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The following article is extracted from the July-August 1997 issue of THE OTHER ISRAEL

Diplomatic duels - Facts on the ground - Pulling the purse strings
Alliance and counter-alliance - Scandals and crises - A fractured society - Deadly deadlock

Alliance and counter-alliance

Aside from the United States Congress, the foreign institute most friendly to Netanyahu seems to be the Turkish Army. The Turkish generals, long accustomed to conducting their own foreign policy with little or no regard to civil authority, decided upon and implemented a strategic alliance with Israel, and forced it upon Prime Minister Erbakan -- himself far from friendly to Netanyahu or to Israel in general -- by what amounted to an open threat of coup d'etat.

Officially, it was denied that the Israeli-Turkish alliance was directed against any third state -- but a brief glance at the map would show that Syria, sandwiched between the two new allies and on bad terms with both of them, had a reason to worry. Syrian apprehensions increased with the Turkish Army's invasion in force of north Iraq, chasing Kurdish guerrillas -- which was seen as reflecting a new Turkish confidence and aggressiveness.

But if Netanyahu expected the Turkish alliance to intimidate Damascus and bring it back to the negotiating table on his terms, he should by now be disappointed. Feeling threatened, the Syrians increased support both for the Kurdish guerrillas operating against Turkey and the Lebanese ones opposing Israel. In a move showing a toughening of their position the Syrians tightened the alliance with Iran, and even sought a rapprochement with Iraq -- stepping over the bitter rivalry which has divided Damascus from Baghdad for decades. Simultaneously, Syria started mending fences with Arafat and the Palestinian Authority.

Scenarios published in the Israeli press included more and more often the possibility of an Israeli-Palestinian flareup drawing in the Syrians, and possibly the Egyptians and Jordanians as well, into a total conflict. The army resumed the distribution of Gas masks to the entire Israeli population, and there was growing concern about reported Iranian efforts to obtain nuclear arms and missiles capable of delivering them to targets in Israel.

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THE OTHER ISRAEL is the newsletter of the Israeli Council for Israeli-Palestinian Peace

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