Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday lambasted Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for accusing the Israeli army of kicking Palestinian people in the head, including women and children, calling him an “antisemitic dictator” who trolled him, The Jerusalem Post reports.
Erdogan “knows what a moral army is and he knows what a genuine democracy is, as opposed to an army that massacres women and children in Kurdish villages and a state, which, to my regret, is becoming more dictatorial day by day,” Netanyahu said.
“Not everyone shares this view,” he said. “I was just exposed to the daily trolling of the antisemitic dictator Erdogan. Erdogan used to attack me every two hours, and now it is every six hours.”
Erdogan made his comments Saturday during the Presidential Culture and Arts Grand Awards ceremony at the Presidential Complex in Ankara, Turkey.
“The Jews in Israel kick people laying on the ground. In fact, Jews don’t kick men but also women and children when they fall on the ground,” he told young Turks at an Istanbul meeting of the Turkey Youth Foundation.
“But as Muslims, will confront these people [the Jews] if they have courage to deal with us and we’ll teach them a lesson,” Erdogan added.
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