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Turkey Israel Relations=Zero SumBoat Attack Makes US-Turkey relations zero sum with US-Israel and Turkey Israel RelationsZacharia 10 [Janine Zacharia, Washington Post,"Turkey threatens to sever ties with Israel over deadly flotilla raid" 7/6/10, Lexis] Tensions between Turkey and Israel escalated Monday as Turkey's foreign minister said his country would sever diplomatic relations with Israel unless it either apologizes for its deadly raid on a Turkish aid ship or accepts an international inquiry into the incident. The threat came as Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu prepares to meet Tuesday in Washington with President Obama. A Western diplomat, who spoke on the condition of anonymity before the foreign minister made his comments, said Obama plans to press the Israeli leader to apologize to defuse tensions. "The president is very concerned about the breakdown in Turkish-Israeli relations," the diplomat said. Asked if he thought Obama could persuade Netanyahu to officials would neither confirm nor deny the president's intentions for the meeting with Netanyahu. Netanyahu has ruled out an apology for the May 31 raid by Israeli naval commandos, which left nine Turks, including one Turkish American, dead. Israel was trying to prevent the aid ship from breaching a naval blockade Israel maintains on the Hamas-led Gaza Strip when commandos were met with resistance as they boarded the boat. "Israel cannot apologize because its soldiers had to defend themselves to avoid being lynched by a crowd," Netanyahu said Friday in an interview with Israel's Channel 1. "We regret the loss of life." On Monday, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Israel has "no intention of apologizing to Turkey." Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told Hurriyet Daily News and Economic Review that "Israelis have three options: They will either apologize or acknowledge an international-impartial inquiry and its conclusion. Otherwise, our diplomatic ties will be cut off." Israel has appointed its own investigative commission, but critics say it is not sufficiently independent. It was not clear if Davutoglu's remarks meant that Turkey was considering a full severing of ties or, as some Turkish observers said was more likely, a cut only in diplomatic contacts that would still allow trade, travel and other cooperation to continue. The raid led Turkey to recall its ambassador from Israel, cancel three sets of joint military exercises and prevent Israeli military planes from crossing its airspace. Israel -Turkey relations are zero sum- neither side will put up with the otherThe Hindu 10 (Atul Aneja, “Why the West cannot lose Turkey”, 6/30/10, http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/article493793.ece)If Israel and its powerful lobbyists in Washington and New York are to be believed, Turkey in recent months committed two unpardonable crimes. First, it dared to support the people of Gaza, who, in the eyes of the Israeli establishment, deserve collective punishment for supporting Hamas “terrorists,” who are running the affairs of the impoverished coastal strip. Tel Aviv's problems with Ankara came to a head on May 31 when Israeli commandos attacked a Gaza-bound aid flotilla led by the Turkish charity, IHH. Despite the international outcry against the raid, Israel has been persistent in calling Turkey's Gaza mission a fig leaf to cover its larger political goal of bolstering the Hamas, already an ally of Iran. Israel, in other words, has been making a bizarre assertion that by leading the flotilla, Turkey has joined the ranks of international terror groups. In the propaganda war that the raid unleashed, Israel has ignored the more widely accepted counterview, echoed across the globe, that by leading the aid flotilla, Ankara jolted the world into recognising the urgency of tackling Israel's illegal siege of Gaza and the miserable human conditions that prevail there. Israel fell far short of countering the accusation that came thick and fast from various parts of the globe that it had committed a glaring act of piracy by storming Mavi Marmara, Turkish lead ship of the flotilla, in international waters. Turkey committed the second blunder, in Israel's perception, when it along with Brazil reached out to Israel's visceral enemy, Iran, to help it peacefully resolve its nuclear standoff with the West. In the eyes of Israel's right-wing establishment, Turkey does not deserve forgiveness. By supporting the Hamas and dealing with Iran's theocrats, Turkey, in its view, has ended up supporting two main forces which have one common hateful objective — the destruction of Israel. Consequently, Tel Aviv concluded that Turkey rightly deserves severe punishment. Many Israeli mainstream supporters have since been insisting that the West, especially the United States, now ensure that Turkey is expelled from the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, lynchpin of Ankara's status as a key western ally. Unsurprisingly, the call for retribution is making a dent in the corridors of power in Israel and the U.S. Ironically, in view of the West's core long-term interests, nothing could be more short-sighted and counterproductive than the political attack Israel and its supporters in the U.S. are mounting against the Turkish government led by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. By allowing the campaign to gather steam, the West is jeopardising the success of the Turkish model, which seeks to blend Islamic personal values with the core western ideals of democracy, human rights and market economy. Turkey-Israel relations k peace processGood Turkey-Israel relations are key to successful mediation of the peace processThe Hindu 10 (Atul Aneja, “Why the West cannot lose Turkey”, 6/30/10, http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/article493793.ece)The West has a major stake in Turkey's success. If it triumphs, the Turkish model, which aims to successfully harmonize Islamic, secular and democratic principles with good governance, would become a potent antidote to the virulence of jihadi extremism. Mr. Erdogan's Turkey, which has already caught the imagination of the region's youth, can play an effective part in denting the appeal of nihilistic Islam by providing a viable, functional and inclusive alternative that does not rely on suicide bombers to achieve its objectives. Given Turkey's promising message of hope and success to the Islamic world, the West will commit a serious blunder if it does not stem the hate campaign that the Israeli lobby, in league with the Bush-era neoconservatives, has launched with full virulence in the U.S. Writing in The Wall Street Journal, military historian and long-time Bush supporter Victor Davis Hanson described the Turkish charity IHH as “a terrorist organisation with ties to the al-Qaeda.” Daniel Pipes, director of the Likudist Middle East Forum, has exhorted Washington to support the Turkish opposition parties directly. On its part, the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) has called for Turkey's suspension from NATO. “If Turkey finds its best friends to be Iran, Hamas, Syria and Brazil (look for Venezuela in the future) the security of that information (and Western technology in weapons in Turkey's arsenal) is suspect. The United States should seriously consider suspending military cooperation with Turkey as a prelude to removing it from the organization,” it said. While the neoconservatives bay for Turkey's blood, it is vital that saner voices in the West step in and continue their harmonious engagement with Ankara. Notwithstanding the jaundiced perceptions of terrorism, it is evident that Turkey has a lot to offer to remove political turbulence from West Asia. Unlike Iran under the presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or the Palestinian Hamas, Turkey has not in any way challenged Israel's existential rights or questioned its aspirations to scale new technological heights. In fact, before Israel's winter invasion of Gaza in 2009, Turkey was actively mediating between Israel and Syria to resolve their row over the Golan Heights. Turkey's military relationship with Israel has also been thriving, and is worth billions of dollars in military hardware trade. Turkey's problem with Israel is, therefore, not fundamental but confined to the terrible human rights situation in Gaza. If this is resolved through sustained international activism, Turkey's ability to mediate among Israel, Palestine and its Arab neighbours, to achieve a two-state solution, would remain uniquely intact. In the long-run, the West may be the biggest loser if right-wing hostility abroad and internal resistance within succeed in defeating Turkey's courageous political experiment with democracy and Islam. 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