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Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon (L) meets with Turkish Ambassador Ahmet Celikkol on January 11, 2010 in Jerusalem. Israeli newspapers on January 12, 2009 played up what they called the
Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010

Open quotePay attention that he is sitting in a lower chair ... that there is only an Israeli flag on the table and that we are not smiling.Close quote

  • DANNY AYALON,
  • Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister, speaking to a cameraman while filming a meeting with Turkish envoy Ahmet Oguz Celikkol; the symbolic humiliation, over a Turkish TV show, led to outrage by Turkish President Abdullah Gul, and Israel later issued an apology
Photo: Olivier Fitoussi / AFP / Getty | Source: Aljazeera.net