Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told the angry Turkish government that "if" Israel violated its airspace "there was no intention of undermining or questioning Turkish sovereignty, which we respect." Israel has not admitted that it carried out a raid on a Syrian nuclear facility on September 6, hence Olmert’s oblique language. But the Turks were livid when supplemental fuel tanks jettisoned from the Israeli jets as they returned from their target were discovered on Turkish soil. Olmert reportedly made the statement during Sunday’s cabinet meeting and directly to Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan in London last week.