"The Village Rules
Posted by KATHY KATTENBURG in Breaking News, International, Media, Politics, Society, War.
Jun 9th, 2010
There’s a fascinating article in the New York Times today about the growing influence of regional powers in the Middle East — in particular, Turkey — and their growing unwillingness to ask “How high?” when the United States says “Jump!” The hook for the Times piece, which is written by Sabrina Tavernise and Michael Blackman, is the May 31 assault on a flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian supplies to the blockaded Gaza Strip, which killed nine people, almost all Turkish citizens, and gravely damaged Israel’s relationship with Turkey — its only ally in the region. That in turn created a very awkward situation for the United States, caught in the middle between one of its “most pliable allies,” as Tavernise and Blackman put it, and Israel, to which the United States has given its unquestioning, unconditional support for over four decades."
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