Communications

Yoram Schweitzer, a former senior Military Intelligence officer and head of the INSS Program on Terrorism and Low-Intensity Conflict, cautions that "we are always making the same mistake of basing our forecast for the future on our past experience."

"The new approach is mainly focused on the understanding that Israel has to return to the traditional political approach about the bilateral support from the American administration," says Dr Kobi Michael, a senior research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University.

Dr. Yoel Guzansky, a senior research fellow at Tel Aviv University’s Institute for National Security Studies and an expert on Gulf politics and security, explains that American allies in the Gulf see the recent evacuation as part of a known trend of the US reducing its presence in the Middle East in its entirety, as the White House’s priorities change. “The Gulf countries are...

As the Taliban takeover boosts Iranian proxies’ morale, Israel and the United States should develop a coordinated strategy against these groups to enhance Israeli security and restore confidence in American commitments to regional partners.

Israeli government sources tell Breaking Defense that if China attempts to expand its defense technology ties with Iran or other regional players of concern to Israel, then Jerusalem may look to curtail its economic agreements with Beijing in retaliation. That would mark a serious shift in how Israel balances its longtime relations with the US and the monetary benefits of...

Israel and Western countries that have been the targeted by such groups should watch the developments in Afghanistan following the US withdrawal, Yoram Schweitzer, senior research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), told The Algemeiner on Tuesday. The main concern is whether Islamist groups — including al-Qaida and Sunni fundamentalists — will take...

“Iran is trying to use the situation in Afghanistan both to present itself as a mediator between the Afghan groups, and in the future, as Iran has always done, trying to turn every threat into opportunity,” Dr. Raz Zimmt, an Iran specialist at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University, told The Media Line.