Israel's Response to Turkish Military Threats

Israel just stopped a security threat inside Syria from becoming

something much bigger. Let's take a look at what happened.

Since the Syrian Civil War, Turkey has embedded itself

inside of Syria.

It now has a substantial military presence in

roughly 5% of Syrian territory. Now, if we look to the

south, where Israel's located, by contrast,

Israel now holds approximately one tenth of 1%

along a border that has threats from Hezbollah and ISIS

and other terror organizations. Which means that Turkey, that has no

threats, is holding 50 times more Syrian

territory than Israel.

More than a year ago, Israel and Syria reached an understanding to

maintain the

security status quo and to keep this border calm.

Syria breached that understanding.

Israeli intelligence identified that Turkish troops were about to

deploy at the Abu al-Duhur Air Base, which is located

in northern Syria,

which is less than, as you can see, 200 miles from

Israeli towns and Israeli communities.

Prime Minister Netanyahu made Israel's position very clear.

We will not allow Turkey to entrench itself in Syria and to be moving

steadily south towards Israel's border.

Israel warned Syria repeatedly, "Don't do it." We know that

Syria received those warnings and that it chose to ignore them.

So Israel delivered the message in another way.

Now, some might ask, why should Israel be concerned about

Turkish

forces in Syria?

Well, because Turkish President Erdoğan has

openly called for Israel's destruction.

He even said about our closest partner, the United States, that, well, a just

world is possible, but not with America.

Is this the kind of guy you would want on your border?

And October 7th made it clear to everyone, when your enemy tells you that he

wants to destroy you, you should probably believe him.

Prime Minister Netanyahu has also made something else very clear.

Israel welcomes a return to the previous status quo.

We are not looking for escalation, but neither Turkey nor

any other country is gonna threaten the State of Israel.