... states, although the Kremlin remains interested in a Syrian-Turkish rapprochement and Syria rejoining the League of Arab States. [
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The crisis in Eastern Europe has been... ... significant for the region than many other events happening simultaneously inside the Middle East, such as expanding the Abraham Accords, Israel’s deep political crisis, or the China-brokered Saudi-Iranian rapprochement... ... regional players demonstrated their intention to remain neutral in the crisis between Russia and the West, carefully avoiding taking sides or explicitly supporting anti-Russian...
The seminar was divided into two sessions: "Political instability in Lebanon and Iraq: View from Russia and Israel" and "Libya: between Turkey, Egypt and others?"
On July 28, 2020, Russian International Affairs Council ... ... Foreign Affairs of Israel, with the support of the Embassy of Israel in Russia held a closed online seminar “Assessing the Middle East conflicts (Lebanon, Iraq and Libya). View from Russia and Israel”. The event was attended by leading experts and ...
... domestic politics; the influence of regional power struggles on unresolved conflicts in Syria, Yemen, Iraq, and Libya. In many ways, these dynamics are interconnected and feed into one another. However, evidence of increased contact with Russia by countries like Egypt and Jordan should be taken in the context of the US disengagement... ... announced the “long-awaited for the deal of the century", this would push many Middle Eastern countries which have no peace deal with Israel to reconcile and naturalise ties even if the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is...
... signal their readiness to negotiate. In general, it can be stated that steep turns and unpredictable decisions in Trump’s Middle East policy have increased the degree of tension in the region, created new obstacles to resolving multi-year conflicts and stabilizing the situation through multilateral cooperation mechanisms.
Israel’s Strategy in Syria and Russia's Interests
After the change of Administration in the US, the “shadow war” of Israel in Syria underwent significant ...
... beyond tactical de-escalation and ceasefire mechanisms to a more sustainable political settlement.
Yuri Barmin:
Russia and Israel: The Middle Eastern Vector of Relations
The second stage of Russia’s direct engagement in the region turned out more successful than the first one. However, it also demonstrated a number of limitations. Iran and Turkey turned out to be incapable or unwilling to control many non-state groups fighting in Syria. Impressive military success on the ground made Damascus less incentivized to discuss a political settlement in Geneva, ...
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Transformational processes in the Arab world in the beginning of the 2010s led Russia and Turkey to an understanding of the need to form new foreign policy approaches towards the Middle East. This article seeks to identify the impact of the approaches Russia and... ... propose focusing on the following four main issues: terrorism, nuclear weapons, the Syrian crisis and the security architecture in the Middle East.
At the beginning of... ... also due to a series of nationhood crises in the region and the Saudi Arabia-Iran and Israel-Iran rivalries. The general belief is that Israel is the only country in the...
Interview for RT
Israel has long made the point that it puts its security, the lives of its servicemen above everything else — a maxim that may have contributed to the downing of the Russian reconnaissance plane over Syria.
Now that Moscow mirrors this approach back at Israel, can the two preserve the spirit of accommodation they were once so proud of? To discuss this, Oksana Boyko is joined by Andrey Kortunov, Director General of the Russian International Affairs ...
A Regional Rumble in Syria
Israel’s National Security: What’s at issue?
Since its foundation, Israel has based ... ... the south of Syria by striking military targets, all the while communicating with its Russian partners.
From Israel’s Binoculars: A View of Damascus
While Israel came very... ... alternative to an Islamic fundamentalist state. Russia’s main objective is that the Middle East remains stable while Syria was heading towards anything but stability. There...
... against Putin who could stick it to Trump as he did to Obama. That said, Trump must champion American fortitude in the resurgence of America’s military might and a willingness to use it without equivocation.
What assurances does America have that Russia will cooperate? None. But what does the U.S. lose that it hasn’t already lost? Crimea, Syria, Iran’s nuclear track and influence in the Middle East. What does America have to gain? Resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a mitigated Iranian nuclear threat and a turning point where the world moves on to the next era in civilization. As Trump says, “Dream big, think big, and go big.” Just when many in the world have become most ...
... judging by his campaign speeches, he clearly sees the threats coming to America from the Middle East, yet he is far from having expensive ambitions.
A pragmatic billionaire... ... “America first” slogan, is less tied to the US’ traditional allies, Israel and Saudi Arabia, protecting and supporting whom has become a burden for the... ... Ivanov:
U.S. Diplomacy in the Shackles of Election
Politics
Trump is not concerned about Russia’s military presence in Syria as he thinks that the Russian air force does some of the work Americans would...
