Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan Angers U.S., Israel, Egypt With Mursi Defense

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76. That's all you took from my post?

To answer your question: "Israel" has a very specific connotation that I did not intend to utilize in that particular writing. I used precisely the phrase that I intended for the context of the remark.

For example. You are a Zionist (in this case that is not a criticism, nor is there any secret inferences being made there that need to be uncovered--only an obvious statement), but not an Israeli, and I intended to reference the opinions of people like yourself in what I was saying. And no, I was not thinking about you personally, but it fits. The present events in Syria has certainly united the Turkish state, the Gulf dictators, and Zionists (some in Israel, some in Fiji, some on the moon, some in the US), to an even greater degree than they were already. However, many of these same people are now divided on Egypt. Example ended. To substitute the world "Israel" or "Israeli" in that sentence would have delivered a different meaning than what I had intended, so it was not used. Though it is interesting that you think the words are just interchangeable; I should be criticized if I made such a sloppy, blanket generalization.

This was fun. However, in the future I will not waste my time playing into the silly word games that emanate from the peanut gallery. I don't believe that you give the slightest damn about the intricate and complex details of the things I say (I may be proven wrong, but I doubt it), and my interest in debate (if that's even what these can be called) dwindles daily.