MidnightWatcher – Prophecy in Motion

It’s nice to see a Turkish writer criticize his own President’s failure to condemn the butchering of a Jewish family, including a 3-month only baby, by a Palestinian terrorist.  But as soon as Israel does anything to protect its citizens from Palestinian terrorists, Erdogan boils into a bloody rage.

“While the world keeps silent on the terror attack in Itamar, a columnist for a popular Turkish paper chose to inveigh against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan for his neglect to condemn the murders of the five family members.

In an article entitled ‘You Shall Not Kill’ in the Hurriyet daily, Burak Bekdil asks, ‘I am still curious about what rank the 3-month old Israeli ‘soldier’ held. Captain? Lieutenant colonel? Certainly too young to be a general.’

Bekdil reminds his readers of a 2010 speech in which a hot-tempered Erdogan expressed harsh criticism of Israel, emphasizing the deteriorating relations between the two states.

‘These (people) even see babies in their cradles as a threat. They have killed babies in their mothers’ arms.’ These people, naturally, were the Israelis,’ Bekdil writes.

‘Mr. Erdoğan said in both Turkish and English: ‘You shall not kill.’ Then he showed his linguistic capabilities and went on: ‘You still don’t get it? Then I shall speak to you in your own language: Lo tir’tsach!'”  Read more.