Futile Israeli Efforts to Win Ankara Back
The Government of Israel, we learned yesterday from a Turkish source, has delivered Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) equipment by ELTA, a subsidiary of Israel Aerospace Industries that gives military aircraft protection from electronic attacks. Not only will the AWACS planes, in the wording of the Today's Zaman article, "greatly increase [the Turkish air force's] dominance over Turkey's own airspace" but they will also be useful to it in the Syrian civil war and vis-à-vis "tensions with Israel and Greek Cyprus over the issue of gas drilling."
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What a Turkish air force AWACS looks like.
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Israel Defense continues: "There are voices within the Israeli defense establishment calling for the end of the Marmara crisis vis-à-vis Turkey, by finding a formula of apology, in order to return to the Israeli-Turkish alliance against Syria and Iran."
Comments:
- As the Turkish newspaper itself notes, the AWACS will potentially be used against Israel in the Mediterranean Sea.
- This move fits into a larger pattern of an Israeli and more broadly a Western reluctance to recognize the AKP-dominated government of Turkey as hostile. Neither appeasement nor seduction will work. The time has come to come to see Erdoğan & Co. as the opponents they are. (February 18, 2013)
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2 comments:
Short answer: No. In much the same way that the US selling steel to the Imperial Japanese just before WWII, and ended up being used in A6M2 Zero Fighter-planes strafing Pearl Harbor......
And we cannot even say that AWACS is purely defensive.
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