A Left-Wing Israeli’s Case for the U.S. Peace Plan
For Palestinian leaders, a Jewish state is too high a price to pay.
February 4, 2020
Israel Must Contain Turkey’s Attempt to Expand into the Mediterranean
How Jerusalem should interpret Ankara’s latest efforts to sow regional discord.
In November, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish president, signed an agreement with Libya’s official government in Tripoli, with which it shares a pro-Muslim Brotherhood orientation. The agreement recognizes Ankara’s economic rights and control over natural resources as extending deep into the Mediterranean Sea. It thus contradicts the claims of the Eastern Mediterranean Gas Forum (EMGF)—consisting of Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Italy, Greece, and Cyprus. Meanwhile, Turkey has also been backing Tripoli militarily in its civil war with the forces of Khalifa Haftar, who has the support of Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Russia, and France. Eran Lerman sees in Erdogan’s actions an attempt to push apart the EMGF while expanding his influence in Africa:
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Israel Must Contain Turkey’s Attempt to Expand into the Mediterranean
How Jerusalem should interpret Ankara’s latest efforts to sow regional discord.
False and Dangerous as It Is, the Idea that Anti-Semitism Is Limited to the Far Right Refuses to Die
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