By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent Worthy News
JERUSALEM (Worthy News) – Israel’s foreign minister has urged the NATO military alliance to expel Turkey after its President Tayyip Erdogan threatened his country might invade the Jewish nation.
“In light of Turkish President Erdogan’s threats to invade Israel and his dangerous rhetoric, Foreign Minister Israel Katz instructed diplomats… to urgently engage with all NATO members, calling for the condemnation of Turkey and demanding its expulsion from the regional alliance,” the ministry said.
Turkey also entered Libya and Nagorno-Karabakh in the past.
The statement came after in the Netherlands, the anti-Islam Party for Freedom (PVV) leader Geert Wilders, who won the Dutch parliamentary election, said Turkey should be kicked out of NATO in response to Turkish President Erdogan’s readiness to “enter” Israel.
“Islamofascist Erdogan threatens to invade Israel. This guy is totally nuts. Turkey should be kicked out of NATO,” Wilders wrote on social platform X.
Israeli Foreign Minister Katz agreed, saying that Erdogan is following the path of Iraq’s leader Saddam Hussein by threatening to attack Israel.
However, Katz warned Israel should remember Hussein’s fate. The Iraqi leader was eventually executed after a U.S.-led coalition invaded the country.
ALL OUT WAR
The tensions came as Israel prepared for an all-out war with Lebanon-based Hezbollah and the ongoing battle against Hamas following its massacre of some 1,200 people in Israel.
Erdogan, who has been a fierce critic of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza to destroy Hamas, started discussing that war during a speech over the weekend praising his country’s defense industry.
“We must be very strong so that Israel can’t do these ridiculous things to Palestine. Just like we entered Karabakh, just like we entered Libya, we might do similar to them,” Erdogan told a meeting of his ruling AK Party in his hometown of Rize.
“There is no reason why we cannot do this… We must be strong so that we can take these steps,” Erdogan added in the televised address.
Israeli commentators were quick to say that Erdogan “must play his cards carefully” as he underestimates Israel’s military might.
Yet, with the Jewish nation already engaged in several armed conflicts, there has been concern within Israeli army circles about Israel’s capabilities.
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