Israel’s Emerging Relations in the Eastern Mediterranean | Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies | Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The flourishing new relationship between Israel and her two Hellenic neighbors in the eastern Mediterranean – Greece and Cyprus – is important on its own merits. But equally important, the Israel-Greece-Cyprus alliance seeks to block Turkey’s ambitions of regional hegemony, while at the same time offering Ankara a key place in the new Mediterranean political order, if and when she comes to her senses.