... status-quo or will it be forced to review and to revise its positions towards Israel, Palestinians, Iran and its main partners in the Arab world? Let us have a look at the most important pieces of the rich and diverse Middle East mosaic, namely—on Israel, Palestine, Iran and the Arab Gulf states.
Israel
The Russian-Israeli relations started experiencing problems long before the US 2024 elections. In particular, the launch of the special military operation in Ukraine on February 24, 2022 had a significant impact on ...
... allies who were assisting Israel in the Doomsday War. The member-states of this Organization used economic tools to influence Israel's allies and support Egypt and Syria in the conflict with Israel. Such actions notably contrasted with the state of Iranian-Israeli relations, which were quite constructive until the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Ivan Bocharov:
Conflict in the Middle East: Possible Regional Implications
Much has changed since then; Egypt, Jordan, the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, and Egypt have ...
... Nasrallah. In turn, on the evening of October 1, Tehran responded by launching a mass missile attack on Israel.
The fighting in the conflict zone between Israel and Hezbollah is far from over. In addition, it is reported that Israel is preparing to strike Iran. The continuation of the fighting and the uncertainty over a possible Israeli response makes it very difficult to discern possible regional implications. Too much depends on the scale of Israel’s operation in Lebanon: the behavior of non-state ...
... responsibility for his death). After each of these incidents, experts predicted a sharp increase in the risks of escalation. But the Iranian leadership’s response to these developments was surprisingly restrained (as was Tehran’s earlier response to the assassination ... ... Israel and the conservative Arab monarchies continued, albeit fading from the public eye. The only consistent supporters of Palestine were the stubborn Yemeni Houthis, who have attacked foreign ships in the Red Sea. However, it was Egypt—not Israel—that ...
... 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 ... ... said, there have been many protests in Paris, London, New York, in Canadian and Australian cities. Demonstrations in support of Palestine have been held in many Western countries that officially support Israel. And not only refugees or ethnic Palestinians ...
... define the regime’s foreign policy as well 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, a foreign military operation launched nine ... ... chronic systemic disintegration that sparked 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, were sporadic and less crowded. ...
... 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 ...
... axis of resistance, it is possible to emphasize the possibility and ability of the axis of resistance to launch a comprehensive 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 system is unable to fully confront such a large-scale attack capable of striking and disrupting air and naval bases, army ...
... 2019, two weeks before the Warsaw Conference on Security and Peace in the Middle East. They are wary of normalization between Arab states and Israel when it comes at the expense of Jordanian and Palestinian conflicts.
The changing shift of focus from Palestine to Iran burns Jordanian political cards. In the meantime, the King is trying to open channels with Arab countries, Tunisia, Iraq, Egypt, and Syria. He bids to strengthen Jordan’s relations with these four states, willing to build a regional bloc of four ...
... 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....
