Arab-American Tom Barrack is our ambassador to Turkey, and special envoy to Syria as well. Barrack has fallen hard for Ahmed al-Sharaa’s charade of being a “moderate” who wants to make “peace” with Israel. Barrack also seems as impressed as his boss with Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the padishah who rules Turkey and nurses his neo-Ottoman […]
Israel Moves to Protect Itself From Turkish Aggression
I assume that the attack on Abu Al Duhur airbase had two objectives. First, to destroy the main runway, which for some time will put the airbase out of commission. This means the Turks will not be able to fly in men and weapons. Second, to destroy radar and other air defense systems that the […]
Israel Strikes Syrian Air Base
Israeli planes struck Abu Al-Duhur, a Syrian airbase, on August 18, dropping eight bombs, destroying a main runway and, even more important, devastating storage facilities containing what Israel knew was Turkish weaponry. Israel had information that the Turkish army was just about to deploy troops at the base, which could then be used both to […]