Well, it's probably a sound domestic strategy for now. Raise the fear, circle the wagons, "they want to drive us into the sea", etc. Not hurt by genuine anti-Israel or even anti-Semitic sentiment among some Arabs, especially Hamas. So yeah, Hamas is kind of a useful idiot for the Israeli security state.
OTOH, as my links may have noted, Turkey is/was Israel's strongest ally in the Middle East -- military, economic, democratic. Pissing them off seems sub-optimal. And if Europe gets pissed off enough, we might see sanctions a la apartheid South Africa...
Nice analogy for the blockade: http://james-nicoll.livejournal.com/2454173.html?thread=45246621#t45246621
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OTOH, as my links may have noted, Turkey is/was Israel's strongest ally in the Middle East -- military, economic, democratic. Pissing them off seems sub-optimal. And if Europe gets pissed off enough, we might see sanctions a la apartheid South Africa...
Nice analogy for the blockade:
http://james-nicoll.livejournal.com/2454173.html?thread=45246621#t45246621