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From: Mid-EasT RealitieS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Ocalan's Capture - US-Israeli-Turkish Alliance At Work
Date: Tuesday, February 16, 1999 4:13 PM
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OCALAN'S CAPTURE
U.S.-ISRAELI-TURKISH ALLIANCE GROWS
MER - Washington - 2/16/99: It's clearly a payoff to the Turks for
their growing alliance with Israel against the Arabs and for
continuing to allow the Americans to base U.S. forces in their
country.
Until last year Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan had been protected
by Syria. Under growing military threat from Turkey, Syria decided to
tell Ocalan it was time for him to depart. In recent months Ocalan
has been traveling from one asylum to another in a journey that has
taken him from Italy to Russia and finally to Kenya from which he was
somehow delivered to Turkey.
While the full details of Ocalan's capture are not known, the
likelihood of substantial CIA and Mossad involvement making this
possible is all but a sure thing. The U.S.-Israeli-Turkish alliance,
previously dubbed "The Ankara Pact" here in MER, continues to
stratgegically transform today's Middle East while the weak, divided,
and confused Arab "client regimes" hardly are able to tread water and
keep themselves afloat.
Indeed, the U.S. and Israel have strenuously worked to bring Turkey
into a closer alliance in order to further dominate the area some
still call "the Arab world". The following appeared in MER last year
regarding this very important turn in the history of the Middle East:
ARAB & MUSLIM WORLDS REMAIN TERRIBLY
WEAK, DIVIDED, CONFUSED
"The strengthening of strategic ties with Turkey
is Israel's most important diplomatic achievement
in the five years that have passed since the Oslo
agreement."
MA'ARIV Newspaper Editorial, Tel Aviv 9/8
MER - Washington - 9/9/98: The Arab and Muslim worlds are so weak, so
divided, so confused, so co-opted that right under their noses the
U.S., NATO, Israel, and Turkey have put together the unnamed "Ankara
Pact" -- and yet it's strategic and military largely against them!
A few days ago the Turkish Prime Minister, Mesut Yilmaz, made an
official State visit to Israel, cementing the military alliance that
has developed with Israel since the collapse of the Soviet Empire and
the more direction American occupation of the Gulf region in the
1990s.
It was just a few months ago MER editorialized about the great
strategic importance of this latest American-Israeli move to control
the Middle East as follows:
NEW U.S./TURKEY/ISRAEL ALLIANCE
CIRCUMVENTS AND BOTTLES UP THE ARABS
MER - WASHINGTON - 7/26/98:
Probably the greatest strategic move in the Clinton post-Cold War
years is what could be called "The Ankara Pact" -- an alliance between
the U.S., Turkey, and Israel that essentially circumvents and bottles
up the Arab countries. Once again, the Arabs are caught unprepared,
weak, and unable to assert themselves.
And this time by an alliance between their former occupier, today's
modern-day Ottomans, their new enemy, the little but powerful state of
Israel, and the modern-day empire which keeps the weak and corrupt
Arab client regimes in power preventing the rise of Arab nationalism.
"Turkey is slowly reasserting its historic role in the region by
stepping up calls for the creation of regional multinational
peacekeeping forces... Over the past two years Turkey has forged a
security partnership with Israel.
Analysts say the two countries, both pro-Western and non-Arab, and
generally mistrusted in the Middle East, share a deep concern about
terrorism and Islamic extremism.
Under the partnership, Israel has won lucrative contracts to upgrade
Turkish F-4 Phantom and F-5 fighters and is eyeing more Turkish
contracts as the Turkish military embarks on a modernization program.
Another agreement allows Israeli pilots to train in Turkey... Turkey
long has hesitated to exert itself as a regional power, mindful of
stirring up enmity among its former Ottoman subjects in the Balkans or
Middle East, or with historic rivals Greece and Russia."
This way of presenting things, as done recently in the Washington Post
(7/16/98), hardly gives the full scope of what is taking place. A
major strategic transformation of the region is actually taking place,
the Arabs once again undermined and surrounded, outgunned and
outmanuevered.
In a sense the U.S. is replacing its former strong-man Iran in the
region with a potentially stronger and strategically even more
important Turkey. And Israel is using the opportunity to create a new
military alliance that essentially threatens the Arab heartland
countries, as well as the new Iran, at a time when they are more
politically divided than ever and growing militarily weaker because of
the backwardness of their political and economic institutions coupled
with needs of the "client regimes" not to opppose their American
protectors.
It's the return of the Ottomans and the further decline of the Arabs,
with the major addition of Israel in the strategic equation. Kicked
out at the beginning of the Century -- when the Western colonial
powers carved up the region for themselves at the "Peace to end all
Peace" post-war conference in Paris in 1918 -- now at the end of the
century, Arab oil no longer what it was then, the Ottomans are being
brought into the equation as the oil fields north of the Arab lands
are now prized.
In another sense the Arabs may now have missed their moment in
history. Rarely has a major civilization so rich in crucial resources
played its strategic and economic cards more badly then have the Arabs
collectively.
Indeed, that was the main reason the West put in place the "client
regimes" -- the Husseins, al-Sauds, al-Sabahs, the Shah of old, as
well as the panoply of narrowly based military regimes -- in the first
place. And that grand strategy which goes back to the days of Lawrence
of Arabia and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire has worked
brilliantly -- for the West and Israel that is. The big loosers of
course have been the people of the Middle East now divided from each
other more than ever and who languish under systems of still growing
oppression, both political and economic. The biggest losers of
all...the Palestinians.
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