Alwaght- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan denounced Israel as the most fascist and racist regime in the world after its parliament approved apartheid Jewish nation-state bill last week.
"This [nation-state] law is the proof beyond reasonable doubt that Israel is the most Zionist, most fascist and most racist state,” Erdogan said in his weekly address to his Justice and Development Party (AKP) group in parliament on Tuesday, Hurriyet Daily News reported.
The legislation, adopted by 62 votes to 55 members of the regime’s parliament, Knesset, makes Hebrew Israel’s national language and defines the establishment of Jewish communities as being in the national interest.
The law prioritizes “Jewish” values over democratic ones in the occupied territories, declares al-Quds (Jerusalem) the “capital” of Israel, and also relegates Arabic from an official language to one with “special status.”
The Turkish President then said there was “no difference between Hitler’s obsession with the Aryan race and Israel’s understanding that these ancient lands are meant only for Jews.”
"This Israeli understanding is no different from Hitler’s search for a pure race,” said Erdogan, comparing the Israeli Parliament’s nation-state law as the emergence of Hitler’s soul among some Israeli rulers.
“The spirit of Hitler, which led the world to a great catastrophe, has found its resurgence among some of Israel’s leaders,” Turkish President added.
"There is nothing like war except for Israel’s massacre and atrocity on Palestinians,” the president said, describing Israel as a “terror state” over continued killings and oppression on Palestinians.
“Advancing with tanks, artillery, jets and rockets upon civilian Palestinians, who solely seek to defend their own lands, Israel has once again shown that it is a terror state,” he said.
Some 150 Palestinians have been killed since the Great Return March protests broke out on 30 March in Gaza. More than 16,000 Palestinians were also injured, with more than half of them being shot by live gunfire. More than 60 of the wounded had their limps amputated.
The protesters have been calling for return to the homes their families were forced from in 1948 by Israeli regime. Protesters have also called for an end to the decade-long crippling blockade on the Palestinian enclave.
Erdogan called on the international community and countries to move against Israeli attacks on Palestinians. “I call on the Islamic world, the Christian world, all democratic and liberal states, non-governmental organizations, and media members to move against Israel,” he added.
Netanyahu hits back
Israeli regime Premier Benjamin Netanyahu promptly responded to Erdogan’s comments, saying Turkey is now living under a “dark dictatorship,” Times of Israel reported.
In sharp comments posted to Twitter, Netanyahu cited an ongoing Turkish military incursion into Kurdish regions in Syria, and Ankara's response to a 2016 failed coup in the country.
“Erdogan is massacring Syrians and Kurds and has jailed tens of thousands of his citizens,” said Netanyahu. “The fact that the great ‘democrat’ Erdogan is attacking the nation-state Law is the greatest compliment for this law.
“Turkey, under Erdogan’s rule, is becoming a dark dictatorship, whereas Israel scrupulously maintains equal rights for all its citizens, both before and after the [nation-state] law.” he added.
Tel Aviv regime's Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) also slammed Erdogan, saying that "The State of Israel will not receive sermons on ethics from a dictator who pursues and murders the Kurdish minority inside and outside his country."
