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Originally Posted by MH
The relation between them and Jews are not perfect(a lot can be written about it) but have nothing to do with apartheid.
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Ironically, while Turkey now tries to present itself as the great friend of Arabs (closing trade relations, Syria) and Persians (Iran), and try to present itself as the mighty voice of Palestinian interests, the Turks traditionally look down on Arabs like Arabs look down on Palestinians. That I do not only read, but that I have witnessed myself many times in Turkey.
It's like this since the beginning of the Ottoman empire, for which the Arabs were nothing more than camel farmers, of even cattle that could bite and therefore one had to keep an eye on. So, again Turkey is instrumentalising the Palestinians and abuses them, with Palestinians even applauding them for it. Oh yes, arabs and Persians and Palestinians and turks - they all love each other, they are one big united family. HAHAHAHA!!! The only thing that unites them, is the non-racial, non-national, non-ethnical concept of the one, big, global
Ummah. Beyond that, they maintain cut throat-brotherhood relations.
Add to this kind of family life the internal tribal rivalry of Arabs time ago, and you have an idea why Lawrence of Arabia (the title alone is worth laughing!) necessarily had to fail despite his good intentions.
In German, there is a nice phrase that describes the Turkish instrumentalisation of the Palestinians perfectly:
"jemandem den Kakao zu trinken geben, durch den man ihn noch zuvor gezogen hat."