This week, Syrian leader Julani acknowledged for the first time in clear words the deterrent force that the IDF has once again established in the region; the Syrian leader complied with his duty stemming from his new recognition, to create a buffer between Syria and Turkey, in accordance with Israeli interests. Julani said things he had already said in the past, according to which Syria would not take military action against any country, but this week he mentioned Israel by name in his commitment. It follows from his words that he and Syria understand that Syrian approval for Turkey to introduce military forces into Syrian territory is tantamount to an act of war against Israel. This declaration puts Turkey in a trap; on the one hand, it cannot oppose a declaration that is fundamentally a promise of no war with regard to Syria, otherwise the Syrian public and its leadership will turn against it; on the other hand, it will not agree to be removed from Syria, since Syria is part of Erdogan's plan to make Turkey great again. Julani will now have a problem with Turkey, and it is no less than the problem he has with Israel. Turkey will not be able to carry out its broad plan without closing the issue of the Syrian Kurds, who are literally breathing down its neck, that is, without a Turkish presence in Syria; and a Turkish army will not be able, even in fifty years, to enter the Arab Middle East and increase Turkey into a superpower, without neutralizing the power of the Kurds in Syria, who could be at its back. Last week we reported on the Turkish ultimatum to Israel not to attack in Syria or penetrate Syrian airspace, beyond the Druze region in southern Syria; Julani's announcement takes the chestnuts out of the fire for Israel, as Israel does not need to attack in Syria, if it is clear from a Syrian political commitment that Turkey (and other hostile countries) will not send military forces there. This may be why Turkey initiated a meeting with Russia this week, at the level of deputy foreign ministers, to "discuss what is happening in Syria and 'Palestine.'" In doing so, Turkey is trying, in light of the entanglement with Israel and Julani, to bring Russia, which has a clear interest in Syria, into the Syrian-Israeli arena as an implicit warning to both Julani and Israel. Turkey is essentially saying that the foreign intervention it is proposing in Syria could be its own intervention alone, or alternatively, intervention in cooperation with Russia; these are things in the spirit of a renewed Turkish-Russian Sykes-Picot-style agreement to divide up areas of influence in Syria, this time at the expense of Israel and the immature regime of Julani.