Report: Apology won\u2019t change Turkey, \u2018weakens Israel\u2019s deterrence\u2019<\/p>\n
Special to WorldTribune.com<\/p>\n
TEL AVIV \u2014 Israel\u2019s apology to Turkey for the bloody interception of<\/p>\n
a flotilla to the Gaza Strip harms the deterrence of the Jewish state, a<\/p>\n
report said.<\/p>\n
The report, titled \u201cIsrael\u2019s Apology to Turkey: A Mistake,\u201d asserted<\/p>\n
that the apology by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the 2010 Israel<\/p>\n
Navy interception of a Turkish-flotilla, in which eight Turks were killed,<\/p>\n
undermines Israel and encourages Turkish belligerency.<\/p>\n
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologized to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan for a 2010 raid on a Turkish flotilla ship. \/Getty Images<\/p>\n
The report by the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies said Netanyahu\u2019s apology would fail to restore strategic cooperation with Turkey, which existed for most of the last 20 years.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is highly unlikely that we will see a reversal or a turnaround in<\/p>\n
Turkey\u2019s anti-Western and anti-Israeli policies,\u201d author Efraim Inbar,<\/p>\n
director of the strategic center, said. \u201cThe apology from Jerusalem only<\/p>\n
enhances Turkish ambitions and weakens Israel\u2019s deterrence.\u201d<\/p>\n
The report, dated March 24, was one of several that criticized Israel\u2019s<\/p>\n
apology to Turkey as well as agreement to grant Ankara the right to<\/p>\n
intervene with the Palestinian Authority and the Hamas regime. Inbar, a<\/p>\n
leading Israeli strategist who served as a consultant to several<\/p>\n
governments, said Ankara, intent on leading the Middle East, has no<\/p>\n
intention to improve relations with Israel.<\/p>\n
Inbar said Turkey, under Prime Minister Recep Erdogan, has become a<\/p>\n
supporter of Iran, Hamas and the Islamist Sunni rebels in Syria. The report<\/p>\n
said Erdogan, who called Zionism a threat to humanity, is \u201cplainly<\/p>\n
anti-Semitic.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTurkey is also actively helping radical Islamic Sunni elements take<\/p>\n
over Syria,\u201d the report said. \u201cIt also supports the idea of violent<\/p>\n
opposition against Israel\u2019s presence on the Golan Heights. As such, the hope<\/p>\n
that Israel and Turkey can cooperate together with the United States in<\/p>\n
limiting the damage from a disintegrating Syria has little validity.\u201d<\/p>\n
The report attributed Netanyahu\u2019s apology to pressure by the United<\/p>\n
States. The apology also came in wake of Palestinian rocket attacks on<\/p>\n
Israel from the Gaza Strip, which Erdogan has pledged to visit.<\/p>\n
\u201cFurthermore, an apology to a Hamas supporter, just a day after Hamas<\/p>\n
again launched rockets against Israel, communicates terrible weakness,\u201d the<\/p>\n
report said. \u201cSanctioning an Erdogan victory trip to Gaza at this particular<\/p>\n
moment is terribly foolish, too, particularly when Israel is seeking to<\/p>\n
bolster the standing of the rival Palestinian Authority.\u201d<\/p>\n
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