Zionist Regime ‘Becoming Racist, Apartheid Regime' With Annexation Plan

Date: 15 September 2019 - 22:11

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ANKARA (Dispatches) – Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s announcement of his intention to annex areas of the West Bank following next week’s elections shows the Zionist regime is becoming a "racist, apartheid regime”, Turkey’s foreign minister was quoted as saying on Sunday.
Netanyahu said on Tuesday he would annex the Jordan Valley, a swathe of the occupied West Bank that the occupying regime captured in 1967 and which Palestinians want as part of a future state. The move alarmed Middle Eastern nations, European powers and Arab foreign ministers.
On Saturday, Turkey’s foreign ministry said the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) would convene in Jeddah on Sunday to discuss Netanyahu’s statement.
Speaking in Jeddah, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Netanyahu’s "embarrassing” plan was a "despicable” attempt to earn votes ahead of Tuesday’s election, and criticized what he called a lack of reaction from other Muslim countries.
"Israel, encouraged by the support of certain countries, is continuing its aggressive policies that are turning it into a racist, apartheid regime,” Cavusoglu was quoted as saying by the state-run Anadolu news agency.
"If the whole Muslim community had reacted together, the reckless plans, policies and behavior of the United States and Israel would never have reached this point,” Cavusoglu said.
Turkey and the Zionist regime, former allies, have long been at odds over the regime’s policy toward the Palestinians and al-Quds’ status. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan called for a summit of the OIC twice last year after U.S. President Donald Trump decided to recognize al-Quds as the Zionist regime’s capital.
Turkey and the occupying regime also expelled each other’s top diplomats last year during a dispute over clashes when dozens of Palestinians were killed by Zionist troops on the Gaza border. The two sides continue to trade with one another.