What game is the Turkish Prime Minister, Erdogan playing. On the one hand he has been making some harsh comments about Assad of Syria in relation to the killing of protesters and on the other he is savagely attacking Israel for the killing of 9 Turkish activists who were trying to break the naval blockade of Gaza. He is an islamist who has been slowly weakening the army, the main guarantor of secularism. Allowing a ship to sail from a Turkish port, ostensibly carrying aid for Palestinians in Gaza, was an attempted Trojan horse. Israel wanted to inspect the cargo before allowing its transport into Gaza but the activists were intent on a showdown with the Israeli armed forces and tried to force their way through. Would Turkey allow any country to send a shipment to Kurds without inspecting it first? Cancelling all defence cooperation with Israel and closing down its embassy in Ankara is surely designed to whip up Arab sentiment against the Jewish state and divert attention away from Syria's killing of its own citizen. Turkey is mainly Sunni so its cozy relations with Iran and its sly attempts to support the Alawite Syrian regime is puzzling. The killing of 6 Egyptian police by the Israelis following terrorist attack on a bus has enraged Egyptians. This is a golden opportunity for the Muslim Brotherhood to gain power by harnessing the anger on the streets. There is great confusion in Libya about who will gain ultimate control of the country after the fall of Gadhafi. So what is Erdogan's motive for whipping up anti Israeli passion at this time of confusion? Is he trying for a global Islamic caliphate with Turkey at its center? Maybe he is trying to be too clever.