Quite some time passed since I last wrote.
If you actually bother to check it, my last post was little before the Turkish Flotilla, and the circus it brought.
At first I've decided not to mention this event. The reasoning was that my blog is something very individual, subjective - even private, while this was a news event, one of many events, provocations, used to bring yet another head-line that will be forgotten while reading the next head-line, the next provocation.
The truth was different. This was not yet another event, another provocation that will move on to the endless flow of events eventually creating history. The dust did not clear. The buzz did not stop.
The fact is that Israel acted as always, acting in a rightful way (at least in its own eyes), acting in a way that will be considered by the world's public opinion as yet another act of violence without meaning, without purpose, nor without any justification.
But this time it not ended there, because for the Turkish governing party (you can call me naive, or even optimistic, but I deliberately refrained from saying the Turkish People) this event conveyed an important mile-stone in the way of changing the face of Turkey.
It started by drawing away from any strong and strategic cooperation with Israel (it started before the flotilla, when Turkey demanded that Israel will not take part of a NATO exercise, a demand that led the entire cancellation of this event, perhaps even before), drawing further away from the European Union (after Greece and Cyprus voting prevented them entering closer into the union) and the US.
Moved on by getting (alarmingly) closer to Iran and supporting their nuclear expedition against the world, and last, for now (there goes my optimistic self down the drain...), their change in the Turkish Constitution allegedly making Turkish more democratic, in fact allowing the ruling Islamic party to severely reduce the power of the secular elements in Turkey.
What can I say... bad timing for Israel... but the reason I decided to write a post on it was the personal despair it brought into my individual, subjective and even private perspective over peace.
Direct negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians? why bothering if the world does not really care about the truth, about the facts and events? The result will always be the same - even if all the state of Israel will be Palestinian territory, no Jews in 10 countries in any direction - we will still be blamed for the fact that the Palestinian make the worst possible choices for their future. For the fact they choose revenge over hope, faith over humanism.
For the fact that they throw away any chance of decent life just because this is the leaders they are following, no, sorry, just because it will harm us as well - never mind the fact that they literally pay most of the bill in the end...
רגוע....
12 years ago