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Turkey’s attempts to fix its once strong ties with Israel have been set back to square one by last month’s violence between Israeli security forces and Palestinian group Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Months of informal contact between Turkey and Israel testing the waters for a détente came to a screeching halt on May 8 when Israeli police stormed the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, Islam’s third holiest site, after protests at the eviction of Palestinians from the nearby neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah.
On May 9, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan loudly condemned Israel as a “cruel terrorist state”. And Turkish outrage intensified after Israel launched an air campaign against Hamas militants that killed 256 Palestinians, including 69 children, according to the United Nations. On the Israeli side, 12 people, including two children, were killed.
Dr. Yoel Guzansky is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) specializing in Gulf politics & security. Dr. Guzansky was a Visiting Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, an Israel Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, and a Fulbright Scholar. He served on Israel's National Security Council in the Prime Minister's Office, coordinating the work on Iran and the Gulf under four National Security Advisers and three Prime Ministers. He is currently a consultant to several ministries.
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Iran-Saudi rapprochement a serious breach in Israel s anti-Iran front, study says
On the eve of renewed sanctions by Washington, Iranian protesters carry placards that mock President Donald Trump, Saudi Arabia s King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during a demonstration outside the former US embassy in the Iranian capital Tehran on November 4, 2018 [ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images] May 7, 2021 at 9:56 am
An Israeli research centre has addressed the rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran, stressing that this step constitutes a significant breach in the anti-Iran front that Israel seeks to form.
The Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), affiliated with Tel Aviv University, revealed in its strategic assessment that the meetings reported in recent weeks between Iran and Saudi Arabia are a new development since relations between the two countries were severed in 2016.