ABSTRACT
This chapter covers Israel’s policy toward new peripheral allies such as Greece, Azerbaijan and South Sudan. It investigates how Jerusalem and Athens initiated new relations since 2010 in the field of economic and military cooperation, a rapprochement that coincided with the Turkish–Israeli crisis. With regards to Azerbaijan, the country has become a major customer of Israeli weapons industry and provides significant energy supplies to the Jewish State. However, both governments have been careful, not to describe their ties as aiming Iran. Finally, if South Sudan qualified for the status of a peripheral ally – due to its Christian and animist population and its fight against the Iran-backed government in Khartoum – its quick descent into civil war prevented further cooperation.
