Thread by @sfrantzman

Thread: Every time you read these propaganda articles about "warming ties" between Israel and Turkey...you can see how much it is a lie by simply looking at Turkey's REAL ally and friend and how its regime smiles with Iran; this is a photo of REAL WARM TIES:

So before one drinks the kool-aid, just ask "where is the photo of Israel's foreign minister smiling with Turkey's foreign minister"? Wait...Hamas is still being hosted in Turkey. Right. So it is propaganda, fed (leaked) by Ankara and its lobby/friends into the media mill.

And some people claim "Turkey-Israel trade is evidence of good ties"...let me point you to the REAL allies of Ankara in trade...the big pro-government headlines talking about new rail and truck routes to RUSSIA and CHINA.

Turkey-Iran-Russia-China that is the grouping

Of course...Turkey and Israel do trade. Israel also has amicable talks with Russia and with China. But if you want to use words like "warm" and "new" and relations between Turkey and Israel, currently relations are COLD and OLD and basically only trade or very low level.

And if one point to "but there are intel connections"...yes...so...Israel has intel connections going back decades with countries it doesn't even have relations with. Ankara literally bashed Israel at the UN, hosts terrorists, tried to sabotage Israel's relations w Greece, UAE

Open one's eyes and never trust the stories of new Turkey-Israel ties. And if you want to begin to believe it...then trust but verify...VERIFY it...where are the ministerial visits, the smiling photos...Ankara literally tried to send an envoy who was anti-Israel...come on...

Just look at the language of Ankara's regime when it talks about Iran, Russia and China, it's real allies...and then look at how it bashes the US, Israel, UAE, Greece and France and basically everyone else.

Ankara's natural allies are Qatar, Malaysia and Pakistan as fellow traveller religious-conservative regimes...and then Ankara's circle is Russia-Iran-China...which view themselves as a counterweight to US...this is a fact. This is reality.

Now, one can live in the non-reality of "belief" that "Turkey is a bulwark against Russia" and "Turkey outplayed Iran, China"....you can believe that. But there is zero evidence. There is actually Astana, Sochi and high level work with Russia-Iran.

Now...any day that Ankara wants to verify its supposed "warming" narrative it tries to sell to DC or Israel or via opeds or leaks...it can host an Israeli minister and it can smile like it does with Zarif and have positive articles in state media TRT, Anadolu etc...

Ankara's regime is a top-down authoritarian regime, with the click of a finger it changes headlines at its mass media and jails journalists...it bashes student protesters, invents conspiracies...even spread antisemitism...so it can change of course.

The real goal of the "warming ties" narrative is just to:

1-muddy the waters for Israel and friends like Greece, UAE
2-try to get an "in" to Washington's new leadership
3-create "momentum" for a self-fulfilling prophecy so people can say "this is evidence, I read an article"

The story is like the man who tries to stop his kids bothering him by lying that cashews are half price at the shuk so they will go buy them...and then wakes up 20 minutes later believing his own lie and runs off to the shuk to search for half price cashews.