"Israel’s Battered-Wife Syndrome
By Michael Rubin
July 29, 2011, 2:53 pm
Press reports in both Israel and Turkey suggest that Israel is inching closer to issuing a formal apology to Turkey for Israel’s military operation last year to stop the Mavi Marmara, a Turkish ship seeking to run the Gaza blockade. Although the forthcoming UN report on the incident reportedly affirms that Israel was well within its rights under international law to stop the ship, and while Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Islamist allies instigated the incident in order to bolster their allies in Hamas, the Netanyahu government in Israel and particularly Defense Minister Ehud Barak are urging an Israeli apology in order to preserve what’s left of the Turkey-Israel relationship."
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