Turkey & Israel On Brink Of Military Clash After Netanyahu Ordered Strikes On Syrian Airbase

At a moment of the ongoing Iran conflict, Israel and Turkey are escalating their competing claims and rhetoric over Syria, to the point that full-blown war is being threatened. NBC writes of the irony of two American regional allies on the brink: “A pair of key American allies, an attack on a strategic military base and an intense election campaign: The United States has been scrambling to de-escalate this week after Israel launched strikes that appeared aimed not just at the country’s regional rivals but at its voters,” in a Saturday report. The day prior, Turkey issued another arrest warrant…