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Israel: Erdogan Blaming Egypt Turmoil on Us Is "Nonsense"
(Jerusalem Post) Herb Keinon - Erdogan's documentation, it emerged, was a video of a discussion held at Tel Aviv University on the Arab Spring in June 2011, where French Jewish intellectual Bernard-Henri Levy urged the prevention of the Muslim Brotherhood from coming to power. Erdogan's comment Tuesday came five months after Prime Minister Netanyahu - at the behest of President Obama - phoned the Turkish prime minister and apologized for operational errors that may have led to loss of life on the Mavi Marmara in 2010. Expectations that the apology would pave the way for an Israeli-Turkish reconciliation have failed to materialize. What the apology did do, one Israeli official said Tuesday, was remove U.S. pressure on Israel to reconcile with Turkey.