... Tayyip Erdogan does in Syria and Libya. But repeating the experience of the Iran–Iraq War of the 1980s, with hundreds of thousands killed and millions wounded, is now a no-go: Middle Eastern societies have changed too much over the past 40 years, and ... ... even for a politician as determined as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Vladimir Morozov:
Israel Will Have to Negotiate with Hamas
Armageddon is off the table?
It is fair to assume that the current situation in the Middle East reflects the broader state ...
... there are outbreaks of violence in the area of the Palestinian–Israeli conflict, this is certainly not the case inside Jerusalem. At the same time, there is a very tense information background in Israel as it conducts two parallel military operations: ... ... regular raids in the Palestinian territories after it receives information about the presence of radical elements supporting Hamas in some areas of the West Bank. Israeli security forces enter the territories under the PNA control from time to time, trying ...
... under the control of the Fatah, a crisis of legitimacy developed there after the end of Mahmoud Abbas’ tenure. The next Palestinian presidential election was due to take place in 2014, but it has not been held since then due to controversies with Hamas and Islamic Jihad, as well as uncertainty over the possibility of voting, to be ensured for residents of East Jerusalem. Constitutional procedures related to the selection of a successor remain uncertain. Under the circumstances, rival political factions either do not want elections or can agree to them on their own terms. Meanwhile, support for Hamas has tripled ...
... 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 ... ... taken measures to stop Israel from occupying Palestine territories. On the contrary, U.S. Trump Administration recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital by moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and even officially recognized Israel’s ...
... of the Islamic world. The Qatari government continued to search for any niches where they could pursue policies and interests independent of Riyadh. For instance, Qatar continued to
invest
heavily in the Gaza Strip, strengthening its ties with the Hamas movement controlling the region. Although this Palestinian group could be seen as a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, at that point even Riyadh sought actively to co-operate with it, singling it out amongst the other arms of the organization. That ...
... spiral of tensions between Israel and the PNA caused by the killing of three Israeli and one Palestinian youths. Reciprocal accusations are leveled at the backdrop of incessant rocket attacks against southern areas of Israel from Gaza and retaliation strikes ... ... laden with any sort of aftereffects, among them the third intifada, another Israeli war against the Hezbollah that provides the Hamas with weapons, or never-ending growth of tensions on the Israel-Palestine border.
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. Eran O.
Obama and Netanyahu: Round ...
