Posted on 06/20/2026 9:26:36 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Late this week Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli declared in an interview with Israeli Army Radio that Tel Aviv "will be at war with Syria sooner or later," highlighting that the alliance between Damascus and Turkey poses a "strategic challenge" to his country.
The Likud official said, "There is no way that a jihadist regime rooted in ISIS and Al-Qaeda, whose aspiration is the unification of Jerusalem, can live in peace alongside the State of Israel."
In a separate interview with Kol Barama, a prominent Israeli ultra-Orthodox radio station, Chikli identified Syria as part of a "radical Sunni axis of evil" involving Qatar, Turkiye, and Pakistan, labeling it "far more troubling" than Iran, and claimed that these nations shaped a recent US–Iran memorandum of understanding (MoU) intended to end regional hostilities.
While Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hailed the memorandum as an “important development,” Chikli joined other Likud lawmakers in branding Turkiye an “enemy state.”
He claimed that Turkiye holds “very clear ambitions” compromising Israeli interests, saying that Ankara and Damascus are “ten thousand times more concerning than Iran.”
Following the ousting of former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad in December 2024, the Israeli military continues to occupy Syrian land and destroy military equipment, using the new government as a pretext for escalation and territorial expansion.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu now demands total demilitarization from south Damascus to the 1973 demarcation line. Since December 2024, Israeli military violations in southern Syria have escalated beyond periodic airstrikes to a sustained campaign involving ground incursions, raids, and the establishment of checkpoints.
According to a daily tracker launched by Levant24, Israeli forces have carried out approximately 1,128 ground incursions and 1,055 airstrikes, advancing more than 20 kilometers beyond the occupied Golan Heights. These actions have resulted in over 197 detentions and at least 36 fatalities.
This expansion also includes property destruction and the systematic mapping of military positions, reflecting a broader pattern of activity that extends deep into Syrian territory.
Self-appointed Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa is reportedly resisting intense pressure from the US to launch a military incursion into Lebanon to disarm Hezbollah.
Despite a framework proposed by US President Donald Trump for the Syrian military to lead this offensive, Sharaa remained “unprepared and unwilling,” according to Israel’s Broadcasting Corporation (KAN). He cited concerns that such an attack would damage his regional legitimacy by appearing to serve Israeli interests, especially while Israel continues to occupy Syrian territory.
Although US envoy Tom Barrack has threatened Lebanon with a Syrian assault to dismantle Hezbollah, Sharaa has dismissed the reports as “rumors,” asserting his goal is to end the war rather than expand it.
Israeli War Minister Israel Katz told Channel 14 that “We do not need Julani. Julani, the terrorist in a suit, does not need to come and help us. We know Syria well. He is not going to help us in Lebanon.” He added that Sharaa “should stay in Syria, not interfere with us, and not make us interfere with him.”
“Do you know what really hurts the jihadists?” Katz said, going on to assert that killing them would not hurt them as much as “when you take territory from them and destroy their homes – and that's what we did.”
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Israel doesn’t need to make more enemies it needs to make peace desire peace.
President Donald Trump intends to visit Turkey (Türkiye) later this year so why are we reading this kind of story?
Turkey is now run by a horrible Islamist. I was there decades ago and people were absolutely thrilled to meet Americans. Now? after decades of Islamism, they probably hate Americans.. Trump better take a double squad of secret service guys.
Funny, how every time Israel wants to take out another country, we're inundated with propaganda that said country "hates Americans."
Not propaganda. I’ve been all over the world, and Turkey was my favorite country. I tend to keep up with news about the Turks. Since Erdogan was elected, he has promoted Islamism. And of course detests Jews and probably Christians. That’s typical of all Islamists.
Wikipedia:
“Islamism is a range of religious and political ideological movements that believe that Islam should influence political systems. Its proponents believe Islam is innately political, and that Islam as a political system is superior to communism, liberal democracy, capitalism, and other alternatives in achieving a just, successful society. The advocates of Islamism are usually affiliated with Islamic institutions or social mobilization movements, emphasizing the implementation of sharia, pan-Islamic political unity, and the creation of Islamic states. “
Nothing is more grotesque than the pussy who seeks to appease those whose designs on him are to kill and conquer him, his family, his country, and all he holds dear. There is no middle ground with an enemy whose victory condition is your extinction.
Recall the Turkish military attempted coup in 2016. Something like 150,000 civilians and military members were ousted or purged. Erdogan’s power was thereafter consolidated and allowed him to to attempt to reshape direction using Islamicism and Nasser’s Pan Arabism playbook. I never understood why Trump would go out of his way to lick Erdogan’s balls.
...Turkiye...? how are we now supposed to pronounce that..?
“Tur-KI-yee...”..?? jus’ askin’ ......
You claim Christianity , have no fruit of it. Your are just pagans wearing a Christian coat.
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