Following the successful UN vote last week on enhanced membership status for Palestine, a photograph has been circulating that shows Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan intently feeding Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal a piece of cake decorated with Palestinian flag icing.

Indeed, were it up Erdoğan, he would go down in history as the leader who forced Palestine down the throats of cowardly Arab regimes and defied Israel at every turn.

The prime minister’s credentials as icon of the Palestinian cause include his famous announcement to Israeli President Shimon Peres at the 2009 World Economic Forum: “When it comes to killing, you know well how to kill” — an apt assessment of Israel’s recent slaughter of 1400 people in Gaza. In the aftermath of the IDF massacre of nine Turkish citizens on board the Mavi Marmara in 2010, Erdoğan reprised his confrontational performance with accusations of “inhumane state terrorism” and worse-than-pirate behavior on the part of Israel.