Israel official: Turkish tirades reveal 'brazen hypocrisy'
LAST UPDATED: 02/05/2013 04:30
Turkey’s leaders have become the “laughingstock of the international community
with their self-righteous discourse,” an Israeli official said on Monday in
response to yet another anti- Israel tirade by Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet
Davutoglu.
Turkey’s anti-Israel bashing continued unabated for a
third-straight day on Monday, with Davutoglu thrashing Israel for its
settlements policy and declaring that Israel was now a “pariah
state.”
The Turkish foreign minister, addressing a ministerial meeting of
the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Cairo, said that “Israel has
now been rendered by the international community a ‘pariah’ status for its
expanding illegal settlements.”
Referring to the recent United Nations
Human Rights Council report calling on Israel to evacuate all settlements,
Davutoglu said, “Time and again Israel has proven that it fails to read the
change happening not only around it, but also in the way its actions are
perceived by the international community.”