August 19, 2010
Greece is seizing on the widening rift between Turkey and Israel to improve its economic and military ties with the Jewish state. Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week headed the country’s highest-level delegation to ever visit the country, reciprocating a visit last month by his counterpart George Papandreou to Tel Aviv. While warming bilateral relations hold economic and military promise, the biggest benefits may come from a mutual buffing up of their damaged reputations.
With Greece still gripped by a severe debt crisis, it needs to extend a hand of friendship to potential allies that will assist with its recovery. Athens has been keenly aware of how relations between Israel and its traditional ally Turkey hit rock-bottom after the Israeli’s military incursion into Gaza and the deadly attack on the Gaza aid flotilla.
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