"Operation calamity
The Israeli commandos who stormed a flotilla of aid ships were expecting a cakewalk – but then the bullets began to fly
Istanbul’s face has changed radically over the millennia — Greek, Persian, Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman, Turk — but it remains one of the world’s great cities, home to a cosmopolitan and enlightened elite. There is also another Istanbul, however, one that last week lured Israel into scoring a spectacularly violent own goal and advanced the cause of militant Islam."
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