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Erdo?an slams Israel for plotting the coup in Egypt
Turkeys prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, claimed on Tuesday that Israel was behind the military takeover in Egypt last month.
Mr. Erdo?an scolded Western democracies for failing to condemn the military coup that deposed Egypts elected, Islamist president, Mohamed Morsi, and blamed Israeli influence. What do they say in Egypt? Democracy is not the ballot box, he said. Who is behind this? Israel.
Telling his listeners, We have evidence, Mr. Erdo?an cited comments made two years ago by the Algerian-born French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lvy, who is also Jewish, as supposed proof of a longstanding Israeli plot to deny the Muslim Brotherhood power in Egypt, even if it won elections.
Excerpt from discussion with Bernard-Henri Lvy & Tzipi Livni in 2011 at Tel Aviv Univ
Responding to a question about how he would view an electoral victory by the Brotherhood, Mr. Lvy compared such a possibility to the kind of democratic coup that allowed Hamas to take power in Gaza in 2006 and Hitler to become Germanys chancellor in 1933. Decrying the archaic, pre-fascist ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood, he said: Democracy, again, is not only elections. It is values.
Asked directly, If they were to win a legitimate election, you would urge the military not to allow them take power? Mr. Lvy said:
"I will urge the prevention of them coming to power by all sorts of means, yes. I said that in Algeria and I dont regret it. It opened a terrible period of disturbance, chaos, murders and so on, but I believe it would have been worse if we had let them come to power."
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/20/israel-behind-egypts-coup-erdogan-says/
Turkeys prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, claimed on Tuesday that Israel was behind the military takeover in Egypt last month.
Mr. Erdo?an scolded Western democracies for failing to condemn the military coup that deposed Egypts elected, Islamist president, Mohamed Morsi, and blamed Israeli influence. What do they say in Egypt? Democracy is not the ballot box, he said. Who is behind this? Israel.
Telling his listeners, We have evidence, Mr. Erdo?an cited comments made two years ago by the Algerian-born French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lvy, who is also Jewish, as supposed proof of a longstanding Israeli plot to deny the Muslim Brotherhood power in Egypt, even if it won elections.
Excerpt from discussion with Bernard-Henri Lvy & Tzipi Livni in 2011 at Tel Aviv Univ
Responding to a question about how he would view an electoral victory by the Brotherhood, Mr. Lvy compared such a possibility to the kind of democratic coup that allowed Hamas to take power in Gaza in 2006 and Hitler to become Germanys chancellor in 1933. Decrying the archaic, pre-fascist ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood, he said: Democracy, again, is not only elections. It is values.
Asked directly, If they were to win a legitimate election, you would urge the military not to allow them take power? Mr. Lvy said:
"I will urge the prevention of them coming to power by all sorts of means, yes. I said that in Algeria and I dont regret it. It opened a terrible period of disturbance, chaos, murders and so on, but I believe it would have been worse if we had let them come to power."
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/20/israel-behind-egypts-coup-erdogan-says/
