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The Israeli Jerusalem Post warned of what it called a “false reconciliation” that Turkey seeks with Israel, which aims to isolate the latter and sabotage its good relations with Greece and the United Arab Emirates.
Seth Frantzman, the newspaper’s Middle East analyst, said Ankara has worked closely with Western lobbyists and experts to try to convince the Israeli government that Ankara wants a new page in relations, “but Turkey rejects the change and he just wants to disturb the waters between Israel and its partners in the region. “
He explained that this consolidation began in the daily “Israel Today”, which Ankara assumes was read by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other ruling politicians.
He mentioned that between December 5 and 6, articles in Hebrew and then in English appeared in the newspaper stating that Turkey wanted reconciliation with Israel, “after ten years of harboring the Ankara regime, which was hostile to Israel, Hamas, and compared Israel to the Nazis. “
According to Frantzman, the “reconciliation” will include “Turkey getting everything it wants, and the destruction of Israel’s relations with Greece and Cyprus, especially the gas pipeline agreement that Israel signed with these two countries this year.”
“Therefore, reconciliation will mean that Israel will lose its allies and that Turkey will continue to host Hamas terrorists and describe Israel as a Nazi state,” he added.
“Common interests”
He also said that Turkey reinforced this narrative through Al-Monitor, which on November 30 published an article stating that there are common interests between Israel and Turkey regarding Iran and the Caucasus.
In this context, the Jerusalem Post referred to the Turkish-Iranian rapprochement and said: “With Iran, Turkey supports Hamas and is committed to liberating Jerusalem.”
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Turkey continues to monitor the ceasefire in the mountain enclave of Nagorno Karabakh, after it was reached, with unilateral Russian mediation, to end the worst fighting in decades between Azerbaijan and Armenia, two former Soviet republics, that Wall Street Journal described it as “a major Kremlin concession to Ankara”.
The newspaper added: “There is no evidence that Israel and Turkey have common interests with respect to Iran. However, the article alleges secret contacts between Turkey and Israel.”
According to the newspaper’s Middle East analyst, there is no evidence of these alleged “secret” contacts except for the intentional leak of this matter by Turkey to make it appear that Israel is ready to implement Ankara’s orders, he said.
“This is the same Turkish regime that Jerusalem told us, and it frequently attacks Israel. The regime has never said anything positive about Israel in the last decade,” he said.
Mediterranean gas
Frantzman criticized the Turkish approach, saying: “If it’s a secret, why does Turkey talk about it so much with journalists?”
He stressed that lobbyists, acting on Ankara’s behalf, lobbied for this story, “accompanied by maps made in Turkey and published in Israeli media and think tanks.”
He said the maps showed that Turkey controls the Mediterranean waters off Cyprus and may isolate part of Israel’s exclusive economic zone.
He commented on the matter saying that this reconciliation would be in exchange for giving up years of Israeli work in the development of Mediterranean gas in cooperation with Cyprus, Greece and Egypt.
He noted that Israel’s work with Greece is also linked to normalization with the United Arab Emirates, which sees Turkey as its regional opponent.
In January 2019, the Eastern Mediterranean countries met and agreed to establish an “Eastern Mediterranean Gas Forum”, based in Cairo.
The forum includes Egypt, Israel, Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority, without being invited to Turkey, which had just signed an agreement with Libya to demarcate the maritime borders, which was condemned by Greece, Cyprus and Egypt.
