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Before going to Egypt to carry out talks with President Mohamed Morsi, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan answered the questions of journalists on Friday in quite an upset tone. “There is no point talking to Israel,” he said, referring to the ongoing military operation against Gaza.“It is the duty of the United Nations Security Council to stop it.”
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is scheduled to go to Gaza on Nov. 20 to observe the situation with his own eyes. It was only a few days ago that he warned world leaders that the Middle East was about to explode. It is one point to ask how many people will get killed on the Palestinian and Israeli sides by then. It is another point to ask whether the U.N. has any power to stop the operations, or any authority left to tell both Israel and Hamas to stop it.
The answer is a big “No” and everybody knows it, including Ban himself. READMOREHERE