Israel doesn't need a close relationship with Turkey if they're going to turn to darkness
Haaretz reports on how Turkey is signaling its wish to distance itself from Israel (via Jihad Watch):
The rift in Israeli-Turkish relations is the result of Ankara turning away from secularism and toward more radical Islam, Israel's military intelligence chief said on Tuesday.Well, if they don't need a close relationship with us, then I guess we don't need a close relationship with them either, now do we? If they're only going to step further back into the darkness of Islamofascism, to say nothing of their increasing backtrack to anti-semitism and racism, including this horror, then there's little else that can be said.
The comments to a parliamentary committee by Maj. General Amos Yadlin reflected wider concern in Israel and followed a high profile visit to Turkey on Sunday by Defense Minister Ehud Barak that was meant to help mend the relationship after a sharp diplomatic row.
"Turkey no longer needs a close relationship with Israel," a parliamentary official quoted Yadlin as telling the foreign affairs committee of the Knesset.
"They are currently in the midst of a fundamental process of moving further away from the secular Ataturk approach, closer to a radical approach," Yadlin said, adding that key factors had been an easing of Turkish concerns about Syria and Ankara's failure to clinch membership of the European Union.
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