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US-Israel Relations highUS-Israel relations are high- minor disagreements don’t outweigh good communication and the structural relationship Jerusalem Post 6/25 [2010, BBC Monitoring Middle East – Political, Israeli envoy says US attitude change "substantive", security ties important, lexis] But Oren the historian is now Oren the diplomat, and his job is not to record history, but rather to navigate Israeli-US relations through what he acknowledges are sea changes taking place in the US and the region, and to keep the ties from deteriorating to historic lows. In a 90-minute conversation he conducted this week with the editorial board of The Jerusalem Post, one of the key messages Oren the diplomat tried to get across was that relations with the US are not as bad as most people like to think. True, there was a huge dustup during Vice President Joe Biden's visit here in March; the US acquiesced in signing off on a UN NPT document that singled out Israel in May; and Washington in June wasn't as robust in its support of Israel at the UN during the Gaza flotilla episode as some would have liked. But, Oren insisted, the sky over the US-Israeli relationship is not falling. In fact, he said, tunning against the grain of conventional wisdom, the Obama administration was "as good if not better" on Israel than "many previous administrations," and Obama's chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, often portrayed in the Israeli media as the "bad guy" on Israel issues in the White House, was actually "a great asset." "There are disagreements, I'm not going to be Pollyannaish," the personable and animated Oren said. "But there are two qualifiers you have to attach. One, we have had disagreements with other administrations in the past, and the litmus test with the relationship is not whether there are disagreements, but how you approach the disagreements." Oren said that both the NPT and Gaza flotilla issues were "very severe tests to our relationship that we dealt with through intensive communication and coordination. Again, the result was not perfect, probably not for either side, but it could have been very different if we didn't have the intensive communication and interaction. And I am speaking very first hand here." Oren said the US positions on both matters, as reflected in various statements, were considerably different at the end than they were at the beginning. Claims that relations are low don’t assume the general climate of policy shifts in the Middle East Jerusalem Post 6/25 [2010, BBC Monitoring Middle East – Political, Israeli envoy says US attitude change "substantive", security ties important, lexis] Oren said that when looking at Washington it was important to understand that the Obama administration was different than any Israel has known before, with a president who came into power promising change and determined to bring it about both domestically and in foreign policy. Oren denied that there was any crisis in the relations, and that "what often looks like a crisis is in fact a product of a shift" in both US foreign policy, and in the policies of some other major actors in the region, such as Turkey. "We are a small pixel in the general picture of change," he said. "We tend to see everything through our prism, but we are one dot, although a relatively central dot, as the administration itself will say." Obama, according to Oren, "is committed to ending our conflict, and sees it in the context of Middle East conflicts. He sees a problem for the United States in this part of the world - we are part of that complex relationship - and he wants to put it on a better footing. I don't think he is under the illusion that Islamist extremism is going to go away tomorrow, or that the Middle East is going to become a bastion of stability. But he is committed to working to make it better." At the same time, he stressed, "Our security relationship with the US is very important for the US, not just for us. We provide security benefits that the US can't get from any other country in the world, whether in intelligence sharing, weapons development or just the mere fact that Israel has a sizable army that is highly trained, highly motivated, highly disciplined and under the authority of a democratically elected government that can field that army in a matter of 12 hours. Think about that. What other country in the Middle East can remotely do that - remotely. There is no substitute for Israel in the American security universe - nothing." Turkey-Israel relations lowTurkey-Israel relations low - AKP Freedman 7/2 [2010, Robert, Professor of political science emeritus at Baltimore Hebrew University and visiting prof of poli sci at Johns Hopkins, Why the Islamic democracy rocked ties with Israel and the West, http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/turkeys_tarnish/19498] Ideally, relations between two allied countries are composed of common interests and values. This has been the case in U.S.-Israeli relations since 1967, when strategic cooperation against the Soviet Union and its Arab allies was reinforced by the fact that both the United States and Israel were vibrant democracies. When only common interests hold two countries together, the relationship is far less solid, as in the case when the United States cooperated with the Soviet Union during World War II against Nazi Germany, only to drift into the Cold War immediately thereafter when Germany had been defeated. In the case of Israel and Turkey, initially there were both common interests and common values when the relationship between the two countries reached its zenith in the late 1990s, as both countries opposed Syria and were the only genuine democracies in the authoritarian Middle East. In the last decade, however, and especially since the coming to power of the Islamic AKP (Justice and Development) Party in 2002, relations between the two countries have deteriorated as their common interests disappeared, and Turkey was transformed from a secularist democracy to an increasingly intolerant Islamic state. Turkish-Israeli relations are low – Gaza ship Jerusalem Post 6/20 [2010, Turkish officials defend sanctions vote, http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=178928] WASHINGTON - Turkish officials here took a defiant tone Friday, warning Israel it could lose its best friend in the region and defending its vote against American- backed Iran sanctions. “Israel’s current policy is leading the country to global isolation,” Ankara’s ambassador to the United States, Namik Tan, warned at a Middle East Institute conference on Turkey Friday. “Not only that, Israel is on the verge of losing one of its closest friends [Turkey].” Tan stressed that Israel could repair the relationship – which he said his country still valued – if it acceded to Turkish demands that Jerusalem apologize for its raid on a Turkish-flagged aid ship attempting to break the Gaza blockade and undergo an international investigation. Israel has rejected these demands and suggested that Turkey should be itself investigated for allegedly facilitating and aiding the ship. Tan dismissed a Turkish apology as “ridiculous.” He and other officials at the conference, however, seemed to drop previous Turkish demands that Israel lift the Gaza blockade or otherwise modify its policies as a condition for improved relations. Turkish gov't appealed to flotilla activists not to sail Ibrahim Kalin, chief adviser to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, also stressed that the government had appealed to the civilian-run ship not to sail for Gaza, but that it paid no heed. “We tried to convince these people not to go. We advised them not to go, given the circumstances and difficulties and dangers,” he told The Jerusalem Post after his speech. 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