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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(136,100 posts)
Sun Apr 12, 2026, 09:41 PM 4 hrs ago

Erdogan threatens to invade Israel

Source: The Telegraph

Turkey’s president has threatened to invade Israel over its continued bombardment of Lebanon.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan accused Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, of being “blinded by blood and hate” and said there was “no reason” not to attack.

Mr Erdoğan said: “Had Pakistan not been mediating in the war between the US and Iran, we would have shown Israel its place… Just as we entered Libya and Karabakh, we can enter Israel. There is no reason not to do it.”

The speech came after Turkish prosecutors filed indictments against 35 top Israeli officials, including Mr Netanyahu, seeking a total of more than 4,500 years in prison.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/erdogan-threatens-invade-israel-180930252.html



I thought Erdogan was Trump's buddy
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UpInArms

(55,049 posts)
2. Putting the fire out with gasoline
Sun Apr 12, 2026, 09:44 PM
4 hrs ago

Unfortunately, TFG thought it was a good thing to start the fire

IronLionZion

(51,365 posts)
3. Who had WW3 on their bingo card?
Sun Apr 12, 2026, 09:44 PM
4 hrs ago

Any more countries want to get in on this short excursion that totally isn't war?

Skittles

(172,000 posts)
10. I have thought all my life that WWIII would start with Israel
Sun Apr 12, 2026, 11:32 PM
2 hrs ago

I never thought America would be in cahoots with them.

LeftInTX

(34,502 posts)
15. Erdogan threatened Israel in 2024. He also talked it up in February of this year.
Mon Apr 13, 2026, 12:20 AM
2 hrs ago

He's a thug.

From 2024

https://pappas.house.gov/media/press-releases/pappas-statement-on-erdogan-s-threat-to-invade-israel

He threatened to attack Israel in 2025

He threatened Syria in 2022
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/turkeys-erdogan-threatens-new-incursion-into-syria

In 2021, he threatened to expel diplomats of the US, Germany, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway and Sweden.

In 2022, he threated to invade Greece

In 2020, he threatened to obliterate the Gulf states


He's a thug.....

LeftInTX

(34,502 posts)
6. He won't. Israel's oil comes from Turkey's pipeline, which Turkey benefits from.
Sun Apr 12, 2026, 10:09 PM
4 hrs ago

It's just bluster.

Also Azerbaijan and Israel are BFFs, so is Turkey and Azerbaijan.

fujiyamasan

(1,825 posts)
8. Erdogan is just another thug looking to take advantage of the situation
Sun Apr 12, 2026, 10:37 PM
3 hrs ago

He knows he could be the next Orban.

fujiyamasan

(1,825 posts)
17. The next Orban?
Mon Apr 13, 2026, 12:27 AM
1 hr ago

Not yet. He has to lose big. That’s what I was getting at. He has to keep the masses riled up against Israel and the Kurds.

wolfie001

(7,774 posts)
9. the fat orange imbecile has really made a mess of things
Sun Apr 12, 2026, 10:58 PM
3 hrs ago

I'm glad I retired so I don't have to fill my car with gas every 4 roundtrips to work anymore. The stupid CNBC business goof Kernan was blaming Biden about gas prices to Buttigieg from back in 2022 and no one brought up the fact that the fat orange imbecile made that deal with Russia and Saudi Arabia cutting their oil output. The agreement was signed in April 2020. Stupid fuck Kernan ignored that major fact and kept saying it was the Democrats that caused all those high prices. What a stupid fraud. He's a dishonest tRUMP humper.

AverageOldGuy

(3,962 posts)
12. Remember the Archduke of Sarajevo?
Mon Apr 13, 2026, 12:11 AM
2 hrs ago

Of course not. No one remembers anything about him except that his assassination set off WW I. A Sarajevo amounted to a pimple on a flea's ass. Yet . . . . 15 - 22 million died in the ensuing war.

And now we have the leader of one little pissant country threatening to invade another because of his treatment of a third country that amounts to little or nothing in the grand scheme of things.

Meanwhile, the most powerful nation on earth is ruled -- ruled, not governed -- by a demented ignoramus. And he has the keys to the nuclear arsenal.

Buddyzbuddy

(2,704 posts)
18. All so Netanyahu can stay out of prison.
Mon Apr 13, 2026, 12:29 AM
1 hr ago

I hope Israeli's stop their madman before he gets them killed. I sincerely hope I'm wrong, there's been enough bloodshed to last a dozen lifetimes.

To all believers and non believers, believe what you choose but ask yourselves, what if this is it. Only this life, no great beyond. You will have risked everything for nothing. No more time with loved ones, no more memories to be made or shared because assholes took advantage of people trying to get to the next life.
Just think about it.
I don't care what you believe, it matters not at all to me as long as it doesn't infringe on others right to live.
Really think about the words don't just say them.

"PEACE BE WITH YOU"

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