Gold rushes to Turkey: the Israelis are lining up for their “specialised” Faustian pact with Erdogan
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By Titos Leonidas
Not to be left behind the obsequious Europeans, the Israelis are rushing for their own Faustian pact with the Islamists of Turkey. In the immediate aftermath of the suicide terrorist attack in Istanbul, on March 19th, that left five persons dead and scores injured, Dore Gold, Director-General of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign rushed to Istanbul. Why is the question.
On the phase of it this rush to Turkey, before hardly any information about the nature of the terrorist attack had emerged, sounded very odd. Dore Gold was not close by, in Israel, at the time of the explosion. He was in far away America to attend the American Israeli Political Action Committee (AIPAC) “Annual Policy Conference 2016”. This annual event is considered the most important meeting of pro-Israeli, American-Jewish groups in the US. Moreover, unlike all recent American Administrations, the Obama Administration has not been considered pro- Israeli enough. And the bad chemistry between Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Obama has fuelled numerous mini crises between Jerusalem and Washington during the Obama presidency, climaxing with the Israeli total opposition to the American-Iranian nuclear deal. Finally, 2016 is a presidential year in the US and Israel is extremely worried, though it should not be, that Donald Trump may win the Republican nomination and prevail over Israel’s preferred choice, Hillary Clinton, who is expected to be the democratic nominee.
Dore Gore, born in the US, is an extremely influential Israeli and a personality on his own right. An academic by US training, he was been long associated with the Israeli right (Ariel Sharon). Netanyahu appointed him Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2015.
Most relevant and what explains his rush to Istanbul, is his concern that the explosion may, derail for good, an arduous and long sought reconciliation with Turkey. Dore Gold has been an ardent advocate of an axis between the two countries and has been the architect of recent moves and secret negotiations with the Islamist regime of Erdogan, for “happy days again” between Jerusalem and Ankara.
What is interesting and revealing is that whereas the initial reporting and official Turkish leaks characterised the attack as another Kurdish terrorist attack and that the victims were “ordinary” Turks, the Israelis knew better. They knew that the victims were foreigners, mostly Israeli tourists and that the perpetrators were not Kurdish but Turkish Islamists. We all know now that this is the case. And that this is the second time recently that tourists have been attacked in Istanbul. Except that this time they got a bonus. They got the hated Israelis. By accident?
No one wants to admit or even speculate that this was a deliberate attack targeting foreign tourists and especially Israelis. So an official story was concocted- a “bread and butter” Turkish intelligence story- that the terrorist was planning to bomb a nearby government building and that he lost his cool and “detonated” himself, “off” his target. And moreover he just happened to have done so “accidentally” in the mist of a crowd of tourists -that by “chance” happened to be Israelis! Now if you believe that…I have a bridge to sell you at a giveaway price, as the Americans are fond of saying.
Significantly while Dore Gold took the first flight from the US to Istanbul – probably a Turkish Airlines one since EL AL is not allowed by the Turks to fly there- Netanyahu said he has no evidence that the Israelis were targeted deliberately by Islamists. It was their tough luck apparently. May be it was because they violated the Sabbath. Who knows.
So he wishes. And so does Dore Gold rushing to Istanbul to save the day and have his chance to lie prostrate in front of the Great Turk and obtain his “generous cooperation “, this time in the fight against terrorism, much like his European cousins have been doing lately. And all the while Erdogan- NATO’s Hitler loving ally by his own admission- is implementing genocidal policies against the Kurds of Turkey – “his own people” as NATO might have said, but doesn’t!