For years, many in Israel clung to the illusion that Turkey could be reasoned with, that Erdogan’s fire-breathing speeches were just talk. But it’s not talk anymore. It’s a threat. A real, military threat.

This is not the Turkey of 20 years ago.

Once a close military ally of Israel, Turkey under Erdogan has gone full radical: funding Hamas, stirring chaos in Jerusalem, threatening Cyprus and Greece, and now embedding itself in Syria through a loyal puppet regime.