Turkey's role in middle eastern politics

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Oh, you mean that once upon a time, the land that Israel sits on had Turkish squatters? Unsurprising. Again, there was no Ottoman Empire for Israel to rise out of. It had officially ended 30 years prior. You've said that you knew where Turkey had screwed the pooch, with NATO, yes? How about picking the wrong team in WW1, costing you most of your possessions in the Balkans, in the Arabian penisula and the Middle East? Or maybe it was fence sitting during WW2 (except, of course, for the goods sold to the Reich)?

Costing us what? The Balkans were gone long before WWI. Russia already had it's eyes on them. And I must say, I'm glad that they're gone.
I don't want to live with more non-Turks than I already have to.
Not that I want to live with arabs either. My point is not that I regret losing the Balkans or the middle east, all empires are doomed to fall.
My point is, that the arabs who have prided themselves on ousting the Turks by collaborating with the enemy, are now plagued by their former allies, and ask the Turks for help, against them. It is as simple as that.

The greatest contribution the area made to humanity happened roughly 8 thousand years ago at Catalhoyuk. Why not romanticize that instead of some pipe dream about a resurgent Ethnic Turkish Empire, or the virtues of an entirely unremarkable warrior culture?

Romanticize what? Non-Turk cultures, unrelated to us whatsoever?
They are long gone...There isn't anything to romanticize about that, unless you're some self-hating anatolianist who never calls him/herself a Turk(and probably is not one)...I however am proud.