The last Turkish-'Israeli' tango in Syria
20.02.2012 12:43
By Dr Saeb Shaath
Turkey as a member of NATO has a
longstanding joint military-intelligence agreement with 'Israel' which
is explicitly directed against Syria. A 1993 Memorandum of Understanding
led to the creation of (Israeli-Turkish joint committees) to handle
"regional threats". Turkey and Israel agreed to cooperate in gathering
intelligence on Syria, Iran, and Iraq and to meet regularly to assess
terrorism and Syria, Iran, and Iraq military capabilities.
The position of the Turkish government
on Syria is not popular in Turkey. Thousands of Turkish citizens
protested on Friday 18th Feb at the gates of the Presidential Palace in
Ankara, during the meeting between Turkish President Abdullah Gul
and Secretary General of NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen, denouncing the
Turkish government's conspiring with the NATO and the US against Syria.
Confessions of 40 Turkish intelligence officers captured in Syria
A diplomatic crisis erupted between
Turkey and Syria when more than 40 Turkish intelligence officers were
captured by the Syrian army. Over the past week, Turkey has been
conducting intensive negotiations with Syria in order to get them back.
Syria insists that their release will be conditioned on the extradition
of Syrian officers and soldiers that defected and are currently in
Turkey.
Syria also stressed that its
continuation of the negotiations with Turkey is subject to Turkey's
blockade of weapon transfers and passage of soldiers from the rebels'
"Free Syria Army" through its territory. Syria demanded that Iran sponsor the negotiations of releasing the Turkish officers, Turkey rejected Syria's demands.
Syria, on the other hand, has recently
published confessions it gathered from the captured Turkish officers.
Their confessions concluded that they were trained by 'Israel's' Mossad,
and were instructed to carry out bombing campaigns to destabilize the
country from within. The captured Turkish officers said that the "Mossad
also actively engaged in training soldiers from the Free Syria Army,
and that Mossad agents came to Jordan in order to train al-Qaida
officials to send to Syria to carry out attacks".
Meanwhile, Jordan's Al-Helal News
website reported that units from the Royal Desert Forces operating in
the north western desert area managed to arrest a number of
non-Jordanians who were trying to enter Syria illegally, finding automatic firearms in their possession.
Assistant
Director of Jordanian General Security and Commander of the Royal
Desert Forces, Lt. Gen. Mohammad Khalaf al-Sayyed, said that seven men
carrying AK-47 rifles were arrested. All of them are not from Jordan,
and those people were arrested by the authorities while they were trying
to enter a neighbouring country illegally, the official said.
Attacking Syria
Armed insurgents belonging to radical
Islamist groups are crossing the border from Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan,
some Libyans fighters have been captured. Last week's double
attack on Aleppo was blamed on al Qaida whose objective is to
destabilize the Syrian State. Anti-government violence followed, local
residents trapped between warring sides, civilian casualties mount.
Radical Islamic groups, who are working
on inflicting heavy casualties and many deaths among security forces and
civilians, are intensifying their efforts to provide Turkey, NATO,
'Israel' and partners with a justification for humanitarian
intervention; under the principle "Responsibility to Protect", they
believe that would provide the western alliance with an opportunity to
use the UN-GA latest statement on Syria and interpret it in a way to
serves their objective of attacking Syria. (UN-GA latest statement on
Syria ignores the fact that International law prohibits interfering in
the internal affairs of other nations, including determining the
legitimacy of their leaders)
The war planners have to go back to
their own drawing board, and to add to their military assessment that
they are not dealing with a weak or an isolated country. Syria has
demonstrated its strength in countering, containing and defeating large
parts of the Radical Islamic groups. Syria showed the western alliance
that it was in a strategic alliance with powerful global partners who
were prepared to get involved in defending it. Syria's partners perceive
destabilizing Syria as a direct threat to their own national security.
Dr Saeb Shaath is an Author, a
Middle East Political Expert, public speaker on Middle Eastern affairs, a
frequent guest on Press TV, other TV and Radio shows.
His book The Arabian States of the
Gulf and International Oil Monopolies, Published in Arabic language 1987
and banned by most of the Arab Regimes; considered as a gospel to most
revolutionaries and resisting movements in the Arab world. He is the
founder of the alternative news network http://saebpress.com.
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