Engineered to exclude: Israeli-Greek design of anti-Türkiye axis

There is a moment in every geopolitical redesign when the architects begin to speak too much. Do not argue, but explain. Explain why nothing unusual is happening, why cooperation is purely defensive, and why the maps are not being redrawn even as the ink dries. The Eastern Mediterranean has entered that moment.

Over recent months, Greece and Israel have developed an impressive aversion to silence. Statements multiply. Military cooperation is announced, clarified, expanded and then announced again. Energy projects are resurrected with ceremonial urgency. Egypt joins the chorus. Eastern Libya, in a feat of sudden intellectual awakening, discovers maritime law. The Greek Cypriot administration is invoked with ritual regularity, as a bridge, an anchor and a proof of virtue.

This is not diplomatic noise. It is a system announcing itself.

The trilateral summit of Dec. 22, 2025, bringing together Israel, Greece and the Greek Cypriot administration, was therefore not a beginning. It was a rehearsed unveiling. The subject of the choreography was never named. It did not need to be.

It was Türkiye, not as an enemy to be confronted, but as a variable to be engineered around. Alongside it, quietly removed from the political equation, stood the Turkish Cypriots, whose existence complicates every claim of legality the system prefers to keep tidy.

Bending the rules to their interests

The alliance describes itself as "Western," "democratic" and "rule-based." These words are not arguments