Why the Gulf Arab States Are Tailor-Made Allies for Israel

19 Aug 20206 Sep 2020

Posted originally to Antiwar.com on 19 August 2019. Israel-GCC ties were strategic even before the first official Israel-GCC diplomatic normalization took place recently with the UAE. For Israel, the mode…

Why Israel is in no position to forcibly implement the ‘Deal of the Century’

1 Feb 20201 Feb 2020

Posted originally to Express Tribune blogs on 1 February 2019. US President Donald Trump announced with the attendance of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House the ‘Deal…

Emerging Turko-Israeli Rift Helps Turkey-Iran Entente

23 Jan 202027 Jan 2020

Posted originally to Islamabad Policy Institute on 23 January 2020. Israel has long possessed a capacity to force, whether by design or by consequence, the upending of regional alignment dynamics…