Israel should be very concerned, since it is significantly more isolated in the Mediterranean than it has ever been in its history. And this isolation derives from Israeli policies, of illegal blockades of, and systematic land theft and displacement of occupied civilians under its control, along with aggressive wars on neighbors, which target infrastructure and civilians and are clearly intended to keep neighbors poor and backward.
http://www.juancole.com/2010/06/turkey- ... ights.html
I've been reading American academic blogs on the Middle East this week and this critical tone is oddly common. What a surprise.
Salaam,
Omar
