Israel bombs Syria, sends message to Turkey

Israel has adopted a new doctrine, bombing Syria and signaling to Turkey that it will not tolerate the stationing of Turkish troops in the country. Security expert Dan Schueftan described the strike on the Abu al-Duhur airfield in Idlib province as a message to Turkey, delivered not by diplomats but by F-16s and F-35s.

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If you need a messenger, an F-16 or an F-35 is a better choice. That way, the message reaches the other side faster.

Israeli jets attacked the military base last Tuesday, hitting the runway and storage buildings. Damascus condemned the action as an "act of aggression," while Washington called it an "unnecessary escalation." Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that Israel and Syria had an agreement on security matters, and Damascus's invitation to Ankara to deploy troops was seen as a breach of this informal understanding.

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Our country and Syria had agreed on a status quo regarding security issues.

The conflict has turned Syria into a theater for the Israeli-Turkish power struggle, which has been simmering for a decade. Turkey's military intervention in northern Syria, officially to combat terrorists and Kurdish militias, has been viewed by Israel as Turkish expansionism. The two nations also clash over security arrangements in Lebanon and Gaza, and more directly in the eastern Mediterranean, where Turkey pursues its "blue homeland" doctrine, claiming maritime areas also claimed by Greece and Cyprus.

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an act of aggression