NEWSBITE 3.4.2025
According to an article posted in the online edition of the Jerusalem Post it read “Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s call for Allah to “bring destruction upon Zionist Israel,” underscores that a direct military clash is inevitable.
According to an extract from the article it stated; “Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s unprecedented statement on March 30, openly calling for Allah to bring “destruction upon Zionist Israel,” underscores that a direct military clash is inevitable. Turkey is already deeply entrenched near Israel’s borders, unlikely to leave voluntarily.
Following the Turkish-backed December 2024 coup in Damascus, Ankara has become Syria’s principal powerbroker, directly or indirectly controlling around 8,000 sq.km. from Idlib to Ras al-Ayn, dangerously close to Israeli territory.
This Islamist-oriented Syrian government, now openly allied with Ankara, is actively negotiating a formal defence pact to host Turkish troops and advanced air-defence systems permanently on Syrian soil, a move that would fundamentally alter the strategic balance.
Reports confirm that Turkey is already preparing air bases in northern Syria capable of launching drone operations, which could threaten Israeli airspace directly and severely constrain Israel’s operational freedom.
Israel’s strategic community, as indicated clearly in the Nagel Committee’s report released in January 2025, has identified Turkey’s deepening military entrenchment in Syria as potentially “even more dangerous than the Iranian threat.”
There is no doubt that the man from Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan is upping the ante on his plans to send Turkish forces on mass into Syria to further support the terrorist regime of Joulani, who, practicing Taqiyya, has publically stated that he wants to see the ethnic population in Syria treated fairly.
He sees himself as an advocate for all people in Syria; however, his end-game is to see Sharia Law implemented in Syria. Like Erdogan He is also a Sunni Muslim.
Erdogan as a Sunni Muslim will continue to support Joulani, but I am persuaded only until Turkey has supreme control in Syria, and then Erdogan may well divest himself of the rebel leader. In the former Turkish Ottoman Empire the caliph was the top man and his law supreme and not to be questioned.
For the man from Turkey to have control of Syria would give him direct access to Israel, something which would bring Turkey into an all-out confrontation with Israel.
Israel is aware of Turkey’s advanced drone capabilities, sophisticated electronic warfare, and NATO standard military training as critical risks to Israel’s national security.
Added to Israel’s concern is Turkey’s “over the top” support for Hamas as Erdogan allows Hamas to freely operate within Turkish territory. Before his assassination in 2024 Saleh al-Arouri, the senior leader of Hamas was permitted by Erdogan to coordinate terrorist attacks from Istanbul.
The Israelis are also concerned that Turkey may activate their Russian made S-400 missile systems towards Israel.
Erdogan’s fiery militant and malevolent rhetoric on March 30th explicitly calling upon Allah to bring “destruction upon Zionist Israel” is extremely dangerous in light of Turkish forces entering Syria.
On Turkey’s home front Erdogan is also seeking to direct attention away from the civil unrest and economic woes of Turkey. Historically leaders under similar pressures have resorted to external conflicts as distractions.
Added to this the man from Turkey may well exploit nationalist sentiment through increased tensions with Israel. In the Islamic world of politics Erdogan is increasingly seen as “a wild card” within Islam and distancing itself from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates because of Turkey’s ties with Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.
The regime of the man from Turkey is closer than it has ever been to a conflagration with Israel even though Turkey is facing the collapse of domestic legitimacy in the midst of mass protests by civilians. Despite the protests Erdogan’s threats towards Israel have become increasingly militarised.
The Israelis realise that a military confrontation with Turkey is only a matter of time.
The Israelis who have top intelligence capabilities globally have received reports that Turkey is already preparing air bases in Northern Syria capable of launching drone operations which could directly threaten Israeli airspace constraining operational freedom.
Added to the tensions already being experience in Israel by the rockets and missile attacks from Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis, the Joulani terrorist regime is now openly allied with Ankara in actively negotiating a formal defence pact to host Turkish troops and advanced air defence systems permanently on Syrian soil.
A move like that would strategically affect the current stand-off situation existing between Israel with Turkey and the terrorist regime under the despotic dictatorship of Joulani.
Turkey’s deepening militaristic interference in Syria potentially is even more dangerous for the Israelis than the threat from Iran.
Where is all of this headed?
In Daniel chapter 11:36-45 we see described the military strategy of the Antichrist. He will not be a man of peace but of a man of war. His God will be the god of fortresses (Vs.38). Today the ‘god’ of Islam in reality is the Mesopotamian moon-god of war. The emblem of Islam on Islamic flags and banners is the crossed scimitars pointing upwards revealing “conquest by the sword” which is the main ideology and strategy of Islam. When Muslims are not fighting a common enemy they go to fighting each other.
Ishmael’s descendants will always be divided and Esau’s descendants will always live by the sword (Genesis 16:12; 27:40). We see this among the Arab nations today.
We also see in Daniel chapter 11 that the Antichrist will honour a god of fortresses and with the help of his ‘foreign god’ attack the mightiest of fortresses, he will have great wealth at his disposal (Verses 38-39). He will be engaged in a great war against many nations (Verse 40). The prophet Ezekiel tells us that the forces of Antichrist will be opposed by the armies of other nations, “foreigners; the most ruthless of nations” (Ezekiel 28:6-10).
We are also told that the Antichrist will invade the Holy land, being Israel, and sweep through many countries unable to resist his forces (Verses 41-43). He will be alarmed by reports from the east and the north and in a great rage seek to annihilate any that stand in his way (Verse. 44). He will make his headquarters at Jerusalem, having obtained his ultimate goal but there He will meet his end with no one will help him (Verse. 45).
When you see the military strategy of the man from Turkey wanting to control Syria it is clear that his ultimate goal is the conquest of Israel and more so to possess Jerusalem. Whoever conquers Jerusalem for Islam will have the whole Muslim world at his feet and be the hero of Islam.
Erdogan is becoming a major player in Middle-Eastern politics and his desire is to lead the armies of a united Islamic world against Jerusalem as his Turkish Ottoman forebears did.
Turkey will lead the end time invasion of Israel. In Ezekiel chapter 38:1-6 five out of the 8 nations mentioned by name are all Islamic nations today. Gog is the Antichrist and Magog shown on ancient maps of the Middle-East is located in modern day Turkey.
Antiochus Epiphanes, the major type of the Antichrist in scripture, the Seleucid Greek despotic General, a man of war, invaded Israel from Syria. The Antichrist will also do the same thing. The description of the King who exults himself and what he will do in Daniel chapter 11:36-45 has not as yet happened in history. It is a future event.
How can we know this to be so?
If you look at Daniel chapter 11 verses 36-37 we notice several things about this man. He will do as he pleases. He will exult and magnify himself above every god and will say unheard of things against the God (our Triune God) of gods (the principalities and spirit of wickedness)…he will regard none of these ‘gods’, but will exult himself over them all.
Now if we turn to 2nd Thessalonians 2:4 we read that the man of sin or of lawlessness opposes and exults himself over everything that is called God or is worshipped, and set himself up in God’s Temple, proclaiming himself to be God.
When you compare these two passages of scripture they are clearly referring to the one and the same man, the Antichrist. Ultimately he will be the one who will lead the armies of Islam and other non-Islamic nations against Israel. His army will come out of Syria and cover the land of Israel like locusts (Joel 2:1-11).
Our Triune God will destroy this army from the North (north of Israel) driving them into the Mediterranean Sea and the Dead Sea (Joel 2:20).
We are also told in 2nd Thessalonians that when this lawlessness one that is doomed to destruction is revealed, and we will know who he is, that the Lord Jesus, Israel’s Messiah, will overthrow him by the breath of His mouth and destroy him by the splendour of His Second Coming (Vss3b-4,8).
In a nutshell, in the end the woman (Israel) and her spiritual offspring (the Body of Messiah spiritually grafted into Israel) will be saved from the power of the enormous red dragon (Satan) whose end is the eternal lake of fire! (Revelation chapter 12) (Revelation 20:10).
