Wikipedia's first sentence called it “strategic principle advanced by david ben gurion — the first prime minister of the state of israel — holding th”. Today it says “foreign-policy strategy developed by israeli prime minister david ben-gurion”.
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The opening as it read in 2010
Alliance of the periphery or periphery doctrine was a strategic principle advanced by David Ben Gurion — the first prime minister of the state of Israel — holding that Israel should seek alliances with the non- Arab states of the Middle East periphery in order to counteract the opposition to Israel 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 .1
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The Alliance of the periphery or the Periphery doctrine is a foreign policy strategy that called for Israel to develop close strategic alliances with non- Arab Muslim states in the Middle East to counteract the united opposition of Arab states to the existence of Israel.It was developed by David Ben-Gurion , the first Prime Minister of Israel , and employed chiefly towards Turkey , pre- revolutionary Iran and Imperial Ethiopia .
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The Alliance of the periphery or the Periphery doctrine is a foreign policy strategy that called for Israel to develop close strategic alliances with non- Arab Muslim states in the Middle East to counteract the united opposition of Arab states to the existence of Israel. The Shah of Iran, the Iraqi Kurds, and the Lebanese Shia .
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Israeli foreign-policy strategy The " alliance of the periphery " or the " periphery doctrine " refers to a foreign-policy strategy developed by Israeli prime minister David Ben-Gurion .It called for Israel to pursue exceptionally close bilateral ties with certain non- Arab nations throughout the Middle East and North Africa , with the ultimate goal of establishing a reliable counterweight to the large Arab military coalitions that had been fighting in the Arab–Israeli conflict .The policy was employed chiefly with regard to Turkey , the Imperial State of Iran , the Ethiopian Empire , and the Kurdish people living in Iraq and Syria .
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Alliance of non-Arab and non-Muslim actors in the Middle East The alliance of the periphery refers to a foreign-policy strategy developed by Israeli prime minister David Ben-Gurion .In 1999, Meir Amit , the head of Mossad , described it as an "alliance with all the actors in the Middle East who are not Muslim Arabs ".There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or templates on this page, but the references will not show without a template or template (see the help page ).
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strategic principle advanced by david ben gurion — the first prime minister of the state of israel — holding th
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foreign-policy strategy developed by israeli prime minister david ben-gurion
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