Türkiye Hammers Netanyahu’s Syria Plans - There’s No Hiding From This!

Right, so Donald Trump has turned up in Ankara, Turkey and casually reopened a question Israel desperately wanted kept shut: Turkey getting back into the F-35 programme.

At the same time, Turkey has helped Syria install a new radar at Damascus airport, which means the skies Israel has spent years treating like its own private bypass might not be quite so empty anymore, so perhaps those settlers who have been getting comfy on the wrong side of Israel’s undefined border might like to get back on the right side of it.

And then Mark Rutte the apparent Secretary General of NATO, but better known right now as an echo for whatever dross seems to fall out of Little Donnie’s puckered punim ends up getting asked the fairly obvious question. If this growing clash between Israel and Turkey turns into an actual confrontation, what does NATO actually do?

Now, you’d think that would be the easy bit. Turkey is in NATO. Article 5 is the famous one. Attack one, attack all. It’s practically printed on the mugs.

Except Rutte doesn’t go there.