A strategic hub, but also part of humanitarian plans

Greece's geographic location and mature foreign policy have allowed the country to develop into a crucial military and energy hub.

The use of facilities in the ports of Souda Bay and Alexandroupoli are a major part of US planning in dealing with the two major wars going on, in the Middle East and in Ukraine.

At the same time, Athens, along with Nicosia, can act as part of a potential humanitarian corridor to deal with the dramatic situation in the Gaza Strip.

The effort has begun. In cooperation with the Egyptian authorities, on Monday a Greek airplane with pharmaceutical and medical supplies destined for the civilians of the Gaza Strip, flew to Cairo.

Calls for a permanent ceasefire seem unattainable at the moment, but Greece, as Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis noted to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in a phone conversation on Monday, is...