iskender's Defter

June 3, 2011

goldenrouge: fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
Libya’s rebel National Transitional Council (NTC) is ready to recognise Israel, according to French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy, who says he has passed the message on to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The NTC “will be concerned with justice for the Palestinians and security for Israel” it it takes power, Lévy said after meeting Netanyahu Thursday.
“The future regime will maintain normal relations with other democratic countries, including Israel.”
Netanyahu’s office confirmed the meeting with Lévy but did not comment on the discussion. “The prime minister likes to meet intellectuals,” a spokesperson said.
Lévy, who helped persuade France to be the first country to recognise the NTC, visited the rebel-held Libyan city of Misrata last weekend and went on to Jerusalem this week.
Moamer Kadhafi’s regime refused to recognise Israel, even after Egypt’s President Anwar Sadat peace treaty with the country in 1979.
How could that possibly be true? They could never do that. They know what Israel does, they would never do that. No. I refuse to believe this crap.
AFP and various other networks seems to confirm/report the same thing - although our own resident Libyan abudai says the NTC has denied such claims.
Meanwhile, in an interesting development Netenyahu has come out and thanked France for the Libyan Intervention… It would seem a bit odd, coming out now, if he didn’t have cause to be happy about:

Meeting visiting French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, Netanyahu noted that Gaddafi had ‘was never a friend of Israel or the Jewish people and Israel will not be sorry to see him disappear from the map’ …
The Israeli leader added that he hoped that, when a new government was formed in Libya, it would advance peace and security for all people in the region.
The timings seems a bit coincidental… a whole month after the intervention, to only now suddenly give it your support - if we bare in mind the Israeli government looks at world affairs primarily through the spectrum of self-interest, it gives us much to think about, in terms of what’s going on behind the scenes.
Various theories are circulating as to what the motives may be for establishing diplomatic ties with Israel, but it’s thought to be trying to galvanise ‘western opinion’ in their favour and to appease western interests supporting the rebels (who are all obviously traditionally close to Israel).
Not jumping to conclusions just yet, but if this holds true, it could dramatically change public opinion of the TNC revolutionaries, in the eyes of the Arab World - only serving to make Gaddafi look better. The TNC will be aware of this and how it will undermine their support, hence I expect a swift denial - but questions would remain, if we consider Netanyahu’s sudden endorsement of regime change.
I hope these are mere false rumours, and that Netanyahu’s endorsement comes through thinking its relations can only get better under a new government without Gaddafi, even if only slightly so - rather than through background knowledge that the new government would definitely embrace diplomatic ties. Watch this space.