FOREIGN POLICY

You take mine, I'll take yours!

No matter how much more powerful your enemy may be, as long as you act rather than submit passively embracing your fate - like we have been doing as a country for so long on so many occasions - as long as you are ready to fight back, there's always a chance.

The problem of our world today is not only wrongdoing but rather a lack of doing, thinking that one can disappear by hiding in the masses. Yet, although the world is big enough to hide from somebody else, it is way too small to hide from one's self.

Here is a lesson from mother Nature. I do not know the final outcome of this incident, but it makes no difference. The power of the lesson remains, on an individual level, as well as on a national one. I want to say for the record that I do not share the overflowing optimism following Mr. Dendia's visit to Turkey since it has been well established that wounded animals tend to become unpredictable and much more dangerous than they previously were.

(EK)