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.

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.

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.