Netanyahu’s fatal US ally blunder: insults Erdogan, risks opening second front with NATO power?

Turkey and Israel have traded fierce accusations after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu targeted President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in remarks made amid wider regional tensions over Iran and the stalled ceasefire environment. Ankara responded with an unusually harsh statement accusing Netanyahu of war crimes, calling him the “Hitler of our times,” and claiming he is trying to undermine peace efforts while Israel increasingly appears to frame Turkey as a growing regional threat alongside Iran.