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Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/11/03/gaza-turkey-hamas-israel-trump/
Trump Sees Central Role for Turkey in Gaza, Alarming Israel
(Washington Post) Shira Rubin - Turkey has won effusive praise from President Trump in recent weeks for using its relationship with Hamas to pressure the militant group to reach a Gaza ceasefire deal with Israel. However, the central role that the Americans see for Turkey in advancing Trump's peace plan has left Israeli officials aghast. They consider Turkey to be too closely aligned with Islamist groups hostile to Israel. Israelis have warned that Turkish involvement in Gaza would position hostile forces in Israel's backyard. "This idea of the Turks and Turkish groups going inside Gaza, it makes the Israelis crazy, after having done so much to prevent Turkish intervention," said Michael Milshtein, former chief of the Palestinian affairs section of Israeli military intelligence. "It's obvious that they are not a partner of Israel." If "we finally get rid of Iran and Hizbullah, and then we end up with Turkey, Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood inside Gaza, that would be a very dangerous situation," said Michael Oren, a former Israeli ambassador to the U.S.