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...economic power globally. Other countries censor content, and not just rogue regimes such as the Iranian mullocracy. Web sites are blocked throughout the Persian Gulf and North Africa based on objectionable content and this hasn't created much of a furor. Other countries also engage in cyber espionage, especially Israel and of course the United States Government itself with the largest group of hackers in the world employed by the National Security Agency...
...month goes by without a new chapter in the increasingly bitter diplomatic sparring between traditional allies Turkey and Israel. Relations took a downturn a year ago, when Turkey's government forcefully criticized Israel's military assault on Gaza, and have since lurched from bad to worse. "One road accident, two accidents, three ... all of a sudden it starts to look as if they're not accidents - the road itself is the problem," says Turkish foreign-affairs commentator Cengiz Candar. "The Turkey-Israel love affair is over...
...Given the stakes in the diplomatic spat, Ayalon's defiance potentially carried a high cost. But it took a behind-the-scenes intervention of the proverbial grownup in the Israeli establishment - President Shimon Peres, who served for decades as Israel's key diplomat - to orchestrate a climbdown. Peres called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Lieberman and urged them to defuse the crisis. But domestic politics was in play: not only was Ayalon's initial action calculated to burnish the nationalist appeal of his and Lieberman's Yisrael Beitenu party, but Netanyahu's need to maintain that party...
...Ayalon remained defiant, on Tuesday issuing a statement of regret over the incident that nonetheless reiterated his belief that he had acted correctly in taking Turkey to task. "My protest of the attacks against Israel in Turkey still stands," Ayalon said. "However, it is not my way to insult foreign ambassadors, and in the future I will clarify my position by more acceptable diplomatic means." But insulting a foreign ambassador was exactly what Ayalon had set out to do, and the Turks on Wednesday rejected his "apology" as insufficient. (See the top 10 embarrassing diplomatic moments...
...week began with Turkey needlessly slapped in the face, but by Wednesday, it was the turn of Israel's Foreign Ministry to suffer a public humiliation, being forced to grovel for Ankara to accept its apology. "Those who thought that nominating Lieberman to be Foreign Minister would not create problems for Israel were once more shown to be mistaken," a senior Israeli official speaking on condition of anonymity told TIME. "It was a disgrace to us all as Israelis." The Israel-Turkey relationship looks likely to absorb this week's contretemps, with neither side looking to escalate. On both sides...