... outside forces to reach deep into the most secure Iranian facilities and successfully strike an adversary in its homeland. While some experts are clamoring that the death of Haniyeh has been a setback for negotiations and the release of the remaining Israeli hostages, it can also be argued that Haniyeh was in fact a major roadblock to the negotiations succeeding. The Hamas leader has never sought a peaceful coexistence with Israel, and he milked every ounce of antisemitism and hatred toward Israel ...
The repercussions of this assassination are likely to extend far beyond the immediate objective of crippling Hamas
The recent assassination of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran represents a dramatic escalation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with far-reaching implications for the region and beyond. This assassination underscores an ongoing strategy to disrupt Hamas leadership and operational capabilities, reflecting a determination to dismantle a key pillar of ...
... warfare targeting supply chains, warehouses, and infrastructure besides intelligence and communication purposes. Air forces are more developed among these three areas, causing direct human casualties and deploying para-troops on battlefields. Furthermore, Israel is developing distinctive features belonging to an air power as sea and land powers possess.
Source: sky.news
The features are concluded from studying the Arab-Israel wars, the Hamas-Israel war, and the military potential of Israel. When Israeli ...
Interview with Vladimir Morozov, Vice-Rector of MGIMO University
The war in the Gaza Strip has already passed the nine-month mark. Since the events of October 7 last year, there has been an unprecedented uptick of violence in the Palestinian–Israeli conflict zone. No solution to the fundamental problems related to the Palestinian–Israeli issue has been found yet, while the risks of escalation in the Middle East amid tensions on the Lebanese–Israeli border have mounted over the past few ...
The debate over the post-war arrangements in Gaza is unlikely to put an end to the controversy about a possible U.S. presence “on the ground.”
Israel’s Operation Arnon to free a group of hostages from the Gaza Strip has brought back into focus just how deeply the U.S. military is involved in the eight-month-long escalation of the conflict. The bloody infiltration into the Nuseirat refugee ...
Trump’s hard negotiations is best for Palestinian and Israeli future
President Joe Biden finds himself in the corner of the sandbox when the mainstream media calls him out for his dithering on the anti-Semitic demonstrations across universities in America by politically conflating Islamophobia on the same ...
... alternative to past approaches for the Mashriq states, which have spent many years grappling with internal and external challenges
On November 30, 2023, the Chinese Foreign Ministry
published
five points of China’s position on resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Namely, China called for stopping hostilities, protecting civilians, providing them with humanitarian aid, expanding international diplomatic coordination, along with seeking a common political solution that would take into account the ...
Perhaps, the notion that the established two-state paradigm has no workable alternatives needs to be clarified or even revisited?
Six months have passed since we saw another escalation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict following a massive Hamas terror attack on October 7, 2023. After Palestinian militants killed some 1,200 Israeli civilians and took 253 others as hostages, Israel launched Operation Iron Swords in the Gaza Strip. The operation ...
The U.S. and the UK will likely use the challenging military and political environment for a further escalation of the crisis
The U.S.-British coalition’s military intervention in Yemen has become the most dangerous expansion of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict (PIC), taking a heavy toll on the security in the Middle East and creating a parallel hotbed of military standoff in the Red Sea. There is no consensus in the region’s countries on the root cause of the current escalation, with some ...
... and economic trends in the Middle East require a degree of theoretical conceptualization. The authors of this report analyze the current political and economic trends in the region’s Arab countries and non-Arab states, including Iran, Turkey, and Israel. Additionally, the authors examine key foreign policy trends in Middle Eastern states.
Regional Trends in the Middle East: Political and Economic Dynamics
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