Prospects for the establishment of a Druze state
Jihadist attacks against the Syrian Druze in June 2015 marked the beginning of a new stage of the Middle East crisis. They prompted the involvement of Israel and Lebanon in the Syrian conflict and revealed a tendency of establishing new states in the region on the ethnic and religious basis.
Druze – the origins
The Druze are a unique ethnoreligious minority, living mainly in the mountainous and ...
On June 23-25, the
Institute for National Security Studies
of the Tel Aviv University (Israel) held an annual international conference on arms control in the changing world where nymerous experts, analytics, diplomats and journalists from Israel, the U.S., Germany, India, Turkey and other countries participated.
Russia was represented ...
A Sensible Grading of Obama’s Middle East Strategy, As Opposed to Republican Nonsense: Part I: Introduction, Muslim World Reset, Iraq, Israel/Palestine
If you can’t understand that Obama’s overall Middle East strategy is starting to work, you don’t know what you’re talking about
By Brian E. Frydenborg (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter @bfry1981) May 21st, 2015
...
On May 15, 2015 Benyamin Netanyahu’s government was approved by the Knesset, so we met
Ilya Vasilyev
, Political scientist, Consultant on politics and new media of Minister of Information of Israel (2009-2013), Speaker of the Knesset consultant (2013-2015), to find out more about the prime minister's plans for his new term, prospects for a Middle East settlement, and Israelis’ attitudes to the Victory Day.
What changes in Israel's policies ...
The only alternatives to this deal are the destructive status quo of continued stalemate and standoff that destabilizes the whole region or even more open military conflict that endangers everyone in the region (including Israel). Ignore the naysayers and give this deal a chance.
by Brian E. Frydenborg (LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter @bfry1981), April 4, 2015 (updated April 5th)
Originally published on LinkedIn Pulse here and also published by Stupid Party Math v....
Vatican favours a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
On 13 May 2015, the Vatican issued an official
statement
recognizing the territories controlled by the Palestinian National Authority as an independent state. The Holy See thus joined the 135 countries that have recognized ...
... rather unexpected. These included President Vladimir Putin’s announcement that a ban on deliveries of S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems to Iran be lifted, causing a negative reaction from some influential global and regional players, especially Israel, with which Russia has recently been successfully developing multilateral cooperation. Significantly, when explaining this decision, Russian officials put forward both commercial and reputational arguments related to the suspension of the contract ...
... 2015, Lebanon received an invitation from the Americans to attend the upcoming meeting of the coalition scheduled for the end of February in Washington (
Al-Monitor
, 25.02.2015
). However, the situation became even more complicated due to the “Israeli factor.” On January 18, 2015, well-planned Israeli airstrikes against a convoy in the Quneitra District of Syria injured many members of Hezbollah and killed some key personalities of its military wing, namely
Imad Mughniyeh’s
(who ...
The recent elections to the Israeli Knesset, the newly relevant issue of creation of a Palestinian state, the next round of talks on the Iran’s nuclear problem. Barack Obama’s Middle East policy is again under heavy pressure. The relations between the US President and ...
Or, how answering "Who controls Gaza?" can tell you a lot about why Israel's election is so important.
While this was written the day of Israel's election, the analysis still rings true and, sadly, Israel has chosen Netanyhu and chosen to be the Israel that denies its actions and responsibilities in ...
