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A Break in Israeli-Turkish Relations?
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon recently announced that, after two months of negotiations, Israel has agreed to an international inquiry on the May 31 deadly flotilla assault. International pressure and Ban Ki-moon’s personal efforts played an important role in the Netanyahu government’s unprecedented decision. Israel’s concession meets one of the demands made by Turkey, which lost nine citizens in the assault and which has threatened to break off relations with what had once been a key military ally.
Israel Playing With a Fire It Expects the U.S. to Put Out
American neocons openly express the hope that any Iranian response to the Israeli attack would trigger full-scale U.S. war against Iran.
Holding Israel’s Hand While It Attacks Iran
Signing a letter to House Republican leader John Boehner is a small step to help block an Israeli attack on Iran.
Iran-Turkey-Syria: An Alliance of Convenience
The Israel-Palestine conflict has been at the heart of regional affairs since the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. This is the context wherein the “de facto” Iran-Turkey-Syria axis should be understood, although substantive normalization of relations in the last decade between Turkey and its neighbors Iran and Syria served as a pre-requisite for the supposed alliance.
Israel: World’s Most Aggressive Ebay Bidders
Israel seems to think that when Palestinians are outbid by violence, they’ll fold their hand and meekly comply.
Middle East: What’s Hot — North, What’s Not — South
Egypt and Saudi Arabia, the United States’ old allies in the Mid-East’s southern are likely to wield less influence in the future than the northern tier, which includes Turkey, Iran, and Syria.
What Barry Should Say to Bibi
The blank check Israel has enjoyed from the US all these years is about to be torn up.
The Guns of August in the Middle East?
Israel risks painting itself into a corner with its talk of preemptive strikes against Iran. Meanwhile, Iran once again finds itself the odd man out in the shopworn Israel-Iran-Arab triangulation game.
Pavlovian Congress Jumps to Israel’s ‘Self-‘ Defense
Learning what actually transpired in the Gaza Flotilla attack was apparently of little interest to the 87 senators who signed the letter defending the attack. Despite the apparent whitewash forthcoming in the internal Israeli investigation, the senate letter supported Israel’s alleged intention to carry out “a thorough investigation of the incident.”