mass killing of colonists took place on behalf of the British. It turned out only 5 colonists had died, and those colonists were part of a crowd that was throwing projectiles at British Troops. However, the colonists got their story to the press first, and this "massacre" sparked the rebellion which culminated in the American Revolutionary War. 

The pro-Palestinian and pro-Arab media are very savvy concerning public relations. They always get their twisted side of the story out first, and by the time the Israeli (most often the most truthful) side gets out, opinions have already been formed. Jenin is another excellent example of this. The fact that the Arabs got their side of the story out so quickly created a reality where some still believe to this day that Israel committed a massacre in Jenin against unarmed civillians. Also, many people dont know that the US's involvement in liberating Kuwait was directly due to Hill & Knowlton, then the world's biggest PR firm. They sold a whole story of Iraqi soldiers take Kuwaiti babies and leaving them outside to die. It turned out the whole story was a lie, and the sobbing girl who told it, a 15 year old girl named Nayira, was actually a daughter of a high-ranking Kuwaiti diplomat.

Its not about right and wrong.  Its a battle of information. Things can go very well or very wrong simply due to the Public Relation techniques (or lack thereof) employed. Arabs have been fantastic with PR for decades. If Israel just puts a little bit of thought and time into it, the dividends paid will be HUGE.