Israel is increasingly alarmed by Egypt’s accelerating military build‑up and its fast‑warming relationship with Turkey, developments that Israeli officials and analysts warn could reshape the strategic balance across the Eastern Mediterranean and around Gaza. For decades, the 1979 Egypt–Israel peace treaty has been a cornerstone of Israel’s regional security, effectively neutralising the largest Arab army on its southern flank. But recent Egyptian arms purchases, expanded deployments in Sinai and Cairo’s defence outreach to Ankara are fuelling doubts in Jerusalem about how stable that equation will be in the long term.
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