... difficult for Russia to forge even tactical alliances in the region, not to mention strategic coalitions.
Second, the current Israeli-Iranian and US — Iranian rift immensely complicates Russia’s role as an ‘honest broker’ in the region. Neither Israel, nor Iran is completely happy with the Russian policy of balancing its relations with the two states; each of the parties tries to pull Moscow to its side of the conflict. The risks of alienating either Teheran or Jerusalem, or even both of them, are on the rise.
Finally, if Damascus finally has a complete military victory and regains control over most of the Syrian territory, its current dependence on Moscow will inevitably decrease. Russia and its partners can arguably ...
... is easy to produce if need be. However, this runs counter to both the interests of Damascus and common sense. On the other hand, as we have already mentioned above, it makes sense to the radical Islamists and jihadists, which number in the tens of thousands in Idlib (Gen. [retired] Amos Yadlin, Director of Israel’s Institute of National Security Studies and former Head of the country's Military Intelligence Directorate, puts the number of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, or Nusra and Al-Qaeda insurgents at 100,000!). Many of these come from different countries ...
A Regional Rumble in Syria
Israel’s National Security: What’s at issue?
Since its foundation, Israel has based its defense calculations on two concepts: existential security and current security. Existential security concerns the preservation of the very fundamentals of the ...
... campaign, it’s rather fair to say that Jews and Jewishness have never been so intensely discussed before as they have been lately.
Partially due to having Jewish family members, and largely do the bold and unexpected decision to
move
the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem by the end of 2019, Trump has assured his detractors and Jews living in Israel that those accusations are unfunded - or at least very difficult to challenge.
In November 2005, the UN General Assembly established the International Holocaust Remembrance ...
... negotiated between the US and Russia on July 8 will almost certainly break down in the coming months absent such progress. Understanding that it is merely a respite from conflict even as Iran uses it to strengthen its military presence in Syria, Israel has refused to accept the terms of the ceasefire. Accordingly, on September 7 Israeli aircraft reportedly bombed a Syrian military facility linked to the production of chemical weapons and precision missiles. Israel has conducted around 100 strikes ...
... policy ... an unchecked Iran has the potential to follow the same path as North Korea and take the world along with it. The United States is keen to avoid a second piece of evidence that strategic patience is a failed approach,"
Alliance of GCC and Israel
It is not just the US policy which India has to contend with it is the alliance between GCC countries and Israel. While Saudi Arabia has remained at loggerheads with Israel, recently both are part of the Anti-Iran alliance. Israel, Turkey and Saudi ...
... alternative 3-state solution if the bilateral result is not forthcoming. This forces the parties to engage and compromise, and subsequently put more pressure on the Palestinians if they seek to remain an autonomous state. It must also be made clear that Jerusalem will remain as the sole capital of Israel as no city can become the capital of two sovereign states. Essentially, the Jewish capital in Jerusalem will cost Ukraine any hope of regaining Crimea.
The next step, which if leveraged with strong intent, will see America exert pressure on Saudi ...
... Moreover, due to the need to fight IS, the American military presence is growing, which became particularly obvious in the fall of 2016 as the operation intended to clear Mosul of jihadists was drawing nearer.
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Tatiana Karasova:
To the Israeli Front in American Boots
Leverett’s claim that Obama’s presidency saw a change in the US relations with Israel and Saudi Arabia is questionable. Israel has been and remains the US’ main ally in the region, as is clearly proven ...
... projects (with the exception of large-scale military actions). Second, by the time the Memorandum reaches its expiration date in 2028, the amounts allocated by the American side for Israel to use for its own developments will be almost zero. What is more, Israel will not be able to request additional funding from the United States Congress that is not covered by the memorandum. The amount of aid to be converted into shekels will also be reduced. There is a loophole here, however: a refusal for additional funding through Congress applies to missile defence only. It does not apply to other programmes, such as the development of tunnel detection systems. This is an issue that is extremely important for the United States, which is interested ...
... history. As Francis Fukuyama famously noted in “The End of History,” the end of the Cold War marked the end of thousands of years of ideological struggle, and the spread of Western Democratic capitalist ideals all around the world was inevitable ... ... disintegration by secession from it by Scotland, a possibility which, it was just announced, will be pursued again.
AP
Even in Israel, considered a bastion of Western democracy in the Middle East, the public and government are becoming increasingly okay ...
