... attacks, losing nearly half of its revenues from the Suez Canal.
Regional Trends in the Middle East: Political and Economic Dynamics. RIAC Report
Reasons for restraint
Although... ... foreseeable future, among other things.
One explanation for the current situation around Palestine lies in the distinct nature of Hamas, which has an ambiguous reputation in... ... parallels between Palestinian radicals and the Muslim Brotherhood movement (banned in Russia) at home, which has been driven deep underground, but was, alongside Israel, among the founding fathers of Hamas. Damascus has not forgotten that at the...
... been an unprecedented uptick of violence in the Palestinian–Israeli conflict zone. No solution to the fundamental problems ... ... issue has been found yet, while the risks of escalation in the Middle East amid tensions on the Lebanese–Israeli border have ... ... Could you please tell us about the current situation in Israel and Palestine.
Aleksandr Aksenenok:
Palestinian Statehood after October ... ... issues were discussed during the visit?
We had a meeting at the Russian Mission to the PNA with the Mission’s head, Gocha Levanovich ...
... resolving the Palestinian problem. He said, “Moscow has long urged for [organizing] a top-level meeting between Palestinians and Israelis in Russia, on a Moscow platform. It is necessary to turn Moscow into a venue for such talks.”
Naumkin explains that Moscow has ... ... veto-holding member of the UN Security Council with an obligation to pursue the implementation of relevant UN resolutions on Palestine and is also a member of the Middle East Quartet. Alas, US obduracy has stalled the Quartet, while Washington is stonewalling by casting its veto in the Security ...
There has been no better time in recent history where Russia-U.S. bilateral relations are positioned best to leverage their coordinated influence on the divided sectarian and tribalistic theatre in the Middle East to broker a negotiated resolution on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that has been holding the center of the world in limbo for the last 70 years.
President Trump has assembled an unprecedented team from outside the political realm to take on this longstanding dilemma. While Secretary of State ...
The confrontation between Israel and Hamas, now in a renewed outburst of violence, has caught the international ... ... point out that most Arab governments are taking a more cautious stance.
The official Russian response to the steep escalation of the situation in Palestine stands between neutral and a somewhat half-hearted wait-and-see. In a July... ... not want to lose track of the constructive cooperation with the White House in the Middle East peace process, where there are already points of contention between Moscow...