Israel/Palestine

bemildred

(90,061 posts) Fri Dec 18, 2015, 03:33 AM Dec 2015

Israel to pay $20M to Turkey over 2010 Gaza flotilla raid

Baku – APA. Details have emerged of the Turkish-Israeli agreement on normalizing relations.

The preliminary agreement was signed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Feridun Sinirlioglu in Switzerland.

According to the agreement:

1. Israel is to pay 20 million dollars for a fund for victims’ families
2. The embassies will be reopened and the summoned ambassadors will be sent to the embassies again
3. Turkey will pass a law dropping legal proceedings against Israeli officials
4. Turkey will deport a leading member of Hamas, Saleh al-Aruri, who is charged with the kidnap and murder of three Israeli officers.
5. The two sides will hold discussions on gas and will begin to cooperate after the signing of the agreement. A pipeline will be constructed to deliver to Israeli gas to Turkey and Europe.

http://en.apa.az/-_236680.html

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Israel to pay $20M to Turkey over 2010 Gaza flotilla raid (Original Post) bemildred Dec 2015 OP

Well it's official now...they are making 'nicey-nice'. Interesting, indeed. eom Purveyor Dec 2015 #1

Don't bet the farm on it yet. bemildred Dec 2015 #2

Link to BBC preliminary info nitpicker Dec 2015 #3

It almost sounds like an agreement between crime families tech3149 Dec 2015 #4

Is that how you feel when leftynyc Dec 2015 #8

Corporation? Crime families??!! How dare you, sir! R. Daneel Olivaw Dec 2015 #12

I wonder how Russia will complicate things now. nt King_David Dec 2015 #5

Turkey needs gas. Russia was a huge supplier for them. n/t shira Dec 2015 #6

the back story is more interesting than the story 6chars Dec 2015 #7

Erdogan needs a win right now. bemildred Dec 2015 #9

My head is already spinning 6chars Dec 2015 #10

Yep, that's it. bemildred Dec 2015 #11

Turkey, Pakistan, Israel, Egypt, Arabia are all militarized regimes (that never really win wars) MisterP Dec 2015 #13

+1. n/t Jefferson23 Dec 2015 #14

Purveyor

(29,876 posts)

1. Well it's official now...they are making 'nicey-nice'. Interesting, indeed. eom

Reply to bemildred (Original post)

Fri Dec 18, 2015, 03:38 AM

Dec 2015

bemildred

(90,061 posts)

2. Don't bet the farm on it yet.

Reply to Purveyor (Reply #1)

Fri Dec 18, 2015, 03:45 AM

Dec 2015

But yeah.

nitpicker

(7,153 posts)

3. Link to BBC preliminary info

Reply to bemildred (Original post)

Fri Dec 18, 2015, 04:52 AM

Dec 2015

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35128744

tech3149

(4,452 posts)

4. It almost sounds like an agreement between crime families

Reply to bemildred (Original post)

Fri Dec 18, 2015, 06:15 AM

Dec 2015

We hurt yours so we'll pay$, you and I can dine at each others social clubs, we want to cover the asses of some guys that got caught but you need to give as a few guys who we want to bust up. But most important is we got this deal that could be large$ if we work together.
Amiright?

leftynyc

(26,060 posts)

8. Is that how you feel when

Reply to tech3149 (Reply #4)

Fri Dec 18, 2015, 08:52 AM

Dec 2015

a corporation has to pay a settlement because one of their products hurt or killed someone? That it's an agreement with between crime families? To answer your question, no, you're not right.

R. Daneel Olivaw

(12,606 posts)

12. Corporation? Crime families??!! How dare you, sir!

Reply to leftynyc (Reply #8)

Fri Dec 18, 2015, 12:09 PM

Dec 2015

King_David

(14,851 posts)

5. I wonder how Russia will complicate things now. nt

Reply to bemildred (Original post)

Fri Dec 18, 2015, 08:03 AM

Dec 2015

shira

(30,109 posts)

6. Turkey needs gas. Russia was a huge supplier for them. n/t

Reply to bemildred (Original post)

Fri Dec 18, 2015, 08:06 AM

Dec 2015

6chars

(3,967 posts)

7. the back story is more interesting than the story

Reply to bemildred (Original post)

Fri Dec 18, 2015, 08:45 AM

Dec 2015

Is this Russia pressuring Turkey? If so, how, why? Is it someone else? Is it happening out of the goodness of Erdogan's heart?

bemildred

(90,061 posts)

9. Erdogan needs a win right now.

Reply to 6chars (Reply #7)

Fri Dec 18, 2015, 09:01 AM

Dec 2015

Bibi is happy to oblige for the right price. It appears to me he did pretty well.

Russia is relevant only as the reason Erdogan needs a win, and I expect Putin will feel that Bibi owes him now.

6chars

(3,967 posts)

10. My head is already spinning

Reply to bemildred (Reply #9)

Fri Dec 18, 2015, 09:17 AM

Dec 2015

How is this a win for Erdogan? Oh, he gets $20M and can claim Israel gave in. I give up. Too many players.

bemildred

(90,061 posts)

11. Yep, that's it.

Reply to 6chars (Reply #10)

Fri Dec 18, 2015, 09:20 AM

Dec 2015

And the gas, they both want to sell gas.

MisterP

(23,730 posts)

13. Turkey, Pakistan, Israel, Egypt, Arabia are all militarized regimes (that never really win wars)

Reply to bemildred (Original post)

Fri Dec 18, 2015, 04:23 PM

Dec 2015

and use grotesque visions of religion or ethnonationalism to distract their people while everything goes to pot and the intel agencies' clever games suddenly blow back: of course they scratch backs (I'd add much of Fatah and Jordan to this)

Jefferson23

(30,099 posts)

14. +1. n/t

Reply to MisterP (Reply #13)

Fri Dec 18, 2015, 04:29 PM

Dec 2015

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