Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010
Pay 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.
- 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