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Sunday, January 15, 2012

Support of Turkey doesn’t make sense | The Columbia Daily Tribune - Columbia, Missouri

Support of Turkey doesn’t make sense

By YOSSI FEITUCH

Sunday, January 15, 2012

How to explain the idiosyncrasies of our Middle East diplomacy that includes a bizarre love affair with Turkey’s Islamist regime?

While President Barack Obama supports the idea of an Arab Palestinian state — even as its constituents contemplate no scenario of peaceful co-existence with or acceptance of the legitimacy of Israel as a Jewish state, as is reflected, for instance, in Palestinian curricular schoolbooks — he denies the idea of a Kurdish state in southeastern Turkey, though no Kurd doubts the legitimacy of Islamic Turkey as a nation-state.

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