Look at the panic that Turkey is producing in its ally, Israel, by criticizing the country over Gaza. To its credit, Turkey is livid about Gaza. It has responded to a real event (a massacre) with real action. Turkey is about to air a TV series depicting Israeli soldiers as brutal murderers; and the foreign minister of the Jewish state is angry. Here is Tzipi Livni kissing up to the Turkish:
"Turkey knows the importance of its ties with Israel, it knows it’s in the same moderate camp with Israel, the moderate Palestinians and other Muslim countries, and the threat to Turkey is not from us. A leader, in any place, must ask himself who he identifies with, with which values and towards what goals.
"In all these matters, Turkey and Israel share a common denominator. The important ties between us can and should be directed at cooperation towards promoting joint goals, the first of which is advancing the region, and not hurting it with crises that can and should be solved," the former foreign minister concluded.
My headline is a reminder that if Turkey possesses such power with Israel, what about the U.S.? If Obama really were able to, he could stop the colonization program in its tracks. But he can’t. And remember his condemnation of the Gaza slaughter last January? Of course you don’t, he can’t even go as far as Leon Wieseltier.
