00:20this is no longer a diplomatic disagreement this is two leaders calling each other war criminals
00:27in public on the record and tonight the gap between israel and turkey just got a whole lot wider
00:33it started with turkish president recep tayyip erdogan he came out with one of his sharpest
00:40statements yet he said israel's strikes on syria and lebanon have now reached a point where they
00:46directly threatened turkey itself then he went further much further erdogan said and we quote
00:5285 years ago silence in the face of hitler led to 80 million deaths today the same mistake is being
01:00repeated he then called netanyahu the gaza butcher accusing him and his cabinet of committing
01:06genocide while the world in his words watches with the same silence that is not criticism that is a
01:14direct historical comparison to one of the darkest chapters in human history now netanyahu did not
01:21stay quiet for long in a hebrew language statement the israeli prime minister hit back and he did not
01:27hold back either he called erdogan an anti-semitic dictator he accused him of carrying out genocide
01:34against the kurds he said erdogan supports hamas oppresses his own people and imprisons political
01:41opponents then came the line that really stood out netanyahu said erdogan is quote the last person who
01:49can preach morality to israel he followed it up with declaring that the idf is in his words the
01:55most moral army in the world and that israel will continue acting with strength against iran and its
02:01proxies so let's break down what just happened here erdogan compared netanyahu to hitler netanyahu
02:10called erdogan a dictator committing genocide both leaders are now accusing each other of the exact same
02:17crimes on the world stage with zero diplomatic filter and this is not happening in a vacuum
02:23turkey has hosted senior hamas leadership for years erdogan has openly called hamas fighters
02:30freedom fighters israel has repeatedly accused ankara of providing political cover and support
02:36to the group on the other side human rights organizations and western governments have for
02:41years raised concerns about turkey's treatment of political opponents and its military campaigns
02:47against kurdish groups across turkey syria and iraq ankara denies any allegations of genocide
02:54so both sides have ammunition and both sides are now using it publicly personally without restraint
03:03here is why this matters beyond the insults turkey is a nato member it has one of the largest militaries
03:10in
03:10the region and it has direct strategic interests in syria where israeli strikes are intensifying by the
03:16week when erdogan says israeli aggression now threatens turkey directly that is not just rhetoric
03:22for a domestic audience that is a statement positioning turkey as a potential party to the conflict
03:28not just an observer and when netanyahu responds by branding the president of a nato country
03:34an anti-semitic dictator that is not language used between countries trying to de-escalate
03:40this is the language of two governments preparing their populations for confrontation
03:46so the question now is simple how many more insults before words turn into something else
03:53because right now israel and turkey are not just disagreeing they're drawing battle lines
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