Israel and Turkey: It's Complicated -- Christopher Hitchens, Slate
The flotilla foul-up pits former friends against each other.
I hope that by now the state of Israel regrets its past collaboration with some of the worst elements in modern Turkey. It's not so long since American Jewish lobby groups, and reportedly even the Israeli ambassador in Washington, were successfully lobbying Congress to vote down the resolution condemning the genocide of the Armenians. (The narrow passage of the resolution this year seems to have contributed to the increasingly evident paranoia and megalomania of Turkey's thuggish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.) And, even as Turkish troops occupied one-third of Cyprus and expelled one-third of its Greek population, as well as mounted illegal incursions into Iraq in pursuit of rebel Kurds, the Israeli armed forces happily embarked on joint exercises with them. If this era of unseemly collaboration is over, then so much the better. Even so, there's something slightly hypocritical about the way in which Israeli crowds have suddenly discovered the human rights record and the regional imperial ambitions of their former ally.
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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials
Letting Israel hang: US undercuts ally -- John Bolton, New York Post
After the flotilla attack, it's time for a new, kinder Israeli narrative -- Daniel Kurtzer, Washington Post
US strategy in Pakistan: next step? -- Huma Yusuf, Dawn
Decks are stacked against China keeping its stake in Korea game -- Brahma Chellaney, Japan Times
What does China want? -- Fareed Zakaria, Washington Post
China’s Tough Choices -- Evan A. Feigenbaum, Council On Foreign Relations
Rise of the tenderpreneurs, the fall of South Africa -- Andrew Feinstein, New Statesman
Loss of moneyman a big blow for al-Qaeda -- Stuart A. Levey, Washington Post
The new Gitmo? -- Washington Post editorial
Polish Plane Crash Mystery Deepens -- Jan Cienski, Real Clear World/Global Post
A Predictable Crisis: Europe’s single currency was bound to break down. -- Martin Feldstein, Weekly Standard
World Cup 2010 -- John Carlin, Time Magazine
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