Lapid Visited a Friendly Turkey Who Accommodated Him, a Change in Attitude

 Nadene Goldfoot                                    

                     Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President of Turkey b: 26 February, 1954;  current president of Turkey since 2014;  In response to the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict, Erdoğan accused Israel of conducting "state terrorism" and a "genocide attempt" against the Palestinians. He also stated that "If Israel continues with this attitude, it will definitely be tried at international courts."  Erdoğan is co-founder of United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (AOC). The initiative seeks to galvanize international action against extremism through the forging of international, intercultural and inter-religious dialogue and cooperation.

A cold war has been going on that doesn't make the news.  Israel has warned Israelis in Turkey to return  home because of Iranian terrorism.  Evidently Erdogan is now on the bandwagon and is seeing to it that terrorists are not welcome anymore in his country.  Israel recently bombed the Damascus airport where ammunition to use against Israel was coming from.  Syria has not joined Turkey in this end to terrorists.  

Russia is complaining loudly about the strike, they who are aligned with all of Israel's enemies and who are breaking every human rights rule in Ukraine.  Israel is reacting defensively, protecting its citizens.  

Evidently, Turkey is not going to allow terrorist groups such as Hamas (Islamic Resistance Movement)  anymore freedom.  They have made up with Israel. I commend the Abrahamic Accords to instigate an understanding of Israel in their midst and bring on a peace in the Middle East.                  

 The Palestinians have been producing many terrorist groups.  The fact remains that most Palestinian leaders have belonged or still belong to either the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization)  or Hamas.            

                                  Ismail Haniyeh

                                                            Hassan Nasrallah

 

Hamas’ Ismail Haniyeh conferred urgently with Hizballah’s/Hezbollah (Party of God) Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut on Thursday after Turkish intelligence detained a large group of Iranian agents and foiled a plot targeting Israelis visiting Istanbul, including a retired senior Israeli diplomat and his wife.     

    Their Turkish collaborators were recruited by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards agents –  all posing as tourists and students.

There are still about 2,000 Israelis living in Turkey who were advised by Israel to return but haven't.  This turn against terrorists is helping to safeguard their lives.  The Iranians have been rebuffed.   

                                               

Israel’s warm appreciation was conveyed by visiting caretaker PM Yair Lapid and signaled the recent thawing of relations between the two governments.  He had no idea he would be facing the PM position so quickly when he returned to Jerusalem.                     

Israel's Foreign Minister Yair Lapid with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu at a joint press conference, Ankara, Turkey, June 23, 2022. - Boaz Oppenheim

Israel’s Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu concluded a short while ago their joint press conference, ending the one-day visit of Lapid to Ankara. It was the first time in many years that an Israeli foreign minister made an official visit to the Turkish capital — a visit that highlighted the continuing rapprochement process between Ankara and Jerusalem. In March, Israeli President Isaac Herzog visited Turkey, and Cavusoglu visited Israel at the end of May.

                                                                                  

  

 Syria's Bashar al Assad, the 19th president of Syria, since 17 July 2000

Fearing that the incident portended an order by President Recep Erdogan  to crack down on all anti-Israel terrorist activity from his country, including the hosting of Hamas bases, the Palestinian group is acting to restore its ties with Iran’s Lebanese proxy, Hizballah/Hezbollah, as well as seeking reconciliation with Syria’s Bashar Assad.   Russia didn't like the Damascus airport to be bombed by Israel  as that's how they were getting weapons in for Iran to be used against Israel.                         

 Damascus is in the southern end across from Lebanon's name

They hope to recover their old bases of operation in Syria, that were lost when the Palestinians backed the losing side in Syria’s civil war.

Ebrahim Raisi, who is Sayyid Ebrahim Raisolsadati, commonly known as Ebrahim Raisi, is an Iranian hardline, Islamist, principlist politician, Muslim jurist, and the eighth and current president of Iran since 3 August 2021, having been elected to the presidency in the 2021 election.

The war in Syria presents a significant, even existential, threat to this strategic alliance by endangering one of its primary members and the chief conduit for Iranian support to Hezbollah. At the same time, Iran cannot afford to lose its most important foothold in the Levant, and Hezbollah cannot risk losing its access to critical Iranian and Syrian support. Maintaining the Axis of resistance is also a matter of great ideological importance for Iran and its commitment to exporting its Islamic revolutionary principles. For all of these reasons, Iran will go to great lengths to preserve its foothold in Syria.

The Axis of Resistance is an Iran-led alliance of state and non-state actors in the Middle East that seeks to confront Western interests in the region, namely those of the United States and Israel. Historically, this alliance has included the Assad regime in Syria and Lebanese Hezbollah. In recent years, Iran has also cultivated Iraqi Shi’a militants as the newest members of this alliance. Aside from shared regional objectives, another pillar of the axis is shared support. 

Iran provides extensive material, financial, training, and logistical assistance to its regional partners. For example, Iran has supplied Hezbollah with as much as $200 million each year. After Hezbollah’s 2006 war with Israel, Iran and Syria rearmed Hezbollah with vastly expanded and more sophisticated weaponry. Much of this support has flowed through Syria, making it the primary hub in Iran’s power projection in the Levant. 

A Britain-based watchdog said an alleged Israeli strike on Damascus airport Friday hit three arms depots connected to Iran-backed militia.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor of unclear funding, also said Saturday that the northern runway at the airport was damaged, as was the observation tower and lighting systems used for planes to navigate.

The group said that disused passenger halls at the airport were hit in the strike. It claimed that the arrival halls had been repurposed as areas for the unobserved arrival of senior figures from the Iranian military and Lebanon’s Hezbollah terror group.

Resource:

Debka files https://www.debka.com/mivzak/hamas-and-hizballah-fear-potential-turkish-crackdown-on-terror/