Sometimes the news seems surreal. While Turkey is threatening little Israel with warships in the Mediterranean sea and the arabs are threatening a unilateral declaration of a state, and the IDF is bulldozing Jewish homes in their historic homeland...
Israel has sent a Soccer/Football team called the "Maccabi Tel Aviv" to Turkey to play a Europa League match...
This is just plain insanity. Of course the Turks were out to protest the Israeli team...
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h6y2KOKgglTDyKCNylWQ1UOHkauw?docId=CNG.d1427a328dea0e478c52ae94a7adba8f.1f1Anti-Israel protest marks Turkey football clash
(AFP) – 11 hours ago
ISTANBUL — About 300 anti-Israel protesters gathered Thursday in central Istanbul as Turkish football side Besiktas took on Maccabi Tel Aviv in a Europa League match.
Demonstrators chanted:
"Murderer Israel, get out of Turkey" and
"Destruction of Israel, freedom for Palestine" while holding aloft Palestinian flags on Taksim square.
"Imperialism will be defeated, the Islamic revolt will win the day," read a banner at the protest attended by many women wearing Muslim veils.
Tight security measures were in place ahead of the match in the Turkish city amid cooling relations with Israel over the killing by Israeli forces of nine Turkish activists on board a ship headed for Gaza on May 31 last year.
Ankara expelled the Israeli ambassador and suspended all bilateral military agreements following the publication of a United Nations report earlier this month which slammed the "excessive" force used in the raid, for which Israel has failed to apologise.
"We'll never forget the Mavi Marmara," one banner read, referring to the Gaza-bound ship.
"We don't want any Zionist murderers in our country, whether they are a diplomat, an artist or a sportsperson," one protester told the crowd.
"We are calling for the breaking of all ties between Turkey and the Zionist state."Demonstrators marched in front of the Besiktas home stadium watched by anti-riot police.
Inside the stadium there were few signs of protest, apart from a handful of Besiktas supporters chanting: "Immoral Israel".
About a dozen Maccabi supporters watched from a stand under police protection as their team was beaten 5-1.
PS: I just noticed how biased this article is... When it discusses the Mavi Marmara it does not even mention the fact that the IDF shot the terrorists because they were being attacked by the muslim dogs...
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