The Netanyahu government's attempt to prolong the war for political reasons has now backfired on Israel, which is trying to end the war in the Gaza Strip, but Turkey is preventing a compromise, leading to its prolongation. Turkish President Erdogan is demanding two achievements: 1. The deployment of a Turkish military force throughout the Gaza Strip. 2. That Hamas be given a status, even if only symbolic, in the new government in the Strip. Erdogan is taking advantage of the new US policy in the Middle East with the support of Europe, according to which Turkey is becoming a factor in its power to govern the Middle East and therefore can serve as a strategic rearguard for the West in the inter-bloc struggle. This week, Egypt demanded that Israel open the Rafah crossing in both directions. Since the beginning of the war, Egypt has been forming an alliance with Turkey, and the warming of relations between them. An expression of the thaw in Turkish Egyptian relations was about six months ago in a joint exercise that the two navies held in the eastern Mediterranean, to deter Israel from attacking the Greta flotilla. The exercise was coordinated by the two heads of military intelligence of Turkey and Egypt in a meeting in Cairo that we reported here. Since the new multinational force initiated by President Trump is expected to be deployed on the border with Israel, as we reported here about a month ago, and since the American president intends to separate the Turkish force from the multinational force, as our military commentator Meir Jurno reported last week, it appears that the Turkish force, in an American move and with Egyptian cooperation, could enter the Gaza Strip without Israel's consent, and deploy throughout the Strip, as Erdogan demands.