Search: Middle East,Palestine (15 materials)

 

Moscow has long urged for organizing a top-level meeting between Palestinians and Israelis in Russia

... into a venue for such talks.” Naumkin explains that Moscow has unique credentials to kickstart peace talks, since it is a veto-holding member of the UN Security Council with an obligation to pursue the implementation of relevant UN resolutions on Palestine and is also a member of the Middle East Quartet. Alas, US obduracy has stalled the Quartet, while Washington is stonewalling by casting its veto in the Security Council. He lamented that the US is hobnobbing with extreme right-wing elements in Israel who are not even representative ...

07.06.2018

Trump's Double Toe Loop

... decision will be difficult to stop, as the U.S. President does not back down from his word. Anti-U.S. sentiments will continue to mount in the Islamic world, which will put the lives of American citizens at risk. The threat does not just come from the Middle East, but also from Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, etc. Trump is doing a disservice to Israel, which needs peace with Palestine in order to secure a safe and comfortable life for its citizens. Talking about the possible variants, some of my colleagues, the most authoritative American experts on the region, are attempting to move Trump to rectify the damage that his decision ...

12.12.2017

Trump and Putin Arrive in the Middle East

There 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 ...

01.02.2017

Moscow treads lightly in Gaza

... Arab governments are taking a more cautious stance. The official Russian response to the steep escalation of the situation in Palestine stands between neutral and a somewhat half-hearted wait-and-see. In a July 18 interview with Russia 24, Foreign Minister ... ... in US-Russian relations, the Kremlin does not want to lose track of the constructive cooperation with the White House in the Middle East peace process, where there are already points of contention between Moscow and Washington. For instance, there is ...

25.07.2014

A Two-State Dilemma: Israel, Palestine, and Peace Talks

... stance of Right-wing Israelis has made it impossible for the Palestinians to find common ground. In August 2013, Israel and Palestine embarked on talks aimed at resolving a half-century-long stalemate between the two nations over the future of a Palestinian ... ... who have grown quite skeptical about Israeli-Palestinian peace talks over the years. Yet, amid continued instability in the Middle East, the successful outcome of the negotiations—especially given the ongoing construction of Israeli settlements ...

04.11.2013
 

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