There is a temptation, whenever two regional powers start hurling accusations of genocide and dictatorship at each other, to read the moment as a clash of civilizations or of irreconcilable values. The Turkey-Israel rupture invites exactly that kind of reading: Recep Tayyip Erdogan comparing Benjamin Netanyahu to Hitler, Israeli ministers calling Turkey “an enemy state […] The post A realist reading of the Israel-Turkey rupture appeared first on Asia Times .