Breaking: Turkey expels Israeli ambassador

[Warspite]

It's just as well the Israelis have the Arabs, otherwise the former would be their own worst enemy.

[DontSayBanana]

You are wrong. My anti-Israelism is not based in anti-semitism but hatred of right wing, nationalistic and religious-heavy ideologies.

Don't sweat it, Mart.  To hear them tell it, the Israelis have trouble making that distinction, too.

Call 'em out for being hamfisted, and you're automatically an anti-semite.

[Sheilbh]

Correct me if I am wrong but it was the Turks who decided to draw Israeli aggro, in an effort to switch their focus from the EU to Muslim dominance.

The Turks and Israelis had minor spats but were still reasonably close until the Gaza war.  The year before that Peres was praising the Turks and they were being used mediators with Syria.  It's only three or four years ago that Peres addressed the Turkish Parliament and Abdullah Gul was trying to negotiate Shalit's release, with Israeli backing.

Gaza, I think, changed everything it made the Turkish population far less happy with Israel which increased the pressure to take a more strident position.  Immediately after Gaza the current Israeli coalition are elected and I think their foreign policy's been pretty cackhanded since.