The Turkish prime minister likened Israel’s handling of the Palestinian uprising to the Spanish Inquisition. “Our forbears, at the height of their strength, opened their hearts to the Jews expelled from Spain during the Inquisition,” Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a Ha’aretz interview published Thursday, his first remarks to Israeli media since stirring up controversy last month by attacking the Sharon government’s security policies.
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