"How Erdogan overplayed his hand
By AMOTZ ASA-EL
06/11/2010 16:18
Israel’s mistakes vis-à-vis the flotilla crisis were tactical; Turkey’s were strategic.
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So the Mossad, the navy and the government were caught off guard, not to mention Israel’s PR system, such as it is. Yet at the end of the day theirs were tactical failures alongside a sensible strategy, which is to defend the Jews and fight their enemies. In Turkey it has been the other way around, with a tactically impressive foreign policy now proving strategically catastrophic."
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