April 2013 Talks between Israeli and Turkish officials about the botched 2010 raid of an aid vessel bound for Gaza were held in Ankara on Monday. Israel’s prime minister issued an official apology only a month ago, and this is the first time the two countries have formally talked about the incident since it happened. The […]
Gaza Fishing Zone Confrontation
December 2012 Israeli maritime authorities shot and wounded a sole fisherman off the coast of Gaza this past week, because he refused to move his vessel from waters that Israel claims he was violating. While Israel, under the United Nations Council on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), maintains complete sovereignty over territorial waters up […]
Gas Finds Complicate Eastern Med Security
June 26 2013 The recent discovery of natural gas reserves in the eastern Mediterranean Sea has the potential to increase the complexity of the quagmire that is already the security situation in the region. Greece, Turkey, Cyprus and Israel are amongst the nations to have already issued statements asserting control of the reserves. Lebanese Hezbollah and […]