Cengiz Candar, Al Monitor
No need to indulge in semantics and take pains to conceal the fact: Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan defied the European Union — and he won.
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Kirsten Fontenrose, RCWorld
According to recent remarks by Biden advisers, the incoming administration will have four priorities in the Middle East. The first is to contain Iran's nuclear program and its other destabilizing activities in the region. Second is to secure Israel and advance Arab-Israeli peace. Another priority is to end the wars in Yemen and Libya, and finally, the administration wants to push the cause of human rights in the region.
Silvia Marchetti, CNN
The Romans were also very superstitious. Anything that fell from the table belonged to the afterworld and was not to be retrieved for fear that the dead would come seek vengeance, while spilling salt was a bad omen, Franchetti said. Bread had to be solely touched with the hands and eggshells and mollusks had to be cracked. Were a rooster to sing at an unusual hour, servants were sent to fetch one, kill it and serve it pronto.
Ahmed Charai, National Interest
With Morocco now the fourth Arab country to reach new terms with Israel in as many months, it should be clear that Jared Kushner's strategic vision of a regional approach—so widely derided as "naive"—has borne fruit.
Bobby Ghosh, Bloomberg
Like so many of Trump's foreign-policy decisions, the U.S. loses much more than it gains from the bargain.
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James Kynge & Jonathan Wheatley, Financial Times
Alex Vatanka, RCWorld
There is a lot riding on the success on the recent cease-fire agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia. NATO's energy security is now intertwined with the fragile deal. Fueled by Russian arms and military training, the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict threatens to shake confidence in Europe's drive to reduce its energy reliance on Moscow.
