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-- Turkey recalled its ambassador, and its foreign minister says "relations are irreparable;"
-- Netanyahu had to cancel his important Washington visit;
-- an emergency UN Security Council session was called, no surprise afterward that Washington prevented any meaningful resolution;
-- "Obama will try to distance the US from Israel in due course. What choice does he have? Israel is increasingly a millstone around America's neck;"
-- China got Washington to agree to exempt its companies from US measures for doing business with Iran for whatever new sanctions it agreed to;
-- "Negotiations will now become harder and more costly for the US as the world largely sees (its) effort to punish Iran to be driven by Israeli concerns. Iran hardly threatens the US," Israel or any other nation.
On May 31 in Foreign Policy, Professor Stephen Walt headlined "Israel's latest brutal blunder," saying:
"What could Israel's leaders have been thinking? How could they possibly believe that a deadly assault against a humanitarian mission in international waters would play to their advantage?" Actions like this galvanize efforts to "delegitimize the country....This latest escapade is as bone-headed as the 2006 war in Lebanon" and Cast Lead. They provide "more evidence of the steady deterioration in Israel's strategic thinking that we have witnessed since 1967."
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