The Guardian: Tukey-Egypt alliance: Israel faces regional isolation

The Guardian daily wrote on Sunday that if Turkey and Egypt “make common cause against their former common ally – and there is every indication that they will – Israel’s isolation in the region will be profound.” Stating that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu now has to make a choice, it wrote, “He must realize that humiliating Turkey by refusing to apologize for the deaths on the Mavi Marmara was a colossal error. The strategic consequences for Israel of a hostile Turkish-Egyptian alliance could last years. They far outweigh the advantages of a tactical victory in the UN Palmer report, which lasted exactly days. Israel needs to repair relations with Turkey and do it quickly. The price of such a rapprochement will have gone up in the last week, but it is still worth paying.”