... the proposed alliance is geopolitical and military: to prevent the emergence of a counterpart to the “Shiite axis” in the Middle East.
Over the course of more than a year, Israeli leadership has increasingly come to view Turkey as the nucleus of a gradually forming potential “Sunni bloc,” which includes Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, and—less explicitly—Egypt and Qatar. Within Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, there is a belief that this alliance could challenge Israel’s ...
... neutrality should be defined in a multilateral manner so that international organizations and a wider variety of international players, rather than only U.S. goodwill, support Gulf mediation.
Establishing a Third Pillar of Stability
Vladislav Tolstykh:
US-Israeli Strikes on Iran: International Law Qualifications
Although Qatar's mediation function is still crucial, it needs to be integrated into a larger security framework. In contrast to the narrative surrounding the
Middle East Strategic Alliance (MESA)
, which Trump only vaguely promoted during his first term as president from 2017 to 2021, this new environment needs to be more robust and strategically independent.
The Gulf Arab states are currently positioned between ...
... than ever.
Conclusions
The expected re-election of US President Donald Trump will continue to have profound implications on the Middle East, and the inability to predict Western actions in the region and the profound absence of a coherent policy will affect regional actors such as Turkey, Iran and Israel. Thus, the Gulf is slated to explode even without war on Iran because the whole region is divided based on each country’s ... ... aggravate in the country, mainly in Tripoli, unless an agreement is reached among militant groups in addition to Turkey, the UAE, Qatar, Egypt, the USA and Russia. The impeachment process of US President Donald Trump and the US role in the MENA region would ...
... Arabia work together. Also vectors of power are strong from Iran with Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, and potentially Bahrain and Qatar. And vectors of power a very strong from Turkey into northern Syria and northern Iraq. The USA works military especially through Israel, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, but with cooperation also in Iraq and with Kurds in Iraq and Syria, and the United Arab Emirates.... ... in connection with internal issues in some countries, notably Saudi Arabia.
Andrey Kortunov:
Russia: the Power Broker in the Middle East?
Islam
is not going to be the constant which many experts expect. Islam has been abused as ideology among extreme ...
