Is Israel provoking Turkey in Syria?

Genocidal Israel, insatiable for blood in Gaza, continues to complete all the pieces of a genocide again and again by bombing hospitals, refugee tents, ambulances, water purification plants and bread bakeries. At the same time, in the West Bank, it continues its massacres by pursuing usurper-settler terror without even needing the pretext of Hamas. After its systematic attacks on Lebanon, since December 8 it appears to have turned aggression against Syria too into a routine activity.

On Wednesday evening, Israeli warplanes launched a large and devastating bombardment targeting airports in central Syria and research centers in the Hama and Damascus regions. At the same time it engaged in ground operations and clashes in the Daraa and Quneitra provinces. In these attacks, most of the Hama Military Airport and a large part of the T4 Airport east of Homs were destroyed.

That the Syrian people, who lived under Assad's rule for 14 years the greatest tyranny of recent history at the level of genocide, began to be subjected to Israeli attacks on the very day they were rid of Assad shows that the Syrian people's ordeal has not ended. But from Israel's standpoint, the timing of this aggression exposes how fabricated the story we have been led to believe until now was. Under the Assad administration, categorically presented until now as the strongest fortress of the line of resistance against Zionism, Israel very rarely touched Syria.

Now and then some targets were hit so that hostility would be visible, and the Assad regime did not retaliate at all anyway. Apart from that, there was a stable neighborly relationship between them. Even when Iran viewed Syria as a resistance front, Israel did not touch it much. Did Assad at that time have some extra air defense capability that would deter Israel from aggression? Of course not. Then what happened that Israel, just when its so-called arch enemy had been toppled, launched a one-sided war against the administration that replaced it, when not the slightest aggressive intention or word toward itself had issued from it?

Undoubtedly this alone shows what kind of immoral relationship Israel had with the Assad regime. It was sure that all the chemical or conventional weapons Assad held would never be aimed at it. Those weapons were going to be used against Assad's own people. They had no side that would threaten Israel. Yet now that those weapons have fallen into the hands of the Syrian people themselves, Israel has begun to feel a threat from this.

This alone shows that genocidal Israel is also a partner in all the crimes committed against its own people for 14 years, and even before that for 60 years by the Baath regime. The force that today can spontaneously move to destroy all of Syria's weapons infrastructure could have intervened in the deaths of 1 million Syrians over 14 years but did not. The weapons in the hands of Assad, who massacred his civilian people, never threatened Israel. How, one wonders, would those who regard regime change in Syria as an event that took place with the approval of the US or Israel, or from which they emerged as winners, explain this?

The aim of the Israeli bombardments is to continue completely destroying the military infrastructure, to disarm Syria, and, especially after losing the Assad regime, which had in fact been protecting Israel's security for 57 years, to render Syria unable to pose any future threat to Israel's security.

Israel continues its bombing, ground operations and demolition activities to destroy the remaining weapons, even if old and worn. At the same time it wants to prevent the new state from building a strong army equipped with missiles, aircraft and air defense systems. With this bombing it declares that it will not allow anyone to arm or strengthen this army.

Israeli official voices do not hold back from saying that the real target of this declaration is Turkey, as if provoking Turkey. Indeed, the places bombed are precisely the likely areas for the military base being discussed between Turkey and Syria. Yet Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, in response to this Israeli aggression, stated "We do not want to confront Israel in Syria." Fidan also said "If the Syrian administration wants to reach a certain understanding with Israel, that is up to them," and then said that the Israeli attacks weakened the new Syrian government's ability to deter the terrorist organization ISIS and other threats.

This aggression, which targets the new Syrian administration, whose only agenda is to heal 60 years of wounds and rebuild the ruined country, when it has not yet shown any intention or word against Israel, shows that Israel is an incorrigible danger. There is no need for anyone, especially Turkey, to see it as an enemy; its own hostile outlook and approach will never leave it without an enemy facing it that will destroy it.

That it does not hold back from declaring that its target is Turkey while bombing Syria, that it is itself the one who started and provokes this enmity against Turkey... In fact this too rests on a psychology arising from knowing its own guilt. Israel knows that, because of the crimes it has committed, it will sooner or later find itself facing Turkey, and it is trying to get ahead of it already. It thus causes its own threat itself. That being so, whatever measure it takes, it will have no end and no remedy other than losing.