Posts Tagged ‘israel’

Israel Adds Fuel to “Arab Spring” By Killing Palestinian Protesters on Syrian Border: A Major Consequence Will Be To Cement the Turkey-Iran-China Alliance

Monday, June 6th, 2011

By Ted Becker

Photo by www.reuters.com

Until quite recently, Turkey was probably Israel’s key ally in the Middle East. This made sense since Turkey is by far the most successful Islamic democracy in the world. In fact, Turkey and Israel’s air forces were close partners, that is, until the Israeli military attack on Gaza from late 2008 to early 2009 in which a multitude of Palestinian citizens were killed and wounded. This high tech military operation against a civilian Muslim population brought about worldwide condemnation, particularly in the Islamic world.

Perhaps the greatest casualty, though, was to Israeli-Turkish relations. The Turks saw this as an atrocity and temporarily broke off diplomatic relations with Israel. Although that is now in the past, the anger and disgust among Turks with Israel festered. (more…)

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Crushing trade, spurring violence in the Middle East

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

By Mark Coleman

Israel's attack on the convoy of aid vessels to Gaza

Reading news stories from around the world about Israel’s attack on the convoy of aid vessels to Gaza, it becomes apparent that the reason for this sad and horrible conflict is that Israel and Egypt have been preventing people in the Gaza Strip from trading with people from outside the area.

Trade embargoes are acts of war, and that certainly is how this trade blockade was meant to be interpreted. (more…)

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