No Apologies

This is analagous to putting a tack on your communication prof's chair right before your worst enemy's final speech project, or putting a pornographic slide in his accompanying slideshow presentation.  Call it the gift of encouragement:

In an article published Sunday, Ahmet Davutoglu told the Turkish daily Hurriyet: "Israelis have three options: They will either apologize or acknowledge an international-impartial inquiry and its conclusion. Otherwise, our diplomatic ties will be cut off."

The Turkish foreign minister said that during his secret meeting last week in Brussels with Industry, Trade and Labor Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, "We showed them an exit road. If they apologize as a result of their own investigation's conclusion, that would be fine for us. But of course we first have to see it."

This "generous offer" hit the global media right as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was winging his way to New Chicago (formerly known as Washington, D.C.) for a pilgrimmage with His Majesty.  Betcha can't guess The One's reaction:

Tensions between Turkey and Israel escalated Monday as Turkey’s foreign minister said his country would sever diplomatic relations with Israel unless it either apologizes for its deadly raid on a Turkish aid ship or accepts an international inquiry into the incident.

The threat came as Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu prepares to meet Tuesday in Washington with President Obama. A Western diplomat, who spoke on the condition of anonymity before the foreign minister made his comments, said Obama plans to press the Israeli leader to apologize to defuse tensions.

“The president is very concerned about the breakdown in Turkish-Israeli relations,” the diplomat said. Asked if he thought Obama could persuade Netanyahu to apologize, the diplomat added: “I’m sure he’ll give it the college try.”

Senior Obama administration officials would neither confirm nor deny the president’s intentions for the meeting with Netanyahu.

"He'll give it the college try" means he knows Bebe will tell him to do something even Michelle would find anatomically impossible, but he'll do it anyway out of hateful spite.

And now you know why the Turks tossed this latest flaming bag of dog mess on Barry's front stoop.  Yes, that's right, Barry's.  They're already at cold war with Israel.  They know Netanyahu is no Ehud Olmert (Yiddish for "Elmer Fudd," BTW) and would sooner raze Ankara to the ground than globally humiliate his country by according legitimacy to the outrageous global assertion that Israel has no MORAL right do defend itself and its citizens from relentless, bloodthirsty Islamist attack.  But they also know that the further they can split the Jewish State from its heretofore chief ally, the weaker Jerusalem becomes over time as they become less and less able to maintain their predominantly U.S.-supplied military assets.  They also know how reflexively anti-Israel, pacifistic, and hopelessly addicted to the sound of his own Chamerlainesque voice Barack Obama is.  And they know that Israel's time for "disarming" the mullahgarchy is rapidly running out.

My best guess?  The Turks are laying the groundwork to maneuver Obama into having to declare a military ultimatum against any Israeli attack against Iran's nuclear weapons facilities.  In the interests of "peace," of course.

Let's revise that opening analogy.  It's more like a kid getting a remote-controlled toy car for Christmas and amusing himself with it by ramming it into every obstacle in the house, until he finally impacts it against the support holding up the shelf on which dear old dad stores his bowling ball.

This is why kids should get socks, underwear, and pen & pencil sets instead.