For Netanyahu, the Fatah gathering bore out his prior assessment that the group is a wolf in sheep's clothing.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Fatah's message

The Bush administration ignored the warnings of secular Turkish leaders in the country's media, military and diplomatic corps that Erdogan was a wolf in sheep's clothing.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: How Turkey was lost

But this is a wolf in sheep's clothing.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: International law v. the United States