Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan a “antisemitic dictator” this Friday, following the rise in tensions between these countries this week with the Israeli bombing of a military base in Syria that was to be used, according to Netanyahu, as a deployment zone by the Turkish Army.
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Both Syria and Turkey have rejected the Israeli Government’s reasoning to justify its bombing of the Abu al-Duhur airbase in northern Syria, stating that, contrary to Netanyahu’s claims, “there was no intention to establish a Turkish base there, nor a Turkish military presence,” according to Damascus.
Turkey is convinced that, with this attack, Netanyahu is orchestrating an excuse to deepen his invasion of the neighboring country beyond the Golan Heights.
This is the latest in a very long series of historical frictions, exacerbated by the Gaza war and its ramifications, such as the Israeli attack in July against a humanitarian flotilla heading to Gaza that led Turkey to issue an arrest warrant against the prime minister, whom Erdogan usually describes as a genocidal.
Now, in a statement published this Friday, Netanyahu again directs harsh words against the Turkish president, an “antisemitic dictator” whom he accuses of massacring Kurds, harboring members of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, “occupying” half of Cyprus, and imprisoning a “record number of journalists and politicians who oppose him.”
Netanyahu has stated that Erdogan’s new goal is to extend “his war of aggression” against Israel to Syria, before warning the president that his “pathetic attempt to intimidate the leaders and soldiers of Israel, the only true democracy in the Middle East, will get nowhere.”
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