Ties with Israel : Indonesia not like Morocco

• Main Author: Syed Huzaifah Othman Alkaff
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Commentary
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Social sciences::Political science; Country and Region Studies; International Politics and Security
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/146479
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Morocco’s recent partial normalisation of ties with Israel demonstrated that strategic gains could outweigh fears of nationalists and Islamist reprisals in Muslim-majority countries. In Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim country, nationalists and Islamists remain opposed to the Jewish state.