
ISRAEL ALMOST STARTED A WAR WITH TURKEY, AND NO ONE, NOT EVEN TRUMP, SAW IT COMING…
Israel’s strike in Syria almost started a war with Turkey, and Trump’s Special Envoy just gave me an extraordinary account of how it happened
According to Ambassador Tom Barrack, Israel… pic.twitter.com/2rwudobQIL
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) August 21, 2026
Israel’s strike in Syria almost started a war with Turkey, and Trump’s Special Envoy just gave me an extraordinary account of how it happened According to Ambassador Tom Barrack, Israel received intelligence suggesting Turkey might be moving military assets onto a Syrian airbase. Washington checked, and confirmed it WAS NOT happening. The concern was communicated, the intelligence was examined, and Syria believed the issue was being handled through diplomatic channels, including a two-hour backchannel discussion between Syria’s foreign minister and the head of Mossad. Then jets appeared anyway, and Israel struck the runways without notifying either Washington or Turkey. That’s where this stopped being another Israeli strike on Syria and became something potentially far more dangerous. Turkey saw the aircraft approaching and, not knowing their purpose or target, began confronting the possibility that it would have to scramble its own jets.
It could have triggered a direct military confrontation between two of America’s most important regional partners, one of them a NATO member. Asked why Israel would take such a risk, Ambassador Barrack offered two theories. One was a catastrophic breakdown in communication between Mossad, the IDF and Netanyahu’s office. The other? “The Israelis were baiting the Turks.” My bet is on the latter… Behind all of this sits an even bigger strategic contest. Ambassador Barrack says Israel wants Syria kept clear of military systems that could interfere with its access to Iran, describing Syrian airspace as providing Israel with a “clear line of sight to Iran.” Turkey, meanwhile, is becoming increasingly entrenched as a military and political power inside the new Syria; so this wasn’t simply another airstrike. It was a glimpse of the fault line emerging underneath the post-Assad Middle East: Turkey wants to help build and secure the new Syria; Israel wants to ensure that Syria can never obstruct its freedom to strike Iran. For a few extremely dangerous moments, those two ambitions appear to have nearly met in the sky. And next time, cooler heads may not get there first.
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