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Was Davos a theatrical bout?
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There are some interesting developments that tempt many people believe in plot theories. How accurate they are or to what extent they support scores of plot theories developed with different and even totally opposing designs?
First of all, it has become clear for everyone interested in indeed what has happened at the Davos panel on Gaza that organization of the panel was demanded by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as a precondition for his participation at this year’s Economic Forum meeting. Apparently Erdoğan himself or the office of Erdoğan told the organizers of the Davos event that it would be great if besides Erdoğan the Gaza panel was attended by Israeli President Shimon Peres.
Secondly, before he traveled to Switzerland, Erdoğan told his deputies at a meeting in Parliament and the Turkish media at a press conference that he would be traveling to Davos to raise the immense human sufferings of the Palestinian people. He was even quoted as saying that one strong reason behind his Davos participation was to tell to the face of the Israeli leader that what his country was doing in the Gaza Strip amounted to crime against humanity.
Indeed, it was seen during the panel that both Prime Minister Erdoğan and Israel’s President Peres were quite prepared for a confrontation. Erdoğan had even collected a set of quotes from critical Jewish personalities, all condemning the Israeli operation. Furthermore, writing in the prestigious Jerusalem Post, Herb Keinon provided very important background information which if true can be considered as evidence that the Davos clash and the walkout might be nothing further than a theatrical event. According to Keinon some senior Israeli officials told him after the meeting between Israeli Premier Ehud Olmert and Erdoğan Ñ that took place on Dec. 23, just few days before the start of Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip Ñ that Erdoğan told Olmert that he needed "a high-profile diplomatic success" to consolidate the legitimacy of his government against increasing secular opposition in Turkey. Keinon is a well-placed journalist and the article we are referring to was not denied by the Israeli prime minister.
Restrain Israel!
Was it normal for the president of Israel to call and talk in an apologizing tone with someone less than an hour later that person implied him a "murderer" and stormed out a joint panel? Furthermore, again from our readings in between the lines in the Israeli English-language online newspapers and Web-portals, we reach to the conclusion that Olmert has issued an order to his Cabinet members and asked them not to talk in a manner that could harm relations with Turkey. Even the statement of Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni calling Turkey to respect the Israeli state was carefully worded not to further upset ties with Ankara. Could be considered a "routine" for Israel to try to "constraint" its reaction to a statement declaring the president of Israel as someone "who knows well how to kill people"? Something weird is happening. Israel accepted Erdoğan’s humiliation so easily. Even U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Ñ one of the on the spot witnesses of the churlish attitudes of Turkey’s angry man at Davos Ñ has called on Erdoğan to tell him "We need your leadership for peace in the Middle East." Arabs have almost declared Erdoğan a caliph and we are reading all kinds of absurdities in the Arab media going as far as to a call to rehash the Ottoman Empire and make Erdoğan its sultan and caliph of Muslims across the world.
Were all these discussed between Olmert and Erdoğan?There are even further details. Many people now started believing that there was no sudden burst of Erdoğan at Davos and most likely everything was prepared well in advance with the aim and intention of giving some strong signals to the world, as well as to the Turkish public ahead of the March local polls. For example, could anyone provide a reasonable explanation why Erdoğan rejected at the last minute a planned meeting with Peres hours before the panel? Did Erdoğan canceled the meeting with Peres because after such a meeting he would not be able to have a public confrontation with the Israeli leader?
What was the role of Erdoğan’s former right-hand-man Cüneyt Zapsu in all this "crisis scenario?" Was Olmert and Zapsu the scenarists, Erdoğan the chief actor and the rest, including Peres, played the secondary roles?
Was Davos really a theatric bout? But why?
Secondly, before he traveled to Switzerland, Erdoğan told his deputies at a meeting in Parliament and the Turkish media at a press conference that he would be traveling to Davos to raise the immense human sufferings of the Palestinian people. He was even quoted as saying that one strong reason behind his Davos participation was to tell to the face of the Israeli leader that what his country was doing in the Gaza Strip amounted to crime against humanity.
Indeed, it was seen during the panel that both Prime Minister Erdoğan and Israel’s President Peres were quite prepared for a confrontation. Erdoğan had even collected a set of quotes from critical Jewish personalities, all condemning the Israeli operation. Furthermore, writing in the prestigious Jerusalem Post, Herb Keinon provided very important background information which if true can be considered as evidence that the Davos clash and the walkout might be nothing further than a theatrical event. According to Keinon some senior Israeli officials told him after the meeting between Israeli Premier Ehud Olmert and Erdoğan Ñ that took place on Dec. 23, just few days before the start of Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip Ñ that Erdoğan told Olmert that he needed "a high-profile diplomatic success" to consolidate the legitimacy of his government against increasing secular opposition in Turkey. Keinon is a well-placed journalist and the article we are referring to was not denied by the Israeli prime minister.
Restrain Israel!
Was it normal for the president of Israel to call and talk in an apologizing tone with someone less than an hour later that person implied him a "murderer" and stormed out a joint panel? Furthermore, again from our readings in between the lines in the Israeli English-language online newspapers and Web-portals, we reach to the conclusion that Olmert has issued an order to his Cabinet members and asked them not to talk in a manner that could harm relations with Turkey. Even the statement of Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni calling Turkey to respect the Israeli state was carefully worded not to further upset ties with Ankara. Could be considered a "routine" for Israel to try to "constraint" its reaction to a statement declaring the president of Israel as someone "who knows well how to kill people"? Something weird is happening. Israel accepted Erdoğan’s humiliation so easily. Even U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Ñ one of the on the spot witnesses of the churlish attitudes of Turkey’s angry man at Davos Ñ has called on Erdoğan to tell him "We need your leadership for peace in the Middle East." Arabs have almost declared Erdoğan a caliph and we are reading all kinds of absurdities in the Arab media going as far as to a call to rehash the Ottoman Empire and make Erdoğan its sultan and caliph of Muslims across the world.
Were all these discussed between Olmert and Erdoğan?There are even further details. Many people now started believing that there was no sudden burst of Erdoğan at Davos and most likely everything was prepared well in advance with the aim and intention of giving some strong signals to the world, as well as to the Turkish public ahead of the March local polls. For example, could anyone provide a reasonable explanation why Erdoğan rejected at the last minute a planned meeting with Peres hours before the panel? Did Erdoğan canceled the meeting with Peres because after such a meeting he would not be able to have a public confrontation with the Israeli leader?
What was the role of Erdoğan’s former right-hand-man Cüneyt Zapsu in all this "crisis scenario?" Was Olmert and Zapsu the scenarists, Erdoğan the chief actor and the rest, including Peres, played the secondary roles?
Was Davos really a theatric bout? But why?
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