That is, so long as it is led by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Islamist AKP Party.
Although Israeli officials speak publicly about preserving Israel's relationship with Turkey, they know in
their guts that things are beyond salvageable, thanks to Erdogan and Co.'s relentless campaign of anti-Israel
demagoguery and aggression. European powers, too, must realize this instinctively as they watch their erstwhile
NATO ally cozy up to Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Muslim Brotherhood.
In fact, respected Middle East analyst Daniel Pipes now believes that a rapidly radicalizing Turkey is the greatest threat, along with a the prospect of a nuclear Iran, to Middle East stability.
The Obama administration, however, seems to consider Erdogan's Turkey a model of moderation. Administration officials have gone out of their way to praise Erdogan. And in a particularly infuriating spectacle, Obama greeted his favorite Islamist with a big hug at the G-20 meetings in Cannes last week, in full view of other world leaders (not to mention Israeli officials watching closely from Jerusalem).
This was a natural progression (regression?), I suppose, from Obama's
now-infamous bow to the King of Saudi Arabia in 2009.
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