With Turkey drifting away from the West, and towards Iran and Russia, some see those
three countries forming a “rejectionist” bloc in the the Middle East. They share interests
and, perhaps more importantly, enemies. But they disagree on some things, too, notably
whom to back in Libya and Syria. So the grouping is fragile.
The Turkey- UAE rivalry, though, will endure, adding poison to the region. Officials in
the Middle East might at least learn a lesson from all those deals with Israel: bitter
enemies are not destined to remain that way forever.
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