Isaac Herzog’s statement came after a warning by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan last week that the Israeli government's “delusion of a promised land” will threaten Türkiye after Israel is done with its current targets, Palestine and Lebanon.
"The consequences of a ground operation in Lebanon will not be similar to (Israel’s) past occupations," Erdogan said.
"Driven by the delusion of a ‘promised land,’ after Palestine and Lebanon, the Israeli government will set its sights on our (Turkish) homeland," he warned.
During a meeting in Jerusalem with a coalition of US Jewish groups, Herzog said that Israel “has never had any plans against Türkiye.”
“On the contrary,” he added, “we have great respect for the people of Türkiye, and they have great respect for the people of Israel.”
“We have longstanding relations between the peoples, and the peoples will prevail over all voices that are adverse to friendship and coexistence,” he added.
Herzog also said that Israel's attacks will lead to a “historic change” that will enable the peoples of the region "to dwell together in the region and to move together towards peace, to contribute to each other, from the well-being of the region and their own respective peoples and humanity at large."
He did not mention how polls show that most people in Türkiye oppose Israel’s yearlong offensive against Gaza along with its decades-long mistreatment of Palestinians and whether Israel's government respects that.
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