They say Obama's Air Force One was still on the taxi-way enroute to Jordan when Netanyahu picked up the phone and put a call through to Turkey's President Erdogan.
"Hey, so sorry about that Mavi Marmara business," the Israeli PM whispered into the ear of Erdogan, and that's all the Turk PM needed to hear.
"Ah, thank you so much, all is forgiven!"
The pouty Turks had been waiting three years for today's apology. And Middle-East watchers knew it had to come sooner or later.
So while the Oracle of Nairobi didn't accomplish anything in terms of Israel-Palestine peace, he has set the stage for the next phase in the Syrian war.
Look at a map. The Syrian capital is less than fifty miles from the Israeli border. That's about an hour's drive for a column of Merkavas.
And of course Turkey has the northern border.
NATO-member Turkey and NATO step-child Israel have been having that unfortunate internecine spat ever since that unfortunate Mavi Marmara incident.
Looks like Obama was able to patch things up.
All we need now is the "major provocation" that will breach the "red line."
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