An Inside Look at Netanyahu’s National Security Council
The benefits of “passivity.”
March 8, 2016
On balance, the country is Israel’s ally.
In January, when a new Egyptian ambassador arrived in Israel after a three-year hiatus, observers hailed the event as a sign of warming relations between the two countries, which have been cooperating to contain Hamas and fight Islamic State infiltration in the Sinai Peninsula. Yet in Egypt itself, a parliamentarian who recently met with Israel’s ambassador faced widespread condemnation in state-owned media and was then expelled by his colleagues. Eyal Zisser attempts to make sense of these mixed messages:
The benefits of “passivity.”
On balance, the country is Israel’s ally.
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In January, when a new Egyptian ambassador arrived in Israel after a three-year hiatus, observers hailed the event as a sign of warming relations between the two countries, which have been cooperating to contain Hamas and fight Islamic State infiltration in the Sinai Peninsula. Yet in Egypt itself, a parliamentarian who recently met with Israel’s ambassador faced widespread condemnation in state-owned media and was then expelled by his colleagues. Eyal Zisser attempts to make sense of these mixed messages:
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