The Turks did it! The world as we know it has changed with the newfound
independence of Turkey. Within one month, this erstwhile American
semi-colony under the charismatic leadership of Recep Erdogan has made
two strong moves that have brought it to the forefront of policy-making:
Together
with Brazil, Turkey has arranged and signed the Tehran Declaration of a
nuclear fuel swap deal with beleaguered Iran. This declaration derails
the Israeli plans of sanctioning Iran to death prior to bombing it. The
sanctions plan was already on its way to the Security Council; allegedly
Russia and China had been pressured to agree. At the last moment, like a
deus ex machina - like divine intervention in the medieval theatre -
these two new great powers of Turkey and Brazil entered the stage and
snatched victory from the jaws of defeat. All the plotting of Israeli
lobbyists in the US and Europe was wiped out in an instant.
Israel
received the news of the Turkey-Brazil-Iran agreement as a heavy blow.
"We were defeated by the crafty Turks and Iranians," read the headlines
of Israeli newspapers. Not so fast. The US State Department had tried to
minimize the damage, effectively asking: "Who cares what these lowlifes
agree about? If we have decided to bomb somebody, bomb we shall. We
shall never allow facts to confuse us." Thomas Friedman in the NYT was... >>>
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