China Expands into the Levant—and Improves Its Ties to Israel’s Adversaries
Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey will be stops on the new silk road.
April 21, 2021
The Arab parties and the arrangements committee.
While the incumbent Israeli prime minister, whose Likud party won a plurality of votes in the recent election, has two weeks to form a governing coalition, it seems that he cannot do so unless he is able to coax individual parliamentarians away from their parties. Meanwhile the Likud lost a Knesset vote on Monday for control of the “arrangements committee.” Haviv Rettig Gur explains:
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Login or SubscribeLebanon, Syria, and Turkey will be stops on the new silk road.
The Arab parties and the arrangements committee.
Despite what Mahmoud Abbas told J Street.
The Lailashi codex.
Revealed in newly declassified records.