While his nation was making headlines for its potential exit from the European Union, Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias traveled to Jerusalem on an official state visit with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from July 7 to July 9. Stratfor has been following the emerging geopolitical relationship between Greece and Israel since 2010. To combat Turkey as it matures and projects more power into the Levant and the Aegean, Israel and Greece have an interest in maintaining closer ties. But geopolitics is not merely about nation-states colliding like billiard balls or analysts deriving simple, deterministic arguments from the locations of mountains. There is a deeper philosophical core to what Stratfor does. We recognize that love of one's own is one of the simplest yet most powerful realities of human existence and that the international political system, based as it is on the nation-state, is an outgrowth of that affection .