... negotiated between the US and Russia on July 8 will almost certainly break down in the coming months absent such progress. Understanding that it is merely a respite from conflict even as Iran uses it to strengthen its military presence in Syria, Israel has refused to accept the terms of the ceasefire. Accordingly, on September 7 Israeli aircraft reportedly bombed a Syrian military facility linked to the production of chemical weapons and precision missiles. Israel has conducted around 100 strikes ...
Every once in a while we read an article that we really want to share with other readers. Twice now it has happened with something published by the BESA Center for Strategic Studies at Bar Ilan University in Tel Aviv, Israel. (For disclosure, our Institute of Post Communist Studies and Terrorism (jvlv.net) has also produced articles for BESA.) Most recently, BESA ran an article, “ Israel is Real,” that has created a stir by dealing with historical criticism from ...
On August 3, Jesper Vahr, Ambassador of Denmark in Israel, and Peter Prehn-Olesen, Counsellor for Political Affairs at Danish Embassy in Moscow, visited Russian International Affairs Council.
On August 3,
Jesper Vahr
, Ambassador of Denmark in Israel, and Peter Prehn-Olesen,
Counsellor for Political ...
... Arab writer even hailed Saudi-US ties as one that “shaped the wider world” and although the wider world would undeniably agree with that reality, it would nevertheless consign such ties to the very negative end of the global affairs spectrum. The Israeli press celebrated Trump’s royal treatment in Riyadh and observed how the president and select members of his cabinet danced with swords in a ceremony that must have nauseated the families of 9/11 victims. Syrians, Yemenis and Christian minorities ...
... policy ... an unchecked Iran has the potential to follow the same path as North Korea and take the world along with it. The United States is keen to avoid a second piece of evidence that strategic patience is a failed approach,"
Alliance of GCC and Israel
It is not just the US policy which India has to contend with it is the alliance between GCC countries and Israel. While Saudi Arabia has remained at loggerheads with Israel, recently both are part of the Anti-Iran alliance. Israel, Turkey and Saudi ...
... has been no better time in recent history where Russia-U.S. bilateral relations are positioned best to leverage their coordinated influence on the divided sectarian and tribalistic theatre in the Middle East to broker a negotiated resolution on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that has been holding the center of the world in limbo for the last 70 years.
President Trump has assembled an unprecedented team from outside the political realm to take on this longstanding dilemma. While Secretary of State ...
... Moreover, due to the need to fight IS, the American military presence is growing, which became particularly obvious in the fall of 2016 as the operation intended to clear Mosul of jihadists was drawing nearer.
REUTERS/Baz Ratner
Tatiana Karasova:
To the Israeli Front in American Boots
Leverett’s claim that Obama’s presidency saw a change in the US relations with Israel and Saudi Arabia is questionable. Israel has been and remains the US’ main ally in the region, as is clearly proven ...
The U.S.–Israel Memorandum of Understanding
On September 14, 2016, the United States and Israel signed an
agreement
(memorandum) of understanding on the provision of military help to the Jewish state worth $38 billion over ten years ($3.8 billion per year)....
Is Europe an Attractive Market for Gas? Or Are there Other Markets?
Over the course of less than ten years, large reserves of gas were discovered in Eastern Mediterranean countries (Israel, Cyprus and Egypt), and some say this gas could soon be exported to Europe. When can such exports be organized? In what quantities? And how? And will the Levantine “blue fuel” not challenge Russia’s positions on the European market?...
... the rise this past month. Riding the wave of de-escalation in the Russia–Turkey dialogue, relations between Ankara and Tel Aviv are also being resumed after an almost six-year break. One should not forget that deterioration began in 2009, when Israel
strengthened
its positions in the Gaza Strip and soon started an open intervention. Later, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Recep Erdogan
delivered
his famous speech, later dubbed “one minute talk,” where he sharply criticized ...
