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President Erdogan is focused on setting Turkey’s foreign policy direction. Key priorities for Ankara include strategic autonomy, enhanced regional influence, economic revitalization, and balancing between NATO and Russia.
Turkey, under Erdogan, has been trying to break out of a disruptive cycle of serial foreign policy crises for some time now.
Washington may wish to be finished with the Middle East, but the Middle East is nowhere close to being finished with the United States.
The agreement to merge LIV Golf with the PGA Tour is part of a broader 360-degree projection of hard and soft power designed to make Saudi Arabia a key player in the region and a pivotal one abroad with ties to all comers large and small.
Formal normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia has been a longstanding U.S. goal. The questions, though, are how much that normalization is worth in today’s climate, what Washington should be prepared to pay for it, and what it should receive in return.
The battle over Israel’s democracy may further inflame conflict with the Palestinians.
Debating Israel’s One-State Reality
Turkey’s balancing act between Moscow and the West has so far granted the Kremlin an important strategic advantage. Whoever emerges victorious in the presidential election will have to reassess Ankara’s position between NATO and Russia.
What has happened in Israel these many months has shown the power that people possess to safeguard their democracy when threatened.
Since Israel withdrew its troops and settlers from Gaza in 2005 to escape the burdens of an occupation, the Israel Defense Forces have undertaken no less than 15 significant military operations. Indeed, an even more threatening Israeli-Palestinian conflagration looms.