The Middle East’s newest rivals in the Levant region are Washington’s two key allies there.

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Anchal Vohra

By Anchal Vohra, a columnist at Foreign Policy.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attending the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on Nov. 19, 2017 and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul Dec. 15, 2017.