Wednesday, February 4, 2009
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Steven Plaut: Talking Turkey - '...After his tantrum, Prime Minister Erdogan told the press, "My anger over Gaza directed at Israeli government, not Jews." Well, the whole world's disgust with this hypocrisy is directed against Erdogan and not against the Turkish people. After all, the Turkish people deserve better.'
Absolutely not to be missed: One-Eyed in Gaza, an enlargement, penetrating and cogent throughout, upon much the same type of barely believeable malignancy/hypocrisy that Erdogan reflected at Davos. These are precisely the types of clear-minded articulations needed, appertaining to Israel/Hamas, along with Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Iran and its Mullahs, Syria and Assad, al-Qaeda and all the rest, regionally and globally. A certain, qualitative vision needs to be articulated, and sustained; absent that, backward steps will be result.
(Re, back to Davos for a moment, it's also worth some pointed emphasis that on the same panel with Erdogan and Peres, Ban Ki-Moon, Sec-Gen of the United Nations, reflected a decidedly limp, tergiversating quality as well, though one attuned to the "diplomatic" and transnational salons he inhabits.)
What a turkey that ally the US staked so much on has turned out to be.
Not to be missed is this Dry Bones cartoon;
Turkey
That Dry Bones cartoon exemplifies the art at its finest - a wry, exemplary, probative condensation.