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Great Game Playing Field: Russia/Turkey versus Palestine/Israel

Posted by seumasach on February 11, 2010

Eric Walberg

Global Research

11th February, 2010

A vital playing field in today’s Great Game is Palestine/Israel, where again there is a tentative meeting of political minds between Russia and Turkey. In defiance of the US and much of Europe, both endorsed the Goldstone report into atrocities committed during Israel’s invasion of Gaza in December 2008, where 100 Palestinians died for every Israeli casualty. Neither government is captive to Israel in the way European and US governments are, though they both have important economic relations with Israel.

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