... 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... ... (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... ... plausible that during the visit of Russian Security Council Secretary Sergey Shoigu to Iran on August 5, Moscow urged Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to refrain from radical responses...
... last year, there has been an unprecedented uptick of violence in the Palestinian–Israeli conflict zone. No solution to the fundamental problems related to the Palestinian–Israeli... ... Authority (PNA). Could you please tell us about the current situation in Israel and Palestine.
Aleksandr Aksenenok:
Palestinian Statehood after October 7: Any Odds of Success... ... this point. Hezbollah is one of Israel’s main adversaries, all the more so because Iran is backing it. That being said, Hezbollah is deeply integrated into Lebanon’s...
... as cooperation with the countries of the so-called Axis of Resistance that includes Iran, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. This comes precisely as a result of the Decisive Storm... ... direct armed clashes between its factions.
Mass popular demonstrations in support of Palestine in the IRG-controlled part of the country, which covers about 75% of its territory... ... (PLC), attended the November summit in Riyadh, where he
expressed
his condemnation of Israel’s military operation in Gaza and Yemenis’ solidarity with the Palestinian...
... Washington and provide carrots to the Israeli government to make concessions to the Palestinians, ‘thanked’ Iran with economic sanctions and support for the Iranian opposition abroad under the slogan of dual containment.
To break from the isolation, the Iranians have changed their resistance to Israel from rhetoric to action. Indeed, Palestine became for Tehran the main door to penetrate Arab societies and spread its influence in the region by aiding Hamas in Palestine. By the same token, from 2004, the Arab Sunni elites started voicing their fear of a Shia crescent led by Iran in ...
In principle, wars complement politics, but in Israel wars absolutely remain the norm and politics are the anomalies. The source of the contradictions remains Israel's fundamental ... ... attack on Israel (and not just adopt a defensive policy), whether through a barrage of drones and missiles from all fronts (Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, Gaza), which will be accompanied by an attack electronic, such that the “Iron Dome” defense ...
Working paper 42/2018
The Working paper was prepared by the Russian International Affairs Council as part of the project "Security System in the Middle East". This paper covers the issue of complex relations between Russia and Israel in the Middle East. The author analyzes in detail Russia’s role in the Israel-Syria-Iran triangle.
The degree of Iranian presence in Syria, the impact of the nuclear deal in the context of Israeli-Iranian regional confrontation, the role of the Palestinian-Israeli settlement in Russian-Israeli relations are also discussed in the paper....
... country (after Mecca and Medina), he is obviously wrong. Israel, and the United States in particular, have always underestimated the central place the Jerusalem issue takes in the eyes of Muslims. It is true that the Saudi Arabian rulers currently view Iran as a greater problem for themselves and the region than the Israel–Palestine conflict. However, the Saudi leader cannot possibly lose Jerusalem. James Dorsey, a well-known Singapore-based expert on the Middle East, believes that Mr. Trump’s recognition and any plan to grant Israel full control of Jerusalem would see ...
... from perfect, and have made some of my own disagreements with it quite vocally and publicly on matters from Syria to Israel/Palestine, among others. So I write this neither as an apologist nor as a hater, but as someone who has studied the Middle East ... ... Bush Administration but also from the terrible policies of local rulers, from Hosni Mubarak in Egypt to Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel, from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran to (the recently departed) King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and also from the actions of a number of other foreign patrons, ...
... 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
... international stage seems to be its restored relationship with the Palestine national movement. Ties with the Hamas and the Palestine Islamic Jihad were fractured after the Palestinians came out against Assad, but in early 2014 Western media reported ... ... relationship. In fact, Chairman of Hamas Political Bureau Khaled Mashal announced that his organization was eager to see links with Iran return to their pre-war level
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. The two sides were also motivated by the Israeli Army’s unprecedentedly lengthy and bloody operation in the Gaza Strip. According to Iran’s Rahbar Ali Khamenei,...