Erdogan and Netanyahu’s ‘War of Words’ Over Gaza Threatens a Fragile Rapprochement
▻https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/trend-lines/24570/erdogan-and-netanyahu-s-war-of-words-over-gaza-threatens-a-frag
Earlier this month, after Israeli soldiers killed 17 Palestinians during protests near Gaza’s border with Israel, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu engaged in a war of words. Erdogan called Netanyahu a “terrorist,” while the Israeli leader responded on Twitter by saying he would not be lectured to by someone who has been “bombing civilians indiscriminately for years” in Syria. The public spat has threatened to undo a rapprochement agreement between Turkey and Israel signed in late 2016. Nearly six years ago, diplomatic ties were severed following Israel’s attack on a Turkish-flagged aid flotilla heading to Gaza, in which 10 Turkish activists were killed. In an email interview, Michael Koplow, the policy director at the Israel Policy Forum and creator of the blog Ottomans and Zionists, explains why Israel-Turkey ties today are “little more than a hollow shell.”
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