Silent Egypt – Turkey confrontation

Arab newspaper’s edi­to­ri­als weren’t pre­pared for Davos event of yes­ter­day, but the few I found are really informative.

arti­cle, men­tion­ing an impor­tant point:

But Erdo­gan hit the west where it hurts saying:

Hamas had been elected demo­c­ra­t­i­cally, and the inter­na­tional com­mu­nity should respect this choice, and must include Hamas to the nego­ti­a­tions with Abbas , side by side because Hamas is part of the Pales­tin­ian fabric.

A deeper analy­sis on El-Nashra, telling us about a silent Egypt – Turkey con­fronta­tion, and how Erdo­gan man­aged to score sev­eral points yesterday:

The remark­able thing is that Erdogan’s posi­tion came after few hours from Turkey’s call to Obama to rede­fine

What Turkey wants to do?

For sure Erdogan’s posi­tion in Switzer­land, didn’t come from empti­ness, he under­stands what is hap­pen­ing in the region, and well aware that Israel’s domes­tic front right now is in a very “frag­ile” posi­tion because of the com­ing elec­tions and, there­fore, this is Turkey’s time to play the role of the medi­a­tor, not only between Israel and Syria, but also between the United States and Arab countries.

Where is Egypt in this?

Turkey returned to the game with high pop­u­lar­ity at home on the one hand, and across the Arab world on the other. Mean­while, the Egypt­ian pres­i­dent is still try­ing to recover his country’s role as a cor­ri­dor for any agree­ment in the region between Israel and any other party.