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    ISRAEL SLAMS ERDOGAN'S 'LAME DIATRIBE' FROM BEIRUT
    By HERB KEINON

    Jerusalem Post
    http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=196875
    Nov 26 2010

    Turkish PM launches new war crimes salvo; Lebanese Armenians protest
    his visit over WWI genocide.

    Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan lambasted Israel in Beirut
    on Thursday for a variety of alleged war crimes, on a day when he faced
    angry demonstrations by hundreds of Lebanese Armenians highlighting
    Turkey's slaughter of some 1.5 million Armenians during World War I.

    "Does [Israel] think it can enter Lebanon with the most modern
    aircraft and tanks to kill women and children, and destroy schools
    and hospitals, and then expect us to remain silent?" Erdogan asked
    on the final day of his two-day visit to Lebanon.

    "Does it think it can use the most modern weapons, phosphorus munitions
    and cluster bombs to kill children in Gaza and then expect us to
    remain silent? We will not be silent, and we will support justice by
    all means available to us," he declared.

    One Israeli official said Erdogan's latest anti-Israel diatribe "was
    a particularly lame diversion from the issue that was brought to his
    door in Lebanon by Armenian demonstrators."

    The official also said Israel took note that Erdogan, in his speech,
    "found not one single word to at least distance himself from killing
    of Israeli women and children [by Hizbullah]."

    The website of the Istanbul-based daily Hurriyet quoted Erdogan
    as having said on Wednesday during a speech at a Turkmen village
    near Beirut that "we will go on to raise our voice against those
    massacring innocent people and children. We will call a killer a
    killer when needed."

    The Turkish prime minister met during his visit with officials in the
    north and south of the country, including Turkish troops stationed
    with UNIFIL in the South.

    In Beirut on Thursday, hundreds of Lebanese of Armenian descent
    clashed with army troops in the capital's Martyr's Square during a
    protest against Erdogan's visit.

    When demonstrators tore up a large poster of Erdogan and pelted troops
    with rocks, security forces responded by beating up a number of them.

    There were no reports of serious injuries. At the time, Erdogan was
    inaugurating a hospital in the southern port city of Sidon.

    Lebanon has around 150,000 Armenians - nearly 4 percent of its
    population - who, because of the Armenian genocide, harbor deep
    animosity toward Turkey.

    AP contributed to this report.




    From: A. Papazian
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