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Jan 31 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This is shocking...Some of Ankara's media was antisemitic and the leadership knew this...and for years did nothing. Now trying to push for Israel president's visit, the leadership is like "ok, let's stop the antisemitism for a few weeks"...call Israel "Israel"...amazing truth out
Imagine if you'd heard about a country that was openly pushing anti-Black racist articles and then to prepare for Barack Obama's visit was like "Ok let's stop the racism"...you'd be shocked by this admission the government controls the racist narrative and can stop/start it...
Literally there was an Ankara regime that controls the media that can turn off and turn on the antisemitism at a whim...the media in Ankara didn't feel any embarassment about pushing antisemitic stories...it had to be told by the government to stop...
Meanwhile you have most of the world's media and most countries that are not antisemitic at all...this should be the bare minimum: Don't be racist. Don't spread hate. I wasn't aware of how bad Ankara was, even worse than I thought in this respect. How awful.

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Jan 31
Thread/I am open to the theory that Ankara and Israel might indeed try limited reconciliation.

What I think is an enduring myth is that Israel and Turkey will cooperate against Iran...because I believe Ankara works with Iran.
The reason for Turkey-Israel reconciliation has to do with other things, I mean why not try it again...but the idea that some of the Iran hawks have that the US, Israel, Turkey or whatever will work 'against' Iran is a huge nonsense. There is no such thing.
Turkey does not want to be dragged into some kind of tensions with Iran. Why would it? Turkey gains nothing by heating up tensions with Iran. We heard this nonsense during the Trump era as a reason to support Ankara's operations in Syria...that one day it will confront Iran.
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Jan 31
I don't understand the critique of my critique of those who support Turkey-Israel reconciliation. The assertion is that one article at Daily Sabah was slightly critical of Iran for some minor gas issue...and therefore I'm wrong to assert that Ankara gets along with Iran...
Second the assertion is that the UAE has done outreach to Iran...so therefore my observation that Ankara gets along with Tehran is sort of like saying "so what, the UAE also talks to Tehran"...
Let's address this piece by piece.
1. There is NO evidence that Ankara has bad relations with Tehran. Consider all the high level meetings and declarations and lack of critical coverage in pro-government media. A few small "bumps" in the relationship is not evidence of break
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Jan 31
🧵 The criticism of the Abraham Accords talking point about “autocracy” or “dictators” is ridiculous. The Iran Deal was signed with a dictatorial regime…are we now to argue the US shouldn’t negotiate with Iran because it’s not signed with the average people?
The ONLY situation in the Middle East or globally where a peace or normalization process is criticized is when it comes to Israel…with the misleading talking point that “dictators” or “autocrats” can’t make peace…
YET EVERY OTHER country in the world has relations with autocrats in the region…literally EVERY country has relations with the UAE, Qatar, Egypt, Saudi, etc…and no one says “well you shouldn’t have relations, they are autocracies”….literally NO ONE argues this with Qatar
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Jan 30
Thread: The article and its headline claims that anti-Asian hate crimes in the US are "fueled by misinformation"...a bizarre way to explain racist hate crimes...and the claim lacks evidence in the article. edition.cnn.com/2022/01/29/us/…
For instance the article notes several attacks but doesn't provide evidence the perpetrators had read any "misinformation"...more likely the attacks were motivated purely by hate and the privilege that these perpetrators have in thinking they can attack one community.
One thing the article, which discusses New York a lot, doesn't ask is the identity of the perpetrators. And that might reveal something that we don't want to ask about, sort of like we don't want to ask about antisemitic attacks. Because it may not be just a simple story.
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Jan 30
Let's note that Ankara announcing Israel's president would visit Turkey was PURPOSELY done by Ankara to embarrass Israel as Israel's president was preparing the trip to the UAE. It was trying to force Israel's hand. It wasn't coordinated with Israel, it was designed to harm.
Every step of the way Ankara uses fake "reconciliation" as a way to harm Israel...when it heard the US was against the East Med pipeline, it celebrated and trotted out 'reconciliation'...last year it detained Israeli tourists and talked 'reconciliation'
Ankara's "reconciliation" narrative is always under the guise of anti-Israel actions. It even tried to send an envoy to Israel who was openly anti-Israel...at every juncture it uses reconciliation to try to harm Israel and Israel ties with Greece, UAE etc.
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🧵 The call didn’t go well because the US was talking war and Ukraine thinks a war won’t happen? edition.cnn.com/2022/01/27/pol… Image
Top headline basically talking war war war and how it will happen? What if it doesn’t? Image
The original headline was about how soon the war might happen… Image
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