Monday, September 5, 2011

Egypt & Turkey Strike Relationship



By Micah Halpern

I've Been Thinking:

Diplomatic relations between Turkey and Israel are crumbling and in crisis and diplomatic relations between Turkey and Egypt are on the upswing.

Relations between Egypt and Israel and Israel and Turkey are on the ropes. And then yesterday Turkey and Egypt set the groundwork for a strategic agreement. Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan will visit Egypt on September 12th. It is even rumored that Erdogan will visit Gaza while in the region.

These moves are extremely telling.

On the one hand: Israel is being further and further isolated and the countries that are isolating her are becoming closer and closer.
On the other hand: The Egyptian Foreign Ministry issued an announcement saying that Egypt had no intention of following Turkey's lead and downgrading diplomatic relations with Israel. It said that their situation with Israel is very different from the Turkish situation with Israel.
If this was a kid's game, it would be called seesaw. But this is not a game.
Micah@MicahHalpern.com
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