Erdogan's imminent reelection will only further a serious problem for the sane world
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A Fox News contributor accurately notes the likelihood Recep Erdogan, Turkey's dictator, will continue in the role for at least another decade:
Some voters have the hope of an opposition victory as the result of Erdogan’s lackluster campaign and a spiraling currency crisis. It’s more realistic, however, to start thinking about the problem that his victory is bound to cause for the rest of the world, and especially for the U.S.It'll come at Israel's expense too, as I'm sure many realize. Already, in fact, as this article tells, it looks like Erdogan's already ensured his fixed victory too:
Pollsters recalculating the probability of a victorious or defeated Erdogan forget one important feature of Turkey’s so-called democracy: it isn’t one. Erdogan has already stacked the cards for his own success in this election.
After the fixed outcome arrives, Erdogan will lead a Turkey that is more militarily interventionist throughout the broader Middle East and more willing to cooperate with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the cost of the U.S. interests, and those of NATO and the European Union.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan took a commanding lead in his bid Sunday for a presidency with broadly expanded powers, with partial results reported by the country’s state-run news agency showing him with more than 50 percent of the vote — enough to avoid a runoff.Presidential, you say? More like dictatorial. The results are no shock at all, and only inform us Erdogan's going to be a despot for much longer time. For which reason, it's high time sanctions were imposed upon Turkey, until his regime can be stopped.
The high-stakes presidential contest and a parliamentary election also held Sunday were set to either consolidate Erdogan’s grip on power or curtail his vast political ambitions. The vote will complete Turkey’s transition from a parliamentary to a new executive presidential system, a move approved in a referendum last year.
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Harvard Law Professor Alan M. Dershowitz said:
The Grand Mufti [Islamic leader] of Jerusalem,
in addition to becoming Hitler’s ally during
World War II, adapted Nazi genocidal theory
to Islamic theology.
He called on his Muslim brothers to:
“Murder the Jews! Murder them all.”
Other Islamic leaders used Nazi words
like “extermination” in referring to
the goals of Arab victory [against Israel].
SOURCE: Chutzpah by Alan M. Dershowitz
(chapter 4, page 119) published in year 1991 by
Little Brown & Co ISBN: 9780316181372 ISBN: 0316181374
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Harvard Law Professor Alan M. Dershowitz said:
“We [Jews] need not apologize about our successes.
We earned them, the hard way.
We need not be apologetic or defensive about our
power in America. For we have seen what can,
and will, happen if we abdicate that power.
Our history as a people demonstrates that
we need more power than others to survive.
That is one of the important lessons to be learned
from thousands of years of anti-Jewish bigotry.
I am reminded of it every time I open one of
my poison-pen letters. We are not the Swiss
and our history is not one of being left alone.
It is one of constant victimization and repression.
Without power – indeed, without power disproportional
to our numbers – we continue to be victimized.
We should strive to enhance our power on every front.”
SOURCE: Chutzpah by Alan M. Dershowitz
(chapter 4, page 129) published in year 1991 by
Little Brown & Co ISBN: 9780316181372 ISBN: 0316181374
Harvard Law Professor Alan M. Dershowitz said:
“Palestinians have learned the political
value of invoking human rights rhetoric.
Indeed, Former U.S. State Department official
Alan Keyes has argued that by changing the terms
of the Mideast debate from a political issue
between Israel and the Arab states into a
human rights complaint by occupied Palestinians,
the PLO has won an undeserved political
and diplomatic advantage.
Palestinian political organizations
now present themselves as human rights
organizations, and the media fall for it.”
SOURCE: Chutzpah by Alan M. Dershowitz
(chapter 7, page 230) published in year 1991 by
Little Brown & Co ISBN: 9780316181372 ISBN: 0316181374
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Harvard Law Professor Alan M. Dershowitz said:
The security of Israel is not assured.
Israel is the only nation in the world whose very
existence is threatened by enemies, external and
internal, supported by a majority of the United Nations.
It is the only nation in the world whose national
movement, Zionism, has been declared a form of
racism by the United Nations.
It is the only nation in the world threatened
by genocidal war, the purpose of which is not
military victory alone, but extermination.
The genocide of Israel’s Jewish population –
a population roughly the size of the Polish
Jewish population at the beginning of World War II
– is not an unrealistic nightmare.
Nothing today prevents it other than Israel’s
military superiority over the combined
Arab armies and terrorist organizations.
If the Arab armies and terrorists were capable
of defeating Israel, destroying its Jewish
population, and “reclaiming” ALL of current
Israel, there can be little doubt that they
would try to do so.
Indeed, if any Arab leader were militarily
capable of destroying Israel, but refrained
from doing so, he would be replaced by
someone who would at least try.
…Although there are some moderate voices
within the Palestinian and Arab movements,
these voices are listened to only because Israel
is too strong today to be defeated totally.
SOURCE: Chutzpah by Alan M. Dershowitz
(chapter 7, page 247) published in year 1991 by
Little Brown & Co ISBN: 9780316181372 ISBN: 0316181374
Harvard Law Professor Alan M. Dershowitz said:
“Too few of Israel’s critics seem to understand the
Jewish determination to avoid another Holocaust,
this one in Israel. Too few understand why Israel
cannot and should not trust its survival to nations
that stood idly by while millions of innocent Jews
were destroyed.
Too many nations seem willing to have Israel
take risks for an uncertain regional peace
that they themselves are unwilling to take
for a more important world peace.”
SOURCE: Chutzpah by Alan M. Dershowitz
(chapter 7, page 248) published in year 1991 by
Little Brown & Co ISBN: 9780316181372 ISBN: 0316181374
Harvard Law Professor Alan M. Dershowitz said:
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Harvard Law Professor Alan M. Dershowitz said:
“…if Israel’s military power were ever to be diminished
to the point that the combined armies of the Arab world
could defeat it, I believe there would be another Holocaust.
No Arab dictator who could defeat Israel and forebore
from doing so would survive the continuing frenzy for
jihad [Islamic holy war against non-Muslims].
And an Arab military victory over Israel – unlike the
Israeli victories over the Arabs – would not result
in a mere occupation or even detention of Israeli Jews.
It would result in a mass slaughter, designed to
rid Arab holy land of Jewish intruders. Most Jews
know this, though they rarely speak of it openly.
But then again, most Jews did not speak openly
about the Holocaust before it happened, while it
was happening, or for several years after it was over.”
SOURCE: Chutzpah by Alan M. Dershowitz
(chapter epilogue, page 352) published in year 1991
by Little Brown & Co ISBN: 9780316181372 ISBN: 0316181374
Harvard Law Professor Alan M. Dershowitz said:
The Jews had earned their right to a homeland.
They had settled and worked mostly barren areas
of the British mandate of Palestine, which they
had bought – with the help of contributions from
our blue-and-white Jewish National Fund boxes
– largely from absentee landlords.
They built hospitals, schools, and kibbutzim,
and established the infrastructure of a state.
They quite literally turned swampland into
orchards and made the desert bloom.
More important, because of the actions of the
entire world towards Jews – their second-class
status and their barriers to their immigration
– it had become clear that the Jews needed a state.
They were prepared to compromise their biblical
and historic claims to accept a fraction of
Palestine as theirs. But after the United Nations’
1947 decision to dissolve the British mandate
and partition Palestine into two states,
one for Jews and one for Arabs, the Arabs refused
to agree to Jewish sovereignty over an inch of
Palestine, even over land on which no Arab lived.
Only three years after the close of the Holocaust,
Arab leaders, many of whom supported Hitler’s
genocide, were calling for a war of extermination
against the Jews – a “momentous massacre which will be
spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades.”
The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who had spent
the war years in Berlin with Hitler, expressed
“greatest joy and deepest gratification” for
the Nazi accomplishments and declared a “holy war”
whose goal was to “Murder the Jews! Murder them all!”
SOURCE: Chutzpah by Alan M. Dershowitz
(chapter 7, page 213) published in year 1991 by
Little Brown & Co ISBN: 9780316181372 ISBN: 0316181374
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Harvard Law Professor Alan M. Dershowitz said:
“The difference between Israel and Hamas [an Islamic
terrorist organization] is that Israel uses its soldiers
to protect its civilians, whereas Hamas uses its civilians
to protect its terrorists. That is why most of Israeli
casualties have been soldiers and most of Hamas' casualties
have been civilians. The other reason is that Israel
builds shelters for its civilians, whereas Hamas builds
shelters only for its terrorists, intending that most
of the casualties be among its civilian shields.”
SOURCE: Needless death and destruction in Gaza
by Alan M. Dershowitz, 2014 August 11
www.jewishworldreview.com/0814/dershowitz_gaza_empty_spaces.php3