Communications

Gallia Lindenstrauss, a senior research fellow at Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies, noted that for now, Israel appears to have no intention of directly challenging Turkey’s influence in Syria. She believes the fall of the Syrian regime could even provide a window of opportunity for Turkey-Israel ties. “Counterintuitively, this is actually a chance for greater...

Kobi Michael, a senior fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University and a former senior official in Israel’s Strategic Affairs Ministry, said that the current move risks reviving the Islamic State and weakening the “moderate” Sunni states in the region. At the same time, American withdrawal is a boost for Russia, Syria and Turkey — all of them...

General (ret.) Amos Yadlin sits down with Steve Slick, director of the Intelligence Studies Project, to discuss Middle East security and Israeli security concerns. Slick and General Yadlin also engage in a conversation about the role of Israel in the middle east, the future of Israel, and questions regarding security in the region. General Yadlin served in the Israeli Armed...

Israel was alone in its support for the Iraqi Kurdish referendum in September, and it has since become evident that KRG President Masoud Barzani miscalculated in deciding to hold the vote then. The Kurds overestimated both US support for their independence movement and their own internal solidarity, while underestimating the intensity and near unanimity of the international...

Once again Israel finds Itself alone in the international arena. This time the isolation is not due to the Israeli-Palestinian situation but because, unlike the rest of the regional and international community, Israel supports political independence, not that of the Palestinians, but of Kurdistan, the Kurdish region in northern Iraq. From the Kurdish point of view, one wonders...