... the U.S. military build-up in the region be seen as a demonstration of its readiness to use force to protect Israel from possible threats?
Of course, that is precisely the purpose for this military build-up. When Israel launched an operation in the Gaza Strip in response to the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, regional forces, including the Houthis and Iran, stepped up their activities. The first thing the United States did was sending an aircraft carrier group to the eastern Mediterranean. They did not mean to use it but demonstrated ...
Perhaps, the notion that the established two-state paradigm has no workable alternatives needs to be clarified or even revisited?
Six months have passed since we saw another escalation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict following a massive Hamas terror attack on October 7, 2023. After Palestinian militants killed some 1,200 Israeli civilians and took 253 others as hostages, Israel launched Operation Iron Swords in the Gaza Strip. The operation has proven to be more complex, costly and time-consuming than many predicted at its commencement. Timid hopes that everything could be completed before the onset of the holy month of Ramadan (that is, before March 11, 2024) crashed ...
... acute military-strategic confrontation? Does the situation in the region, which has undergone dramatic changes, contribute to this solution? What impact will all this have on the Palestinian movement, divided by internal rivalries, especially between Hamas in the Gaza Strip and the Fatah in the West Bank? Questions abound, and these were just a few. Anyway, it’s clear that the Palestinian problem, which was initially at the heart of the entire Arab-Israeli conflict, has returned to the centerstage of international ...
... organization. The latest such construction is that they describe the conflict between Israel and Palestine as that between Israel and Hamas, which intentionally suggests that Israel has been fighting against terrorism.
That is an apparent distortion of the nature ... ... number of people plighted amounted to more than 13 million, including more than 5 million people living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip while another 8 million live as refugees in the neighboring countries. With more territories annexed, it could be even ...
... led by the US. These scenarios are vigorously backed by the United States as the only global power on Israel’s side.
Ivan Timofeev:
From the Middle East to Ukraine. A Milestone
The third scenario, also plausible, implies prolonged hostilities in the Gaza Strip. HAMAS fought in Syria, so it certainly has a rich experience of fighting in dense urban areas. In the event of an increase in IDF military casualties, as well as mounting pressure from regional powers (primarily challenging US regional interests), Israel ...
