THE JEWISH VOICE AND OPINION Promoting Classical Judaism
November 2013
Vol. 27 • No. 3
Kislev 5774
Did Turkey Betray Israel? Did the US Betray Turkey and Israel? Is Iran Laughing All the Way to Nuclear Capability? One of the more confusing stories to come out of the Middle East last month was a report in the Washington Post: last year, when Turkish-Israeli relations were very strained, Turkish intelligence chief Hakan Fidan deliberately exposed a network of Iranians who had been working with the Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency. According to the report, Mr. Fidan gave Teheran the names of about ten Iranians who had been meeting with Mossad handlers in Turkey. According to Arutz Sheva, Turkey’s deliberate exposure of the agents’ identifies was a “significant” blow to Israel’s
intelligence-gathering capabilities in Iran. Push-Pull Relationship According to the article in the Post, Israel had run part of its Iranian network through Turkey, which means Turkey’s internal intelligence agency had access to the meetings between Iranians and Israeli agents within its borders. According to strategic analyst Mark Langfan, director of Americans for a Safe Israel, while Turkey and Iran also have strained relations, theirs is a push-pull. On one hand, Ankara, with its Nabucco east-west pipeline to Europe, needs Iranian oil. But with an eye to the future, Turkey fears a nuclear-Iran with territo-
rial contiguity through its satellite proxies in Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon. With this land mass at its disposal, Iran would be able to run its own uninterrupted oil-gas pipeline from Iran to the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, an operation that would bankrupt Turkey’s Nabucco. “The last thing Ankara wants is for Iran to do this with a nuclear-umbrella for protection,” said Mr. Langfan. Iran’s Man Like many analysts, Mr. Langfan is certain the information was leaked to the Post’s David Ignatius by a well-placed member of the Obama administration acting
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Kristallnacht at 75: Aged Nazis Dying, Russian-Jewish Hero Recognized, and an Egyptian MD Honored by Yad Vashem The commemoration this November of
the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, makes clear that the enormous shadow cast by the Holocaust can still prompt fresh raw emotion. Just last month, a notorious Nazi war criminal who evaded justice for more than 40 years, died at the age of 100 while under house arrest; a Jewish hero of the Sobibor death camp revolt was finally recognized; and an Egyptian doctor who saved Jews during the Holocaust was posthumously shamed by his family who refused to accept his honor at Yad Vashem. At the beginning of October, former
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SS Captain Erich Priebke, a Nazi war criminal who participated in a World War II massacre in Italy and never took person-
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al responsibility for his actions, died in Rome at the age of 100. In 1998, he was sentenced to life in prison for his role in a March 1944 bloodbath at Rome’s Ardeatine caves, which left 335 people dead, including 75 Jews. The victims were massacred with bullets to their necks—murdered perhaps in retaliation for an attack by the resistance movement on SS soldiers. Escape to Argentina After the incident at the Ardeatine caves, Mr. Priebke, who had joined the Nazi party in his native Germany soon after Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933,
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