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A strike on a Syrian air base may have been calculated to provoke Turkey into open conflict with Israel, Washington's ambassador to Ankara, Turkey's capital, has said.
The envoy called it an "aggressive pre-election concept," meaning, in his own framing, an attack timed to political ends ahead of October polls rather than to military ones alone.
The physical fact is a strike on an air base in Syria. The disputed question is purpose. The US ambassador to Turkey is not a source of Israeli military orders; he is offering an interpretation from Ankara.
His phrasing throughout was "could have been," not "was." What that reading implies, if accepted, is that the target mattered less than the reaction.
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