Opinion | Arrest of the couple in Turkey: For the handling of the affair - it is better to keep quiet | Israel today

What can be learned from the arrest of the Oknin couple?

First of all - about the great advantage that there is in our world for those who harass a Jew, preferably with Israeli citizenship.

The Turkish government is in a position of power, while the couple detained on suspicion of espionage have become a political problem, and who knows - perhaps strategically - for the Jewish state. It is the Israeli leadership that seems to be at a loss. She faces a human problem that has become political, and has no prescription. Check how to act. Perhaps this implies that it would have been better in the first place to keep the event at the lowest possible level, without reference to ministers and leaders. Such statements immediately make the Jews "kidnapped," and the question marks grow: what does Erdogan want? What infidel can reconcile the mind of one who has taken a Jew hostage?

To understand the dimensions of the phenomenon, one can think of two very opposite cases from recent times.

The first - the child is strong.

Everyone, without looking too much at the fine print of international law, sees an Israeli child;

And since he was brought to Israel in one way or another, in a normal state of affairs he was not returned so quickly and as such resolutely to his aunt in Italy.

This is because, in the eyes of Israelis, instinctively, the child is Israeli.

But here comes the basic weakness, which has caused the whole affair of the "kidnapped" child to become a focus of hatred towards Israel in Italy.

And the second - that there are those foreign "leftists" who are waging an open, blatant and impudent struggle against Israel and against the IDF in various centers in the territories. It is not pleasant to say, but ... with Erdogan this would not happen. Even to wage a kind of street war or a field war against the state, and Israel will do nothing against them, on the contrary, it may give them free medical treatment and find a way to reprimand and punish the officer who happens to be in the area.

This is the inherent advantage of one who arrests a Jew when the arrest itself is already a punishment;

And this is the advantage of those who fight against the Jewish state within its borders.

In this area, one does not have to carry on your back the prank of "Midnight Express," like the Turks.

Nor is the way in which Americans are able to deny senior figures, some of whom have official status, visas to the United States, or expel them from U.S. territory, as they do once in a while against one security personality or another - is no different in essence from the harassment of the Oknin couple.

The wave of hatred on social media towards the couple because it was revealed that the man, the Oknin rebels, is among Netanyahu's fans, is a morbid derivative of the same Jewish problem.

Just think of the fact that in Istanbul a Jew can not walk around with any sign of Jewish identification, like a dome on his head.