In 2011, the death of Muammar Gaddafi was perceived by some Israeli analysts as the sign of a hypothetical rapprochement of diplomatic relations between Libya and Israel.
Israel was not new to the Libyan area. When in the distant 1981, Sudan was created in the National Front for the Salvation of Libya (the NFSL: a Libyan opposition group created with the aim of carrying out a regime change) several international analysts feared the presence of the Israeli services behind the creation of the same, assisted by the CIA. According to the latter, funding to the same group was channeled by the CIA and Saudi Arabia, as well as by Egypt, Morocco, Iraq and Israel.
In May 1984 international analysts hypothesized that the NFSL attack, from which Muammar Gaddafi came out unscathed and that caused 80 victims, had been coordinated by CIA and Mossad.
With the aforementioned fall of the Gaddafi regime, the NFSL lost its raison d'etre and disbanded on May 9, 2012, later replaced by National Front Party, which obtained 3 seats in the elections of the National General Congress, the first election of Libya free after more than 40 years.
Six years have passed since the end of Gaddafi, Libya is currently, together with Syria, a live fire that can not be extinguished. At the same time, the decade-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which has turned into an Arab-Israeli conflict, has witnessed over time the transformation of an idea that saw democracy threatened by a sort of Jewish conspiracy, making the approach of the Arab people to Israelis less hostile.
Analysts hypothesize every possible geopolitical future in the Libyan area. In my opinion, as already underlined by other international analysts, a possible important role in this area would give Israel the opportunity to get in touch with other friendly Arab States, such as Qatar, a country that played a fundamental role in Libya, contributing significantly to the propaganda campaign against Gadhafi, and that it could now use its influence in the Arab world to make Israel not only diplomatically more approachable but reiterating its primary role in the Gaza Strip.
The same Arab country cited would have engaged both in recent years and in recent times, in mediation for the exchange of prisoners between Hamas and Israel. News not confirmed by both countries.
(photo: IDF)
