Taranto’s generally pretty good, and funny. Everyone’s got blind spots.
"One obvious point is that Turkey is hardly in a position to criticize Israel for responding firmly to terrorist attacks" ...and "[a] less obvious point is that Erdogan might have killed whatever chance his country had of becoming a member of the European Union" (because Erdogan's anti-Semitism was too overt for Europeans, who prefer to be more genteel in their Jew-hatred, according to Taranto). An even less obvious point to Armenian Genocide denier Taranto is that Erdogan - the head of a country whose Ottoman forebears committed genocide - was berating Peres - the head of a country that was founded by survivors of genocide - on "know[ing] well how to kill." And the least obvious point to Taranto, is that by falsely claiming Israel committed genocide in Gaza, Erdogan - as did Arafat before him - creates an equivalence between the cause and scale of civilian killings, rendering the term "crime against humanity" meaningless. Taranto (whose Sephardic kinfolk somehow ended up in Turkey) considers himself a Turk and not a Jew, because he is an atheist - and yet he is also a Zionist.