STATEMENT ΒΥ ΗRΗ Prince El Hassan Bin Talal of Jordan
INTERVIEWS:
General (Ret.) Dr. Efraim Sneh: "Turkey Taking Sides Ends Its Regional Role", Conducted by Antonia Dimou
Ambassador Marwan Abdelhamid: "Lift the Siege on Gaza as soon as Possible", Conducted by Antonia Dimou
ANALYSES:
"Turkey's Willing Road Accident with Old Friend Israel", by Bural Bekdil
"Lessons Learnt from the Freedom Flotilla: An Israeli View", by Smadar Perry
"Impact of the Freedom Flotilla: A Palestinian Perspective" by Rami Dajani
"The Battle if the Siege, Border Crossings and Reconciliation Starts Now", by Oraib Rantawi
"The Gaza Naval Incident and the Need for a New Greek Perspective", by Zacharias Michas
"Turkey and the Freedom Flotilla", by Sylvia Tiryaki
"Flotilla of World Hypocricy", by Boaz Ganor
NEWS DIGEST:
- UN Security Council Approves New Iran Sanctions
- Resolution 1929 (2010), Security Council, 6335th Meeting, New York, June 9, 2010 (Excerpts)
- Israel Presents Second Disengagement Plan from Gaza
NEWS COMMENT:
Israel's Second Disengagement from Gaza: A Magic Cure?
ECONOMIC MONITOR:
- Foreign Investment in Oman
- POWER-GEN Middle East Conference and Exhibition, Qatar, October 6-8, 2010
- Creation of a West Asian Forum: Asia-Gulf Business and Security
SPECIAL FEATURE:
"Jordan: A Success Story of the IMF", by Antonia Dimou
The featured interview of General (R.) Dr. Efraim Sneh, Chairman of the S. Daniel Abraham Center for Strategic Dialogue and twice deputy minister of Israel addresses the issue of legality of the Israeli action and the imminent effect of the flotilla event on Israel-Turkey relations.
The interview of Ambassador Marwan Abdelhamid, member of the Central Council of the PLO who previously served as Head of the Diplomatic Representation of Palestine to Greece tackles the issue of the impact of the Israeli blockade on Gaza and stresses that suspension of any external interference in Palestinian affairs is urgent.
The Turkish-led flotilla bound for Gaza was a planned move by Ankara aiming at multiple gains both at home and in the region. With parliamentary elections a year ahead and his government looking rattled for the first time since coming to power in 2002, the Turkish Prime Minister smartly calculated that he could successfully hunt votes with his love affair with Hamas and hate affair with Israel, as articulated Burak Bekdil.
Mrs Smadar Perry points out in her Op-Ed analysis that the military attack on the Mavi Marmara was a grave mistake, acknowledging that it is not a secret that deterioration of relations between Ankara and Jerusalem was kind of crawling gradually with the starting point in Davos that remains to be seen as a significant example of the new political approach in Turkey, according to which Israel is to lose its priority in favor of Ankara's new foreign policy of minimizing rifts and diversities with close neighbors in the Arab and Muslim world.
Rami Dajani indicates in his in-depth analysis that what is perhaps new in the recent flotilla event is the emergence of an energized momentum seeking enforcement of rights and international laws through non-violent means of resistance and activism which under certain circumstances, may succeed in bringing some measure of justice to the Palestinian people, and through that eventually peace and security for all states in the region.
For his part, Oraib Rantawi deals with the issues of the Israeli Siege of Gaza and the Palestinian Reconciliation, while interestingly supports that there is a very odd situation underway whereby most of the world believes that the siege on Gaza is "unsustainable", except the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the Egyptian government.
Zacharias Michas indicates in his analysis that the Freedom flotilla event is expected to have catalytic impact on the regional geopolitical balance that Greece should exploit and maintains that the fluidity in the regional system of states now becomes apparent as Turkish aspirations collide with the existing regional order, forged by the US and Israel.
Mustafa El-Labbad elaborates that the flotilla incident sent unprecedented powerful shockwaves on regional and international power equations and discloses that Turkey has handled the crisis with consummate skill with the aim to tighten Israel's international isolation and to strip it of its conventional diplomatic strengths, with special emphasis on the support of international public opinion and Washington's unqualified backing.
Sylvia Tiryaki deals with the background as well as the aftermath of the Freedom Flotilla and concludes that only time can show whether Israeli blockade on Gaza is not only contrary to International Law but also strategically counterproductive for Israel.
Finally, Boaz Ganor points out in his op-ed analysis that the Turkish Prime Minister is pulling Turkey away from the secular path of Kemal Ataturk which has guided Turkey toward prosperity and pragmatism for so many years and argues that Erdogan is promoting an Islamic revolution in Turkey of the most dangerous variety, that is a non-violent cultural revolution.
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