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November 13, 2020

A New Alliance Is Emerging to Contain Turkey, and Israel Is a Key Part of It

But American support is necessary for it to succeed.

Yesterday, the defense ministers of Israel, Cyprus, and Greece met in Nicosia, where they issued a statement condemning Turkish efforts to impinge on Cyprus’ coastal waters. The summit marks the solidification of a broader coalition—with these three states at its forefront—committed to restraining Ankara’s increasingly aggressive policies. As Oved Lobel explains, both Jerusalem’s warmer relations with the Gulf states, and the discovery of fossil-fuel reserves in the Mediterranean, strengthen this coalition:

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November 13, 2020

  1. A New Alliance Is Emerging to Contain Turkey, and Israel Is a Key Part of It

    But American support is necessary for it to succeed.

  2. Critical Race Theory Demands That Jews Deny Their History and Identity

    At best, it is blind to anti-Semitism and at worst bleeds into it.

  3. Jonathan Sacks: A Rabbi Whose Vision of the Jews as a Creative Minority Was a Message to All People of Faith

    The Jeremiah option.

  4. Europe Must Fight Islamism Without Fighting Islam

    Religious conservatism isn’t a national-security issue, but Hamas and Hizballah are.

  5. A Muslim Mystic’s 17th-Century Journey to Jerusalem

    The travels of Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi.