Dhaka, Sept. 22 -- Just hours after Israel launched strikes last week against Qatar a United States-designated "major non-NATO ally" and one of Washington's closest Gulf partners pro-Israel commentators quickly shifted their attention to Turkiye.
In Washington, Michael Rubin, a senior fellow at the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute, suggested that Turkiye could be Israel's next target and warned that it should not rely on its NATO membership for protection.
On social media, Israeli academic and political figure Meir Masri posted, "Today Qatar, tomorrow Turkey."
Ankara responded sharply. In unusually harsh language, a senior adviser to President RecepTayyipErdogan wrote: "To the dog of Zionist Israel soon the world will find pea...