"Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday it was "unthinkable" for Ankara to normalize relations with Israel until it apologized over its bloody raid on a Turkish ship heading for Gaza [last year].

"As long as Israel does not apologize to Turkey, pay compensation to the families of the victims and lift its blockage on the Gaza strip, a normalization of relations is unthinkable," he said at the opening of a meeting of Palestinian ambassadors here in the presence of president Mahmud Abbas.

Erdogan accused Israel of perpetrating a "barbaric massacre" and "shooting in the back" the nine unarmed Turkish activists killed when Israeli commandos stormed a Turkish ferry leading a flotilla which was attempting to break Israel's naval embargo on Gaza in May 2010."

-- Daily Star

The liberal activists on board the Mavi Mamara were attempting to deliver medical supplies and other humanitarian aid when the unarmed ship was attacked and boarded in international waters by Zionist commandos. See our previous comments on the incident, including Mr. Erdogan's reaction to the murders and the real reason why there will never be an "apology" from the Israelis.

Here's a list of the victims, most of whom were middle-aged family men:

- Furkan Dogan received five gunshot wounds in the back of his head, nose, left leg, left ankle and in the back, all from close range. A citizen of the United States, Mr. Dogan was a 19-year-old high school student with ambitions of becoming a medical doctor.

- Cengiz Akyuz received four gunshot wounds, in the back of his head, right side of his face, the back and the left leg. Mr. Akyuz was married and a 41-year-old father of three.

- Ali Haydar Bengi received a total of six gunshot wounds, in the left side of his chest, belly, right arm, right leg and twice in the left hand. Mr. Bengi was married, a 39-year-old father of four.

- Ibrahim Bilgen received four gunshot wounds, in the right temple, right chest, right hip and back. Mr. Bilgen was married, 61-year-old father of six, who worked as an electrical engineer.

- Cevdet Kiliclar, a photographer, was killed by a single distant shot to the middle of the forehead. He was shot most probably with a laser-pointer rifle. Mr. Kiliclar was married, 38-year-old father of two.

- Cengiz Songur was killed by a single gunshot wound in the front of the neck. He was a 47-year-old textile worker, married and the father of seven.

- Necdet Yildirim received two gunshot wounds in the right shoulder and left back. He was 32-years-old, married, father of one.

- Çetin Topcuoglu was killed by three gunshot wounds in the back of the head, the hip and the belly. He was 54-years old, married and a father of one.

- Fahri Yaldiz was killed by four gunshot wounds: left chest, left leg and twice in the right leg. He was 43 years-old, married and father of four, and worked as a fire-fighter.

UPDATE: On 02-Sep-2011, after a U.N. report on the assault was leaked to the press, Turkey expelled the Israeli ambassador and cut off military ties with the Jewish State..

An EU official who spoke candidly about the self-evident Jewish attitude and the hypocrisy of "peace talks" has been forced to apologize. However, the predictable reaction to his remarks merely confirms their validity.

"Karel De Gucht, the European commissioner for trade and a former Belgian foreign minister, sparked [Jewish] outrage after voicing his scepticism about the prospects for the negotiations which opened in the U.S. this week...

"There is indeed a belief...among most Jews that they are right. And a belief is something that's difficult to counter with rational arguments. And it's not so much whether these are religious Jews or not. [Secular] Jews also share the same belief that they are right. So it is not easy to have, even with moderate Jews, a rational discussion about what is actually happening in the Middle East."

-- London Guardian

According to the Talmud, God himself has granted this "kingdom of priests" absolute authority over all the other nations on the earth, along with exclusive title to the "land of Canaan". What is there to negotiate?

Not only do they believe they are "right", they believe they are innately superior to all others who lack the "Jewish soul". Consider the Jewish interpretation of the commandment to "love thy neighbor", for example:

"To treat others as one would want to be treated, whether in matters of relationships, money, or other physical needs, and to seek their best interests as much as one's own. For Jews, this applies only to other Jews... But it does not apply toward followers of any false religion such as Buddhism, Christianity, or Islam."

-- Hasidic University

That's clear enough, isn't it? And what is to be done with non-Jews who oppose the theocratic dictatorship of the master race?

"To exterminate every last member of the ancient nation of Amalek, including its men, women, and children, and to destroy all of its animals and other possessions" in other words, to erase its very existence from the face of the earth... the Amaleki people infiltrated other gentile nations, operating an underground network of subversion aimed at defeating G-d by annihilating the Jewish people and plunging the world into a diabolical war of rebellion against G-d's Theocratic Law."

-- Hasidic University

Is this the product of rational minds?

"If we kill a gentile who has has violated one of the Seven Commandments there is nothing wrong with the murder... There is justification for killing [non-Jewish] babies if it is clear that they will grow up to harm us, and in such a situation they may be harmed deliberately..."

-- Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira

"On August 18, a pantheon of Israel's top fundamentalist [Talmudic] Rabbis flaunted their political power during an ad hoc congress they convened at Jerusalem's Ramada Renaissance hotel. Before an audience of 250 supporters including the far-right Israeli Knesset member Michael Ben-Ari, the rabbis declared in the name of the Holy Torah that they would not submit to any attempt by the government to regulate their political activities -- even and especially if those activities included inciting terrorist attacks against non-Jews.

-- Max Blumenthal article

The Jewish Zionist organizations based in New York City recently ran a full-page ad in the New York Times disparaging the President of Iran and accusing his regime of "developing nuclear weapons" without presenting any evidence to support their claims.

The propaganda of the Jewish State and its wealthy backers is intended to provide cover for their own clandestine and unregulated nuclear weapons stockpile, and to allow their racist policy of "ethnic cleansing" in Palestine to continue without effective opposition.

This latest fear-mongering piece, complete with ballistic missles in the background, is couched in terms of "reducing America's dependence on foreign oil" in a cynical ploy to sell the long-standing Zionist war plan against the hated Persians. Yet no mention is made of the vast "foreign oil" fortune accumulated for more than a century by the Rothschilds through Shell, BP, Yukos, etc. which helped fund the Zionist occupation of Palestine to begin with. Such hypocrisy!

Some of the Zionist sponsors beating the drum for war against Iran include: American Israel PAC, the B'nai B'rith International, the Anti-Defamation League, and the American Jewish Congress to name a few. In order to "end the massive transfer of wealth to some of the world's most odious exporters of terrorism and fanaticism" as the ad says, perhaps we should start with these groups and the $30,000,000,000 recently extorted from U.S. taxpayers by their agents to fund the Jewish State.

Unlike their spineless NATO "allies", the Turkish government is showing some moral courage regarding the recent Israeli commando raid against a convoy of relief ships and the murder of unarmed civilians in international waters:

"Ahmet Davutoglu, the Turkish foreign minister, said: "[the] Israelis have three options... They will either apologise or acknowledge an international, impartial inquiry and its conclusion. Otherwise, our diplomatic ties will be cut off." Ankara withdrew its ambassador from Tel Aviv after the flotilla raid on 31 May, when nine Turks were killed by Israeli commandos who boarded the Mavi Marmara. But this is the first time Turkey has explicitly threatened to cut off ties completely...

Israel has refused to participate in an international inquiry into the raid, instead launching its own investigation. [Israel] has also refused to apologise: "Israel cannot apologise because its soldiers had to defend themselves to avoid being lynched by a crowd," its prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, said on Friday."

-- London Guardian

Rafael Eitan, former head of the IDF, referred to the Palestinans as "drugged cockroaches scurrying in a bottle". The leaders of the Jewish State, including Benjamin Netanyahu, have no intention of allowing anyone to uncork that bottle.

The Zionists "cannot apologize" or admit guilt for their actions, except in a deceptive and insincere manner, because doing so would violate the Talmudic principle of racial superiority upon which the regime is based. The killing of vermin -- be they Turks, Arabs or Persians -- is an act which requires no apology.

"Al-Qaida's US-born spokesman [sic] warned President Barack Obama on Sunday that the militant group may launch new attacks that would kill more Americans than previous ones. In a taunting, 24 minute message that dwelled on Obama's setbacks... Adam Gadahn set out al-Qaida's conditions for peace with the US, including cutting support for Israel and withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan."

-- Jerusalem Post

Just when the Jewish State needs a public diversion from its latest bloody massacre, out comes a new diatribe from the cross-dressing Adam Pearlman Gadahn, a nice Jewish boy who lived with his rich grandfather -- an official of the ADL in Orange County as previously reported.

The threat may be real, but who benefits? Which "militant group" and its supporters was behind the last major terrorist attack?

Gadahn's message, translated: America had better do whatever Israel demands -- or else!

The Prime Minister of Turkey responded to the recent slaughter of 9 unarmed Turkish peace activists by Israeli commandos who stormed "Mavi Marmara" aid ship headed for Gaza. He asked a simple question:

"You [Israelis] killed 19-year-old Furkan Dogan brutally. Which faith, which holy book can be an excuse for killing him? ... The sixth commandment says, 'Thou shalt not kill.' Did you not understand? I'll say again. I say in English, 'You shall not kill.' Did you still not understand? So I'll say to you in your own language. I say in Hebrew, 'Lo Tirtzakh."

-- Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, quoted by Global Research

Alas! It is Mr. Erdogan who does not understand.

The esteemed Rabbis of the Jewish State do have a "holy book" that provides the ethical basis for their actions -- the Babylonian Talmud -- studied and refined for centuries at yeshivas like Mercaz HaRav. Founded by Rabbi Abraham Kook, first Rabbi of Eretz Yisrael and the "great soul of religious Zionism", HaRav Kook taught that "the soul of every Jew possesses rights", unlike others. His school produces Israeli leaders "filled with a deep love for their fellow-Jew", including many who "serve faithfully" in the Israeli Defense Force and the Government.

This reverence for the "Jewish soul" is the central theme of the Talmud which teaches that only Israelites are considered "men" in the eyes of God. All other races are mere beasts, sub-humans that lack this "divine spirit". Clearly, since the commandments of God only apply to "men", they are interpreted by the Talmudic sages and their disciples as follows:

Thou shalt not kill... a fellow Jew
Thou shalt not steal... from a fellow Jew
Thou shalt not lie... to a fellow Jew

Everyone else is fair game, and no Jewish law is broken in the process. After all, the fleecing of a sheep is not "theft" and the killing of a pig is not "murder". Do you understand now, Mr. Erdogan?

"Israeli Army commander and top Likud member Uzi Dayan today warned on Israeli Army Radio that Israel would consider any attempt by the Turkish military to protect future aid ships from attack [by Israel] an 'act of war.' Dayan then added that if Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan attempted to accompany the aid ships personally, as he has reportedly considered, 'we would not try to take over the ship he was on, but would sink it.' He added that Erdogan's presence on a future aid ship would also be a casus belli for an Israeli war against Turkey."

-- Antiwar.com

To openly threaten murder against the head of a foreign nation is, by definition, an act of international terrorism subject to the appropriate sanctions. The war-mongers of the Jewish State should also remember that Turkey is a member of NATO. If attacked, every other NATO nation, including the U.S. and the E.U., would be obliged to enter the conflict. According to the NATO treaty:

"Article 5: The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them...shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them...will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force."

-- NATO Treaty

"A U.S. citizen who lived in Turkey is among the nine people killed when Israeli commandos stormed a Turkish aid ship heading for the Gaza Strip, officials said today. The victim was identified as Furkan Dogan, 19, a Turkish-American. A forensic report said he was shot at close range, with four bullets in his head and one in his chest, according to the Anatolian news agency. " -- ABC News

"Like many of us around the world, Emily Henochowicz, a 21-year-old Cooper Union art student, joined protests on Monday against Israel's outrageous attack on the humanitarian flotilla... Emily was hit in the face with a tear gas projectile fired directly at her by an Israeli soldier... She devoted her life to seeing, to witnessing. And for this she lost her left eye." -- Naomi Klein article

Both of these courageous victims were U.S. citizens. What if it were your son who was shot in the back of the head at close range? Or your daughter who had her eyeball gouged out by these bastards?

"The bullets used to kill 19-year-old Furkan Dogan, a Turkish-American college student born in Troy, New York, were fired by soldiers in a foreign army -- but they were paid for with money extorted from U.S. taxpayers... The commando raid was simple piracy and murder. The blockade it was meant to enforce is a campaign of state terrorism...

Like the behemoth in Washington that lavishly underwrites it...and shields its rulers from accountability, the Israeli government is a criminal band that acts with utter impunity -- not to protect its citizens, but to defend and enhance the state's power..."

-- William Grigg article

"Even when the Israelis blew up a US Navy ship, the USS Liberty, a military reconnaissance vessel that was monitoring Israeli troops movements prior to the Six Day War [1967], Washington went along 'in public' with Tel Aviv's fairy tale claiming it was an 'accident'. This disgrace is repeated today as the beaten and battered Americans who lived to tell the tale of what happened aboard the flotilla return to bear witness to Israeli brutality.

An American citizen is killed, and [yet again] Washington looks the other way. The ghost of Rachel Corrie is not surprised. Nor am I. Because the Israelis, after all, are our enemies... The 'special relationship' is a poisonous and deeply dysfunctional relationship, which benefits one party at the growing expense of the other. Sooner or later it will end, but how? "

-- Justin Raimondo article

The Jewish State, born of terrorism and racist ideology, has defied the norms of civilized behavior since before its official inception in 1948. Any Western politician who fails to take a stand against the ongoing Zionist aggression -- and its network of collaborators and financial supporters worldwide -- is nothing but a moral coward, an agent of a hostile foreign power, and a traitor to his country.

"They handcuffed us, pushed us around and humiliated us," said Egyptian MP [Member of Parliament] Hazem Farouq, who was also on the boat... "It was hell on the sea. I saw Israeli soldiers killing activists in cold blood and then walking on their bodies," Farouq, who was one of more than 700 activists aboard the Freedom Flotilla attacked by Israeli commandos, said on Tuesday in Cairo. "The Israeli soldiers sprayed bullets as if they were a mafia in an American film."

-- Gulf News article

"Under article 3 of the Rome Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation of 1988, it is an international crime for any person to seize or exercise control over a ship by force, and also a crime to injure or kill any person in the process... One cannot attack a ship and then claim 'self-defence' if the people on board resist the unlawful use of violence... Those involved should be treated no differently than, say, the Somali pirates who are also in the habit of boarding ships by force."

-- Yvonne Ridley article

There is a big difference in this case; the Somali pirates are merely thieves. The Zionist government is a well-financed terrorist organization armed with nuclear weapons which has shown its contempt for the United Nations and the world community for over 60 years.

"This event points again to one of the most serious aspects of the situation: we live in a bubble, in a kind of mental ghetto, which cuts us off and prevents us from seeing another reality, the one perceived by the rest of the world. A psychiatrist might judge this to be the symptom of a severe mental problem.

The propaganda of the government and the army tells a simple story: our heroic soldiers, determined and sensitive, the elite of the elite, descended on the ship in order "to talk" and were attacked by a wild and violent crowd. Official spokesmen repeated again and again the word "lynching". On the first day, almost all the Israeli media accepted this. After all, it is clear that we, the Jews, are the victims. Always. That applies to Jewish soldiers, too. True, we storm a foreign ship at sea, but turn at once into victims who have no choice but to defend ourselves against violent and incited 'anti-Semites'...

To any normal person, this may sound crazy. Heavily armed soldiers of an elite commando unit board a ship on the high seas in the middle of the night, from the sea and from the air, [begin shooting people] and they are the victims?"

-- Uri Avnery article

(Note that the author was nearly killed by Zionist thugs at a protest rally in Tel Aviv).

Supporters of the Jewish State are frothing at the mouth over public remarks by a former CIA analyst critical of the "special realtionship" that allows them to distort U.S. policy and suppress debate:

"Michael Scheuer, the former director of a CIA unit assigned to track down Osama Bin-Laden, calmly expressed the view that American soldiers are now dying in Iraq for the sake of Israelis. He further claimed that any debate of American support for Israel is squelched in the public sphere...

"One of the big things we have not been able to discuss for the past 30 years is our policy towards the Israelis. Whether we want to be involved in fighting Israel's wars in the future is something that Americans should be able to talk about. They may vote yes. They may want to see their kids killed in Iraq or Yemen or somewhere else to protect Israel. But the question is: we need to talk about it. Ultimately, Israel is a country that is of no particular [strategic] worth to the United States... Why don't we talk about that? Because AIPAC and other influential American Jewish groups are extraordinarily involved in the funding of American political campaigns and have the ability to reach out and make sure that people lose their jobs, or are otherwise hurt, if they dare to criticize Israel."

-- Israel National News

The zealots can't argue with Michael Scheuer's credentials as a 20 year CIA veteran or the truth of what he says about the criminal Jewish State, its powerful backers, and their control over U.S. policy. So, like many others before him, he is simply smeared with the racist "anti-Semite" brush instead.

"One policy I am critical of in [my book] 'Marching Toward Hell' is the nature of the U.S.-Israel relationship. I argued that unqualified, bipartisan support for Israel damages U.S. national security, and I damned those who identify critics of the relationship as anti-American [or] anti-Semitic... Now, however, I have the personal experience of losing both position and income for condemning Washington's status quo Israel policy as a threat to U.S. national security... I can only say of them what FDR said of his domestic foes: "They are unanimous in their hatred for me -- and I welcome their hatred."

-- Michael Scheuer article

But maybe the old trick is starting to lose its charm.

"People like Jeffrey Goldberg -- and his comrades at places such as Commentary and the ADL -- have so abused, over-used, manipulated and exploited the "anti-semitism" and "anti-Israel" accusations for improper and nakedly political ends that those terms have become drained of their meaning, have almost entirely lost their sting, and have become trivialized virtually to the point of caricature...

The Israeli devastation of Gaza (see photos) and its trapped, defenseless civilian population -- using American bombs, arms, money and diplomatic cover -- was so brutal and horrific to watch that it inevitably changed the way people view that Middle East conflict."

-- Glen Greenwald article

"[At] this week's Christians United for Israel conference... CUFI founder and chairman Pastor John Hagee also weighed in when he introduced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who appeared via satellite Tuesday to speak to the crowd. Hagee told Netanyahu that "50 million Christians" support "Israel's sovereign right to grow and develop the settlements of Israel [sic] as you see fit and not yield to the pressure of the United States government"...

[Jewish] Sen. Joe Lieberman who accepted CUFI's "Defender of Israel" Award on Tuesday evening, appeared to offer some criticism of the Obama policy... 'The chief obstacle to peace in the Middle East is not Israelis living on the West Bank but the regime in Tehran,' he said...

Although he didn't go into details about what he meant, [Jewish] Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) told CUFI that U.S. policies in the Middle East must be "firmly grounded" in Judeo-Christian principles." -- JTA article

"A delegation of 25 US congressmen began a six-day trip to Israel today [Aug 3] in the largest ever Republican mission to visit the Jewish state, the US embassy said. They held talks with Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman... Representative Eric Cantor...leads the delegation and said before departure the trip was aimed at reassuring Israel of Washington's unbending support. The trip is financed by the American Israel Education Foundation (AIEF) a charitable organisation [sic] affiliated with AIPAC, a powerful pro-Israel lobbying group in Washington." -- Vos Iz Neias article

If the atrocities against the Palestinians aren't enough, the "Christian Suckers for Zionism" should see how the followers of Christ are abused and legally persecuted by the Jewish State. Then they should crack open their Bibles instead of listening to the self-serving "Judeo-Christian" claptrap from these modern-day Pharisees.

"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation...

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together... Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. "

-- Matthew 23