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NO MATTER HOW THE REGION CHANGES, ARMENIA WILL BE OF NO STRATEGIC INTEREST TO ISRAEL
Karine Ter-Sahakyan
PanARMENIAN.Net
February 18, 2011
Israeli foreign policy stands out by its carefulness, and the country
will never take the path of confrontation with Azerbaijan and Turkey.
Walking a tightrope, Azerbaijan is trying to keep its balance and
preserve the fictional status of the "great energy power of the
region". Bluffing of official Baku still works or it simply seems to
us that it works, since various kind of information is received by
Armenian media for reality. Every step of any country in the world
against Turkey and Azerbaijan is treated by Yerevan almost as an act
of friendly relations.
The latest example is the Azerbaijani-Israeli relations, which both
for the Jewish state and for Azerbaijan are much more important than
the Armenian-Israeli relations. The latter hardly exists. Let us cite
an example: "Azerbaijan may spoil its relations with Israel. According
to Azerbaijani media, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev signed a
decree, which approved the agreement between Azerbaijan's MFA and
the State of Palestine on disposing material-technical support to
Palestinian Embassy in Baku. The agreement was signed in Baku on
January 31.
This fact did not slip the attention of Israel, as it was the first
time that the term "the State of Palestine" instead of "Palestine"
had been used in bilateral documents of the two countries. Earlier,
Baku had stood for the establishment of Palestinian state, with
Jerusalem as its capital. Azerbaijani political circles state
that Israel has warned Baku to revise her policy toward Palestine,
otherwise Jerusalem would answer by recognition of independence of
the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic."
This information is not worth a damn, because if Israel refuses to
recognize the Armenian Genocide, having, probably, good reasons for
that, she will certainly not recognize the independence of Nagorno
Karabakh. In Big Politics one's own interests are in the first place,
but it is the truth the Armenian "experts" are unwilling to realize.
Living in the Arab world, where moderate adherents of Islam are much
fewer than radicals, Israel must be overcautious in order to survive.
And it is exactly what she does. Israeli foreign policy stands out
by its carefulness, and the country will never take the path of
confrontation with Azerbaijan and Turkey. She does not need to get
involved in the affairs of a region not so close to her, especially
under the current circumstances when her only ally - Hosni Mubarak -
was forced to resign. Neither is it advisable to implicitly rely on
the United States, which is not so happy about Israel's existence. Or
rather, let us say, she has come not to be so happy about it. The
Obama Administration has won laurels in the Muslim world, to the
detriment of respect and protection of all the other allies. So,
Azerbaijan and Turkey, despite their unreliability, prove to be more
predictable than the U.S. or Europe.
As for the closing of Israel Embassies in several countries, including
Turkey and Azerbaijan, it is no more than a stopgap measure. After
all, Jerusalem knows that both of the above-mentioned countries,
though trying to distance themselves from radical Islam, are still
Muslim. And all of their "secularism" can easily turn into nothing
under threats from Hezbollah or any other grouping, for which the
existence of Israel is a bur in the throat.
As to Armenia, for Israel she's just a not very close country
that boasts rather complicated relations in the region. So,
Israel needs not interference in the Karabakh conflict or in
Armenian-Turkish relations. Neither does Armenia need to get involved
in Palestinian-Israeli relations and recognize (or not) a state,
which does not exist, namely Palestine.
From: A. Papazian
Karine Ter-Sahakyan
PanARMENIAN.Net
February 18, 2011
Israeli foreign policy stands out by its carefulness, and the country
will never take the path of confrontation with Azerbaijan and Turkey.
Walking a tightrope, Azerbaijan is trying to keep its balance and
preserve the fictional status of the "great energy power of the
region". Bluffing of official Baku still works or it simply seems to
us that it works, since various kind of information is received by
Armenian media for reality. Every step of any country in the world
against Turkey and Azerbaijan is treated by Yerevan almost as an act
of friendly relations.
The latest example is the Azerbaijani-Israeli relations, which both
for the Jewish state and for Azerbaijan are much more important than
the Armenian-Israeli relations. The latter hardly exists. Let us cite
an example: "Azerbaijan may spoil its relations with Israel. According
to Azerbaijani media, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev signed a
decree, which approved the agreement between Azerbaijan's MFA and
the State of Palestine on disposing material-technical support to
Palestinian Embassy in Baku. The agreement was signed in Baku on
January 31.
This fact did not slip the attention of Israel, as it was the first
time that the term "the State of Palestine" instead of "Palestine"
had been used in bilateral documents of the two countries. Earlier,
Baku had stood for the establishment of Palestinian state, with
Jerusalem as its capital. Azerbaijani political circles state
that Israel has warned Baku to revise her policy toward Palestine,
otherwise Jerusalem would answer by recognition of independence of
the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic."
This information is not worth a damn, because if Israel refuses to
recognize the Armenian Genocide, having, probably, good reasons for
that, she will certainly not recognize the independence of Nagorno
Karabakh. In Big Politics one's own interests are in the first place,
but it is the truth the Armenian "experts" are unwilling to realize.
Living in the Arab world, where moderate adherents of Islam are much
fewer than radicals, Israel must be overcautious in order to survive.
And it is exactly what she does. Israeli foreign policy stands out
by its carefulness, and the country will never take the path of
confrontation with Azerbaijan and Turkey. She does not need to get
involved in the affairs of a region not so close to her, especially
under the current circumstances when her only ally - Hosni Mubarak -
was forced to resign. Neither is it advisable to implicitly rely on
the United States, which is not so happy about Israel's existence. Or
rather, let us say, she has come not to be so happy about it. The
Obama Administration has won laurels in the Muslim world, to the
detriment of respect and protection of all the other allies. So,
Azerbaijan and Turkey, despite their unreliability, prove to be more
predictable than the U.S. or Europe.
As for the closing of Israel Embassies in several countries, including
Turkey and Azerbaijan, it is no more than a stopgap measure. After
all, Jerusalem knows that both of the above-mentioned countries,
though trying to distance themselves from radical Islam, are still
Muslim. And all of their "secularism" can easily turn into nothing
under threats from Hezbollah or any other grouping, for which the
existence of Israel is a bur in the throat.
As to Armenia, for Israel she's just a not very close country
that boasts rather complicated relations in the region. So,
Israel needs not interference in the Karabakh conflict or in
Armenian-Turkish relations. Neither does Armenia need to get involved
in Palestinian-Israeli relations and recognize (or not) a state,
which does not exist, namely Palestine.
From: A. Papazian