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Israel’s initiative to create a new regional bloc, the “Hexagon of Alliances,” may represent an attempt to reshape the balance of power in the Middle East and contain the growing influence of Muslim states in an emerging multipolar world.

The fall of the Assad regime in Syria may have been a geopolitical loss for Iran (and Russia), but the fact that Islamists have overthrown the regime threatens both Iran and Arab states, creating prospects for their cooperation in the near future and minimising whatever gains the ‘winners’ of this ‘end-game’ many have made.

It also seems that various international, domestic, and regional variables in the economic and political dimensions will prevent widespread military-security tension in Turkey-Israel relations.