Turkey is threatening to cut off ties to Israel over the flotilla raid. (Apparently back-channel talks aimed at repairing the breach in the Israel-Turkey relationship didn’t get very far.) But through Marc Lynch’s twitter feed, we learn: Bashar al-Asad: Turkey cutting ties with Israel would harm stability, peace in the region Marc’s source for that is [...]

Must read of the day: Eli Lake’s beast of a piece about how the establishment American Jewish organizations have abandoned their longstanding sub-rosa efforts lobbying on behalf of the former Israeli quasi-ally now that the Turkish government has broken with Israel over Gaza. On the one hand, the Shtetl Elders are throwing “Islamist” at the [...]