Tel Aviv Diary: Karen Alkalay-Gut

I don’t do well with humiliation. The degrading meeting of the Israeli Foreign Minister’s office made me squirm even more than the anti-semitic Turkish television programs and the gratuitously agressive remarks made by the Turkish leaders. The nastiness on both sides serves purpose except little boys’ bullying. I so wish our foreign minister was of local or American parentage and didn’t feel the need to take off his shoe and bang on the table. Or at least with a different kind of education.