https://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/11/20/video-aps-matthew-lee-rips-state-department-stooge-over-obama-admins-feckless-silence-as-turkey-calls-israel-a-terrorist-state/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 09:07:56 -0400<![CDATA[Suffice it to say that Matthew Lee is not Ashleigh Banfield. US ally Turkey has taken this moment in history &#8212; the US facing a fiscal cliff which would slash the world&#8217;s most powerful military to the bone while sending the world&#8217;s largest economy deeper into recession; Hamas terrorists uncrating their thousands of rockets and firing them at Israeli civilians; Egypt sounding more and more like mini-Iran; Jordan and Syria both engulfed in the kind of domestic turmoil that authoritarian regimes might seek international distraction from; and Iran biding its time in the background &#8212; to announce that Israel is a &#8220;terrorist state.&#8221; The United States has chosen to remain silent, neither condemning the Turkish PM&#8217;s remarks nor backing Israel except in its right of self defense directly against Hamas and its inaccurate rockets. Israel is spending about $40,000 per shot to knock those cheap but deadly rockets down. President Obama still has not visited and has no plans to visit Israel, by the way.]]>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 08:30:35 -0500<![CDATA[Bryan Preston]]>https://pjmedia.com/bryan-preston-1/2012/11/20/video-aps-matthew-lee-rips-state-department-stooge-over-obama-admins-feckless-silence-as-turkey-calls-israel-a-terrorist-state-n175184