ASSESSMENTS
Geopolitics Keeps Pushing Turkey and Israel Back Together
Oct 8, 2018 | 09:30 GMT
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Highlights
- Turkey and Israel's strategic alliance in the Middle East, fostered by their shared aim to limit Iran and prevent Arab states from aligning against them, will preserve their relationship through most external shocks.
- Intensifying U.S. efforts to find regional allies it can rely on to contain Iran helps keep the two countries together.
- Turkey's defense of Palestinian statehood will always be a caustic wedge between the two: While it provides Turkey with important credibility in the Muslim world, it conflicts with Israel’s defense strategy.
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