Ill Winds Blowing in Turkey

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To Israel, then, the lesson of today’s announcement that Turkey would seek the arrest of former IDF commanders should be clear: The days of Israel’s alliance with Turkey are gone. Prime Minister Netanyahu can apologise to Ankara as many times as he wants, but that won’t change the fundamental reality of the new state of that relationship. Erdoğan’s hostility is not based on one incident or another, on one Israeli action or another. Rather, Erdoğan’s hostility is based on Israel itself. On the very fact of a Jewish state in historic “Palestine.”

There are ill winds blowing from Ankara. Indeed.