Turkish embassy hands over Palestinian hostage taker after 6-hour standoff
Palestinian man seeking asylum from 'murdering Jews' storms embassy in Tel Aviv; Turkish Foreign Ministry: He tried to abduct the vice consul.
By Yaniv Kubovich and News Agencies Tags: Israel news Gaza flotilla Tel Aviv PalestiniansSecurity guards captured a Palestinian who entered the Turkish embassy in Israel on Tuesday trying to take hostages and demanding asylum, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
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Police officers outside the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv yesterday. |
| Photo by: Moti Milrod |
The attacker, lightly wounded by gunfire in the legs, was still inside the building six hours after he broke in, with Israeli police and rescue services kept outside by Turkish embassy officials. Just before midnight, the man was released by the embassy officials and evacuated to a nearby hospital by ambulance.
"Our embassy guards neutralized the individual as he tried to take the vice consul as hostage after shouting around for asylum," the statement said, adding he was armed with a knife, a gasoline can and a gun that turned out to be a toy.
Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor identified the attacker as
Nadim Injaz, a Palestinian from the West Bank town of Ramallah. Israel Police officials said Injaz was recently released from prison after serving time for an attack on the British embassy four years ago.
Local media reported that Injaz had taken two hostages and had threatened "to kill any Jews" who entered. Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor confirmed Tuesday that the attacker had briefly held hostages.
Channel 2 played a recording of a phone call it said came from the attacker. "I have two hostages," he said in Hebrew. "I will blow up the embassy."
A lawyer told Israel Radio, however, that the hostages, the consul and his wife, had escaped.
In his call to Channel 2, Injaz went on, "If they don't let me leave this country now I will burn down the whole building. I will burn everything. I will burn the cars, the doors I will break down the doors. I will break everything."
He said he was demanding asylum and protection from "these murderers the
Zionists, the murdering Jews." At the same time, he said that Palestinian leaders, including President Mahmoud Abbas, "should die."
Police and emergency medical personnel rushed to the scene, and helicopters could be heard circling overhead in the area. Yarkon Street, the main beachfront road where the embassy is located, has been closed off to traffic. Embassy staff reportedly barred police and medical personnel from entering the building.
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Israeli security forces gathered outside the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv, following a shooting incident there on August 17, 2010 |
| Photo by: Moti Milrod |
The police asked the Foreign Ministry for assistance in obtaining entry to the embassy, as it was unknown whether there were any other casualties.
The Foreign Ministry said that their calls to the Turkish embassy went unanswered and that the embassy staff was awaiting further instructions from Ankara, and holding the attacker in the meantime.
Relations between the once strong allies Turkey and Israel have been under considerable strain over the past 18 months, since Ankara leveled fierce criticism at Israel for a three-week military operation in the Gaza Strip which began in late December 2008.
Ties were put under further pressure in May, when Israel Defense Forces troops boarded a Turkish-owned boat that was part of a flotilla aiming to break the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip. Nine Turkish nationals were killed in ensuing the clashes, sparking a furious reaction from Turkey.
Four years ago, Injaz barricaded himself inside the British embassy in Tel Aviv, claiming to be armed. He threatened to shoot himself in the head if he wasn't granted asylum in Britain.
A negotiations team spoke to the man and discovered that he had a criminal record, and had worked as an informant in the service of the Israel Police.
After a SWAT team subdued Injaz they discovered that he had been armed with a toy gun.
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Same race, same ethnicity, same religion, same region.
In the embassy lives of the staff were in danger, but security didn't shot the psycho dead. Why? Because once he's shot in the leg, he was done. They captured him alive and interrogated them. They don't need to kill him. It would be stupid and disgusting to kill a wounded and harmless person. IDF should learn from Turkish security.
WHO NEEDS HIM. LET THAT "NUT" GO TO TURKEY. GOOD RIDDANCE !!!
I mean its as if he is Kurdish...
Nothing more to it than that.
If we were to wait for Israeli police we would end up with 6 or 7 dead?
He was a collaborator, a Shabak informer in the Territories, asked for asylum in Israel, got a residence permit but not a working visa. As a result, he became a petty criminal, served a term as a thief. His Pal family does not recognize him - for them, he is a traitor. If he returns to his native Ramallah, he is dead within hours. He tried to receive asylum by storming into the British Embassy, then served a term. Shortly before his release from the jail, he appealed through his lawyer to the Supreme Court, in order to at least postpone his future deportation to the Palestine Authority, but failed. He did not have much choice. I often ask myself if the system in general and Shabak really protects us or creates dangerous situations, which explode sooner or later.
Which is what should be done in a situation like this. Not shooting someone in the head four times or brining snipers
The guy was a collaborator working for Israel. Israel didn't give him permission to stay and he didn't want to go home because the PA would execute him. He barricades himself in the British embassy wanting asylum and he doesn't get it instead he is sent to prison for his actions. He gets out and threatens to burn down the Turkish embassy if he doesn't get asylum which I think is pretty safe to assume he will not get so now he is back in jail. No tricks, no Mossad plants just a man who isn't to smart on the techniques you should use if your looking to be granted asylum. I really don't think Mossad told him to barricade himself in the British embassy 4 years ago demanding asylum, get sent to jail and then told to go take hostages and threaten to burn down the Turkish embassy because they had been trying to get an agent inside Turkey. If they really wanted an agent in Turkey there are more practical ways. You send somebody into Turkey legally with a false passport & ID and tell them integrate into society and get friendly with the right people. You do not have your agent make front page news so everybody they meet will say be saying hey your the guy who threatened to burn down the embassy right. Spies go into the country legally they act as law abiding nobodies of their host country and gather intelligence and nobody notices anything. If there is one thing that I think we can be pretty sure about with this whole incident and thats Mossad had nothing to do with it. The only mistake Israel might have made was in not granting him residency status so he would be allowed to stay in Israel for good so he didn't have to return to Judea and Samaria.
i hope that you have learned the lesson as well
Amazing! this "bad bad Palestinian gunman" at the most convenient time has made the world and specially Turkey realize how mistaken they were. This Moozzlem "Terrorist" restores the strains relations between Israel and Turkey and actually makes them stronger than ever. YAAAY Palestinians are bad bad Terrorist, and Israel adn the Jews are yaaay number 1 peaceful people woohooo! Of course they neglect to mention the convenient truth that this was completely STAGE by the Mossad and this guy has a history of working for them any time they need an embassy hijacked! Amazing newz!
If only he did get shot, poor guy.
Why the security wall hasn't stopped the attacker?
You see, a person can also be neutralized by shooting from his legs. Shooting directly from the head - which was the case for many Mavi Marmara casualties - has to be the last step.
or Cyprus. He could use his influence with brother Ahmadinejad as well.
Six years ago a former collaborator he barricaded himself in the British embassy threatening to kill himself if he wasn't granted asylum because the PA would kill him if he was sent back to Judea & Samaria. Result he is sent to jail. This time takes hostages at the Turkish embassy and threatens to burn the place down and thinks it will get him asylum. This poor demented idiot really needs to learn that if you want asylum you put on your best clothes legally enter the embassy without any toy guns or gasoline and say Mr turkish ambassador sir I would like asylum in Turkey because I am a collaborator and my people will kill me if I go back home. Mr ambassador would then have a chat on the phone to his boss in Ankara and they would say yes or no. Doing things this way is not only not going to get you the sympathy your looking for but you stand a good chance of getting killed in the standoff. When he gets out of jail & choses his next embassy he might should try the walk in approach he might find that method actually works.
another false flag
"A negotiations team spoke to the man and discovered that he had a criminal record, and had worked as an informant in the service of the Israel Police. " Sad. The criminal record probably precludes any chance of any state in the world giving him refuge, the time as an informant for the Israeli Police probably precludes any merciful gesture from an Arab state sympathetic to his pleas. He's got no way out. No wonder he's desperate. Probably sick of being used by the Israeli authorities to spy on his fellow Arabs at risk of his life. Desperate enough to risk his life in a bid to escape his misery. Seems pretty straightforward to me, desperation verging on mental illness caused by miserable living conditions and endless abuse. The vicious cost of Zionism, caught in microcosm as plain as day.
Read the article closely and you will realize that this man was an informant for Israel (so a traitor in the eyes of the Palis) and no longer useful right now. As a result if he lives in the west bank he will be killed, he can't live in Israel because he's not one of Gods chosen people. In conclusion the only way he can possibly live is if he leaves the whole to a different country.
Embassy, hospital, insane asylum
There are several problems here for Israel. First, Israel is the legal occupying power in the West Bank and therefore ultimately responsible for keeping lunatics from crossing into Israel and committing crimes against other nations on Israeli soil. Second, this lunatic had committed a prior and similar crime. Third, at some time in the past Israel had employed this lunatic as an informant. These are real problems for Israel. Those who claim Israel was behind this in some Conspiracy So Vast, first have to show WHY Israel would utilize such a self-compromised person in that Conspiracy.
The guy needs to be commited to a mental health hospital. Not prison.
I think this man wanted to go back to prison, so he tried again.
Joe McCarthy claimed there was a 'Conspiracy So Vast.' As a very young child I believed him until I nagged my mother to turn on the McCarthy-Army hearings on TV. Then I discovered several things about 'conspiracies so vast', Joe McCarthy, and lunatic fringes. McCarthy's charges of a conspiracy so vast by the US Army and International Communism were not supported by the facts. McCarthy was a bully, who thought he could bully decent people and usually got away with it. That any 'conspiracy' which is not instantly obvious and requires suspension of disbelief to recognize is probably an expression of the prior two points. Yes, it seems clear that at some point Israel employed the joker as an 'informant'. Yes, the joker just repeated a performance as a lunatic he had performed in the past. Does anyone think that Israeli intelligence had anything to do with the nut-case since then/ Israel and Turkey have been playing to their worst desires and emotions in their relations in the last few years. Netanyahu has been trying to whip up anger against Turkey and Erdogan has been appealing to Populism for political gain. Both nations suddenly find themselves confronted by a REAL situation which drags them both into the spotlight, and the joker aiming the spotlight is a nut case. I cannot blame either Netanyahu or Erdogan for this instance. It embarrasses both. I can blame both of them for creating the situation which turned an incident both would normally and easily deplore into a incident which feeds the paranoids on both sides.
Mossad found a way to plant wire tab inside the Turkish embassy. Send a Palestinian (who was threatened) to do this so that Israeli security will get acess to the embassy. The rest is history.
or Cyprus?
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have ears, eyes, a nose or a mouth. Legs sometimes have hair, but it is usually shorter than the hair on the top end of a person. People do not walk on their heads.
... which make as much sense as the Pal's demands, I know that I am not going to be popular here. But I gotta ask: Has anyone considered that the guy might just be garden-variety plain nuts?
The guy was mentally ill so no reason to bring religion or ethnicity into the equation Arabs and jews alived in these lands for generations as history cleary shows
why are you bringing somalia into equation back in the day when somalia had a functioning goverment they didnt have any issue with the jewish state
Shin Bet? Mossad! Don't make me laugh! I can assure you embassies have run-of-the-mill guards and it would not be hard to get past one.
The Turkish guards wounded disabled an arrested the assailant. They could have course have killed him with multiple bullet wounds to the head and back. I can see why they did not want the Israelis involved. It would have ended up on Facebook as well
Wait. No, that's the Turks.
Israel believes this story???
Anyone could see this man needs serious help, in my opinion the well being of this guy is more important than the stupid politics between Israel and Turkey. Insane people do things that they can be forgiven for, I'm surprised he wasnt in an asylum(mental) after the British Embassy episode. People come on man! You are ranting on about politics. People lives have changed. The Turks in there will probably be traumatised for a long time from fright, and this poor bugger has been shot. Hopefully he will get the help he needs.
It's unbelievable that all of the antisemites here blame Israel for everything that happens in the world. You are so pathetic Most of you can't even spell antisemitic or find where Israel on a map
Pure ZIonist propaganda at its best ... Just info for those Zionist who are happy to this happen ... it will never effect Turkish-Palestinian relations or those of Arab- Turkish relations ... it is much stronger than be damaged by a sick individual who was driven to insanity by Zionist oppression.
It sounds like this guy had problems, and needed treatment. 10:1 odds he tries another consulate first chance he gets.
when I wrote sthg below, it is said that 'if selected for publication, we'll publish... ' who selected this comment from tailqunner? what if smo else writes here the same thing for the Israelians? Is this acceptable or an responsive approach? I really do not understand the motive on both ends to do things even worser between the peoples...
be some Leftis prank by the PLO * TURKEY to smear Israel's image ??
...I just saw his picture. I think he was my psychiatrist when I was living in Tel Aviv.
I wondered why we had not heard from Lahbras the last couple of days.
Murderous Islamic radicals. Nothing new here...move along.
look at yourself in the mirrow before pointing out someone as a Murderous radical. i would like to refresh your memory by mentioning Irgun attacking civil palestinian villages. they were jews as far as i remember
Muslims as well as Jews aren't all the same just as your fingers. Stop your lunatic campaign to smear Muslims and Islam per se!
... in Turkey!
a Pal man from Ramallah living in Israel? Did someone think about this? Like how come a Pal man living in Israel. Haaretz missed to say that this man is a spy for the Shabak. Those like-minded people always escape to Israel to be protected but this is what they find there, and they deserve it!
This man is a lunatic. Everybody should recognize this.
Seems like all these incidents just show that all these posts, blocades, special roads for settlers are all designed to punish regular folks and have nothing to do with security. Can right-wingers "patriots" answer this? If it is so easy to get to Israel why all the theater???
offtopic: i am a turk and i support israel forever,long live israel turkey friendship!!!
and his relatives, friends, accomplices, acquantainces, neighbors, etc. as well
punish his family as well! That's the way it should be eh? Other than that, I think there must be much more easy and most of all legal ways to leave Israel. Taking hostages and shooting seems like the most sure way to not leave Israel for a long, long time!
Haaretz again with the sensationalist reporting. He wasn't a gunman and there weren't any hostages... but the original title nonetheless read "Palestinian gunman holds hostages in Turkish embassy". I'm noticing a trend on this site lately regarding the quick-interest stories without checking the facts first.
...why does everybody in this talkback try to make this into a political issue (both sides) ?
I hope this matter ends peacefully, with no loss of life.
"how is this israel's fault... the turks shot an unarmed peaceful protestor. shame on you turkey! "
a) I hope the sensitivities of the ladies working at the Turkish Embassy was not harmed.........., b)Is it true that he came from Abu Mazza's headquarters in Ramallah ? c) No more to be said
Till you have nothing to give them it's impossible you know... lol
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The type of association only one with limited intelligence could make.
sickening
"b)Is it true that he came from Abu Mazza's headquarters in Ramallah ?" - The Teacher/Instructor The ONLY intelligence service he has ever been connected with was Israeli. "c) No more to be said" - The Teacher/Instructor Good Idea. Don't embarrass yourself more than you have.
Well it's Wednesday and still no bang bang in Tehran. Smokes and mirrors. Israel is going to do nothing about Iran going nuclear. It doesn't have the capability. Nice that you think that young Americans should die for Israel.
Let me tell you jerk You do not know any thing about ISRAEL-TURKISH relations, I do. You can not understand the politics of ME by sitting on your sofa and watching your TV and chatting on the net. ME politics hard to handle and eats "airhead teachers" can you get what im sainn or Should i give you a dictionary for your hi-level (idiotic) understanding era
Injaz went on, "If they don't let me leave this country now I will burn down the whole building. I will burn everything. I will burn the cars, the doors I will break down the doors. I will break everything."
Free Free Tony-stine, Free Free Tony-stine!!!
Sounds more like a mentally deranged person to me.
He's just a nut job. It's pathetic how the hatred of Israel inspires praise for mental defects.I really hope this naked man becomes the new symbol of the Hamas loving progressive world. He really represents them so well.
Seriously, dude made it to Tel Aviv. Twice. He couldn't cross the border to Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, or Syria? And if he was willing to blow his own brains out, why not first get a big inflatable raft, and start paddling to Greece? Better chance of success.
Don't make a big deal out of it. Has nothing to do with occupation. He would do the same somewhere else.
perhaps there is an element of truth to what you say, but tony, do you think Pals are even capable of ever being at fault for everything? you'd think that taking hostages at gun point would qualify, at least a little, no?
are the victiom of congenital stupidity.
tony. You're a born LIAR !
Just so funny, no matter what so long as they're Palestinians they can assault and murder anyone they like be it an Israeli or a foreign citizen. I guess I can say I'm a Palestinian and break into a bank in London, I'm sure they'll understand. =D
You are a joke Tony. The man is mentally unstable if anything. You can't go blaming Israel for something every time someone farts.
Get an education, then get a life!
Now explain why they slaughter millions of their bothers
why was it necessary to repeat a quotation that proves nothing
BS he is just insane
There are millions of 'victims of Israeli occupation.' How many act like this guy? Nice try Tony. Try as you must you cannot turn a clear and obvious nut case into a martyr. You are quite wrong. As are those who try to portray the guy as a typical Arab.
I like how Lieberman let the pack lose though. As he put it two months ago, Israel has nothing to hide.
Repeatedly and opting for terror and genocide
It's amazing how many ignorant people on this talk back believe Israel has staged this event. Keep on lying to yourselves and everyone else. Deflecting blame away from the true culprits, in every case, clearly gets you off.
It's amazing how many ignorant people on this talk back believe Israel has staged this event. Keep on lying to yourselves and everyone else. Deflecting blame away from the true culprits, in every case, clearly gets you off.
Apartheid regime Israel should be sanctioned. Down with regimes like Somalia, Israel, Iran and Saudi Arabia
That he was just so far away from non-rogue states, like Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and Jordan. Muslim paragons of justice that would be happy to take him in if he could just have reached the borders!
Are you serious? Placing Israel alongside of Saudi Arabia.Iran and Somalia only shows us that you are unable to rationalize the situation in the Middle East. Either you are blinded by hatred towards Israel or you have eaten up the islamic propaganda.
Are yoiu for real Israel takes in thousands of refugees from all countries religions etc same cannot be said of one single Arab country.In fact Israel is the country of choice for many muslim assylum seekers a bit strange for a supposedly appartheid country .In fact the truth is Israel treats refugees better than just aboput any country on earth.
couldnt he just buy a plane ticket to Turkey and avoided all the trouble he went through..Its not like he was wanted by the gov't, he was released couple of weeks ago..Its either he is mentally ill or the mossad was behind this...
Sure, or he could have sailed his yacht over to Tunisia. Or he could have telephoned the PM of Iceland and explained his situation. People who do things like that generally have no resources whatsoever. Don't you think he would have picked a better option if one had been available to him?
Plane ticket to where? the fact that he has served time in an israeli prison, he is not allowed to leave the country, he would be sent back at the border. and if you imply to buy a plane ticket from Israel, he would not have been allowed to board the plane. so much for buying a ticket.
the gain what????? ridicoulous comment.
WOW!!!! So nice to see how ignorant we are!!!! i FOR EXAMPLE JUST DISCOVERED THIS SIGHT,,,BUT I TRY TO UNDERSTAND AND LEARN !!!!!BEFORE I GO AHEAD AND JUDGE AND CONDEMN!!!!!!!!
People are so quick to blame everything on the Mossad. If that were the case, it could have been staged by the PA, couldn't it? Nah, they're too honorable. Bwahahaha.
that this guy is a collaborator with the Israeli "Police"!!!!!
Which secret info he want to disclose in Turkey? That Abba
Put any human through bad experiences and they become broken. Whilst it's 'chicken and egg' whether Palestinians were at fault for their 'curerent' situation or not, it's clear they may not be helping matters and many will have minds that are no longer undamaged by their experiences. If things don't change, both the Israelis & Palestinians will continue to cause issues, more nutters will be created and both will give Muslims an excuse to be radical! Hurting everyone.
Baroness Ashton should rectify the situation and kindly invite him to London.
What more can be said about the lot of the deranged men and even women who act like savages? Best tin is to incarcerate hin INTO A PSYCHOLOGICAL WARD FOR TREATMENT?But then spending more from the decent TAX PAYERS for this loony guy?
No one wants someone other's nut cases.
He and his ilk shall be repatriated to Turkey.
He's Palestinian. He can't be "repatriated to Turkey." Also, I wonder who his "ilk" is...
Repatriate means to be send to his original country. Yet this man is not Turkish, he is an Arab and he is born in Palestine. His Ilk belongs to a mental hospital and not to Turkey. If you are going to hate a country at least do it intelligently then may be you can have some listeners!
'He and his ilk shall be repratriated to Turkey." Your words, OLIM HADASHIM , , , , , , , , , , So: Why "repatriated" Do you have any proof that he is from Turkey to begin with? Just who are his "ilk" Just who the hell are you to pronounce sentence upon anyone - just who. Do you have any special right to do this?
If he had worked for the Israeli police, and the Palestinians threatened to kill him because of that and the Israeli government refused to help him, what were his choices? What advice would anyone have given him on what he should do? Would good advice be "maybe he should not have been a West Bank Palestinian who co-operated with Israel"?
Perhaps he needs to spend a year in a turkish prison. That would make an Israeli Prison look like disney land.
European Human Right Courts have the higher statue of the Turkish courts... that much they are open. could it be possible such thing for israeli? killing civilians in internatinal seas>? yes you were right thats why not accepting any international inquiry commission?
No, really, he probably needs medical help. He's like Goldstein, he's flipping becasue he can't take it any more.
Did the same four years ago.Now again the same but a different venue.Obviously this fellow is deranged.Even if the British had allowed him to live in the UK..he was going to be a liebility and perhaps even becoming A SERIAL KILLER.Why they ignored him altogether.I SEE ALL THIS As A PANTOMIME. STRANGER THAN FICTION,but with consequences.
To compare a mentally disturbed man with a cold blooded coward murderer!!!! shame on you
couldnt he just buy a plane ticket to Turkey and avoided all the trouble he went through..Its not like he was wanted by the gov't, he was released couple of weeks ago..Its either he is mentally ill or the mossad was behind this...
Stop with the BS by the mention of Mossad. This deranged man is not important enough to become an informer that would most probably put the Mossad's job in jeopardy.STOP WITH YOUR LIES AND WRONG INTERPRETATIONS .
This sort of thing is too stupid to argue about. One thing is sure. Turkey is not so easily manipulated as is America.
Nice theory. A bit like the one about 9/11.
I wish my world was as simple as yours.
Turkey NEVER falls victim to manipulation... They always make the right and moral decision. That's why, nearly a century after the Armenian genocide, they still refuse to acknowledge the millions the Ottomans willfully killed. And it's also why they harbor and even sponsor groups like the IHH, turning a blind eye to extremist groups like this when the groups hire armed mercenaries for a "peace flotilla." And oh, I guess there's no manipulation of the Turkish security apparatus when hundreds of secular military officers, politicians and even journalists are arrested on "suspicion" of plotting a "coup" against the Islamic-oriented government.
No one is so easily manipulated by propaganda as Durson.
well since you hate america so much... move to turkey or saudi arabia or ramallah and wear a burkah.. probably would be an improvement.. you are a racist bigot durson!
I Don''t think the Turks are that stupid to believe this crap Mossad news about a ex-informant of the Israeli police who attacked their Embassy without any help from Sin Beth / Mossad.
Exactly!
You in Turkey have been so much conditioned to believe every conspiracy theory that you have lost all your common senses, unfortunately.
and took place in Brooklyn. According to Shlomo Gurevich, a former Senior Provocateur Division of Mossad, the operation was a complete success.
I knew some genius will come up with such far out post but nothing surprises me here on this website which lacks any type of old fashioned class. When you are presented with a Phelaheen mentality, go and enjoy the day, but to tell you honestly your retort is very predictable cheers
Little green men from mars. Makes as much sense as b;laming it on Israel.
Poor anti Israel bashers grasping at strwas today. Not enough news so a Mossad conspiracy is invented. Dont let any facts cloud the issue now. Typical reaction. Never ever accept thesponsibility for anything. Its always Israel , the Mossad and the Shin Bet. Wake up scumbags. It was a crazy palestinian. Aziz the only thinhg that is written on your face is a cloud of stupidity.
I think the Turks had hours to debrief him and concluded that they had a lunatic. Then they turned him over to the Israelis.
and take innocent Jewish lives with him. I don't get it. The whole Arab and Persian worlds know that this whole thing is about religion. If Judaism is correct and Israel cannot be beat then it invalidates Islam and marginalizes it. That is what's driving this moron and all like him to martyr themselves. It will never end for his people until , as in the Crusades, the non-muslims are backed in a corner too hard and then fight back with a ferocity that will stun the Islamic Countries and push them back to Arabia. It happened before. It will happen again. This man is caught in the middle and he's a total moron to not think of his own life. There is nothing beyond death for him.
Interesting slant on the Crusades there. You might consider fighting back is someone stole you land and life from you too. However I do not think this is the case. This is most probably staged
Which crusades have you been reading about? As I understand it the Pope of the time started the Crusades as a land grab and also a way in which to unite Europe which was languishing in the dark ages!
Think you will find that the Non Muslims might have a bridge to sell you with the story you got from them. Just who do you think were the eventual winners of the Crusades in the Region. Mythical Jewish History again.
Do all you Israelis refer to the stone age to prove something lol
HE IS JUST A DERANGED MAN FULL STOP PERIOD.
How do you think the arab world expanded so greatly in the first place - maybe through stealing land from the natives?
who was first in jerusalem, the jews or the muslims?? pls check your history and you will know the rightful inhabitants of the land.. and who have started the land grab in the beginning..
Arabs stole our land.
During the past week or do you just keep posting the following nonsense because you have no comprehension of the Crusades "as the thee crusades, the non-Muslims are backed in(to) a corner [too hard] and then fight back with a ferocity that sill stun the Islamic Vountries and push them back to Arabia. It happened before- It will happen again. You are a little confused. Arabian and Islamic countries are living in their countries today. It is Israel that has it citizens living in lands that do not belong to them. The US also are occupying Arabic Soil. No Arabic Country is threatening to invade a Western country and Iran has certainly not threatened Israel or anyone else. Israel knows that very well. Israel have Persian Speaking Jews who can translate accurately. Just as Israel propoganda claimed that Nasser wanted to push all Jews into the Sea, he never, ever said that and in fact the only people to have ever been pushed into the see were Palestinians by Jews of Acco. So just stop insulting Arabs, Persians and others until your grown up and able to understand and comprehend what your reading or listening to. Please stop repeating this silly little line. Parrots get boring after a day or so.
how is this israel's fault... the turks shot an unarmed peaceful protestor. shame on you turkey!
yes. in the leg. he was lightly hurt. he wasn't shot in his face from close range four times.
The Turks shot a knife armed man in the leg to disable him, not 4 times in the back of his head as the IDF did. Do you see the difference in professional behavior.
When a person enters an ambassy and tries to take hostages and threatens to blow the place he deserves to be shot. At least they shot him at his leg and not four times at his head! Please try to avoid to be a person full of blind hatred.
your information is wrong cem. do not believe evrything you read in anti israel haaretz... this is a trashy rag owned by germans... they print only what is anti israel.
we need more heroes like this dude.
Anti-Israelis are simpletons who will swallow any Israel-involved conspirIDIOCY theory which flits across their vapid minds.
of you know what dave. And let me guess. Muslim terrorists are not shooting rockets into Israel.
of you know what dave. And let me guess. Muslim terrorists are not shooting rockets into Israel.
Bells are ringing, inside of his head, they are ding-a-linging inside of his head. What possible gain has Israel from this embarrassment?
After this guy's last performance would ANY intelligence service have wanted to be connected with him?
then let them work it out with turkey. this is just another arab palestinian nutcase. surround the embassy, let nothing or no one in...and wait. as long as it takes.
This kind of unpredictable event is one major reason why it is unwise to whip up international tensions for internal political gain.
Diversion and LAUGH I OFF? Firstlt I wouldn't accuse Mossad in this instance. For it would be AN INSULT to them.That it might be this man is somewhat "deranged" Having tried it four years ago in the British Ambassy? As if the Brits wouod allow a lunatic into their country! All in all it has beenan amusing story for most of norman people.
The immediate (and often idiotic) knee jerk reactions of the Israel bashers out there is beyond belief. As this is a breaking news item we'd all do well to wait for the picture to clear up before accusing Israel the Greeks or anyone else of some grand conspiracy.
...conspiracy theories drive the islamic and leftist worlds. without the stupid theories, they have nothing and they are nothing.
The only thing 'clear' is that this nut case has a record of doing this sort of exhibitionism before. That he was at some time an Israeli informant doesn't mean much unless that job extended after his near-real-world experience. What might we learn from this story. Not much. Someone who had a gear loose in their skull a few years ago might well have one loose today. Someone sane enough to be crazy might well want to escape from Palestine. Those who commit crimes with toy guns might well commit toy crimes. If there is some conspiracy here, it seems to be a conspiracy of one nut case.
I hope this could be a reason to take a step to. start rebuilding the relations between Israel and Turkey.
Crazy kuku wants a free plane ticket for a European vacation.
longer is good enough for the Police and looking for a way out of the country.
Time to call the guys with the big butterfly net and cuff-less jacket.
What are you looking down here for?
Another Israeli false flag, this time occurring at the Turkish embassy. I'm sure the Turkish embassy is just crawling with Jews.
Al-Jazeera left overs? So many conspiracy fans
Even a 5 year old can tell you that this story does not sound right. We know from history that the IDF army and Sin Beth is a master in deceiving people with lies.
You post here more than anyone else
Aziz. You Moslems are all nots. Whatever happens around the World you blame the Jews for it. Wake up & smell the roses. Your Islamic nuts are at fault. They spread terror all around.
They can't accept a very simple situation -- some guy got into the embassy and held hostages. No, it must be more elaborate than that! The Elders of Zion are directly involved somehow. Yes, anti-Israelis are utter and absolute morons.
your "civilization" has the mindset of a 5 year old, so no wonder it makes "sense" to you. yeah...this is the first time in history that a muslim has done something violent. lol. and it's pronounced "shin bet". but, everyone else is saying it was mossad. which is it? can't keep your conspiracies straight?
Yes, very likely. I wonder how many Turks are Jew? It recently was disclosed that about 60% of Spanish men are Jews, so I bet many Turks are as well. And Italian, Arab, Persian. If the truth be told, the 'Jews' (DNA) are very in fact a huge number of people. Likely the most anti Semitic in middle east and Europe and South/Central America of any group has large Jewish DNA.
So the two countries are in love again? And I am expected not think of it, and just praise the Israeli security for their heroic action and unprecedented success. It looks like a very well intelligence-assembled scene … especially that the man is wounded ... could die, and the secrets of how did he do it? Why now? will die with him!! Well, Israeli forces killed Turkish citizens and now saved Turkish DIPLOMATS.
Israel isn't allowed in the embassy without permission. The embassy is Turkish territory.
You want honest negotiations and the reality of peace, but you hook your ideas to conspiracies that make no sense. How can we believe you want peace when at any chance you get you haveb to find a way to blame israel. Facts are he was shot by Turks, he was attended to by Israeli medical staff and his injuries are not life threatening and to boot he has a hostory of mental illness-but of course this is all a clever Israeli conspiracy.
It seems Israel learnt to respect Turkey.
The Israeli's do understand what it means to be targeted at its foreign missions. Like the Turkish mission in Tel Aviv is under security treat I'm sure the Israeli's share the pain with the Turks not only inside the Embassy but also with whole Turkiye.
Rubbish!!!!
you belive that there is only one donkey in the world?? You moron.
a pal arab taking hostages and threatening to murder jews not much of a surprise there
We all know Israel is a rogue state but does it have to keep proving it time and again?
A Palestinian criminal attacks Turks, and clearly this is Israel's fault in your eyes...
Why do you have to keep proving yourself an idiot time and time again?
Exactly what Mossad is trying to make the world and Turkey believe. These are school kid tricks, if Israel thinks anyone is going to fall for it they better think again
You really need help Lulu. i mean it-anti-Semites are a sad breed. You reach a conclusion, deny the facts, and then fill in your own details. Hate is a game for you.
you need to get together with aziz. he thinks that it was shin bet. you think that is was mossad. one of you is clearly wrong.
The guy is deranged. Please, Lulu, explain to me how the Mossad got this guy to go into the Turkish embassy and start spouting ridiculousness and threatening people? It would be one thing if Shin Beth were actually after the guy... but there would still be no way for the Mossad to get him to choose Turkey's embassy! And if there were, what would this whole fiasco accomplish? The poor man has mental issues. Maybe this time he'll get the help he needs.
Netanyahu,Barak,Lieberman,stupid action of MOSSAD
Turkey's government has made it. I dont believe to this new. Turkish Goverment wants it. Im thinking this is R. Tayyib Erdogan's game... He wants bad relation with Israel.. I love to Israel. hiii to all Israel from Turkey / Dersim
Always wellcom in Israel
Israeli - Turkish relations has been already broken. Why would Erdogan wanted to do such thing. Please explain..
HE IS FROM TUNCELI PROVINCE OF TURKEY. THIS PART OF TURKEY NEVER PAYS TAX, ROGUE PROVINCE WITH KILLING INNOCENT TEACHERS, SOLDIERS, GOVERNMENT OFFICER. I CAN SAY THAT IF YOU GUYS TAKE THEM ALL TO ISRAEL,THE TURKISH PEOPLE WOULD APPRECIATE ISRAEL.. PLEASE GRAND THEM WITH ISRALEI PASSPORTS. SO NEXT YEAR YOU CAN HAVE AT LEAST 100 THOUSAND VIOLENT PEOPLE.
israel should apologize from Turks about killing 9 Turks.. it is a humanitarian problem, not political.
israel should apologize from Turks about killing 9 Turks.. it is a humanitarian problem, not political.
You are a pathetic idiot. Shame on you
Of course cihan is how you like to see Turks - ignorant and stupid.
I know an good South African idiom "ANANIN AMINA BETONDOKEYIM" this means wellcome to our house :)
Not, they are the Kurds!
maybe byzantines? maybe romans? serbians? albanians? greeks? it maybe anybody that Turks had fight with... come on!!... forget about conspiracies, hatreds. for a while just think about a crazy guy who crushed the window and shut down...
One of the results of the continuous demonisation of Jews and Israel in the liberal media is attacks such as this one. Israel is not occupying Turkey, last I heard. In fact Israel is not occupying anyone, they are in their own lands.
except Palestine, parts of Syria and parts of Lebanon!!!
We are expected to believe that Nadeem Imjad (spelling) who had previously held hostages in the british Embassy four years ago Was able to slip past Israeli security personal around Tthe Turkish Embassy and take hostages without MOSSAD and Shin Bett involvement?
and their supporters. While in UK he was trained by British Hamas activists
Your constant Israel bashing is obvious but faulty. This was Turkish security, you dummy. The Turks would not allow Israeli security into their compound. Get it?
Linthtwit, the fact that he got in proves that he was able to do so. Anti-Israelis are incredibly stupid.
Have you ever been to an embassy before? In any country, anywhere? I grew up in Washington, D.C. and I've spent a fair amount of time in Tel Aviv, and in neither city does the host country's security services have much of anything to do with specifically protecting any embassy. Yes, there are police around, for general safety issues and to be on the watch for suspicious behavior in case of bombings, etc. And in the event of a crisis like this, SWAT and sometimes even military personnel will swarm the area (as happened today in Tel Aviv outside the Turkish embassy.) But when you come right down to it, every embassy is its own country's sovereign territory, and security is that country's responsibility. This man literally walked right up to the front door, like hundreds of people (mostly Turks, but not all - there are a large number of legitimate reasons why a non-citizen would visit a country's embassy) do every day, and after that it was the responsibility of Turkey's personnel to search/screen him and grant or deny him entry to the building - no one else's.
I can't wait to see the long list of comments from readers of all views stirring up a heated debate without knowing any of the details.
until their security is guaranteed.
On a day to day basis the embassy is responsible for its own security. Hence US marines have a specific detail for embassy security.
On a day to day basis the embassy is responsible for its own security. Hence US marines have a specific detail for embassy security.
As an Embassy is considered that nation's ground. But I agree some Palestinians would try to kill anyone they can, seeing as what extremists teach them in schools and mosques.
You really make the most ridiculous statements. According to all reports so far 1 shot was fire from inside the Turkish Embassy. The report is that the Palestinian wss injured. As for your usual racist remark about Palestinians being taught to hate in schools and Mosques that simply is not true. I do not think you have to teach people who live under occupation their entire lives and see their families, neighbours arrested and killed for very little and their homes demolished for little or no reason, their parents humiliated, how to hate - the Occupiers do that job all by themselves and the longer they stay the worse it will get. Avi do not play the game of "while I beat the victim I'll scream so that everyone will think that AVI is the victim" The world knows your game all too well now.
err ... I think you missed the part where an embassy belongs to the country who runs it. It is considered sovereign soil. In this case, Israeli police needed permission from the Turkish government to enter the embassy and arrest the hostage taker. Were Israel to try and post guards at the embassy, I guarantee it would start an international incident.
Usually when you murder or attempt to murder someone, you get arrested, even if you're "someone else's brother". I'd hardly consider a murder to be "little or no reason". What occupation are you referring to? Gaza? We left it, got missiles. South Lebanon? We only got there in the first place due to Palestinian attacks(after they got kicked from Jordan) and we got missiles from there now. West Bank? Your terrorist friends are not giving us enough confidence do pull our troops out of there due to these last events. While the Israeli government asked for direct peace talks in the last several years, Palestinians chose Hamas to lead them; a terrorist organization that killed hundreds of men women and children, preaches Islamic supremacy to children via Bugs bunny and Micky mouse customs and openly advocates the genocide and annihilation of an entire state(not just WB and Gaza which belonged to Jordan and Egypt). I'm sorry Nameless, but it is you who don't fool the world.
Everibody here know your lies. Do you work for the security forces?
I'm part of the world and i don't agree with your post so please don't use sweeping idiotic phrases like the "The world knows your game all too well now".
They could move in beside the US embassy. Oops that's not I. Jerusalem either.. I wonder why that is
sorry, which countries have their diplomatic missions in Jerusalem? or is this an option for them?
How did the police know all this info if he is barrikaded in a room with hostages. Those hostages could not be jews otherwise he would have killed them as the report indicates. How could he kill jews if he is not armed? if he was armed how did he get through the Embassy doors. There are no local policemen garding the embassy in Israel? Strange. There is more to it than what is being told.
A Palestinian from Ramallah who had previously held hostages at the British Embassy. Israel must need a good news story so that Turkey can allow it to use it's airspace to bomb Bushehr.
I agree, there is more here than meets the eye. How could this man, who was supposedly just released from prison, be in Tel Aviv, and how did he enter the embassy with a weapon? Something is fishy here. I wouldn't be surprised if this were staged.
It's getting too obvious that you're trying to blame Israel for anything happens all over the world. You're mostly happy with Haaretz (I'd be if I was antiZionist too), so don't complain about it. It is we who try to get our posts by the moderators.
Funny business if it ws a turk doing it one cn understand...But WHAT THE HELL WAS A PALESTINIAN DOING IN TEL AVIV IS MYSTERY. It is almost STRAGER THAN FICTION! No doubt we will hear more about it..
Maybe he got some help from Sin Beth on his way to the Turkish Embassy.
OR even more likely, the guy is crazy. I've seen crazy people get away with fantastical things. They tend to be very smart, and very good liars. Really, I don't think that at this point the Turkish embassy checks to see if this is a paroled prisoner. Nor is it that hard to get to Tel Aviv through Jerusalem. And guns in the middle east ... well, at least it's not as bad as Texas.
There have been countless stories showing how easy it is for Palestinians to get into Israel. Where do you make your nonsense up
He ran out of RAHAT or how we call it in in Yelikavak turkish delight,so not been able to buy pistacios from Iran and rahat from Turkey he weny on rapage.
You know to show how is Israel bad and how Erdogan is good
By the turkish family of the Embassy who managed to flee THAT IS HOW THEY KNOW . Or do you want me to draw you a picture?
Israel is not so important to believe all the trouble in the world come from her. For instance one can not believe natural disasters are done by Israel :)
There are Turks guarding door, or at the very least personnel hired by the Turks. The U.S. has its own personnel guarding its embassies in every country. I would venture to presume that most country's use their own personnel to guard most of their embassies, since an embassy is sovereign territory of that nation, and allowing another country's security forces in is always a touchy subject. And to answer your question of how a Palestinian from Ramallah made it to Tel Aviv, it's called a train. Obviously there are other options, but if I were a resident of Ramallah who wanted to go to TA, I would use my ID card to cross into Israel proper and then I would board a train in Jerusalem and ride it for approximately an hour and a half until I arrived in Tel Aviv.
Chris needs help, because he lost contact to reality again.
Israel scenery to play on arab-turkish ties. we will not eat that pill
If they didn't, all Pals would demand asylum in Turkey, that's why there are hardly any Arab diplomatic missions in Israel
..won't mend Israel's bilateral relations with Turkey.
Not Smart, shame on provocatours...
He wants to migrate to Turkey. IHH could use him I guess. PM Recep Bey should welcome him.
israel cannot fool anyone they are just being ridicilous by this kind of plots
We do not know the true story yet. Let us wait until the facts come out David. But then this is Israel. But then again, he is in the Turkish Embassy and if he is MOSSAD as some believe this could be a very interesting story. If not and he truly has been made desperate by the Zionists then I hope that Turkey will give him a home. After all, Jewish refugees are and have been welcomed in many countries.
Nobody knows what is really going on, lets wait and see what really is going on. what ever it is, i hope it makes the strained relation better than it is between turkey and Israel.
That's right if it works to Israel's advantage then it's Israel's fault, if it works to Israel's disadvantage it's a political plot by Mossad. Stupid and transparent mentality.
Co-production: PLO + Erdogan, Turkey. Naked for everyone to see !............ Crazy or not. At least he showed the true colours of Abu Mazzan & clique ~