Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday stated that the United States had forfeited its role as a mediator in the Middle East by moving its Israel embassy to Jerusalem, Reuters reported.
“The United States has chosen to be a part of the problem rather than the solution with its latest step and has lost its mediating role in the peace process,” Erdogan said in a speech at Britain’s Chatham House think tank.
The United States is scheduled to officially move and open its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem on Monday in a move that has been praised by Israel but angered the Palestinians and sparked worldwide protests.
The Arab League is also scheduled to have an emergency meeting where they will discuss the United States’ “illegal” decision to move the embassy to Jerusalem, state news agency MENA reported on Monday, citing an Arab diplomat.
According to Reuters, the meeting will be held on Wednesday at the level of permanent representatives to the Arab League “to counter the illegal decision taken by the United States of America to transfer its embassy to Jerusalem.”
Meanwhile, NATO is getting ready to have another meeting of the NATO-Russia council soon, hoping that for the first time the primary agenda will include Moscow’s increasing use of “hybrid threats” such as propaganda and disinformation, a senior NATO official said on Monday.
Reuters wrote that Arndt Freytag von Loringhoven, who is NATO’s first Assistant Secretary-General for Intelligence and Security, stated during a conference in Berlin that Russia was increasing their use of such tools as a way to balance its relative military weakness.
“NATO doesn’t want a Cold War. It wants a constructive relationship with Russia, but it cannot leave unanswered Moscow’s diverse hybrid attacks on democracies of other countries,” he said.
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