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| Turkish PM storms out of Gaza debate |
| 2009-01-29 |
| TURKISH Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan today stormed out of an angry debate at the Davos forum on the Gaza war with Israel's President Shimon Peres. "I do not think I will be coming back to Davos after this because you do not let me speak," the Islamist-rooted prime minister shouted before marching off the stage in front of Mr Peres, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and an elite audience of ministers and international officials at the World Economic Forum. Mr Erdogan criticized the audience for applauding Mr Peres' emotional defense of Israel's war in Gaza, before the moderator, Washington Post journalist David Ignatius, insisted that the debate had gone over time. He said Israel had carried out "barbarian" actions in Gaza. Mr Peres had told the audience that Israel had been forced into the offensive against Hamas by thousands of rockets and mortars fired into Israel. "The tragedy of Gaza is not Israel, it is Hamas," said Mr Peres. "They created a dictatorship. A very dangerous one." Mr Ban, Mr Erdogan, and Arab League secretary general Amr Mussa and Peres all gave long impassioned statements on the conflict which left more than 1300 Palestinians dead and widespread destruction in Gaza. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #1 The journalist at the Telegraph is having a little fun. 'Rooted' in Australian slang means completely f**ked up and irretreviably broken. So 'Islamist-rooted' means completely f**ked up by Islam. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2009-01-29 17:11 |