Will Turkey defend its troops from the Israeli onslaught on Syria?

Why would Israel issue this challenge and provocation just days after signing the trilateral alliance treaty with Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan?

The recent increase in aerial and ground bombardments in Syria by Israeli occupation aircraft and tanks reveals that Syria is the target. Regardless of whether the regime that rules it is resistant or “peace-loving” to global Zionism and its aggressive and expansionist projects, what Israel wants, with the support of the United States, is a submissive, weak Syria with no national identity, no armed forces, and a part of the occupation state, similar to the Golan Heights, which the current president, Donald Trump, gave to his friend and mentor, Benjamin Netanyahu, during his first term in office.

Yesterday (Tuesday evening), Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office claimed responsibility for eight bombings carried out by the Israeli air force on the “Al-Zahour” airport in Idlib province and near the borders of Aleppo, which caused major material damage.

Previously, the occupying power claimed that its jets had targeted Iranian military positions in Syria; now, the justification is the bombardment of Turkish bases. The targeted “Abu al-Zuhour” base houses Turkish army soldiers, implying that these bombings represent an introductory warning to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his army. This comes only a few days after he inked the trilateral alliance agreement with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. The first point of our communication is that Turkey has no place in Syrian territory, and we appreciate your efforts in removing the old dictatorship in Damascus. It is forbidden for you to rebuild the Syrian army because the Syrian country, north, south, east, and west, belongs to us.

General Eyal Zamir, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Army, paid a visit to his forces, who occupy the majority of southern Syria in Daraa, Quneitra, and other locations, on Wednesday. He proceeded with the same ease and comfort as if he were examining Israeli military bases at Tel Aviv, Haifa, Dimona, and Beersheba. The timing of this visit was meticulously planned, as it occurred just one day after the bombing of the “Abu al-Duhur” airport in Idlib, indicating that northern, southern, and central Syria are Israeli territory.

Israeli Minister of Defence Israel Katz confirmed last week that Israeli forces will remain “forever” in southern Syria, implying that the occupying state will not seek a security deal with the current Syrian administration in Damascus to meet its repeated demands.

They used to “mock” the former regime for failing to respond to Israeli raids and aggressions deep within Syrian territory. The question now is how the Turkish army would react to these Israeli raids in defence of the “new Syria”, whose leadership was instrumental in bringing its leaders to power in Damascus.

The Turkish regime did not intervene to stop the genocide in Gaza because it is far away and has no borders. Still, this excuse does not apply to the Zionist plan to Judaise Syria, with the “Abu al-Duhur” military airport, manned by Turkish forces and subjected to Israeli airstrikes, located in the former independent Idlib Republic and only metres from the Turkish border.

The initial eight Israeli attacks on Abu al-Duhur Airport were successful in their destructive and testing objective, with no missiles or bullets fired against them. Will the same spectacle be replicated in Israel’s future bold and belligerent strikes on Turkey, its army, and its president? And how will the new temporary Syrian leadership react to these Israeli insults? We ask and know the answer, yet we express it with venom in our voices.

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