‘The security implications are harder still to dismiss’

‘In recognizing Somaliland, Israel sets a dangerous precedent’

Dahir Hassan Abdi at The Hill

Israel’s “recognition of Somaliland — the northwest Somali region — as an independent country has marked a deliberate break with longstanding international practice,” says Dahir Hassan Abdi. It “left Israel isolated as the only U.N. member state to recognize a territory the international community still treats as part” of Somalia. Somaliland is “under strain from the war in Yemen,” and “any...