Tel-Chai Nation

Caroline Glick writes about Turkey's increasing hostility to Israel under Tayyip Erdogan, and says:

[...] Since he was reelected to serve a third term as prime minister last month Erdogan has been openly seeking to establish a neo-Ottoman Turkish hegemonic position in the Arab world.

To this end he has been actively interfering in the popular revolt against Syrian dictator Bashar Assad. The IHH has been hosting Syrian opposition leaders in Turkey. Erdogan's clear aim is to replace Iran as Syria's overlord in a post-Assad Syria.

Erdogan has also been actively engaging Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood since the overthrow of former president Hosni Mubarak in February. Erdogan plans a high profile visit to Egypt in the near future. And he plans to end his visit to Egypt by crossing the Egyptian border with Gaza. There he will become the highest-level foreign leader to visit Gaza since the Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood Hamas took over in 2007.

If Erdogan's trying to reestablish a Turkish caliphate, he deserves neither an apology nor should he be a politician, and Israel shouldn't apologize for the barbarism of the flotilla fiends.

Labels: anti-semitism, islam, Israel, turkey