{"id":3030,"date":"2018-02-09T13:02:32","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T13:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3030"},"modified":"2018-02-09T13:02:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T13:02:32","slug":"whither-greece-israel-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/02\/09\/whither-greece-israel-relations\/","title":{"rendered":"WHITHER GREECE-ISRAEL RELATIONS ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sourced: Jerusalem Post<\/p>\n

By Georgeb N. Tzogopoulos<\/p>\n

Greece and Israel are slowly but steadily enhancing their strategic cooperation. Defense ties have been strengthened as a result of regularly organized bilateral military exercises.<\/p>\n

Greece and Israel \u2013 with the participation of Cyprus \u2013 have agreed to maintain and broaden \u201can arc of security and prosperity\u201d in the eastern Mediterranean.<\/p>\n

Symbolically, during his recent visit to Greece, President Reuven Rivlin accompanied Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos to the Salamis Naval Base on the island of Salamina, near Athens. This was the first visit by a foreign president to the headquarters of the Greek naval fleet.<\/p>\n

Israel also regularly joins NATO training exercises taking place in Greece. Last November, Israeli navy units participated in the Greek-led maritime exercise Niriis 2017, just off the coast of Crete in the southern Aegean Sea. One month later, Israel\u2019s air force and navy drilled together with NATO forces in an international joint training exercise beginning on the shores of Haifa and spanning to the shores of Crete.<\/p>\n

Read more at : http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Opinion\/Whither-Greece-Israel-relations-542126<\/p>\n

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Sourced: Jerusalem Post By Georgeb N. Tzogopoulos Greece and Israel are slowly but steadily enhancing their strategic cooperation. Defense ties have been strengthened as a result of regularly organized bilateral military exercises. Greece and Israel \u2013 with the participation of Cyprus \u2013 have agreed to maintain and broaden \u201can arc of security and prosperity\u201d in… Continue reading WHITHER GREECE-ISRAEL RELATIONS ?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10,467,66],"class_list":["post-3030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-and-strategy","tag-greece","tag-israel","tag-nato","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3031,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3030\/revisions\/3031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}