JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s defense minister on Sunday accused Turkey of destabilizing the region and opposing peace efforts, and called for tension to achieve a replacement in the conduct of NATO’s force.
Israel avoids public censorship through Turkey, with which it has maintained industrial and diplomatic relations despite the pro-Palestinian stance of the Ankara government for more than a decade.
In informing the Persian Gulf hounds as part of Israel’s follow-up to the founding with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, Defense Minister Benny Gantz described Turkey and Iran as “denying the promotion of peace and supporting regional aggression. “
Iran, Israel’s enemy, and Turkey have criticized the September 15 standardization agreement negotiated across the United States between Israel and the Gulf powers, calling it a betrayal of the Palestinian cause.
Citing Turkey’s movements in northern Syria and the eastern Mediterranean, as well as its intervention in Libya and its contacts with Palestinian Hamas militants, Gantz said: “All this takes away stability. “
“The Turkey factor is very complicated, because Turkey is a component of NATO,” Gantz said at the Zoom conference, organized through the Arab Council for Regional Integration, an organization that promotes Arab-Israeli consciousness.
“So we have to take all the functions that we have in our hands and see how to influence them through a foreign presence to make sure they get out of direct terrorism. “
Palestinians have been dismayed by Israel’s diplomatic incursions into the Gulf, which transcend long-standing talks on their purpose of an Israeli-occupied state in the West Bank and Gaza.
Israel, like the United States, argued that agreements with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain can also pave the way for an agreement on Palestine.
“We just have to make sure we find the right balance between maintaining our security and Palestinian sovereignty,” Gantz said.
(Written through Dan Williams; edited through Barbara Lewis)
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