The Turkish government can say nothing positive about Israel. On Sunday, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan repeated his now-classic line that Israel is the “spoiled child” of this region, and that it conducts “state terror.” While there might have been some truth in the Turkish government’s criticism of Israel, its comments seem to carry no weight in Jerusalem.
Erdogan, like his Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, was reacting to Israel’s reported attack in Syria targeting a military convoy and a research facility that supposedly had advanced weaponry destined to reach Hezbollah. Turkey, so far, has not counter-argued that the target was not carrying any weaponry, but it did declare that Israeli war jets should not dare to fly over a Muslim country.
