The rapid developments in Aleppo, Syria, should concern Israel, as they could position Islamist Turkey on our borders, on its path to Al-Aqsa.

This development might seem surprising, but shouldn't be, as Turkey and Qatar's preparations to enable the terrorist organization "Hayat Tahrir al-Sham" – "Organization for the Liberation of Greater Syria" to capture Aleppo have been known for at least six months. However, all attention was focused on Gaza and Lebanon, and effectively, it was the Muslim Brotherhood who rushed to reap the fruits of Israel's victory.

This represents a major Israeli missed opportunity, as it failed to translate the growing sympathy in the "Sunni Arab street" for its operations into tangible support. Israel's political absence from the Syrian arena will now work against it.

This wasn't inevitable. In southern Syria, thanks to the effective barrier in Quneitra, which enabled providing medical aid to anti-Assad underground casualties at the Safed hospital, a new political reality emerged. This led to the establishment of the "Al-Hawran" province in southern Syria with Israeli and Jordanian support, fostering cooperation between Sunni southern Syria and the Druze Mountain, which had separated from Assad. However, disappointingly, at the crucial moment, Israel surprised everyone by handing the area over to Russia, who promised to keep Iran away from the Golan border. Israel's allies in Daraa were forced to relocate to Turkey's Idlib, and we lost a strategic asset.

In northern Syria, the Free Syrian Army, the strongest military force opposing Assad, made overtures toward Israel but received no response. Consequently, now that Turkey might charge toward our borders and Lebanon's border, Israel lacks boots on the ground capable of blocking Turkey.

The current situation is that the Air Force controls the Shiite arc that Iran sought to establish to facilitate the return of the Persian Empire, but the Turkish arrow, aimed at us as part of the Ottoman Empire's return, is now primed due to the Air Force's successes.

Israel's dilemma might be that using the Air Force against Turkey and Qatar's Muslim Brotherhood instead of Iran and the Shiites could position Turkey as an overt enemy, after we've already managed to strain relations with Egypt due to the Rafah crossing closure and weakened Jordan due to the collapse of the status quo arrangements on the Temple Mount.

According to sources in the Syrian underground, the situation in Aleppo is more anarchic than controlled by pro-Turkish forces. While the Organization for the Liberation of Greater Syria is the largest entity, Salafi terror organizations close to ISIS, Kurdish groups, and various other factions have been drawn into the melee.

We're returning to a situation reminiscent of the Great Revolt where different groups united when facing Assad, but once the Assad threat diminished, they fought among themselves.

Alongside the danger of Turkey approaching our borders and Lebanon's border, there's the risk of Syria descending into complete anarchy. Some in Israel might see this as a blessing, but anarchy in a country possessing chemical and other non-conventional weapons, which could fall into the hands of international Islamic terrorism, might prove dangerous – and not just for Israel.