Regarding \u201cThe revolution\u2019s missing peace\u201d (Views, April 22): President Abdullah Gul of Turkey presents a curious proposal regarding his country\u2019s potential role as a peacemaker in the Israel-Palestinian conflict.<\/p>\n
While urging the United States \u201cto act as an impartial and effective mediator between Israel and the Palestinians,\u201d he views his own country as able to play a similar role, even as he qualifies Israel as an \u201capartheid island\u201d and conditions Turkey\u2019s possible peacemaking efforts on proof of Israel\u2019s readiness to pursue peace with its neighbors.<\/p>\n
One cannot but wonder how Turkey\u2019s role in the incident involving a Turkish ship that tried to breach the blockade of Gaza last May and the announced plans for another similar \u201chumanitarian\u201d effort in coming months fits the author\u2019s commitment on behalf of his country to act as an impartial mediator.<\/p>\n
Klaus Netter, Collonge-Bellerive, Switzerland<\/p>\n
I am amazed at the attempt by President Abdullah Gul of Turkey to draw the Israel-Palestine issue into the events of the Arab Spring. These uprisings are the direct result of years of neglect and persecution by Arab governments of Arab peoples, deprived of the most basic fundamentals of life \u2014 jobs, housing, freedom from persecution \u2014 and true democracy. The unrest and has nothing to do with the Israel-Palestine impasse.<\/p>\n
Michael Dorian Goldberg, Rehovot, Israel<\/p>\n
via Turkey as Peacemaker – NYTimes.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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