A Profile in Courage: Turkey Takes a Stand for Justice

A Profile in Courage: Turkey Takes a Stand for Justice

This is the surprising situation now unfolding in the rising drama of the Goldstone Report on Gaza. Goliath — in this instance, Israel plus the US in its usual role of Bibi Netanyahu’s “Uncle Tom” — assumed that broad threats and a predictable US veto on the UN Security Council would kill that report. And last week, that seemed likely to happen. But David — in the form of Turkey’s forthright Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan — isn’t buying that at all.

http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2009/10/18/a-profile-in-courage-turkey-takes-a-stand-for-justice/