Current Zionist supported efforts to starve the Palestinians into submission similar to Nazi efforts to starve ghetto Jews during World War 2?
Faulty Palestinian Sanctions Provoke Hatred: Turkish PM
"We have to ...not repeat the same mistakes we have done in the past," Erdogan said.
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, May 22, 2006 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday, May 21, blasted as a "mistake" the international aid freeze slapped on the Palestinians people, warning this would only fan hatred.
"Those people will be provoked into hatred with the sanctions imposed on them and they will have nothing else to lose by then," Erodgan said on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum, currently held in this Red Sea resort, said Reuters.
"So we have to review the steps we have taken in that direction," he stressed.
The Palestinians have been facing serious shortages of food and medicine since the US and the EU suspended direct aid to the Hamas-led government.
The two sides have also ruptured ties with the new government.
Israel has also stopped transferring customs duties worth around $50 million a month and previously collected for the Palestinian Authority.
Erdogan likened this to the way Israel and the West tried to ostracize Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat before the 1993 Oslo peace agreements.
"We have to ...not repeat the same mistakes we have done in the past. Condemning the people of Palestine to famine and to further amounts of suffering will end up in worse repercussions," he warned.
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees warned on Friday, May 5, that a humanitarian crisis was now "on our doorstep" in the Gaza Strip due to the aid freeze.
Aid
The Turkish premier said he had conveyed his views to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
"We (Turkey and Egypt) have agreed that we have to provide aid to Palestine because this is a responsibility entrusted to us as a country in the Middle East," he added.
Erdogan said Turkey will offer humanitarian aid to the Palestinian people to alleviate the humanitarian crisis in the occupied territories.
"It's not in the form of finance. It's all about food and medicine. They will be allocated for distribution through the Palestinian Authority," he added.
Also Sunday, Malaysia, current chairman of the 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), pledged $16 million in aid to the Palestinians.
Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, also attending the WEF, said Arab and Muslim countries had a duty to "lighten the load on the Palestinian people who are suffering."
Muslim scholars stressed during a conference held in Doha on May 11-12 that it was a duty on Muslims worldwide to help the starving Palestinian people.
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