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Source: http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-op-barkey8aug08,1,706110.story
Turkey's Chill Further Isolates Israel
(Los Angeles Times) Henri J. Barkey- Turkey's harsher attitude toward Israel coincides with an unprecedented anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic diatribe in the Turkish press. Conspiracy theories abound about Israel's abilities and intentions everywhere in the world. A recent column in Turkey's most pro-government paper claimed that the events in Darfur, Sudan, were the result of Israel's desire to claim the waters of the Nile. In August 1999, Israeli rescue teams were the first on the ground after a terrible earthquake in Turkey, and were credited with saving many lives. Today, those efforts have disappeared from the collective Turkish memory. The writer was on the State Department's policy planning staff (1998-2000).