"Israels secret weapon"

Erdogan förklarar

Natten till fredagen lämnade Erdogan Davos i Schweiz efter en debatt med Shimon Peres, och vid hemkomsten blev han hyllad av flera tusentals turkar.

Nu förklarar han varför han lämnade forumet i Davos.

"Speaking to the Washington Post, the Turkish PM reiterated his fierce criticism of Israeli policy towards the Palestinian Resistance movement of Hamas. "The world has not respected the political will of the Palestinian people," Erdogan said. On the one hand, we defend democracy and we try our best to keep democracy in the Middle East, but on the other hand we do not respect the outcome of . . . the ballot box," he explained.

"Palestine today is an open-air prison. Hamas, as much as they tried, could not change the situation. Just imagine, you imprison the speaker of a country as well as some ministers of its government and members of its parliament. And then you expect them to sit obediently?" Erdogan pointed out.

Evaluating the end result, Erdogan noted that "since December 27 there have been almost 1,300 dead, 6,000 injured, no infrastructure left, no buildings left, everything is damaged, Gaza is a total wreck. It's all closed, under total siege."
"The United Nations Security Council makes a decision, and Israel announces it does not recognize the decision. I'm not saying that Hamas is a good organization and makes no mistakes. They have made mistakes. But I am evaluating the end result," he said."

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Iran firar 30 år

"Thirty years have passed on the Iranian Revolution, but its reflection is still witnessed day after day worldwide…

At a ceremony marking the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday that Iran's Islamic revolution was not limited to its borders. "The revolution is lively and alive after 30 years," Ahmadinejad stressed.

"We are still at the beginning of the path and greater changes are ahead. This thunderous revolution will continue until justice is implemented," the Iranian president said. "Although the Islamic revolution happened in Iran it is not limited to Iranian borders," he emphasized.

Crowds chanted "Death to America! Death to Israel!" at the ceremony at Khomeini's mausoleum in southern Tehran also attended by supreme leader Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei, government ministers and military commanders.

"Because of Islam we saw victory in Gaza and Lebanon," said the revolutionary leader's grandson Hassan Khomeini. "Iranians are proud because Khomeini was the flag bearer of this Islamic awakening worldwide.""

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Ny skandal i Egypten

"An Egyptian newspaper revealed a local Egyptian firm was regularly supplying the Israeli occupation army with food supplies via the “Oja” crossing, throughout the war on Gaza, at a time the Rafah crossing was closed for aids and medical supplies for injured Palestinians.

The “Ousbou’” Arabic for “Week”, expressed deep resentment at the Egyptian firm’s move to supply the Israeli army with Egyptian food at a time “all of Egypt was grieving Gaza and praying for the innocents who were starving in the besieged Strip.”

The newspaper revealed what it said was details about the people involved, their license numbers and places of residence as well as the quantities they had transferred and the dates."

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Erdogan, en hjälte i mellanöstern

Den turkiska premiärministern Recep Tayyip Erdogan valde att lämna forumet i Davos efter en hätsk debatt med den israeliska presidenten Shimon Peres. Erdogan sa till Peres: "Du dödar människor", och syftade på massakern i Gaza-remsan under den gångna månaden, under en debatt. Moderatorn David Ignatius, en kolumnist från "The Washington Post", försökte byta samtalsämne och lät inte Erdogan framföra sina åsikter.

Efter ett tag tackade Erdogan för sig och sa att han inte tänkte komma tillbaka till mötet efter den planerade lunchen.

När Erdogan kom hem igen hyllades han av 5000 människor som tagit sig ner till gatorna för att hylla premiärministerns solidaritet med det palestinska folket.



Mer att läsa här:
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2009/01/20091303153967187.html
http://www.almanar.com.lb/NewsSite/NewsDetails.aspx?id=72084&language=en