2.09.2009

A conflict with Israel would mean the suicide of Israel, parts 1 and 2

by Ahmet Turan Ayhan

Let’s have a flashback about the Palestine cause:
Israel played the world like a fish and made itself seem like a big playmaker by holding the initiative consistently.

Led by Yasser Arafat, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) drove rock-throwing little children against Israel’s strategic moves, and Israel could not overcome this for a long time.

Arafat’s leadership did not allow Israel to pull all the strings in the region with its moderate and elastic policy. Holding the initiative and playing the field was not that easy for Israel in those years. Carrying out shuttle

diplomacy among Arab states, Arafat knew how to turn the Palestine issue into one of the most important causes in the Muslim world. Thus, the Palestine issue was never an easy pill for Israel to swallow; even the US did not spare its support.

Read more of Part 1 @ There Are No Sunglasses

Here is Part 2


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