There are now 3 key actors in our middle eastern foreign policy.
1) Iran
Iran has direct control over whether our withdrawal from iraq will be successful and if the "democracy" we created will become stable.
Iran also obviously has some WMD creation issues that tie us to #2
2) Israel
One of our two allies in the middle east (#3 turkey being the other). Israel refuses to give iran WMD (for obvious reasons) and Irsael is now in a rift with #3. Israel also has its gaza issues, the heart of the turkey crisis, and it now seems that the USA may be reversing its role and stance on gaza, the blockade, and israels entire landscape. This will mean huge FP shifts and basically isolate israel into a corner with 0 friends.
3) Turkey
A rising star in the ME with strong ties to the USA. Now the "victim" in the flotilla crisis and it seems USA will side with Turkey on the issue. Turkey also genrally has strong ties with israel but may break these off as well, then completely isolating israel and losing them a sane, arab outlet to broker with
All of this spells bad for israel, USA will not pressure iran on nukes because then iran will fuck up iraq, USA will not side with israel on flotilla b/c then it loses our ally turkey, turkey will not side with irsael (for obvious reasons)
1) Iran
Iran has direct control over whether our withdrawal from iraq will be successful and if the "democracy" we created will become stable.
Iran also obviously has some WMD creation issues that tie us to #2
2) Israel
One of our two allies in the middle east (#3 turkey being the other). Israel refuses to give iran WMD (for obvious reasons) and Irsael is now in a rift with #3. Israel also has its gaza issues, the heart of the turkey crisis, and it now seems that the USA may be reversing its role and stance on gaza, the blockade, and israels entire landscape. This will mean huge FP shifts and basically isolate israel into a corner with 0 friends.
3) Turkey
A rising star in the ME with strong ties to the USA. Now the "victim" in the flotilla crisis and it seems USA will side with Turkey on the issue. Turkey also genrally has strong ties with israel but may break these off as well, then completely isolating israel and losing them a sane, arab outlet to broker with
All of this spells bad for israel, USA will not pressure iran on nukes because then iran will fuck up iraq, USA will not side with israel on flotilla b/c then it loses our ally turkey, turkey will not side with irsael (for obvious reasons)