Israel’s tense relations with Turkey took another hit on Thursday when the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) and IDF revealed that a foiled plot by the Islamist terror militia Hamas to carry out multiple attacks in Israel was directed by a Hamas headquarters in Turkey. The Turkish authorities apparently knew about the Hamas activities on their soil and did nothing to stop them. One Israeli official rhetorically asked, “Is this the sort of thing that one expects from a NATO state?” Elsewhere, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gave a speech at the Standing Committee for Economic and Commercial Cooperation of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation before journalist on Thursday in Istanbul saying, among other things, “foreigners love oil, gold, diamonds, and the cheap labor force of the Islamic world. They like the conflicts, fights and quarrels of the Middle East. Believe me, they don’t like us.” Read More
