Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is doing his best to inflame tensions in the Middle East.  We all knew that he was a lunatic, but the inflammatory rhetoric that is coming out of him now is the sort of thing that we would expect to hear from leaders of Hamas or Hezbollah.  During a “fiery speech” on Wednesday, Erdogan accused Israel of being a “terror state”, and he boldly declared that Israel’s leaders must be held accountable as war criminals in international courts…

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan today said Israel was a ‘terror state’ committing war crimes and violating international law in Gaza, while repeating his view that Hamas gunmen are not terrorists but a ‘political party elected by Palestinians’.

In a fiery speech to members of his party, Erdogan said Turkey would work to ensure that Israel’s political and military leaders are recognised as ‘terrorists’ and brought to trial in international courts.

If all of that wasn’t bad enough, Erdogan also accused Israel of “threatening people with atomic bombs”…

“They [Israel] have been speaking about murdering all those people using nuclear weapons, so let me call on Benjamin Netanyahu — do you have nuclear weapons or not? Explain this, if you have the courage.”

“You are threatening people with atomic bombs, nuclear bombs. It does not matter what you have, you are a goner,” he said.

When Erdogan said “you are a goner”, was he referring to Netanyahu or the nation of Israel as a whole?

Someone really needs to ask him that question.

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