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Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who was later forced to resign over corruption charges, shaking hands with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who just managed to block his own indictment, by replacing the prosecutor investigating his case. Put a picture of Nixon in the background and you got yourself a "birds of a feather" tableau.

The scandal will obviously hurt the Erdogan government in the March local elections, causing him to lose key cities. After ten years of hardball politics—including his jailing of the old army guard, which in turkey have always posed a threat to any civilian government—Turkey’s opposition parties are too weak to offer a meaningful alternative. The next national elections are scheduled for 2015. But with more self inflicted injuries, Erdogan could defeat himself.

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Yori Yanover has been a working journalist since age 17, before he enlisted and worked for Ba'Machane Nachal. Since then he has worked for Israel Shelanu, the US supplement of Yedioth, JCN18.com, USAJewish.com, Lubavitch News Service, Arutz 7 (as DJ on the high seas), and the Grand Street News. He has published Dancing and Crying, a colorful and intimate portrait of the last two years in the life of the late Lubavitch Rebbe, (in Hebrew), and two fun books in English: The Cabalist's Daughter: A Novel of Practical Messianic Redemption, and How Would God REALLY Vote.