{"id":622434,"date":"2026-06-21T02:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T02:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=622434"},"modified":"2026-06-21T02:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T02:45:00","slug":"syria-turkey-represent-bigger-threat-to-israel-than-iran-israeli-minister-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=622434","title":{"rendered":"‘Syria & Turkey Represent Bigger Threat To Israel Than Iran’: Israeli Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Syria & Turkey Represent Bigger Threat To Israel Than Iran’: Israeli Minister<\/span><\/p>\n

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Via The Cradle<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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<\/strong>,” <\/strong>highlighting that the alliance between Damascus and Turkey poses a “strategic challenge” to his country.<\/p>\n

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.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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<\/strong>, labeling it “far more troubling” than Iran<\/strong>, and claimed that these nations shaped a recent US\u2013Iran memorandum of understanding (MoU) intended to end regional hostilities.<\/p>\n

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While Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hailed the memorandum as an \u201cimportant development,\u201d Chikli joined other Likud lawmakers in branding Turkiye an \u201cenemy state.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

He claimed that Turkiye holds \u201cvery clear ambitions\u201d compromising Israeli interests, saying that Ankara and Damascus are \u201cten thousand times more concerning than Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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<\/strong>, raids, and the establishment of checkpoints.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to a daily tracker launched by\u00a0Levant24<\/i>, Israeli forces have carried out approximately 1,128 ground incursions and 1,055 airstrikes, advancing more than 20 kilometers beyond the occupied Golan Heights<\/strong>. These actions have resulted in over 197 detentions and at least 36 fatalities.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Self-appointed Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa is reportedly\u00a0resisting intense pressure<\/a>\u00a0from the US to launch a military incursion into Lebanon to disarm Hezbollah.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Despite a framework proposed by US President Donald Trump for the Syrian military to lead this offensive, Sharaa remained \u201cunprepared and unwilling,\u201d according to\u00a0 Israel\u2019s 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Although US envoy Tom Barrack has threatened Lebanon with a Syrian assault to dismantle Hezbollah, Sharaa has dismissed the reports as \u201crumors,\u201d asserting his goal is to end the war rather than expand it<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Israeli War Minister Israel Katz told Channel 14 that \u201cWe do not need Julani. Julani, the terrorist in a suit<\/strong>, does not need to come and help us. We know Syria well. He is not going to help us in Lebanon.\u201d He added that Sharaa \u201cshould stay in Syria, not interfere with us, and not make us interfere with him.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you know what really hurts the jihadists?\u201d Katz said, going on to assert that killing them would not hurt them as much as \u201cwhen you take territory from them and destroy their homes \u2013\u00a0and that’s what we did.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nSat, 06\/20\/2026 – 22:45<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘Syria & Turkey Represent Bigger Threat To Israel Than Iran’: Israeli Minister Via The Cradle 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… Continue reading ‘Syria & Turkey Represent Bigger Threat To Israel Than Iran’: Israeli Minister<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":622421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-622434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic-empowerment","category-national-security","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=622434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/622421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=622434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=622434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=622434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}