Alliance of the periphery
- Alliance of the periphery
Alliance of the periphery or "periphery doctrine" was a strategic principle advanced by David Ben Gurion - the state of Israel's first prime minister - holding that Israel should seek alliances with the non-Arab states of the Middle East periphery in order to counteract the hostility of bordering Arab states. Turkey and pre-revolutionary Iran were two such "peripheral" states Israel had good relations with. According to author Trita Parsi, the doctrine led to a questionable attempts by Israel to establish good relations with the avowidly anti-zionist Islamic Republic of Iran after the Islamic Revolution overthrew the Shah of Iran. Parsi quotes professor David Menashri of Tel Aviv University, "Israel's foremost expert on Iran," as saying, `Throughout the 1980s, no one in Israel said anything about an Iranian threat - the word wasn't even uttered.` [Parsi, Trita "Treacherous Alliance" (2007), p.104]
Periphery Nations
Nations which Israel has helped in the past include Iran, Kurdistan, Turkey, and India.
ources
* [http://www.bitterlemons-international.org/inside.php?id=263 Whither the Persian-Jewish alliance? Trita Parsi ]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=dLfddQVmof4C&pg=PA190&lpg=PA190&dq=periphery+doctrine+israel&source=web&ots=tufGVgHPGb&sig=YKU_PzgD-tqw075L5nP07pc4vBA&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result Treacherous Alliance By Trita Parsi]
See also
*Iran-Israel relations
*Foreign relations of Israel
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