Turkey’s media spin over reconciliation with Israel; “a wolf in sheep’s clothing”
The stories Turkish media feeding in the recent
weeks over the will of restoring bilateral relations with Israel, look more
like “a wolf in sheep’s clothing”, said The Jerusalem Post on Monday.
Turkey is well aware of that the “reconciliation
talk” has a way to go in western media, according to the article, “that makes
Turkey seem peaceful and moderate,” it said.
The one who demolished the relations, is Ankara’s
ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) itself, added the Seth Frantman, a
long time Middle East reporter for the paper, “which hosts Hamas terrorists as
if it is a legitimate government, which compares Israel to Nazi Germany.”
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
hosted Hamas’
political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh in Turkey twice in the past year, who is
designated as a terrorist by the United States and European Union and has a
$5-million bounty on his head. The U.S. issued a rare statement to rebuke
Turkey’s strongman for the most recent visit of the Hamas officials to Turkey
and meeting with Erdogan.
In May.2018, on a speech he delivered in a special
summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Istanbul, Erdoğan
compared the actions of Israeli forces to Nazi Germany’s treatment of Jews in
World War Two, when millions were killed in concentration camps.
The reconciliation that Turkish media spins are
built on three main pillars, according to Jerusalem Post as pointing out the
claims of Turkey appointing an anti-Israel envoy to Tel Aviv, two years after
recalling its previous ambassador, saying as the first pillar.
Secondly, Ankara expects Israel to destroy relations
with Greece, Cyprus and the UAE and depend solemnly on Turkey for energy trade,
and thirdly, Ankara wants Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to lose the
next election, the Jerusalem Post said.
“The entire narrative presented about reconciliation
is in line with this goal: Isolate Israel, undermine Israel’s sovereignty,
support Hamas terrorists and make Israel dependent on Turkey.
Under such conditions it is not surprise Israel has
shown little interest in this,” it said.
