Flashback to 1995: Introducing the U.S.-Israel-Turkey-Jordan-Egypt alliance at Prime Minister Rabin’s funeral
Propaganda alert
compiled by Cem Ertür
6 November 2015
6 years before the launch
of a genocidal, never-ending and ever-expanding “global war on
terror” across Asia and Africa, the funeral of the assassinated “hero
of peace” Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin proved to be an
opportune moment to discreetly reveal an overt military alliance
between U.S., Israel, Turkey, Jordan and Egypt against Iraq, Iran,
Syria, Libya and the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah.
U.S. President Bill
Clinton gives
a eulogy at the funeral of the assassinated Israeli Prime Minister
Yitzhak
Rabin, Mount Herzl, Jerusalem, 6 November 1995
Eulogy
for the Late Prime Minister and Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin by U.S.
President Bill Clinton
Israel Ministry of Foreign
Affairs website, 6 November 1995
Jordan’s King Hussein gives a
eulogy at the funeral of the assassinated Israeli Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin,
Mount Herzl, Jerusalem, 6 November 1995
Eulogy
for the Late Prime Minister and Defense Yitzhak Rabin by His Majesty
King
Hussein of Jordan
Israel Ministry of Foreign
Affairs website, 6 November 1995
Egypt’s President Hosni
Mubarak gives a eulogy at the funeral of the assassinated Israeli Prime
Minister
Yitzhak Rabin, Mount Herzl, Jerusalem, 6 November 1995
Eulogy
for the Late Prime Minister and Defense Yitzhak Rabin by Egyptian
President
Hosni Mubarak
Israel Ministry of Foreign
Affairs website, 6 November 1995
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excerpts
from:
With
blessing of U.S., Israel draws
closer to Turkey and Jordan – Eyes on post-Saddam
Iraqby Amy Dockser Marcus,
Wall Street Journal, 30 May
1996
[emphasis added]
After
attending funeral services for assassinated Israeli Prime Minister
Yitzhak
Rabin in November [1995], U.S. President Bill Clinton held an impromptu
meeting
in [...] [King David Hotel in Jerusalem]. Among those in attendance
were acting
Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, King Hussein of Jordan [...]
then-Prime
Minister Tansu Ciller of Turkey [...]
[and] Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak [...]
Few realized it at the time, but the Israeli
television cameras that panned the room for the nightly newscast were
offering the first
glimpse of a new strategic
alignment in the Middle East. Six months later, both the
promise of that
picture and the complications that go with it are increasingly
apparent. [...] Martin
Indyk, the U.S. ambassador to Israel,
says Turkey, Israel, Jordan and
Egypt share the "common thread" of threats from terrorism and the
prospect of rogue states [i.e. Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria] possessing weapons of mass
destruction.
[...]
Israel and Turkey have
signed agreements calling for everything from free
trade between the two countries to joint
air-force training, naval visits and intelligence sharing.
[1]
[...] This month, eight Israeli
F-16 jets began training in Turkish air space. [...] Turkish-Israeli naval
maneuvers in
the Mediterranean Sea are
planned for next month, and a joint
mid-air refueling exercise has already been conducted [at
NATO's Incirlik Airbase in southern Turkey [2] ]. According to
Turkish
and Israeli officials familiar with the [February
1996 military cooperation] agreement, Turkey
will also allow Israel to gather intelligence on Syria and Iran from
Turkish soil, and Israel will help with
training in preventing infiltration of [PKK] terrorists across Turkey's
border [with Syria, Iraq and Iran]. [...]
For the first time, U.S.
warplanes in March [1996] began using a Jordanian air base
from which to fly daily sorties over [the no-fly zone in] southern Iraq. [...]
U.S. officials say Jordan's military
cooperation has also led to a change in the Clinton administration's "dual
containment" policy, which
calls for keeping both
Iran and Iraq
weak but making no intensive effort to overthrow either regime.
Now the U.S. is
employing an enhanced version, says one official, a kind of dual containment with
teeth. "We're stepping up
the pressure on Saddam," this official says. "And we're only able to
do that because Jordan has now joined the anti-Iraq camp." [...]
It is of critical importance to the U.S., Turkey, Jordan and
Israel that post-Saddam
Iraq doesn't ally itself
with more radical states such as Syria,
Iran or Libya. [...]
[2] source:
Syria
fears Israeli-Turkish joint air maneuvers and intelligence,
by Leslie Susser, Jerusalem Report, 2 May 1996
[1] The
list below indicates that an overt military cooperation between Israel
and
Turkey was actually put into practice even before Yitzhak Rabin began
his second term as
a prime minister in July 1992:
April
1992:
[...] [Israel and Turkey’s] defense
ministries sign a document on principles for [defense] cooperation.
November
1993:
[...] [Israel and Turkey] sign a memorandum of understanding creating
joint
committees of senior officials to handle regional threats such as
terrorism and
fundamentalism. The countries agree to cooperate in gathering
intelligence on Syria,
Iran, and Iraq and to meet regularly to share assessments pertaining to
terrorism and military capabilities in these three countries. Turkish
foreign
minister Hikmet Cetin visits Israel, the first visit ever by a Turkish
foreign
minister.
January
1994:
Israeli president Ezer Weizman visits Turkey, the first official visit
ever by
an Israeli head of state.
May 1994: A
Security and
Secrecy Agreement is signed, guaranteeing secrecy in the exchange and
sharing of information between [...] [Israel
and Turkey].
October
1994:
Israeli director of security Asaf Haffetz visits Turkey. The April 1992
protocol on defense cooperation is embellished and solidified. Specific
areas for
military cooperation are delineated.
November
1994:
Turkish prime minister Tansu Ciller visits Israel, the first official
visit by
a Turkish prime minister. The two nations’ police forces
reach an agreement on cooperation over the exchange of
information. [3]
September 1995:
Leaders of both countries sign a memorandum
of understanding for the training ofpilots in each other’s airspace.
November
1995:
Israeli naval commander Adm. Ami Ayalon visits Turkey. [4]
source:
Timeline
of Turkish-Israeli Relations, 1949–2006, by Brock Dahl and
Danielle Slutzky, Washington
Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), 2006
[3] [At the state dinner held by
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in honour of
Turkey’s Prime Minister Tansu Ciller at King David Hotel on
November 3, 1994], Mrs Ciller told her
hosts, “I can assure you that you will have
your promised land!” [...] The Israelis'
“
promised
land” extends from the Nile to the Euphrates, and takes in
Turkish
territory!
(source:
‘Turkey likely
to launch "American style" strikes against
Syria and Lebanon's Bekaa’, Mideast Mirror, 16 October
1998. Note:
hyperlink added)
[4] Commander of the Israeli Navy Ami Ayalon
returned
from Ankara on the eve of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s
assassination.
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From the archives:
“Greater
Israel”: The Zionist Plan for the Middle East - The Infamous “Oded
Yinon Plan”
[“A Strategy for Israel in
the Nineteen Eighties” article by Oded Yinon, 1982]
by Israel Shahak, Global
Research, 6 September 2015
A
Zionist in disguise: Prime
Minister Erdogan’s phony anti-Israel rhetoric
by Cem Ertür, Indybay, 30 November 2012
Preparing
the Chessboard for the “Clash of Civilizations”: Divide, Conquer and
Rule the
“New Middle East”
by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya,
Global Research, 26 November 2011
A
Clean Break: A
New Strategy for Securing the Realm
[report by Institute for Advanced
Strategic and Political Studies, June 1996]
Information Clearing House
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