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“In accordance with orders from Lieberman, Ayalon meant to humiliate the ambassador. He called him into a room in his Knesset office and not to the Foreign Ministry in order to ‘reprimand’ him,” the article noted.
The reporters who arrived in order to cover the meeting on Monday had asked Ayalon and Celikkol to shake hands, however the former refused. “The important thing is that they see he’s sitting lower and we’re up high and that there’s only one flag, and you see we’re not smiling,” Ayalon muttered in Hebrew with the embarrassed Turkish envoy next to him.
This footage was then shown on the Israeli prime time news and Israeli newspapers ran front page stories with the picture showing the humiliation of the Turkish ambassador. Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is reportedly very comfortable with the behavior of his deputy.
Of course the Turkish press covered the incident also, but from a different viewpoint.
In response Turkey summoned Israel’s ambassador to Ankara demanding Israel apologize, and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan commented on the incident saying Israeli attitudes offending Turkey “will always get a response.” Erdogan likely knows that he can deal more harshly with Israel now because after this incident a harsh reply will not only be backed by the majority of the Islamic population of Turkey in solidarity with their suppressed Muslim brothers in Palestine, but also by the proud nationalists of the Turkish military.
It’s easy for the world to understand the Israeli message. This way of humiliating state guests is well known. Charlie Chaplin has shown in his well known film “The Great Dictator” ironically how Hitler tried to humiliate his guest by placing him on a specially low chair.
Israeli deputy FM Danny Ayalon has simply played Hitler’s role exactly. So the Israeli message is very clear: the Israeli government wants the world to know that it is acting as stupid as Hitler in his worst parody. To clarify that Danny Ayalon speaks for Israel as a whole, the Israeli flag was prominently placed on the table.
Meanwhile in Tehran nuclear physics scientist Massoud Ali-Mohammadi was murdered with a remotely controlled booby-trapped motorbike blast which pretty much looks like the work of assassinations trained by the Israeli Mossad.
The author manages a German language news blog at – http://www.mein-parteibuch.com/
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