... want to nor are in a position to launch civilized mechanisms to develop "their" territories and population.
Ilya Vasilyev
Besides, after the Arab Spring, the area around Israel is volatile, which precludes any sort of political activity. The Iranian issue remains of paramount importance for Israel, thousands or maybe even dozens of thousands of the latest missiles targeted by the Hezbollah against northern Israel from Lebanon, as well as the threat of shelling from the Gaza Strip. The Israeli security establishment is also worried by developments ...
... an Israel that is more and more isolated because of its positions on and treatment of the Palestinians, and because of the actions of Benjamin Netanyahu in general. The recent fighting in Gaza against non-state terrorist militia Hamas cost dozens of Israeli lives; a fight with Iran, a powerful country with a powerful and well equipped military, would very likely cost thousands of Israeli lives and could see serious destruction all across Israel major cities. There is no guarantee that war would end Iran’s nuclear program,...
... draft resolutions at the UN Security Council.
Some of the Russian leadership's decisions turned out to be rather unexpected. These included President Vladimir Putin’s announcement that a ban on deliveries of S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems to Iran be lifted, causing a negative reaction from some influential global and regional players, especially Israel, with which Russia has recently been successfully developing multilateral cooperation. Significantly, when explaining this decision, Russian officials put forward both commercial and reputational arguments related to the suspension of the contract ...
... more likely than not to be right-wing, which means it will be still more difficult to achieve a compromise with Palestine and Israel’s position vis-á-vis Iran will harden. This is a serious challenge for Obama because balancing between Iran, Israel and Palestine is, by definition, an impossible task.
The interviewer was Maria Gurova, editor of the RIAC web site
... any future nuclear deal. Last June, Mohammad Nahawandian, the Iranian president's chief of staff, said that as far as the West is concerned Tehran regards the nuclear talks as a test of trust
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Some Words about Israel
The relationship between Iran and Israel is a separate issue. Until recently, Tel Aviv had refrained from taking action against Tehran, apparently because of its considerably diminished activity in Palestinian circles. But as soon as Iran began restoring its ties with the Hamas and the ...
... 2010), the total Islamic population within the BRICS group (218 million) represents 90 percent of the Islamic populations of Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, Palestine Saudi Arabia and Syria (232 million).
The declared Islamic population of the Russian Federation ... ... times greater than that of Palestine (4.3 million) and that’s not counting the 1.2 million followers of Islam who live in Israel.
PEW statistics indicate that the Islamic population in Brazil is 204,000. But the website of the leading Islamic organization ...
In light of the recent developments in Syria and the apparently imminent US military intervention, the blog will take a short break from its relatively academic style and its thematic focus in order to brainstorm and share some thoughts on the broader picture of what is happening in the geopolitical arena of the region. Dangerous Double Standards Bashar al-Assad has reportedly used chemical weapons to attack, essentially, his own people. The first, logically obvious question is why would Assad essentially...
... becomes ineffective and even dangerous. In addition, the U.S. envoy was reminded that during his time as president, Bill Clinton promised to prevent North Korea from acquiring nuclear weapons but did not keep his promise. “The US can live with a nuclear Iran. Israel cannot” – Netanyahu and Barak summed up.
Such a tough stance by Benjamin Netanyahu and Ehud Barak has its own explanation. First, virtually in all the Arab-Israeli wars, the Israelis had to deal with an enemy superior to them in economic and ...
