(Ha'aretz) Adar Primor - During a recent conference of Israeli and Turkish journalists, it became clear that Turkey does not really want reconciliation with Israel. Turks who attended the conference told us that not only is Turkey pleased with the crisis in bilateral relations, but actually initiated it. The Mavi Marmara incident was planned, they said, and so was the seemingly spontaneous tongue-lashing Erdogan gave President Shimon Peres in Davos in 2009. Erdogan is here to stay. When his term as prime minister ends, he intends to move into the president's residence after granting that institution wide-ranging powers.
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