Israel and Creeping Segregation
The Administration of the United States as well as the authorities in Israel, day and night, never tire of repeating that "the State of Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East." However, some Israeli realities call into question this assessment. One of typical...
Peace for money? Israeli-Palestinian talks remain deadlocked
Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, which have been going on for several months, are at an impasse. In order to unlock the current situation, Martin Indyk, U.S. representative at the talks, said that the United States is going to solve the most difficult problems ...
Russia and the Middle East: the process of “concentration” has ended
International analysts have started paying increasingly more attention to the role of modern Russia in the Middle East in recent years. The title of this article brings to mind the words of Prince Alexander Gorchakov (1798-1883, an outstanding Russian diplomat...
Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations or Their Imitation
The closing date set for the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations is steadily moving toward completion: the end of March is not far off. According to its American organizers, this round of mutual contacts should have led to some peace agreements, to historic agreements that would put an...
Israel and the Middle East
Since the signing of the Iranian nuclear programme agreement by the US, Russia, China, France, Germany and Great Britain a new political situation has undeniably taken shape in the Middle East region. It is merely part of more extensive global changes evoked by the warming of the US’s...
Israel and the agreement with Iran
At the end of November of this year, Iran and the E3+3 international mediators reached an agreement regarding the nuclear programme of Iran, which resulted in easing the economic sanctions against Tehran. Although the agreement was signed for...
Obama's new plan for Middle East peace process
As reported by the leader of the leftist party Meretz, Zahava Gal-On to the influential Israeli newspaper Haaretz, in January next year, the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama would present its own plan for the “final” settlement of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. ..
Phantom brown shadow over Europe
Israel and chemical weapons
In the variety of articles, diplomatic negotiations, resolutions and fears about chemical weapons in the Middle East, with which the Assad regime "threatens" one and all, the issue of chemical weapons in Israel has remained in the shadows. This topic was the subject of an examination...
Was Yasser Arafat really poisoned? Cui prodest? Part 2
Official statements about the cause of Arafat's death did not ensue, which gave rise to many rumors, including a possible poisoning. Last year the Qatari TV channel, Al Jazeera, took to investigating the death of Yasser Arafat, who received a Nobel Peace Prize for his...
Was Yasser Arafat really poisoned? Cui prodest? Part 1
A tireless fighter for the just cause of the Palestinian people, Yasser Arafat, the former "terrorist number one", Nobel Peace Prize winner, founder and leader of the Palestinian Authority once again is in the media spotlight eight years after his life came to an end. Al Jazeera gained...
Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. Part 2
Although the Syrian Crisis has become the most important topic of discussion in the media recently, the problem of the Palestinian Arab people, of course, has not gone from the political scene. In the context of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, we will touch upon the attitude not only of the...