things than anything someone like elliott abrams had to deal with. >> you know -- >> although, i'm not sure if this is in elliott abrams' defense, morsi has, whether for longer term reasons or because he's worried about payments from the u.s., but relatively careful here and it was the prime minister of turkey who was out there saying israel was, you know, engaged in terrorism in gaza. >> that's an interesting concept. i want to bring you back, we won't ask you for a full view of elliott abrams' entire career, although it's always good to question where our sources are coming from. ben smith brings up turkey and if you look relatively recently, say 2005, turkey was trying to really rebuild its ties with israel, was seen as a very different sort of pivot in the region. by 2012, you know, you had turkey labeling israel a, quote, terrorist state and a very different domestic politics playing out in the global geopolitical scenario. now you have turkey saying that