AWWW... TURKEY'S SO PISSED OFF AT ISRAEL THAT THEY MIGHT NOT HELP ISRAEL GIVE SYRIA BACK THE GOLAN

Although it may look like we don't care on the outside, on the inside we're actually crying:

The three-way diplomatic liaison that binds Ankara, Damascus and Jerusalem is a very sensitive matter indeed. Last week's alleged aerial incursion by Israeli warplanes that reportedly penetrated into Syria through Turkish airspace just served to make things more complicated. Moreover, the incident heightened all the preexisting tensions among all three partners... while Ankara's relationship with Israel is subject to increasing tensions, the Turks and Syrians are undergoing a gradual rapprochement... Turkey has recently been reported mediating between Syria in Israel in an attempt to jump-start negotiations between Jerusalem and Damascus.

Turkey has traditionally been the go-to mediator for any Israeli Prime Minister who wants to give territory back to Syria, one of the worst and least trustworthy regimes on the planet. So we're sure you can imagine how heartbroken we are about this. And don't worry about the broader context of Israeli-Turkish relations. The Turkish army has a very firm answer for Turkish politicians who genuinely seek to undermine relations between the secular Turkish army and the IDF: absolutely not. Turkey's army enjoys extremely warm relations with Israel. But if you did want to start getting a little paranoid about the degree to which the Turkish army is actually on Israel's side, there's this...

One way or another, this will become a problem in a generation or two. By then a massive number of Turks will have adopted the peculiar interpretation of the Religion of Peace that embraces killing people. But until then, Turkey's concern about Israeli bombing raids on weapons meant for Hezbollah is less than dramatic.

[Cross-posted to Mere Rhetoric]