Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Not Mata Hari

Mata Hari

Richard Sorge

Eli Cohen




Jerusalem Post Letters to the Editor, November 17, 2021

Not Mata Hari

Regarding “Turkey allows visit by consul to jailed Israeli couple” (November 16), this whole incident is just too much. For heaven’s sake, if Israel can assassinate Mohsen Fakhrizadeh using a computerized machine gun, bring from Iran half a ton of nuclear files, disrupt the centrifuges through Stuxnet, then surely it does not need to photograph Erdogan’s palace from a TV tower.

We do not live in the times of Mata Hari and invisible ink, not even in the times of Richard Sorge or Eli Cohen, so what the Israeli media should have done is demonstrate how absurd the Turkish claims are.

It is also high time that Israelis become more conscious of the character of the countries they go on vacation to. Why pick one ruled by an Islamic fundamentalist with a very antagonistic attitude toward Israel when they can choose from a number of Mediterranean democracies? Appeasing dictators is never a good policy and that applies not only to governments but to their citizens too.

MLADEN ANDRIJASEVIC

Beersheba



And here are the Mediterranean democracies Israelis could pick to go on vacation to instead of Turkey. Note that it applies only to The Republic of Cyprus and no the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus